Andrew-Austin
09-10-2010, 01:54 PM
I was thinking about the correlation between the orientation towards liberty and introverted personality.. Not sure if I worded that right.. But you know how a disproportional amount of libertarians tend to be very introverted.. Which has been demonstrated in the personality-type polls on this very forum, and well people's own individual experiences. (link (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=254085))
More specifically I was wondering to what degree introverted personality is genetic, which lead me this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion
Which happened to lead me to this study/article:
Certain regional stereotypes have long since become cliches: The stressed-out New Yorker. The laid-back Californian.
But the conscientious Floridian? The neurotic Kentuckian?
You bet -- at least, according to new research on the geography of personality. Based on more than 600,000 questionnaires and published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, the study maps regional clusters of personality traits, then overlays state-by-state data on crime, health and economic development in search of correlations.
[Article goes on]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122211987961064719.html?mod=yhoofront#project%3D PERSONALITY08%26articleTabs%3Darticle
But what is more interesting is the map/graph, click the "interactive graphics" tab on the link.
Before looking though what state would you say is the most libertarian? New Hampshire right? Well the results of the study conformed with the introverted-libertarian pattern. New Hampshire came in second place as the most introverted state in the union behind Maryland, second place only by one point, so it could be off by one "point".
Statist Washington D.C. came out on the opposite end of the spectrum, as the third most extroverted region by two points.
Discuss. Why does there seem to be such a strong correlation b/w introversion and libertarianism? All these fucking statistics need some kind of theory.
More specifically I was wondering to what degree introverted personality is genetic, which lead me this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion
Which happened to lead me to this study/article:
Certain regional stereotypes have long since become cliches: The stressed-out New Yorker. The laid-back Californian.
But the conscientious Floridian? The neurotic Kentuckian?
You bet -- at least, according to new research on the geography of personality. Based on more than 600,000 questionnaires and published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, the study maps regional clusters of personality traits, then overlays state-by-state data on crime, health and economic development in search of correlations.
[Article goes on]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122211987961064719.html?mod=yhoofront#project%3D PERSONALITY08%26articleTabs%3Darticle
But what is more interesting is the map/graph, click the "interactive graphics" tab on the link.
Before looking though what state would you say is the most libertarian? New Hampshire right? Well the results of the study conformed with the introverted-libertarian pattern. New Hampshire came in second place as the most introverted state in the union behind Maryland, second place only by one point, so it could be off by one "point".
Statist Washington D.C. came out on the opposite end of the spectrum, as the third most extroverted region by two points.
Discuss. Why does there seem to be such a strong correlation b/w introversion and libertarianism? All these fucking statistics need some kind of theory.