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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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 Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject: How Neurotic is YOUR Home State? |
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There's an interesting article on Yahoo today: The United States of Mind:
Researchers Identify Regional Personality Traits Across America
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.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122211987961064719.html?mod=yhoofront#project%3D
At the bottom of the map on the left is a button saying "View Interactive". Click it to find out how your state ranks on each of the 5 criteria.
IOWA
Extraversion: 15th
Agreeableness: 15th
Conscientiousness: 33th
Neuroticism: 22th
Openness: 43th
It looks like us Iowans are agreeably extraverted in our neurotic narrowmindedness.  |
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seoulteacher
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: How Neurotic is YOUR Home State? |
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Interesting...
I've just sent the URL to some Orlando friends, saying simply,
"Florida seems pretty neurotic to me!"
And I was a bit surprised that Texas didn't rate higher for extraversion, tho' I'm generalizing from the particular (my small sample: friends there). |
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PBRstreetgang21
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
Location: Orlando, FL--- serving as man's paean to medocrity since 1971!
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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seoulteacher you're from Orlando? Where at?
I grew up in Audubon Park.
I would say that Im pretty well travelled throughout the US (the exception being the midwest) and Florida takes the cake for neurosis |
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seoulteacher
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| PBRstreetgang21 wrote: |
seoulteacher you're from Orlando? Where at?
I grew up in Audubon Park.
I would say that Im pretty well travelled throughout the US (the exception being the midwest) and Florida takes the cake for neurosis |
HaHa...you crazy Floridians, eh? 
Well, PBR, you got a mighty fine state there: on my last visit I got to spend some time on your lakes near to Orlando - hadn't realized that that area had so much recreational variety.
I've visited FLA maybe 3-4 times since 2000, staying with friends (who live near to Universal Studios theme park in Orlando). And at least 2 of those visits were on vacation from teaching ESL in Korea, trying to decide if I wanted to go live there. It would've involved working in finance, but I never did make the career switch.
I still wonder sometimes if I should have relocated there; I would certainly better understand the current financial crisis in the US, if I had!
No, not from FLA: I'm Trinidad (Caribbean) born, and moved to Canada many years ago; BC is now home. And, as beautiful as it is, I do sometimes miss the warmth of the south! (I just might be able to afford inexpensive Guadalajara, Mexico, for 6 months of the year when I retire ). |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:18 am Post subject: |
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Hey Ya-ta... I was just looking at this yesterday. Pretty interesting.
(To clarify, the lower the #, the higher the prevalence of that trait)
Washington:
Extraversion: 48
Agreeableness: 22
Conscientiousness: 45
Neuroticism: 46
Openness: 5
(Kinda surprised by a couple of those numbers)
Alaska:
Extraversion: 49
Agreeableness: 51
Conscientiousness: 51
Neuroticism: 47
Openness: 49
LOL So, we're relaxed, introverted jerks. Sweet. |
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santafly
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:29 am Post subject: |
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| New Mexico, most conscientious, yeeeahhh! |
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