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The study begins with data from a 1950 survey of 1,208 14-year-olds in Scotland. Teachers were asked to use six questionnaires to rate the teenagers on six personality traits: self-confidence, perseverance, stability of moods, conscientiousness, originality, and desire to learn. Together, the results from these questionnaires were amalgamated into a rating for one trait, which was defined as "dependability." More than six decades later, researchers tracked down 635 of the participants, and 174 agreed to repeat testing.
In previous studies covering a decade or two, personalities could be recognized as roughly similar. Not this time!
Full paper here, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5144810/ and a longer review here https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/02/07/longest-ever-personality-study-finds-no-correlation-between-measures-taken-at-age-14-and-age-77/
Next (tongue in cheek) question, is this result unique to Scots, or does it apply to non-miserly groups as well?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @07:30PM
To one degree or another we all change. Maybe there are specific traits that are highly visible that do not change dramatically enough, but other things do. Also, a lot of those changes are probably more internal so your friends and family won't see the change directly until some random circumstance comes up.
Some change more than others, and some don't change much at all, for better or for worse.
Beware the person who doesn't think people change, most likely that person has a ton of problems they aren't ready to address. Also, they are probably projecting their issues outwards and blaming others for their own problems.