An Anonymous Coward writes:
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, @10:33PM (2 children)
I'm in one of the rare personality categories.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @01:51AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ [wikipedia.org]
INTJ (introversion, intuition, thinking, judgment) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ...
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So what are you doing here on SN?
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday March 10 2017, @03:52PM
Try being an INFJ.
"We're the rarest!" I wager you might be inclined to say, but really what that means is that we're the least successful...