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posted by on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-I-still-feel-like-me dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://qz.com/914002/youre-a-completely-different-person-at-14-and-77-the-longest-running-personality-study-ever-has-found/

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by dyingtolive on Thursday March 09 2017, @10:59PM (4 children)

    by dyingtolive (952) on Thursday March 09 2017, @10:59PM (#477173)

    Indeed. I went from "don't trust anyone over 30" to "don't trust anyone under 35" a year or two ago. I'm 33. I'm hoping to make it to 35 before that shifts again.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @11:34PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @11:34PM (#477184)

    re-evaluate everything you've learned since your youth. give away your posessions. don't be a selfish twit and see what comes of it.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday March 10 2017, @01:39PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday March 10 2017, @01:39PM (#477342)

      Yeah, and give them to me. Plenty of cult leaders make a living out of that pyramid scheme.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @03:16AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @03:16AM (#477244)

    You're missing the bigger picture: Don't trust anybody. The younger people don't have the experience to see all the edge cases and the older folks have been corrupted by power.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday March 10 2017, @09:40AM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday March 10 2017, @09:40AM (#477303) Homepage
      Corrupted by greed, not power.
      Those whose greed was successful get power easily.
      Those whose greed is unsuccessful help empower the greedy who are gaining power. (e.g. voting for "a man of the people" (where "people" means "people like me").)

      Of course, the greed may be fueled by jealousy.
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