Cyan comments on Just a reminder: Scientists are, technically, people. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 20 March 2009 11:59:44PM 1 point [-]

Scientists also have highly unrepresentative personalities, high in openness to experience, and tend not to care about conservative values like respect for authority, group loyalty, and various taboos.

What evidence is this assertion based on?

Comment author: gwern 11 February 2012 11:02:25PM 1 point [-]

See also http://lesswrong.com/lw/9m6/the_personality_of_greatcreative_scientists_open/

Comment author: CarlShulman 21 March 2009 01:05:52AM 1 point [-]

Jon Haidt's research, in particular:

http://people.virginia.edu/~jdh6n/

Comment author: Cyan 21 March 2009 04:54:15AM 1 point [-]

Excellent. Thank you for the link.

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