gwern comments on Open thread, August 4 - 10, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jamesf 04 August 2014 05:36:21PM 2 points [-]

Suppose you wanted to find out all the correlates for particular Big Five personality traits. Where would you look, besides the General Social Survey?

Comment author: gwern 04 August 2014 07:06:18PM 3 points [-]

Would 'Google Scholar' be too glib an answer here?

Comment author: jamesf 04 August 2014 07:42:53PM 2 points [-]

It gave me mostly psychological and physiological correlates. I'm interested more in behavioral and social/economic things. I suppose you can get from the former to the latter, though with much less confidence than a directly observed correlation.

Your answer is exactly as glib as it should be, but only because I didn't really specify what I'm curious about.