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Had the silliness of this linear model been visible in a scatter plot? Is there any point in using linear regression, when lines are a subset of more complex curves? (I haven't read the papers, no access.)
Ah yes, it's time to dust off YSITTBIDWTCIYSTEIWEWITTAW again. Er, make that ADBOC.
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The scourge of perverse-mindedness
So facts can fester because you only allow yourself to judge them by their truthfulness, even though your actual relation with them is of a nonfactual nature.
One I had problems with: Humans are animals. It's true, isn't it?! But it's only bothering people for its stereotypical subtext. "Humans are like animals: mindless, violent and dirty."
Festering facts?
I find the factors for the big 5 a little odd in that they seem to be arranged in clear good/bad pairs, unlike Myers-Briggs which seems to be more arranged as 'not better, just different'. Maybe I'm suffering from some kind of bias but it seems like one would want to score highly on openness, conscientiousness, extroversion and agreeableness and low on neuroticism. They look more like D&D ability scores than alignments.
Attempts have been made to reduce the Big Five into a "Big One", or "General Factor of Personality"(GFP), this correlates the way you describe it. The neurotism is sometimes called Stability, and this together with the other four correlate with one another. Here's a paper by Rushton et al:
A recent observation is that a General Factor of Personality (GFP) occupies the apex of the personality hierarchy in the same way that g, the general factor of mental ability, occupies the apex in the organization of cognitive abilities. Individuals high on the GFP are characterized as altruistic, emotionally stable, agreeable, conscientious, extraverted, intellectually open, mentally tough, and emotionally intelligent; ...
(I have low GFP: I'm rather miserable...)
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Demands for Particular Proof: Appendices
an ambulance ride to the future
That feels extremely poignant to me, for some reason. Cryonics doesn't cut it from an Darwinist perspective. But you don't let people die even though saving them will cost more than making a new human, or do you?
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-Bertrand Russell
The great ethicists of history share essentially the same goal: get strangers to always pick D. ...