tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post115644687153224681..comments2024-03-28T12:16:12.797-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Ron Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-1156630595511658792006-08-26T15:16:00.000-07:002006-08-26T15:16:00.000-07:00How about Israel?How about Israel?RobertHumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913525250329418444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-1156532610980989032006-08-25T12:03:00.000-07:002006-08-25T12:03:00.000-07:00Saudi is officially 100% Islamic, so the governmen...Saudi is officially 100% Islamic, so the government would dispute that .1% claiming to be atheist.<BR/><BR/>The question seems to assume monotheism. I suppose the concept is pretty widespread nowadays, but hundreds of years ago if you asked most people around the world "Do you believe in God" it would be like asking "Do you believe in Dog?".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-1156477863167291902006-08-24T20:51:00.000-07:002006-08-24T20:51:00.000-07:00Hmm, the PubMed link didn't go through. The ref is...Hmm, the PubMed link didn't go through. The ref is:<BR/><BR/>McCrae, Terracciano, et al. (2005). Personality profiles of cultures: aggregate personality traits. J of Personality & Social Psychology. Sep;89(3):407-25.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-1156477743256271922006-08-24T20:49:00.000-07:002006-08-24T20:49:00.000-07:00Not related to the topic, but I figured I'd post i...Not related to the topic, but I figured I'd post in the most recent post rather than further down. But re: picture of personality across the world, the Five-Factor Model people have started to do so just starting within the past 5 years. I'm going to write up a nice post on it for the Gene Expression blog, but here are two good starters (assumes basic knowledge of the "Big Five" traits -- you could just read the Wikipedia entry):<BR/><BR/>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16248722&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum<BR/><BR/>No PubMed for this one:<BR/>Allik & McCrae (2004). TOWARD A GEOGRAPHY OF PERSONALITY TRAITS: Patterns of Profiles Across 36 Cultures. JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 35 No. 1, January 2004 13-28<BR/>DOI: 10.1177/0022022103260382<BR/><BR/>I remember you having univ access, but if you can't access these particular journals, just email me for the PDFs.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com