tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post3758421794084378774..comments2024-03-28T12:16:12.797-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Religiosity, the Big 5, and jail timeRon Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-69708873697496610752010-11-21T09:38:12.972-08:002010-11-21T09:38:12.972-08:00Very interesting.
Just a general caution about s...Very interesting. <br /><br />Just a general caution about self-rated personality studies: they do not seem to be valid across racial and cultural divides (presumably because not just personality varies across these divides, but also self-evaluations); so these factors should almost certainly be controlled.<br /><br />For example, Richard Lynn used to study cross-cultural self-rated personality - but stopped doing so, apparently because he was unsure about the validity. He now studies differences in objective behavior, like crime - as a proxy for personality.<br /><br />(For example in The Global Bell Curve (2008) - which btw is a fascinating, indeed indispensable compendium of international data on IQ and personality proxy measures.) <br /><br />Eventually, if/when the significant genes influencing personality are discovered and become measurable, then genetic studies ought to be able to sort-out these questions.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.com