If you want anecdotal evidence, I would say that someone's first
encounter with AfD can set them firmly in one place on the spectrum,
but that most people who stick around see their views evolve as they
come to understand sources and the range of articles topics and
various problems better. Whether there is an underlying
predisposition, I don't know. I hope this was more helpful than the
other replies you received! :-)
On 4/13/13, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Some recent musings reminded me that I never did find
a good answer
for an old question of mine: does anything predict whether an editor
will lean towards deletionism?
More specifically, it seems to me that attitudes towards articles take
on almost emotional or moral dimensions, perhaps related to various
psychological factors. Does anyone remember ever seeing any research
touching on this? For example, perhaps someone surveyed editors,
asking for self-identified preference and doing an inventory measuring
personality factors like the OCEAN/Big Five? Of course I checked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia
and Google but nothing particularly germane appears to have popped up
besides random speculation and analogies to Adorno's famous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authoritarian_Personality
--
gwern
http://www.gwern.net
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