[Foundation-l] "antisocial production"

Bence Damokos bdamokos at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 12:16:34 UTC 2009


You can find the original study at:
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/cpb.2007.0225?cookieSet=1
<http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/cpb.2007.0225?cookieSet=1>apparently
they used a pre-existing questionairre called the
BFI Questionnaire (probably stands for Big Five Inventory; the closest
article in Wikipedia on the subject might be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits)

Best regards,
Bence Damokos

2009/6/28 geni <geniice at gmail.com>

> 2009/6/27 Phil Nash <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk>:
> > 1. Small sample, making statistical significance difficult to assess
>
> It's big enough to get some results. The ones across gender lines are
> more questionable.
>
>
> > 3. If the questionnaire isn't published, it's incapable of independent
> > analysis for bias in the questions asked
>
> It probably is published but not circulated among the general public.
>
> > 4. Peer-reviewed research by whom?
>
> Whoever does the peer review for CyberPsychology & Behavior I supose.
>
> > and that's just for starters. I look forward to seeing the whole lot,
> > because I, for one, disbelieve such wide conclusions.
>
>
> The results are hardly earth shattering as it basically adds up to
> "wikipedia is written but people with weak social skills aka nerds"
>
> --
> geni
>
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