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Posted By tehranchik 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyBased on more than 600,000 questionnaires and published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, the study maps regional clusters of personality traits, then overlays state-by-state data on crime, health and economic development in search of correlations.
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Well, I'm from and live in the Pacific Northwest. I did live in the middle east during the late 70's and early 80 ...
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calitennflo8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Maybe we should start this questionare again with the subjects living in an environment capible of determining a psychosomatical result...or the conclusions from the interactions between the physical and phychic.
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Crime does not exist inside an individual. It exists from the outside stimulus as cuasals and effectuals that permeate within.
New born infants are not criminals.-
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tehranchik8 months, 2 weeks ago
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What I saw when I looked at the interactive graphics was influence. I thought the maps showed an influence of environment and attitudes. Not all, but many are influenced by the attitudes around them.
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You say newborns are not criminals - I can agree with that. Crime not existing inside an individual I think is debatable. Psychosis comes from within. Not from stimuli. Stimuli can worsen a psychosis - not cause it. This derangement comes directly from the brain.
I thought it was a fairly straight forward questionare, simply done. 600,000 is a pretty fair sampling . I just thought it was interesting and had no idea anyone would be dismayed at such a silly thing.
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