The OLDaily story I read was about Blogging and was at the link http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/08/the_blogging_personality.php . The story was a short segment on what characteristics do bloggers tend to have and it had a link to a test about the 5 characteristics that were identified. The characteristics were Openness to Experience, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Extraversion. Bloggers should tend to score higher in these categories. When I liked to the test to see how I rank I found 120 questions waiting for me. Many were very redundant or just the same question asked in a negative way.
I took the test and found my scores were Openness to Experience(0), Neuroticism(19), Conscientiousness(48), Agreeableness(54), and Extraversion(40). Yes that is a zero in Openness and a 19 in Neuroticism. I am more conservative and calm in my life. Before I even took the test, just from reading the characteristics, the one thing that popped into my head was "liberal". Probably from all of the presidential talk on TV, but I read the traits and thought it sounded much more like a liberal person. Don't get me wrong, I know many conservitive right wingers blog also. But I would guess the average "joe" of blogging is a little more on the liberal side of things. Exceptions are always present to the rule. I wonder what others think?
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