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[godream]

A few weeks ago a study about personality differences among US states came out. Which is really interesting in and of itself -- supporting some stereotypes ;) -- I think the neuroticism map is most interesting, you can really see a trend...
Anyways this clearly begs for meme-ification. A friend of mine wrote a script that lets you take your stats from the big 5 personality metric and see which state's attitude you're closest to. I wind up in New England but not MA -- what about you?

Rank	State	Z-squared	E	A	C	N	O
1	NewHampshire	1.36	-0.5	1.0	0.4	0.1	-0.2
2	Vermont	1.88	-1.1	0.4	0.3	0.3	-0.6
3	Maryland	2.12	-0.3	1.3	0.1	0.3	-0.3
4	Idaho	4.64	-1.1	1.4	-0.3	1.1	0.4
5	Virginia	4.78	-1.2	1.7	0.2	0.6	-0.3
6	Louisiana	4.99	-2.1	0.4	-0.1	-0.4	0.4
7	Massachusetts	5.13	-1.5	1.4	0.4	-0.2	-0.8
8	Washington	5.66	-1.0	0.7	-0.3	1.9	-0.8
9	Indiana	5.71	-2.0	0.5	-1.1	-0.1	0.6
10	California	6.02	-1.8	0.9	-0.3	1.3	-0.6

11	Ohio	6.17	-2.3	0.9	0.2	-0.3	0.3
12	Tennessee	6.30	-2.1	-0.2	-1.1	0.7	0.2
13	Oregon	6.64	-1.2	0.5	-0.1	2.0	-0.8
14	SouthCarolina	6.65	-2.3	0.6	-1.0	0.2	0.3
15	Arkansas	6.77	-2.1	1.4	0.2	-0.2	0.4
16	Montana	6.78	-1.4	1.6	-0.1	1.5	-0.0
17	Kentucky	7.17	-1.9	0.7	-0.8	-0.4	1.5
18	Connecticut	7.17	-2.0	1.6	0.7	0.2	-0.2
19	RhodeIsland	8.22	-1.7	1.8	1.2	-0.8	0.4
20	Oklahoma	8.78	-2.2	0.1	-1.5	0.9	0.9
21	Michigan	8.92	-2.7	0.2	-0.6	0.9	0.7
22	NorthCarolina	8.94	-1.9	-0.1	-2.0	0.8	0.6
23	WestVirginia	9.42	-2.4	1.1	0.0	-1.6	0.3
24	Texas	9.71	-2.7	0.8	-0.8	0.9	0.0
25	Delaware	9.71	-2.5	1.2	0.1	0.6	1.3
26	NewYork	9.92	-2.0	2.1	0.3	-0.8	-0.9
27	Missouri	10.11	-2.7	0.4	-1.4	0.9	0.5
28	Iowa	10.15	-2.8	0.4	0.1	0.6	1.4
29	Hawaii	10.16	-1.7	0.7	1.2	1.5	1.7
30	Pennsylvania	10.17	-2.9	1.1	-0.2	-0.4	0.3
31	NewJersey	10.30	-2.9	1.1	0.6	-0.7	-0.1
32	Mississippi	10.71	-2.7	-0.5	-1.2	-0.7	1.2
33	Nevada	11.51	-1.8	2.3	-0.3	1.6	-0.5
34	Arizona	11.96	-2.3	1.0	-1.4	1.9	0.4
35	Alabama	11.97	-2.5	1.2	0.1	1.0	1.7
36	Illinois	12.51	-3.1	0.8	-1.3	0.6	0.2
37	Florida	12.87	-3.0	0.4	-1.5	1.3	-0.2
38	Kansas	13.50	-2.9	0.4	-1.6	1.2	0.9
39	Maine	13.94	-3.0	1.8	1.3	-0.1	0.6
40	Colorado	14.33	-2.1	0.9	-1.1	2.7	-0.6
41	Wyoming	15.84	-1.5	2.4	1.1	1.4	2.2
42	NewMexico	16.08	-2.5	1.1	-2.8	1.0	0.3
43	Minnesota	17.23	-3.6	-0.5	-0.5	1.6	1.1
44	Georgia	17.27	-3.5	0.0	-1.8	1.2	0.2
45	SouthDakota	19.52	-3.3	0.7	-1.0	2.5	1.0
46	Nebraska	24.01	-4.0	0.2	-1.5	1.8	1.5
47	Utah	24.44	-3.2	-0.4	-1.7	3.3	0.1
48	Wisconsin	25.02	-4.5	-0.4	-0.7	1.2	1.7
49	DistrictOfColumbia	35.14	-4.1	3.0	0.2	1.1	-2.8
50	Alaska	41.90	-0.7	5.2	2.6	2.0	1.8
51	NorthDakota	45.03	-5.4	-0.7	-0.5	1.6	3.5

Comments

[minttown1.livejournal.com]

That's very interesting. My home state ended up being my #15 match.
(I suppose the more worrying number I found was the 97th percentile on neuroticism, compared to the others who took the test on the site I used.)

[godream.livejournal.com]

I hit 78 in neuroticism -- the gentleman who wrote this script scored a 7, which perhaps explains why us dating involved a whole lot of him telling me to stop worrying about things. :p

(1st percentile on extroversion, though...)

[summerghosts.livejournal.com]

Apparently I belong in Colorado . . . Massachusetts was my #35.