shiny things:

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

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