Comments on: Extraversion World Map

By: fab

fab — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:46:38 +0000

Well your technique is probably awesome but your results are worthless. Saying that scandinavian people are more extravert than south europeans is just absurd. Everyguy that experienced the two cultures (and i did for years!) will tell you the exact opposite in 99% of cases…

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:56:44 +0000

@David Ha! Fair enough.

By: David

David — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:28:45 +0000

Hi Dan, the real answer is that I just did it without thinking too much and then didn’t want to change all of the numbers again. However in a way it’s good because the problem with ranking is that it’s as if 1 is the best and 121 is the worst, whereas none of the personality traits are necessarily good or bad – so the ‘ranks’ just signify that the aggregate trait level for a state is the smallest number (1) or the largest number (121) out of all of the countries. So that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:08:30 +0000

Very interesting results (as are all the plots) but I find the rankings slightly counter-intuitive. I would expect the most extraverted country to be ranked 1 out of 121 and the least to be ranked 121 out of 121.