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		<title>Agreeableness World Map</title>
		<link>http://mypersonality.org/research/2009/09/18/agreeableness-world-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our final world trait map based on myPersonality data is for aggregate Agreeableness. Agreeableness can broadly be characterised as co-operative (high Agreeableness, high rank and dark orange on the map) vs. competitive (low Agreeableness, low rank and light orange on the map). myPersonality has already shown that high Agreeableness is associated with studying more social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neuroticism World Map</title>
		<link>http://mypersonality.org/research/2009/09/06/neuroticism-world-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our latest map based on myPersonality data is for aggregate Neuroticism. Dark purple and a high rank denotes a high Neuroticism score, suggesting that the country&#8217;s population considers themselves in touch with their emotions but are liable to get stressed our more easily. Lighter purple and a low rank denotes a low Neuroticism score, suggesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conscientiousness World Map</title>
		<link>http://mypersonality.org/research/2009/08/30/conscientiousness-world-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our aggregate trait mapping series, below we include the world map for Conscientiousness based on myPersonality data. Dark green and a high rank denotes a high Conscientiousness trait score, suggesting that citizens like to plan their actions in advance and complete their tasks reliably. Low Conscientiousness scores indicate that they consider themselves more flexible, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extraversion World Map</title>
		<link>http://mypersonality.org/research/2009/08/23/extraversion-world-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our series from last Sunday, below we include the world map for Extraversion based on myPersonality data. Dark red and a high rank denotes a high Extraversion trait score. A high extraversion score indicates that citizens consider themselves outgoing and most comfortable around other people. Low extraversion scores indicate that they consider themselves more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Openness World Map</title>
		<link>http://mypersonality.org/research/2009/08/16/openness-world-map/</link>
		<comments>http://mypersonality.org/research/2009/08/16/openness-world-map/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We used our huge personality database to look at differences between the &#8216;average&#8217; personality in countries across the world. These results are already used in our Personality Matches feature which finds the country whose personality profile matches yours the closest. Below we have mapped the Openness ranks of the 121 countries that we had sufficient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The relationship between US state and personality</title>
		<link>http://mypersonality.org/research/2008/12/09/the-relationship-between-us-state-and-personality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[myPersonality has drawn maps of how the personalities of different states in the US differ. The most friendly and outgoing Americans are in the deep south, people on the east of America are less relaxed than people on the west, and the most trusting people are in the north western states. myPersonality has also created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shape of the Trait Distributions</title>
		<link>http://mypersonality.org/research/2008/01/22/the-shape-of-the-trait-distributions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the data from MyPersonality is going to mean anything, the distribution of trait scores needs to be somewhere close to a normal distribution. That is, a curve with most of the people in the middle and a few people on each side. The graphs below plot the number of people who have each trait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s interested in their star sign personality?</title>
		<link>http://mypersonality.org/research/2008/01/19/whos-interested-in-their-star-sign-personality/</link>
		<comments>http://mypersonality.org/research/2008/01/19/whos-interested-in-their-star-sign-personality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In MyPersonality, people run the Big Five personality test and then have the option of running the star sign personality section, which compares their personality to the one that their star sign predicts. Even deciding to check your star sign personality though might say something about you, so MyPersonality had a look by comparing the [...]]]></description>
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