Matthew Yglesias » Personality http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:15:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Nice Folks http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/nice_folks.php http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/nice_folks.php#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:02:35 +0000 myglesias http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/nice_folks.php I was talking to my grandfather over the weekend, and we agreed that, as best we could tell, people in Minnesota were unusually nice and friendly. And now I’ve got the proof in the form of these maps showing personality characteristics by state.

First the “agreeableness” map:

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And now the “extraverted” map:

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As you can see, people in Minnesota are extraverted and agreeable — friendly, in layman’s terms. The maps also confirm one’s stereotype-based suspicion that the Northeast is full of neurotics.

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