> The link between conscientious personality traits and interest in high-status cars was found among both men and women. In contrast, the connection between sel

> The link between conscientious personality traits and interest in high-status cars was found among both men and women. In contrast, the connection between self-centred personality traits and high-status cars was only found among men, not women. Lönnqvist has no clear answer as to why this is the case. Here's an idea -- because it's all p-hacked nonsense. The abstract leaves out 1) how this population of 1892 was acquired. 2) what the definition of a high status car is -- is it equivalent to the cost or is it an arbitrary split on make/model? 3) the actual statistical tests and their results. While we see N at 1892, what were the sub-populations. Presumably N[high_status] is low relative to N, which would go along way to explaining the high 'conscientious' result -- that they are both meaningless statistical artifacts. > The present study was motivated by the authors' everyday experience of most traffic violations being committed by male drivers of high‐status cars. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman This is bad work.