> However, "openness to experience" is much higher, and the most pronounced personality trait in mountain dwellers. > "Openness is a strong predictor of reside

> However, "openness to experience" is much higher, and the most pronounced personality trait in mountain dwellers. > "Openness is a strong predictor of residential mobility," said Götz. "A willingness to move your life in pursuit of goals such as economic affluence and personal freedom drove many original North American frontier settlers." > those who left their early mountain home are still consistently less agreeable, conscientious and extravert, although no such effects were observed for neuroticism and openness. I have difficulty reconciling these statements. - mountain dwellers have higher openness to experience - openness to experience is a predictor for residential mobility - but the people who move away from mountain regions _don't_ have higher openness to experience (but stay disagreeable, unconscientious and introverted)? I would have expected the selection bias to show up in the other direction: I would expect the people who stay put to have lower openness to experience, and the people who move to have higher openness to experience.