The accomplishment is 'limited' in its applicability: > As a novice to the study of the Big Five, I found that I had many misconceptions. For example, I though

The accomplishment is 'limited' in its applicability: > As a novice to the study of the Big Five, I found that I had many misconceptions. For example, I thought that the Big Five were considered to be universal, in some sense, and not just descriptive of WEIRD college students. But in fact, it is not simply that the Big Five factors fail to fall out of the analysis of large surveys in other languages and cultures. They don’t even fall out of Big Five-specific questions administered in non-WEIRD populations (Gurven et al., 2013). Many of the concepts mentioned in the Big Five survey instruments do not even exist in non-WEIRD languages as such, particularly abstract nouns (Gurven et al., 2013). Of course a concept that does not exist across cultures could not form the basis for a universally important personality trait, as measured by language. Be mindful of other cultures / worldviews: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEIRD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEIRD * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural_psychology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural_psychology Joseph Henrich recently published a book on the topic, discussed about a month ago: * https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/joseph-henrich-weird-people/615496/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/joseph-... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25227902 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25227902