Ok this reminds me of those posts on /r/science "Science says redditors are the best and the rightest". Anyway, research on undergraduate business students wit

Ok this reminds me of those posts on /r/science "Science says redditors are the best and the rightest". Anyway, research on undergraduate business students with a mean age of 18.14 years, so beware. > were asked if they viewed their car as an extension of themselves, how much they thought loud cars were “cool”, and if they would make their car louder with muffler modifications. Cronbach’s α of the three car items was .76; therefore an aggregate was generated. That's slightly surprising, aren't there a lot of other ways for a car to be "cool"? > Other than legally enforcing laws with respect to these automobile modifications, the present results suggest that other tactics, such as information campaigns, may not be useful as it is unlikely that those scoring higher on psychopathy and sadism would be swayed by the fact that the modified mufflers may be damaging to others, as researchers have recently reported that the dark personality dimensions are negatively correlated with altruism measures So, the theory is that pointing out it's anti-social is pointless, if they already know it's anti-social and the people doing it are the ones who don't care.