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I don't understand how using "fuck" a lot can be directly correlated to neuroticism. There are so many situations where it can be used that assigning the whole

I don't understand how using "fuck" a lot can be directly correlated to neuroticism. There are so many situations where it can be used that assigning the whole word to a signal for neuroticism seems like a misstep to me.

enoex1 12y ago
source and methodology: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783449/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783449/
- crazypyro 12y ago
  Ah, yeah, admittedly I didn't do much searching around for the source. I'd imagine the research is better than my intuition though. Thanks for that.
cwal37 12y ago
Also, being religious seems to be highly correlated with "agreeableness", as the example words include: Christ, church, praise, blessed, Christmas, psalm, and prayers. You might be more prone towards agreeableness around others sharing your faith, but the more ensconced you are, the less likely you'll be open towards people with differences of opinion. EDIT: Searching through the linked research paper, I couldn't find a single mention of "faith", "religion", or "religious", so I guess that was perhaps not considered. EDIXx2: I think an interesting followup (to the research and possibly the tool) would be an attempt to discern how siloed away each person is and assigning a score to weight their other values. If you're in an echo chamber of everyone being #blessed, it's a bit different from seeing a wide range of opinions and activity. Even something simple like the mean distance of friends from the user's location, maybe with a foreign multiplier, I dunno. EDITx3: Not even just distance, facebook has that about section as well. Obviously, many people have non-standard entries there, so some by-hand correction would need to be employed, but you could at least get a sense of someone's network variety.
- crazypyro 12y ago
  Maybe Five Labs correlated those words with Family or Inclusive, based on the chart in the research paper, but it definitely isn't clear. None of the charts show a strong correlation between "faith" words and a certain personality, at least from my view.
amirmc 12y ago
From the original article (as linked in a sibling comment), you can see the following result which is really interesting [1]. I do use the word 'fuck' when speaking and I've never been bothered by it but I can say that I don't think I've ever used in a facebook post. Which aligns with the study as I've previously done the Five Factor Inventory and have a low neuroticism score. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783449/figure/pone-0073791-g006/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783449/figure/p...
- crazypyro 12y ago
  From the same study, Fuck is also highly correlated with age and gender. They also found a 25% less strong correlation between swear words and neuroticism, compared to a previous, given study. I'd imagine correlating swear words is especially hard because of their varied use. (For extreme happiness vs anger, for example)

enoex1 12y ago

source and methodology: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783449/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783449/

crazypyro 12y ago
Ah, yeah, admittedly I didn't do much searching around for the source. I'd imagine the research is better than my intuition though. Thanks for that.

cwal37 12y ago

Also, being religious seems to be highly correlated with "agreeableness", as the example words include: Christ, church, praise, blessed, Christmas, psalm, and prayers. You might be more prone towards agreeableness around others sharing your faith, but the more ensconced you are, the less likely you'll be open towards people with differences of opinion. EDIT: Searching through the linked research paper, I couldn't find a single mention of "faith", "religion", or "religious", so I guess that was perhaps not considered. EDIXx2: I think an interesting followup (to the research and possibly the tool) would be an attempt to discern how siloed away each person is and assigning a score to weight their other values. If you're in an echo chamber of everyone being #blessed, it's a bit different from seeing a wide range of opinions and activity. Even something simple like the mean distance of friends from the user's location, maybe with a foreign multiplier, I dunno. EDITx3: Not even just distance, facebook has that about section as well. Obviously, many people have non-standard entries there, so some by-hand correction would need to be employed, but you could at least get a sense of someone's network variety.

crazypyro 12y ago
Maybe Five Labs correlated those words with Family or Inclusive, based on the chart in the research paper, but it definitely isn't clear. None of the charts show a strong correlation between "faith" words and a certain personality, at least from my view.

amirmc 12y ago

From the original article (as linked in a sibling comment), you can see the following result which is really interesting [1]. I do use the word 'fuck' when speaking and I've never been bothered by it but I can say that I don't think I've ever used in a facebook post. Which aligns with the study as I've previously done the Five Factor Inventory and have a low neuroticism score. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783449/figure/pone-0073791-g006/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783449/figure/p...

crazypyro 12y ago
From the same study, Fuck is also highly correlated with age and gender. They also found a 25% less strong correlation between swear words and neuroticism, compared to a previous, given study. I'd imagine correlating swear words is especially hard because of their varied use. (For extreme happiness vs anger, for example)