The problem with this argument is that a person's identity is more complex than the manifestation of a single personality trait. You may judge character at its

The problem with this argument is that a person's identity is more complex than the manifestation of a single personality trait. You may judge character at its worst, but those mean people on the internet are also loving in other, more meaningful contexts. If you're going to ask whether meanness and success are "inversely correlated"—a phrase peculiar to statistics—then you should present actual data to support that argument.