Big Five traits by country/state

[Not A Communist Shill]

We've had threads about the personality types of countries and at least one about a quiz about which country suits you best, but I could not find if we've had one on actual test results mapped geographical.

If anyone finds any further related research (whether Big Five or otherwise), please post it here!

USA:
http://www.livescience.com/40512-sta...lity-list.html
http://www.livescience.com/40511-mos...ality-map.html

UK:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31816926
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0122245

[The Exception]

Minnesota

E: 52.9

A: 61.6

C: 52.5

N: 43.4

O: 38.5

I can definitely see the general agreeableness among Minnesotans. They don't call us 'Minnesota nice' without a reason, ya know ya betcha.

I also think overall we are low on neuroticism.

I'm not sure I agree with the low openness to experience though. I think it depends on the region of Minnesota. In the more rural regions, it seems more conservative but in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, it seems quite liberal, especially in Minneapolis.

[Not A Communist Shill]

US State Big Five types based on those stats (lower case means below 50%):

OCEAN
Tennessee

OCEAn
S. Carolina, Texas, Florida, Georgia

OCEaN
Illinois

OCEan
Arizona

OcEaN
Louisiana, New Jersey, Connecticut

OcEan
District of Columbia, California

oCEAn
Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, S. Dakota, Utah, Mississippi, Iowa, Alabama, Michigan, N. Carolina, N. Dakota

ocEAn
Wisconsin

oCEaN
Kentucky, Pennsylvania

ocEaN
Ohio

OCeAn
Montana

OceAN
Vermont

OceAn
Oregon, Washington

OCeaN
New Mexico

OCean
Nevada, Colorado

OceaN
Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Maryland

Ocean
Virginia

oCeAN
Indiana, Oklahoma

oceAN
W. Virginia

oceAN
New Hampshire, Arkansas

oceAn
Idaho

oCeaN
Kansas

oceaN
Delaware

ocean
Wyoming

Taking the most common of each of the five dichotomies amongst the states included and recombining them: OCEAn
Weighting each state's type by population and averaging for the whole US (or at least out of the 48 states + DC included): OCEan

[Not A Communist Shill]

Attempting to convert the scores into MBTI types in line with this research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%...cator#Big_Five :

(assuming that correlations are 100%...)

ENFJ (+ all score below 50% on neuroticism)
S. Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee

ENTJ
Illinois (neurotic), Arizona

ENTP
New Jersey (neurotic), Connecticut (neurotic), District of Columbia, California, Louisiana (neurotic)

ENFP
(none: closest would be Louisiana (neurotic), then California)

ESFJ (+ all score below 50% on neuroticism)
Mississippi, Iowa, Alabama, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, S. Dakota, Utah, N. Dakota, N. Carolina

ESFP
Wisconsin

ESTJ
Kentucky (neurotic), Pennsylvania (neurotic)

ESTP
Ohio (neurotic)

INFJ
Montana

INFP
Vermont (neurotic), Oregon, Washington

INTJ
New Mexico (neurotic), Nevada, Colorado

INTP
Massachusetts (neurotic), New York (neurotic), Rhode Island (neurotic), Maryland, Virginia, Maine (neurotic)

ISFJ
Indiana (neurotic), Oklahoma (neurotic)

ISFP
W. Virginia (neurotic), New Hampshire (neurotic), Arkansas (neurotic), Idaho

ISTJ
Kansas

ISTP
Delaware (neurotic), Wyoming

[Not A Communist Shill]

States by temperament:
EXXJ
(high): Georgia, S. Carolina, Nebraska, Missouri, Florida
(moderately high): Wisconsin, Mississippi, Iowa, S. Dakota, Tennessee, Alabama

IXXP
(high): Vermont, Maine, Maryland
(moderately high): Washington, Oregon, New Hampshire, W. Virginia, Delaware, New York, Idaho

EXXP
(high): Connecticut, Wisconsin, District of Columbia, New Jersey

IXXJ
(moderately high): New Mexico, Montana, Oklahoma

[golden]

States by temperament:
EXXJ
(high): Georgia, S. Carolina, Nebraska, Missouri, Florida
(moderately high): Wisconsin, Mississippi, Iowa, S. Dakota, Tennessee, Alabama

IXXP
(high): Vermont, Maine, Maryland
(moderately high): Washington, Oregon, New Hampshire, W. Virginia, Delaware, New York, Idaho

EXXP
(high): Connecticut, Wisconsin, District of Columbia, New Jersey

IXXJ
(moderately high): New Mexico, Montana, Oklahoma

I appreciate all your efforts, but I find the results strange in light of how I experience various U.S. states.

[Not A Communist Shill]

I appreciate all your efforts, but I find the results strange in light of how I experience various U.S. states.

Yes, the New York one seemed odd to me at least, apart from maybe neuroticism and openness.

[Muddy]

I live in the northern panhandle of West Virginia which is more like New England then the rest of WV and I generally fit with the area's score. Introverted, Disorganized, and Disagreeable.

The data makes sense to me in how I would expect which people to be in what area. Us north easterners are the way we are because we get fed up with all bullshit that comes with being next to other people all the time, therefore we close ourselves off and create chaos to disrupt all the shit that gets imposed on us.

As for the northern mid west it completely makes sense why that area contains the most agreeable and conventional people. Anybody with any ambition and fighting spirit would stay as far away as possible from a landscape as bland and void of opportunity as that area is.

[Adam Strange]

Georgia.
Not sure why, unless it has to do with @Subteigh's post. I've never spent much time in Georgia, so I can't say if I would relate well to the people there. I'm not fond of most Southern states. If Florida sinks beneath the waves, well, that would be a start.

I've been in every state in the Union except Alaska and Hawaii, but most of them didn't make much of an impression. The area around the Appalachian Mountains is pretty, as are some parts of Wisconsin and south-central Ohio. The cities that I like are Ann Arbor, MI, Chicago, IL, San Jose, CA, San Francisco, Santa Fe, NM, Denver, CO, Bozeman, MT. I should probably revisit the Northwestern states, since I haven't been there since college.

Places I don't like very well are Florida, most of the South because of racism and conservatives, New York city and its surrounds because of the neuroticism, the parts of the West which are water disasters in progress, the Great Plains states which are flat and boring, and many of the old industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast, which are collapsing and depressing, with only a few exceptions.

California is a strange place. Fantastic weather, beautiful scenery, great food and wine, lots of very well educated liberals (along with the nuts), good high-tech economy, but when I was there, I felt uncomfortable whenever I encountered the Mexicans and other poor social classes. It is a place of great income disparities. I was always aware when I was walking around that I and all the other techies were making five or ten times what the underclass was living on, and that makes me very uncomfortable. If this is the future, we need to change course.

[summerprincess]

I knew I belonged in New York

[FDG]

i think the US state most similar to the region where i come from is likely Texas...

[WVBRY]

i think the US state most similar to the region where i come from is likely Texas...

Texas sounds awesome, as long as it's not an area with too many religious fundies. I hear it's very freewheeling and libertarian, you just do your own thing and everyone leaves you alone. Lots of open space to drive for hours too.

I've only passed through it, so I didn't get a very good idea of what lving there would be like though.

Other states I liked: Colorado was the most beautiful, but also redneck-ish in the rural areas. We ran into some strange people.

California: I've only been to the south, LA and San Diego, also Seqouia and Kings Canyon National Parks. The people are friendly, but LA has alot of poverty, hundreds of homeless people sleeping on the beach in Santa Monica. San Diego was more yuppy-ish at least the parts where I visited. Cali is also a state with some really nice scenery, I imagine there are some liberals there that are pretty extreme though.

Arizona: Nice scenery, not familair with the southern part, the only "real" city I saw was Flagstaff and I wouldn't mind living there, nice town in the mountains surrounded by pine trees, but it's probably a haven for meth dealers though...

Nevada: I consider Las Vegas my hometown. I would probably go back to Vegas if I went back to the US, due to the contacts I have there. The problem with Nevada is that its economy is corrupt, the casinos rule, and you can't do anything business-wise without their authorization.

New Mexico: Poorer than the other states, but still nice and very freewheeling.

NYC is a really impressive city, but I don't remember much specific since I was 5 when I visited.

find suitable breeding stock

Breeding stock? Seriously dude?

[Spermatozoa]

Breeding stock? Seriously dude?

Seriously. It is one of the fundamental purposes of existence.

[WVBRY]

Seriously. It is one of the fundamental purposes of existence.

It was more the way you said it that made me laugh, rather than what you said, lol.

[Spermatozoa]

It was more the way you said it that made me laugh, rather than what you said, lol.

Ah yes, breeding stock. Imagine a long line of women in stockades with legs bent over, oohing and moaning like cows in heat, with a sign above which says "fresh stock - ready to be tested". I have created a list of all the U.S. states, categorized according to whether they represent the self, the idealized female, a neutral, or an enemy.

I will enjoy testing out my assumptions.

[Not A Communist Shill]

Based on the Local Authority District data in this, I made rough estimates for regions of the UK:

Regional Personality Differences in Great Britain

County	E	O	A	C	N
Avon	51.9	52.7	45.8	44.2	47.3
Bedfordshire	45.8	44.5	45.2	51.8	47.1
Berkshire	53.9	47.2	47.7	52.9	42.3
Buckinghamshire	59.4	49.5	46.9	54.1	43.0
Cambridgeshire	46.1	52.4	46.1	51.7	52.4
Cheshire	51.1	47.0	55.1	53.0	48.4
Cleveland	50.0	46.0	47.9	42.5	56.6
Cornwall	49.7	58.1	57.1	51.9	46.7
Cumbria	47.1	49.7	48.4	43.8	56.0
Derbyshire	45.9	46.0	53.2	54.7	51.3
Devon	51.8	52.8	55.3	56.0	46.8
Dorset	56.1	50.1	52.5	54.7	41.2
Durham	45.9	51.1	57.6	47.2	53.0
East Sussex	58.2	59.1	51.2	50.0	48.6
Essex	50.6	41.2	46.9	51.8	50.1
Gloucestershire	49.7	50.2	56.5	54.9	46.1
Greater Manchester	55.5	50.9	49.5	44.3	51.6
Hampshire	49.4	45.5	49.9	53.4	48.5
Herefordshire and Worcestershire	44.3	50.1	50.5	57.9	50.2
Hertfordshire	57.6	49.4	51.2	54.2	44.5
Humberside	45.3	42.8	46.8	51.2	56.7
Isle of Wight	45.0	51.9	51.1	56.0	55.6
Kent	50.6	48.4	51.0	52.9	50.3
Lancashire	50.0	46.3	48.2	44.9	55.1
Leicestershire and Rutland	47.5	49.0	48.6	47.4	53.3
Lincolnshire	37.0	42.4	49.9	56.2	53.3
London	60.0	65.7	36.1	36.8	51.1
Merseyside	48.1	51.8	49.4	39.7	54.3
Norfolk	47.7	48.7	53.7	57.4	51.0
North Yorkshire	50.1	52.4	54.2	53.9	46.7
Northamptonshire	46.4	43.1	48.1	49.0	50.5
Northumberland	43.4	47.3	52.1	51.0	52.0
Nottinghamshire	49.1	48.1	49.6	49.1	55.3
Oxfordshire	49.2	57.8	47.6	53.1	47.5
Scotland	46.9	50.8	54.5	45.4	50.8
Shropshire	46.8	51.2	52.1	53.2	51.4
Somerset	48.5	52.1	53.0	55.4	50.7
South Yorkshire	50.3	44.7	45.0	44.1	57.5
Staffordshire	43.8	44.3	49.2	50.2	57.8
Suffolk	45.7	48.2	56.9	56.3	50.0
Surrey	60.1	49.2	48.9	55.4	36.2
Tyne and Wear	47.0	53.2	51.4	41.2	52.9
Wales	47.3	51.0	52.9	43.2	53.5
Warwickshire	51.1	49.0	51.8	51.1	48.8
West Midlands	46.7	49.1	45.4	43.8	57.7
West Sussex	50.3	48.1	48.2	57.1	45.0
West Yorkshire	49.1	49.8	47.8	44.5	53.8
Wiltshire	49.1	42.5	48.3	53.7	47.3

There was insufficient data for Northern Ireland.

[Spermatozoa]

It looks like Ohio, West Virginia, Delaware, Maine and New Hampshire are the best states for me to find suitable breeding stock. Honorable mentions to Idaho and Wyoming. I will definitely avoid Florida, South Carolina, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.

So the answer to my problems is to move somewhere whiter, colder and more mountainous than here. That means it must be at least 85% white, get below freezing during the day in winter, not just at night, and there must be mountains over 4000 metres high.

Maybe Idaho and Wyoming in the U.S. then. I will also check out Switzerland and Russia. Women who shoot wild animals are hot.

(My dual is SxI, so low O and low C are preferred)