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| Saturday, March 25, 2006 |
| Were you a whingy kid? |
In the 1960's Professors Jack & Jeanne Block, a husband and wife team, began a research program looking at the personalities of 100 kindergarten children aged 3-4yrs. The kids' personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months.
A few decades later, Block followed up with more surveys, looking again at personality, and this time at politics, too. The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity.
The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests. The girls were still outgoing, but the young men tended to turn a little introspective.
This study is not going to win the professor any conservative friends.
Critics branded it the "conservatives are crazy" study and accused the authors of a political bias. Of course 3-4yr olds tend to have a fairly well considered political stance, so the bias call is obviously correct. :-)
The full article is here. |
posted by Blue @ 9:48 pm  |
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Thanks for the link to the article. It is a hoot. I could almost predict the comments by Greenberg concerning the Jost study.
I am trying to remember if I had heard of the Block study way back when. Nope, it is out of reach.
It is difficult for rigid personalities to even consider such explanations, much less have them even fathom the possibilities.
Thanks again.
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Could whiney kids stay whiney because it works in getting their parents attention and therefore they are manipulative and therefore they learn how to use their parents, then the system and therefore they are conservatives... ie those not wanting to change anything because they know how to use and abuse it!?
A long stretch I know but it was fun doing it in my head!
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So much for the study....I was never a whiney child & I'm certainly not manipulative....those who can be manipulated are simply of inferior intelligence so I don't see the point. I'm confident, 'bright with wide interests'....and conservative Leave it to a liberal to think up a study like that :)
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It's all in the way you 'spin'
I'm conservative........but not rigid. I weigh issues carefully in forming my opinions. And my opinions have changed over the years in many areas. Hmmmmmm
On the other hand I tend to see liberals as rigid.........they refuse to change their stand on issues that they've formed opinions on........why would that make me rigid and not them?
So......I'm educated, bright, have a wide range of interests, and am nonconforming to public opinion. I have my own thank you.
Oh wait, didn't that study say that liberals were the nonconforming ones? ROFL that study was a joke.
Sorry Blue
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Thanks for the link to the article. It is a hoot. I could almost predict the comments by Greenberg concerning the Jost study.
I am trying to remember if I had heard of the Block study way back when. Nope, it is out of reach.
It is difficult for rigid personalities to even consider such explanations, much less have them even fathom the possibilities.
Thanks again.