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Topic: Now we know:we (BTC/etc guys) are Machiavellian psychopaths with an inflated ego - page 2. (Read 275 times)

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They studied this group and their relations to crypto, and derived their conclusions connecting personality traits to attitudes and believes, and later to crypto.

Their research and assumptions could in one way or the other be true because if we are to take a look at the forum here as well, you'll discover many traits attributed to their claims especially on the English boards where there's total strictness and adherence to posting and ones real personality can not be easily concluded because everyone tend to be serious and up for business, other boards and local also give a similar view. I advise people on the best way with cryptocurrency is to "start making research all by yourself"


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Under this categories of users, they make people people fear and run in bitcoin and crypto at large.
Here we can have ignored users, users with high numbers of smerit and don't give it out, those that have the knowledge but not ready to impact others and all manners of temperament except for colleric.


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Those that fall under this category could be as follows:

Spammers, scammers account farmers, plagiarist, merit hunters and sh*t posters fall within this category. Everyone faces his business not minding others opinions and needs.

People that are actually seriously minded tend to fall on any of these categories because they tend not to create time for heresy.
In a concluding path, this place is one of the best to ever be while online because the excellent standard is maintained.
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain
Here are some recent media headlines on this matter:

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A study conducted by a team from Queensland University of Technology consisting of top professors and lecturers, have discovered that crypto investors commonly have a set of four negative personality traits referred to as “the dark tetrad.”
See: https://bitcoinist.com/dark-tetrad-study-shows-crypto-investors/

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A study linked the purchase of cryptocurrencies to narcissism, machiavellianism and psychopathy
See: https://www.infobae.com/en/2022/04/12/a-study-linked-the-purchase-of-cryptocurrencies-to-narcissism-machiavellianism-and-psychopathy/

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Dark Tetrad: Study Shows Crypto Investors Have The Worst Personality Traits
https://thecoin.news/articles/dark-tetrad-study-shows-crypto-investors-worst-personality-traits-1649801667663

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Study Reveals The Average Cryptocurrency Investor Has Psychopathic Tendencies
 
https://www.ladbible.com/news/latest-the-average-cryptocurrency-investor-could-be-a-psychopath-20220413

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Crypto Buyers Likely to Be Psychopaths, According to New Study
https://u.today/crypto-buyers-likely-to-be-psychopaths-according-to-new-study

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Bitcoin fans are psychopaths who don’t care about anyone, study shows
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2570285060537/bitcoin-fans-are-psychopaths-who-don-t-care-about-anyone-study-shows


I must admit that I felt identified with the above I took the headlines above for granted at first, as being the conclusions of the survey they reference. After all, if many such headlines echo the same, it must be right …

Not really …

A survey carried out by the Queensland University of Technology, based on a sample of 566 participants has led to the above headlines. However, headlines lacked to pick up on, in my opinion, one vital piece of information that is the key to interpreting the survey properly:
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Studying cryptocurrency through the psychological lens of the dark tetrad offers insight into why people want to buy crypto. We are not suggesting that everyone interested in crypto displays dark tetrad traits.

 "We studied only a subset of people interested in crypto who do have these traits. If you happen to be a Bitcoin or other crypto holder, you may or may not exhibit them."
(these are the guys that conducted the survey)
See: https://theconversation.com/impulsive-psychopaths-like-crypto-research-shows-how-dark-personality-traits-affect-bitcoin-enthusiasm-180782


The above indicates, if I’m interpreting it correctly, that the focus group of the study were people who had the dark tetrad personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy and sadism) per se. They studied this group and their relations to crypto, and derived their conclusions connecting personality traits to attitudes and believes, and later to crypto.

That is to say, the study sort of concluded that A (dark tetrad personality traits) ->B (attitude towards crypto), whilst many (not all) headlines are stating that B->A, which is not the same nor correct ...

See also:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886921008321
https://finbold.com/new-study-explains-why-narcissists-sadists-and-manipulators-are-attracted-to-crypto/
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