Alternate explanation for openness being lower in regions with high parasite loads—openness is more costly in terms of energy, and people with high parasite loads have less to spare. I don’t know how you’d test that.
As for having had some mistaken beliefs as a result of a high openness level, you take your chances. Have you had unconventional beliefs which turned out to have good evidence for them?
openness is more costly in terms of energy, and people with high parasite loads have less to spare. I don’t know how you’d test that.
Correlate openness with other drains on energy, like non-communicable, non-immune-weakening disorders.
Unrelatedly, I’m still pondering the implications of Limbaugh-type demogagues characterizing illegal immigrants as parasites in evocative language. Probably just a priming thing they aren’t even aware of, but it would seem to make their rhetoric more effective.
Correlate openness with other drains on energy, like non-communicable, non-immune-weakening disorders.
Also, IQ. I stressed the lack of correlation with longevity and weak correlation of Openness with IQ because they seemed to me to be evidence against the most obvious confounds.
Alternate explanation for openness being lower in regions with high parasite loads—openness is more costly in terms of energy, and people with high parasite loads have less to spare. I don’t know how you’d test that.
As for having had some mistaken beliefs as a result of a high openness level, you take your chances. Have you had unconventional beliefs which turned out to have good evidence for them?
Correlate openness with other drains on energy, like non-communicable, non-immune-weakening disorders.
Unrelatedly, I’m still pondering the implications of Limbaugh-type demogagues characterizing illegal immigrants as parasites in evocative language. Probably just a priming thing they aren’t even aware of, but it would seem to make their rhetoric more effective.
Also, IQ. I stressed the lack of correlation with longevity and weak correlation of Openness with IQ because they seemed to me to be evidence against the most obvious confounds.