{"id":3357,"date":"2008-09-24T05:09:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T10:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2008-09-24T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T12:15:58","slug":"state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"State Of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122211987961064719.html?mod=yhoofront#project%3D\">A new survey<\/a> tried to analyze America&#8217;s personality, state-by-state.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Cambridge (UK) measured 600,000 people for extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness &#8211; and found some interesting results.<br \/>\nI gotta say I didn&#8217;t see this bit coming:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And what of the unexpected finding that North Dakota is the most outgoing state in the union? Yes, North Dakota, the same state memorialized years ago in the movie &#8220;Fargo&#8221; as a frozen wasteland of taciturn souls. Turns out you can be a laconic extrovert, at least in the world of psychology. The trait is defined in part by strong social networks and tight community bonds, which are characteristic of small towns across the Great Plains. (Though not, apparently, small towns in New England, which ranks quite low on the extraversion scale.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hm. I must have come from the dour, taciturn corner of North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey tried to analyze America&#8217;s personality, state-by-state. The University of Cambridge (UK) measured 600,000 people for extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness &#8211; and found some interesting results. I gotta say I didn&#8217;t see this bit coming: And what of the unexpected finding that North Dakota is the most outgoing state in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}