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Live in Illinois? You’re Probably Neurotic.
I love surveys like these, even if they’re suspect. From The Muse:
Truity Psychometrics, an online provider of scientific personality and career tests, surveyed 12,703 residents across the U.S. to determine if states really do have their unique personalities. And, it turns out they do—based on common traits, Truity categorized states into five personality clusters.
How would knowing state personalities advance your career, you ask? In a multitude of ways, really. Whether you’re a job seeker looking for companies filled with concrete thinkers or a recruiter searching for the hardworking, no-nonsense folks, this infographic shows you exactly where to look. For instance, the number of concrete thinkers is especially high in Illinois, North Dakota, and Indiana. As for the hardworking, no-nonsense folks (dubbed “The Producers”)? They’re clustered in states like Texas, New Jersey, and Florida.
I’m not sure I’d bet real money on data from someplace called “Truity Psychometrics,” but some of the categories and clusters are interesting. Vermont, Kentucky, South Dakota, and West Virginia residents were scored as “introverted,” while Montana, North Dakota, Mississippi, Oregon, and South Carolina came out in the surveys as “cooperative,” whatever that means.
People in Illinois were found to be neurotic when dealing with stress but flexible in something called “organizing your life.”
And Californians share with Idahoans, Oklahomans, and Mississippians a trait called an “open mind,” meaning they’re interested in “arts, literature, the sciences, and other intellectual activities.”
Which made me laugh. And I’m sure infuriates Californians, who probably don’t think they share anything with people from Oklahoma and Mississippi.
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Idahoans share so much with Californians because every Californian with a brain sold his house and moved to Idaho.
And Kel, the best thing about being from Oklahoma and living in Idaho is that nobody here plays the geographic superiority game. Unless they are talking about skiing. Which they usually are.
Ketchum- home of Hemingway.
St. Maries, home of my grandma. :-)
In the 1956 soon after our family moved to Nebraska, the editorial page editor of the Omaha World-Hearld opined that with so many people migrating from Nebraska to California, it raised the average intelligence of both states.
I presume that line has been used elsewhere, too.
My dad said it when his brother-in-law (aka my uncle) left Illinois and moved to New York.