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I spent the Financial Times published an article by John Byrne Murdoch. A data journalist,

a lot of people might have

seen John's stuff during the pandemic. He did some really outstanding data analysis on what was

going on with the pandemic, with vaccines, and just really sort of demonstrated the power of data

journalism. His latest piece was an analysis of personality data,

specifically looking at what are often styled the big five personality factors, openness,

conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Now, typically these five factors

are regarded as a statistically reliable way to measure personality. Unlike approaches like

Myers-Briggs, these factors prove consistent over time and psychologists have taken a view that

much of the variance of human personality could be understood by looking at these factors.

Interestingly, they also prove predictive for other outcomes, conscientiousness, for example, predicts academic success and job performance.

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