“EA Survey: Personality Traits in the EA Community” by Willem Sleegers, David_Moss

SummaryThis post reports on data about the personality psychology of EAs from the 2018 EA Survey. We observe some differences between our EA sample and the general population: Younger male EAs and older female EAs score higher on conscientiousness compared to the general population. Male EAs score lower on neuroticism than the general public. EAs score high on need for cognition, and relatively higher than a US and UK general population sample. Though this may be partially due to demographic differences between the samples. EAs appear to be slightly lower in empathic concern than a sample of US undergraduates. But this seems attributable to demographic differences between the samples, in particular gender. Small differences were observed regarding maximization and alternative search compared to other samples. Generally, the lack of population norms of various personality traits makes comparisons between samples difficult. Overall, we found only small associations between [...] ---Outline:(00:07) Summary(01:59) Introduction(02:57) Big Five(06:26) Need for Cognition(08:33) Interpersonal Reactivity Index(11:20) Maximization(14:03) Personality traits and donations(15:55) Personality traits and cause prioritization(17:22) Appendix(17:25) Big Five item distributions(17:59) Alternative IRI comparison(18:54) AcknowledgmentsThe original text contained 7 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. The original text contained 14 images which were described by AI. --- First published: July 9th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/RtaJ2nKDihxn2wm9J/ea-survey-personality-traits-in-the-ea-community --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.