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@Scientific_Bird
Nov 1, 2024 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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New study has released personality profiles of 263 occupations.

Short thread of the occupations that are the most extreme with respect to each of the five personality dimension (I will mention only occupations with a sample of at least 100). Image
Neuroticism.

High:
- Visual Artists
- Graphic and Multimedia Designers
- Musicians, Singers and Composers

Low:
- Health Services Managers
- Finance Managers
- Information and Communications Technology Services Managers Image
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Extraversion:

High:
- Advertising and Public Relations Managers
- Sales and Marketing Managers
- Human Resource Managers

Low:
- Software Developers
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers
- Unspecified Laboratory Technicians/Assistants Image
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Openness:

High:
- Visual Artists
- Psychologists
- University and Higher Education Teachers

Low:
- Crane, Hoist and Related Plant Operators
- Car, Taxi and Van Drivers
- Manufacturing Labourers Image
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Agreeableness:

High:
- Psychologists
- Audiologists and Speech Therapists
- Software Developers

Low:
- Self-employed/Entrepreneurs
- Real Estate Agents and Property Managers
- Sales and Marketing Managers Image
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Conscientiousness:

High:
- Construction Managers
- Finance Managers
- Health Professionals (unspecified)

Low:
- Visual Artists
- Graphic and Multimedia Designers
- Unspecified Editors (text, book etc.) Image
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The site that lets you navigate the aggregate results is here:

apps.psych.ut.ee/JobProfiles/

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Youth robbery in Sweden

In this thread, I will talk about the issue of youth immigrant robbery in Sweden.

The reasons for doing robbery range from feeling bored, to purchase cigarettes, to feel powerful, to wanting to "fight the Swedes", to wanting to humiliate their victims.
In the 1990s, a distinct phenomenon of youth robbery became prevalent in places such as Malmö and Stockholm in Sweden. It was almost exclusively young boys targeting other young boys. The perpetrators were usually foreign-born and the victims were usually not.
A 2000 report showed that reported youth robberies had sharply increased between 1995 and 1999.

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I don't know where people get these ideas from.

As far as I can tell, there is no convincing evidence that supports this “immediate drop” in female car crash deaths (relative to men's).

Even in the community note, where the same claim is made, the links don't provide any?
So I decided to look at car accident deaths over time in the United States, 1999-2022.

Is there any evidence that the female death rate suddenly drops relative to men's? No, the male and female *trends* are almost identical. Image
In the 2000s, there is a strong decline traffic accident deaths overall. But this is independent of sex, so clearly this isn't caused by this narrow sex-specific factor.

The homicide rate also fell from 2000 to 2010, so perhaps it's a more general decline in recklessness.
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Dec 6, 2024
The open problem -- the "moving sofa problem" -- has possibly just been solved!

This mathematical problem basically asks "what is the largest area of a 'sofa' that can be maneuvered through a right-angled corner in a hallway of width 1?"

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Quickly after, Hammersley (1968) proposed a very simple construction.

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Many responses to this misunderstand it. A lot of commenters, in their confusion or ignorance, assume that it must necessarily simply be due to abject poverty and lack of access to other food.

In reality, this is an old cultural tradition that persists from West Africa.
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The reasons given: “earth is good for you”; “it helps pregnant women”; “it tastes good”; “it is sour like a lemon”, “it tastes better if smoked”, etc. Image
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Why poverty is not a major cause of violent crime: macroeconomic evidence

While it is well known that poverty tends to be correlated with violent crime, causally informative evidence usually tells a different story. One important source of evidence is the macroeconomic kind.

If economic factors causally affected violent crime, then, when macroeconomic conditions change within a country or region, you should expect violent crime rates to follow. Economic downfalls should lead to increases in violent crime, and vice versa.

One illustrative example is that the homicide rate actually fell in America during the Great Depression–the opposite of what the causal hypothesis would expect.
But it's not just the Great Depression. In the Handbook of Crime Correlates, Lee et al. review the macroeconomic evidence and find that economic downturns have no systematic effect on violent crime.

More recently, Ludwig & Schnepel (2024) also reviewed macro evidence and also concluded that there is no systematic effect on violent crime.
The COVID economic crisis is yet another example. Hoeboer et al. (2024) reviewed the evidence and found that globally there was no increase in violent crime. If anything, it was in the opposite direction.

The United States famously did experience a homicide rate increase starting in 2020. But a careful analysis of the timing of that homicide increase shows that this was the result of a homicide spike immediately following the death of George Floyd. It should not be considered an economic effect.

Overall, there is no clear indication that macroeconomic downturns result in an increase in violent crime. Often the evidence finds the opposite. This is yet another strong line of evidence against the idea that poverty has a major causal impact on violent crime.Image
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There is also evidence from within-individual studies:

Further evidence from sibling studies:

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