Are You the Life of the Party?

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Alexical analysis is a mathematical task, and it's very theoretical. You're basically putting all f that data, all of those data, into this technique to reduce the data. It's called sort of alexical analysis. So you're just taking all the terms that we use to socially describe other people,. And you're trying to see how many dimensions there are. There's some argument about how many dimension there are. But there has been consensus. Looking at a whole bunch of data that five seems to be the right number of dimensions that captures everything.

David and Tamler tackle the topic selected by their Patreon supporters - the psychology of personality. What are the different dimensions of personality that distinguish one person from another? How many dimensions are there - do the Big Five capture all of them? Do we share some of these differences with other species? Why don't personality psychologists include moral character traits? Plus - are you curious about your partner's true political commitments? No problem, just install a periscope in your toilet.

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