| Hi Everyone,
Yes, those who know me well already understand that at times, I can be a bit of a jerk. However, words like sadist, psychopath, narcissist or Machiavellian have never shown up on my bio...until now.
As you may have seen, a recent study posted on ScienceDirect, which was covered by several news outlets, has discovered that buyers of bitcoin are prone to have dark personalities.
Explaining their research, three co-authors of the study, Di Wang, Brett Martin and Jun Yao, wrote in The Conversation that they "wanted to know about the relationship between the so-called 'dark tetrad' personality traits and attitudes towards cryptocurrency."
"In psychology, the 'dark tetrad' refers to a group of four personality traits. These are Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy (together known as the 'dark triad'), plus sadism," the three co-authors continued.
Dark tetrad traits are "'dark' because of their 'evil' qualities: Extreme selfishness and taking advantage of others without empathy," the article added.
Now, I don't like to bad-mouth people, but the researchers behind this sound very negative. Who are they to classify an entire group of over 100 million people as evil, after conducting a simple survey involving only 566 respondents?
It doesn't even seem like negligence when people with doctorates try to pass off such barbed writing as research. To me, it seems more like intentionally spiteful FUD. | 