Monday, February 15, 2021

Everyone enjoys or suffers the same consequences for the same behaviors. Contra CRT and Social Justice Theory.

I cannot access the article so I may be misinterpreting the Abstract.  From Do Links Between Personality and Life Outcomes Generalize? Testing the Robustness of Trait–Outcome Associations Across Gender, Age, Ethnicity, and Analytic Approaches by Christopher J. Soto.  From the Abstract.

The Big Five personality traits have been linked with a broad range of consequential life outcomes. The present research systematically tested whether such trait–outcome associations generalize across gender, age, ethnicity, and analytic approaches that control for demographic and personality covariates. Analyses of nationally representative samples from the Life Outcomes of Personality Replication project (N = 6,126) indicated that (a) most trait–outcome associations do generalize across gender, age, and ethnicity; (b) controlling for overlap between personality traits substantially reduces the strength of many associations; and (c) several dozen trait–outcome associations proved highly generalizable across all analyses. These findings have important implications for evaluating the robustness of the personality–outcome literature, updating the canon of established trait–outcome associations, and conducting future research.

I believe this is saying that personality traits are linked with consequential life outcomes and that within the US, and these associations between personality traits and life outcomes are broadly shared across gender, age and ethnicity.   

If you behave in positive or negative ways, regardless of gender, age or race, you enjoy or suffer similar outcomes.

If I am reading this correctly, it is a dagger to the heart of Critical Theory and Social Justice which hold that life outcomes are the consequence of societal biases and oppression independent of personal choices and behaviors.  

I wonder how robust are the associations between the different traits and outcomes are?  For the time being, I'll have to make do with "several dozen trait–outcome associations proved highly generalizable across all analyses."  


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