Tuesday, April 12, 2022

"Bitcoin fans are psychopaths who don’t care about anyone, study shows"

From The Sun via sister tabloid The New York Post, April 12:

The average Bitcoin investor is a calculating psychopath with an inflated ego, according to scientists.

A team of experts recently surveyed more than 500 people to uncover the personality traits that are most common among crypto nuts.

They identified that many investors exhibit signs of the “dark tetrad”, a group of four unsavory traits made up of narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy and sadism.

In plain English, that means dark tetrads have an inflated sense of self-importance and derive pleasure from the pain of others.

They also find it difficult to empathize with others and are sly and manipulative.

Scientists at Queensland University of Technology described their findings in research published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences earlier this month....

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I was going to post on "dark triad" personalities later this week and the Sun goes and one ups me.