oldtimer Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Do you stare back like a dog? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 I'm shy, humble and retiring. I sure do hope none of those nasty people come here and scare me. You've got me so upset I think I'll go and drink a glass of warm milk. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 (edited) Do you stare back like a dog? No,, just bask in the moment. Edited February 16, 2014 by CECAA850 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 WhatkindofTrollwouldpostthisSpam? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Interesting topic. Is there a longer article? This reminds me of what I do for a living, the biggest part of which is handling transactions. I can always tell when a litigator is pretending to be a transactional guy because we end up in a pissing match over a bunch of things that do not matter. Fighting for the sake of fighting, which is very tiresome. Then again, I made this all about me so I guess that means that I am narcissistic. I better work on that... Making a living outta being in pissing matches…cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) Academia.com now has a pdf of the original article that was referenced, and it is linked below: Buckels-Trapnell-Paulhus-2014-Trolling-libre.pdf Edited July 14, 2014 by Chris A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 before I pass judgement on this report, I need to know a major component there of... what was the sample size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) From the article: 2.1.1. Participants and procedure [study 1] We recruited 418 participants (42.4% female; M age = 29.2%, SD = 11.0) from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk website (http://www.mturk.com). Edited July 14, 2014 by Chris A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) 418 participants.... :facepalm: anyone who thinks they can accurately extrapolate a trend based on a sample size that small is themselves narcissistic. Edited July 14, 2014 by Schu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Interesting topic. Is there a longer article? This reminds me of what I do for a living, the biggest part of which is handling transactions. I can always tell when a litigator is pretending to be a transactional guy because we end up in a pissing match over a bunch of things that do not matter. Fighting for the sake of fighting, which is very tiresome. Then again, I made this all about me so I guess that means that I am narcissistic. I better work on that... Making a living outta being in pissing matches…cool. I would be the litigator who pretends to be a transactional guy. Trust me, it gets old making a living outta being in pissing matches. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) 418 participants.... :facepalm: anyone who thinks they can accurately extrapolate a trend based on a sample size that small is themselves narcissistic. How many do you think need to be in the sample size? There are at least three groups represented in the article. (N=1215 from the first line of the article.) Perhaps thousands? Most of what I see is in the realm of less than 100 participants for psych studies, especially of this type of subject (personality disorders). I think that the three authors are grad or doctoral students, so it may not be narcissism that's driving them. BTW: Are you having any issues downloading the article? Edited July 14, 2014 by Chris A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) I believe that many research students pick subjects that can be proven using deterministic means, other than statistics, in order to assure victory for their efforts, but they cloak their results with box-and-whisker plots to give it an air of doubt. In this particular instance, it seems to me that that may be the case. Edited July 14, 2014 by Chris A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjd Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 418 participants.... :facepalm: anyone who thinks they can accurately extrapolate a trend based on a sample size that small is themselves narcissistic. How many do you think need to be in the sample size? There are at least three groups represented in the article. (N=1215 from the first line of the article.) Perhaps thousands? Most of what I see is in the realm of less than 100 participants for psych studies, especially of this type of subject (personality disorders). I think that the three authors are grad or doctoral students, so it may not be narcissism that's driving them. BTW: Are you having any issues downloading the article? Your post reminded me of the NPR April fools joke this year where they posted an article title that stated, "Why doesn't America read anymore?" http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-read-anymore They then sat back and watched the onslaught of internet comments such as "Shut up NPR, we read all the time." However, I believe that the amazing thing is how many commented very strongly on the article from only reading the headline, when there was no actual article. The late night talk show hosts do a similar stunt with 'made up topics' from time to time by interviewing random people on the street. I just quickly scanned the study (as I have competing priorities right now) and the study does seem to be missing the overall randomness of a statistically valid sample; however, I do find it interesting as it seems to be correlating individual personality assessment survey questions (that most likely have established validity) to survey questions of the participant’s Internet commenting style and behavior. I believe that we can find various forms of behavior/psychological assessments (personality) in many facets of life. I believe that most colleges give students access to some type of ‘personality assessment / job satisfaction’ survey and many potential employers put job applicants through a 'behaviour assessment' too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 I,M OK,,,YOUR OK,,, Everybody else is BULLSHIT... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skelt Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 "Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14 percent of all people know that." Homer J Simpson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted July 14, 2014 Moderators Share Posted July 14, 2014 I prefer pie charts over graphs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarsear Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Wonder if the research design considered the confounding variables introduced by website moderators and/or owners? Was this prospective, retrospective or contemporaneous? There are a lot of contentious issues these days and lots of websites catering to contentious crowds and not exactly without bias. Extrapolating behavioral labels based upon - whatever - has much to digest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason str Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 I prefer pie charts over graphs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAKO Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Why do the Wakos design crossovers ??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Because they are not Zakos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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