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Re:Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your ... by thomasahle on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:23AM (#16637763)
The like to Ocean numbers in the article are quite interesting, even if a bit predictable.

One thing that surprised me though was that neuroticism was least correlated with all things sports?

    LEAST NEUROTIC
    “SportsCenter” TV show
    ESPN TV network
    Derrick Rose athlete
    Miami Heat sports team
    Football sport
This seems to suggest that either neurotic people are somehow uninteresting in sports, or that sports are really good helping you not be neurotic. Maybe the later is predictable as well, but that nothing else is as anti-correlated with neuroticism is still surprising to me.
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Re:Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your ... by dfxm12 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:26AM (#16638212)
When was the data gathered (I know the article says they were published in 2015, but that's different)?

I could think of a time, around 2012, specifically before Rose injured his knee, when Miami Heat and Derrick Rose fans were not very neurotic.

I don't think "sports are really good helping you not be neurotic", but I can see how rooting for a good team might be.

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Re:Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your ... by majormajor on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:13PM (#16639476)
I wonder if it would be the reverse.

Bandwagonning the current best team could be correlated with being non-neurotic. You don't have your personal identity tied up in it, you just like seeing great players do great things. There is something crazy about investigating significant amounts of emotion and energy into rooting for a team with very poor odds of winning... (says me, who's as guilty as anyone).

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Re:Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your ... by ahartmetz on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:30AM (#16637815)
That is very interesting indeed. While I believe that causality is more in the other direction, one could speculate that sports fandom is a social activity that lets people act out some ancient instincts that are otherwise suppressed in modern civilization - mostly for good reasons.
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