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Can someone please explain why one's favorite programming language would have any bearing on whether they're a psychopath?


Maybe it's not, but they would like to see the correlation between psychopathy and programming language.


That's the question they're asking -- albeit in a flawed way, IMO. "Is there a relationship between psychopathy and programming language, phone selection, sex, age, etc?"

They've packaged some pretty standard questions (probably) based on DSM IV criteria that they think will tell them how psychopathic the survey responder is, then they're going to correlate that data with the demographic information at the bottom to say: "Look, Android/iPhone users are, on average, eleventy percent more psychotic than iPhone/Android users!"

It will be dumb, and only people who repost stupid text-on-image-wisdom stuff to their Facebook wall will believe it has any bearing on reality.


Because blog views.


I don't think it does, it's probably being stored for later demographic analysis.


I'm not sure about psychopathy, but could you say with a straight face that you can know that someone's favorite language is brainfuck, and simultaneously not know whether or not they are insane?


I like metalanguages more than I like languages, and I guess that fits nicely with me having a schizoid personality disconnected from reality, as my mental health specialist says. So yes, there could be a link.




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