Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology recently published a study on the dark tetrad personality and cryptocurrency attitudes. They found dark tetrad personalities “like” Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Many, especially those holding anti-crypto sentiment, interpreted the results to mean Bitcoin investors are calculating psychopaths that lack humility. However, researchers were keen to stress that their findings did not necessarily indicate that.
What’s more, further analysis of the study showed flaws to do with bias and the use of objectively untrue assumptions, which cast doubt on the association between cryptocurrency investors and dark traits.
What is the dark tetrad?
Delroy Paulhus and Kevin Williams coined the term dark triad of personality in their 2002 study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, called “The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy.”
In a sample of 245 students, Paulhus and Williams measured
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