{"id":10234,"date":"2022-04-21T00:09:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/meaningless-and-weak-debunking-the-bitcoiners-are-psychopaths-study\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T00:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:09:29","slug":"meaningless-and-weak-debunking-the-bitcoiners-are-psychopaths-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/meaningless-and-weak-debunking-the-bitcoiners-are-psychopaths-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaningless and weak: Debunking the \u2018Bitcoiners are psychopaths\u2019 study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A study claiming that psychopaths and others with \u2018Dark Tetrad\u2019 personality traits are drawn to crypto has been criticized as “meaningless” for showing very weak correlativity by a psychology expert from The University of Otago.<\/p>\n
Researchers with backgrounds predominately in marketing and advertising from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) surveyed 566 people on their attitudes toward crypto and correlated the results with four specific personality traits: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism.<\/p>\n
The findings were first shared<\/a> by The U.S. Sun, and were widely syndicated by the mainstream media, with the New York Post headline screaming \u201cBitcoin fans are psychopaths who don’t care about anyone,\u201d and Salon asserting<\/a> that \u201cImpulsive psychopaths like crypto\u201d.<\/p>\n Bitcoin fans are psychopaths who don’t care about anyone, study shows https:\/\/t.co\/9WZQkzoIPX pic.twitter.com\/YTGcULRCef<\/a><\/p>\n\n