“Minor error,” huh? Okay.
The correction came three years after the paper claimed social liberals were linked with “Social Desirability,” and conservatives with authoritarianism.
The paper “Correlation not Causation: The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Political Ideologies” was released in October 2013. The researchers admitted the results were “exactly reversed,” in a correction in January, which was first reported by Power Line Blog.
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