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Introverts didn't 'win' lockdown

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Re: Introverts didn't 'win' lockdown

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Post by watwut »

ballenf wrote: post #4

Was just watching Youtube video Veritassium about the non-existence of learning styles yesterday. I wonder if similar studies would show that there really are no introverts vs. extroverts in the sense that all people really have roughly the same need for human contact. Kind of like everyone needs physical activity, but some people gravitate more to it than others. Probably the wrong forum to voice such a theory...

Or that it is spectrum with most in the middle.

And that anxieties, shyness, awkwardness are orthogonal to it. And that being loud dont imply extroversion either.

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Post by ErikVandeWater »

ballenf wrote: post #4

Was just watching Youtube video Veritassium about the non-existence of learning styles yesterday. I wonder if similar studies would show that there really are no introverts vs. extroverts in the sense that all people really have roughly the same need for human contact. Kind of like everyone needs physical activity, but some people gravitate more to it than others. Probably the wrong forum to voice such a theory...

All people need a strong sense of connection, but not all people thrive with a high degree of contact.

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Post by jstx1 »

ballenf wrote: post #4

Was just watching Youtube video Veritassium about the non-existence of learning styles yesterday. I wonder if similar studies would show that there really are no introverts vs. extroverts in the sense that all people really have roughly the same need for human contact. Kind of like everyone needs physical activity, but some people gravitate more to it than others. Probably the wrong forum to voice such a theory...

The Veritasium video talks about research and how the evidence doesn't support the learning styles theory. On the other hand, psychology theory into personality has a lot of evidence to show that people vary a lot on their extraversion. The reported results (from Big Five and similar personality tests) are usually in percentiles relative to some reference population rather than a label of introvert or extrovert.

Re: Introverts didn't 'win' lockdown

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Post by archsurface »

BBC attempting to sway/nudge/gaslight, as usual. Firstly, it wasn't a lockdown, that's just the fear motive militaristic terminology they thought would achieve their goals - so much was open, and traffic congestion across cities daily, it could be called a slowdown or a partial shutdown, but "lockdown" is just transparent. The slowdown is the reason I haven't quit my current employer; my social life is just as crap as it was before, and every other aspect of my life has improved thanks to the slowdown. I absolutely won.

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Post by DeusExMachina »

ballenf wrote: post #4

Was just watching Youtube video Veritassium about the non-existence of learning styles yesterday. I wonder if similar studies would show that there really are no introverts vs. extroverts in the sense that all people really have roughly the same need for human contact. Kind of like everyone needs physical activity, but some people gravitate more to it than others. Probably the wrong forum to voice such a theory...

The Big Five model statistically shows that extroversion/introversion is one of the five axis over which personality varies. So studies already showed that there are introverts and extroverts.

The only thing you could say is wrong is the supposed dichotomy. Instead, we have a gaussian distribution along the axis.

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Post by dannyw »

hirundo wrote: post #9

I'm a physically and socially isolated introvert in a rural county and have been working from home for a decade. About the only difference for me was the occasional need to put on a mask before walking in a store. My greatest inconvenience was very minor: I was turned away from a convenience store for not having a mask with me. Early in the lockdowns I made a trip to the closest big city for a dentist appointment and…

I'd like to hear more about your life experience - how much human contact do you have on a weekly basis?

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Post by tboyd47 »

There aren’t any measurable elements of personality that are fixed. Personality changes as you age. I’ve witnessed a reversal in each of the Myers-Briggs markers in the past 15 years (from INTJ to ESFP) — not intentionally, but that’s just the way my life played out.

I’ve come to see the truth of the matter like this: every human being has a need for socializing, but it takes effort and is exhausting. The amount of effort it takes and the degree to which it is exhausting differs from person to person, but it is not fixed. Socializing is like a muscle or a skill that can atrophy with neglect or develop with training.

It’s also completely relative. I consider myself extroverted, but having grown up in the suburbs mostly hanging around my brother and a few close friends, I’m really not that used to other people. I get socially drained quickly. I have a friend who considers himself introverted, but grew up in a densely populated city, so he’s comfortable being around a lot of people for longer than I am.

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