Is How Tidy You Are As A Person Linked To Racist Views? Apparently Yes...

[kvalidir]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/obsessively-tidy-people-racist-views-more-prone-study-yale-university-a8079821.html

[mikey4444]

I agree TTT, which is why I couldn't be bothered to follow the link.

[jim360]

Did you actually measure that statistic, or did you just make it up so that you could trash it and, for that matter, all other statistical analyses you disagree with?

This particular correlation is not implausible if you consider that (obsessive) tidiness is related to a particular way of viewing how the world ought to be -- everything in its place, and so on. And maybe if you have that perception quite strongly in one aspect of your life a similar desire for order might leak out into other parts.

Or maybe that's me projecting order and meaning onto something that has none. But it should be easier, at least, to see that a link *may* exist here, as opposed to between drunk drivers and underwear colour.

In any case, what's certainly true is that being tidy itself doesn't have anything to do with racism, ie there's definitely no causal link from one to the other. If there are correlated, then it's because of a common factor that can be responsible for driving the two behaviours.

[anotheoldgit]

/// “The research does provide a simple potential explanation for why people feel uneasy around and dislike people who deviate from societal norms,” explained lead author Anton Gollwitzer. ///

Does that mean that if one dislikes the way those foreigner meekats have made an untidy mess of Coronation Street, they are racist?

[Mamyalynne]

Have they left messages on the cobbles again?

[jno]

I am anti Economic Migrants of any race, colour or creed.

ah me, I have failed the Baldric Test.

[Togo]

I remember when people like that were called OCD Jim. Must have gone out of fashion. I do try to keep up. Gawd knows what "She who must be obeyed" will say when I have to call her racist because she wants to tidy up.

[Togo]

All drunk driver have brown under crackers after they have been pulled over.

[nailit]

Naomi @ 13:36
//Haaa! Nothing tidier than a shaved head. //

[nailit]

Posted to soon, was going to add

[nailit]

Whats happening here, half my posts getting chopped

[mccfluff]

anyone who has been lucky enough to see (or not) my desk will know the answer to that question

[jno]

indeed, fluff, I have dust mites of all colours and creeds living on mine.

[Togo]

Of course if we are to take the correlation of the two adjectives as true then it must follow that the more immigration that Britain is subject to the more "untidy" the Country will become. Or should that be less tidy?

[jourdain2]

I dust enthusiastically every month or so -and then it all accrues again. I have a 'piling' system - little piles of paper, books etc. spread around the house. To my right lurks a pile of half-a-dozen newspapers and a few spare pens and pencils. The dog is an enthusiastic contributor and sheds hair with abandon; there is a chair of shame in the bedroom. I think this must mean I can't be racist!

[anneasquith]

Or....... It might show you live in a tip ? :-)