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by mannykannot 3041 days ago
A cursory search finds that neuroticism does seem to be correlated with risk aversion, which suggests that your claim of confirmation bias, and your admonition to be careful about jumping to conclusions, both based on your personal experience, are rather ironic.
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... seriously? You didn’t read the last paragraph or what?
Indeed I did - in fact, you might have noticed that I quoted part of it. The first and last sentences of your post admonish the person you are replying to for jumping to conclusions and falling for confirmation bias, yet the closest you get to stating your grounds for believing they have ignored contrary evidence is your own personal opinion about neuroticism. Confirmation bias, of course, is the selection of data that supports one's bias, but here you are not even attempting to offer data in support of your contrary bias. A valid claim of confirmation bias needs more support than the fact that you don't agree.