Measures of the geographic variation in the personality scores of extraversion and neuroticism across 43 states of the USA based on social indicators (such as psychiatric admissions, alcohol consumption, and suicide) were not statistically significantly correlated with measures of these variables obtained from a survey of respondents taking the Big Five Inventory.
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