How Regional Personality Differences Divide America | Discover Magazine
It should be noted that the differences based on topography were quite small. The paper even said, our research shows that an increase of one standard deviation in mountainousness is associated with a change of approximately 1 percent in personality, which may seem insignificant. But Götz says that though overall personality differences are small, they could have outsized effects on regions when scaled up. They are robustly related with a host of important outcomes, and that ranges from say, startup density, to suicide prevalence, to election outcomes, to patent production, he says. And so our point here is to say, personality has many causes, and this is just one of them.