The Biology Behind Politics

Originally posted to Youtube - 30th January 2017

Colttaine - Geographical Bias?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNN7W0J9Vp0

TL;DR - Progressive Academic Echo Chambers 2: The Re-echoening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgawQL-BuVc




------------------------ Data ------------------------
US Census Bureau
https://www.census.gov/support..../USACdataDownloads.h

GitHub Tonmcg - County Level Election Results 2016
https://github.com/tonmcg/Coun....ty_Level_Election_Re




------------------------ Heritability ------------------------
NCBI PubMed - Genetic Influences on Political Ideologies: Twin Analyses of 19 Measures of Political Ideologies from Five Democracies and Genome-Wide Findings from Three Populations
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p....mc/articles/PMC40389

NCBI Pub Med - Heritability of the big five personality dimensions and their facets: a twin study.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8776880




------------------------ Regional Differences------------------------
CityLab - What Your Personality Has to Do With Your Neighborhood
http://www.citylab.com/housing..../2015/01/what-your-p

Alternet - Can You Guess a Person's Politics by Their Personality? Psychologist Team Says Yes
www.alternet.org/story/105089/can_you_guess_a_person's_politics_by_their_personality_psychologist_team_says_yes

The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind
www.psych.nyu.edu/jost/Carney,%20Jost,%20&%20Gosling%20(2008)%20The%20secret%20lives%20of%20liberals%20.pdf




*note: It seems someone else has created an interactive 3D map showing the political outcome of the 2016 presidential election by county, showing “Margin of Victory”.
https://blueshift.io/election-2016-county-map.html