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#gm #nostr, I’ve decided to write my #Psychology Honours thesis (2024) about #Bitcoin 🍊.

My study is inspired by the meme that suggests that Bitcoiners have an average IQ of 80.

My ideas so far (very early stages):

'Factors that affect 'Bitcoin-only' adoption'.

I’ll test and compare two groups:

1. Bitcoiners

2. Non-Bitcoiners

I’ll collect the following data (suggestions welcome):

-Trust in government

-Trust in the Reserve Bank

- #IQ

-Knowledge of Disruptive Technologies

-Education level

-Agreeableness

-Openness to Experience

-Attitude towards Spirituality

-Past psychedelic use

So, Bitcoiners:

Q: What—if anything—makes Bitcoiners different?

Q: What would you like to see explored in this study?

**Please share this with anyone you think would be interested**

#bitcoiner #plebchain #babechain 💛🌽🍊

#pv 💜
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Faith & Practice 🍁 2y ago

Idea:

1. screen participants for prior knowledge of Bitcoin. Factor out those that self-rate as already knowledgable, or decided about Bitcoin. Invite the uninitiated to participate in study

2. Administer personality inventory and demographic survey to these uninitiated participants.

3. Introduce solid and concise Bitcoin 101 material to these uninitiated/undecided participants

4. Ask participants their interest to explore, buy, or demonstrate openness to Bitcoin

5. Study these scores compared to their willingness to demographic or personality inventory data points such as trait openness, income level, agreeableness, value of freedom, etc.

In so doing you should find out who and how and why people 'get' Bitcoin right now, or don't.

#Psychology

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leisure suit sally 2y ago

Legend—I really appreciate it!

Absolutely love the idea of developing a ‘Bitcoin 101’ scale.

It’s fun to consider lots of different IVs—I’m excited to see what IVs I end up going with and why!

I’ve only been working on this for a week, but have found the literature to—so far, exclusively—cover ‘cryptocurrency’ as a blanket term including bitcoin. It’s been interesting looking for a fitting supervisor also—I’m struggling to find someone who is open to the idea of not conflating Bitcoin with the slew of shitcoins.

I might be a Bitcoiner, but if I go in understanding my biases, and endeavour to create a sound and robust study, my data will tell it’s own story regardless.

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Faith & Practice 🍁 2y ago

Just be precise in your variables and measures and you should learn what factors predict Bitcoin openness as you run your analyses 🤙

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leisure suit sally 2y ago

Also, do you reckon a binary logistic regression is inefficient?