If you want anecdotal evidence, I would say that someone's first encounter with AfD can set them firmly in one place on the spectrum, but that most people who stick around see their views evolve as they come to understand sources and the range of articles topics and various problems better. Whether there is an underlying predisposition, I don't know. I hope this was more helpful than the other replies you received! :-)
On 4/13/13, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some recent musings reminded me that I never did find a good answer > for an old question of mine: does anything predict whether an editor > will lean towards deletionism? > > More specifically, it seems to me that attitudes towards articles take > on almost emotional or moral dimensions, perhaps related to various > psychological factors. Does anyone remember ever seeing any research > touching on this? For example, perhaps someone surveyed editors, > asking for self-identified preference and doing an inventory measuring > personality factors like the OCEAN/Big Five? Of course I checked > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia > and Google but nothing particularly germane appears to have popped up > besides random speculation and analogies to Adorno's famous > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authoritarian_Personality > > -- > gwern > http://www.gwern.net > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
