Reviving an old category: The News flash. Today, we highlight research that concludes that a desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism.
Interesting here is what was found not to have statistically significant correlation: Age and narcissism.
Previously on loud vehicles: Why waste your money on the car when it’s the sound system you care about?
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
If one were take a small leap and correlate psychopathy and sadism with aggression, this isn’t too shocking from a chest thumping display standpoint right? It is tempting to make a connection between loud cars and jerks but it’s really just our evolutionary predisposition towards agonistic behavior.