John Burn-Murdoch

We know that there is more distraction or there are more individual distractions than there were a generation ago.

That

all else being equal would mean less conscientiousness.

So it's that combination of the timing and the mechanism that I think lines up really well.

A couple of other things I've been thinking about are just some of these concepts that have only really come into existence in the online era.

So things like people being ghosted, or one that always springs to mind for me is the people sending messages that end with, no worries if not.

And the idea that you would always be giving people an out, like, no worries if you don't want to do this, in a message.

Sure, on the one hand, it is polite.

But in a society where everything is face-to-face, you weren't constantly saying to people, like, don't worry if you want to flake or bail at the last minute.

And now that seems to become a thing as people have realized that flaking and bailing seems to be more of a thing.

That's true, yes.

So actually, with conscientiousness, it's pretty much a straight diagonal line through the 2010s up to the last couple of years.

With neuroticism, agreeableness, and extroversion, you've got a slight decline pre-pandemic, a slight decline post-pandemic, but a sort of acceleration of that trend in 2020-21.

A hundred percent.

And I'm looking forward to reading your piece.

One thing I'll, I'll give you for free.

You might already have this, but the really interesting wrinkle in the exercise data is that rates of team sport participation among people from sort of 16 up seem to be declining, but it's that individual you talked about running, running gym workouts, those kinds of things are on the rise.

So like you say, even with a healthy behavior,

It has become more antisocial.

Everyone's listening to this podcast right now probably on their run.