Crypto critic Steve Hanke takes big dig at crypto investors based on recent Canadian research
Prominent US economist and professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Steve H. Hanke has taken a jab at cryptocurrency holders, aiming at their levels of analytic and scientific thinking compared to the general population.
While publicly agreeing with the “diagnosis” made by researches, Hanke published a link that leads to the results of the research made by the University of Toronto.Hanke gave a short summary of their conclusion: “Crypto holders display lower levels of analytic and scientific thinking and are likelier to exhibit psychopathy than the general population.”Univ.
The scientists made a poll on more than 2,000 American adults two years ago to see if there are any associations between holding crypto and their “individual level political, psychological, and social characteristics.” They revealed that cryptocurrency holders are more inclined to believe in conspiracy theories and they possess “dark” characteristics of personality also known as the “Dark Tetrad”: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism.
In early July, one of the two founders of the popular meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin, Billy Markus alsoAside from the above-mentioned “Dark Tetrad” of crypto investor’s character features, Markus pointed out that the report also says crypto holders do not trust legacy media and prefer alternative news platforms, relying on “on fringe social media sources for news.” That, according to Independent, is the strongest predictor as to whether a person holds cryptocurrencies or not.
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