Science confirms: Internet trolls are terrible people

  • Robert Graham (ErrataRob) pointed out some problems with this study: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/02/that-trollers-are-sadists-...

  • > Science confirms: Internet trolls are terrible people

    Wait, what? "Science confirms"? Mainstream psychology isn't scientific, and this is social psychology, which doesn't even make good fiction.

    As usual in psychology articles, even the title contradicts itself -- science doesn't confirm (prove) anything, it can only support theories with evidence, while disproving a few theories along the way.

    More here: http://arachnoid.com/building_science

  • > Trolls turn out to be extroverts -- but extroverts with "disagreeable" personality traits.

    I seriously doubt that extroverts waste their time trolling others online. They probably have much better things to do in real life.