Yale researcher Dan Kahan studied the personality and cultural differences of Americans and found a fascinating distinct cluster: white hierarchical individualistic men Making up around 1/6th of the population, this cluster has markedly different views about risk, guns, environment, and more. For example, here's white hierarchical men on climate change vs everyone else: Hierarchical individualist men don't just not overlap with everyone else on the risks of climate change, they're on a different planet. But hierarchical individualists aren't universally fearless people. They just have different risk assessments. For example, white hierarchical individualists find the idea of gun regulations to be incredibly high risk, but almost no one else does. Here's the full chart of risk perceptions: Kahan's fascinating research further solidifies that differences in views of reality are fundamentally motivated by personality and values differences. Curious whether you're a hierarchical individualist or an egalitarian communist? Here's the test: