Is it just me, or is it quite funny that a study about guessing people's personality from their shoes was carried out in Kansas?
Ok, it's maybe a bit left field, but come on? Dorothy? Toto? Ruby red slippers?
Anyway, here's the science bit. Researchers at the University if Kansas found out that judging a stranger's personality by their shoes is 90% accurate. In fact, it even goes so far as to say that you can work out their gender, age, income, emotional stability and politics from someone's footwear.
Jeez, who needs astrology when all you need to do is check out their clogs?
I was going to call on my science degree for the whole 'Aim, Method, Apparatus, Results, Conclusion' thing, but let's be honest, science is only cool on TV when you're a character on Criminal Minds or CSI.
So the guinea pigs were asked to put on the shoes that they wore most often and complete a personality survey.
It wasn't rocket science to work out that those with the expensive shoes earned more cash or that extroverts tend to have fancier shoes.
Anyway the researchers who viewed 208 photos of shoes noted that agreeable people wore practical shoes, calm people had uncomfortable shoes. Liberals had cheaper and shabbier shoes, whereas the people who liked to take care of their footwear may suffer from attachment anxiety. Ankle boots tend to be worn by those who people who have a more aggressive personality.
So that leaves Dorothy as an extroverted calm person who likes to wear the shoes of a dead witch?
Oh well, who said 'you can't judge an Indian till you walk 10 miles in his moccasins?'
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