More on Stereotypes

This from an article in the USAToday:

"The least consistent culture is England. The English describe themselves as reserved, introverted and conservative. In fact, they are very extroverted and rated relatively high in openness to experience, researchers found.

Poles knew themselves the best. "They have a fairly unpleasant description of themselves," McCrae says. "They think they're high in emotional instability, disagreeable and introverted. And they do measure up to some degree in those traits."

In general, people's perceptions are wrong. For example, Americans think they are very low on agreeableness but high on assertiveness. It turns out they are close to average in terms of being agreeable and only slightly higher than the global average in assertiveness.

Canadians, who famously see themselves as very unassertive and agreeable, ended up looking almost exactly like Americans."