Their most important finding was their subjects’ willingness to predict that the individuals they had nominated would manifest very high levels of friendliness or shyness in any particular situation in which those individuals were examined. They further estimated that their nominees would behave in a markedly shy or a markedly friendly fashion far more often than they would behave in a relatively typical or average fashion. In other words, they made predictions that would be reasonable and appropriate if, but only if, behavioral consistency from one situation to the next yielded correlation
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