Lucky outlier

I don't think I was exactly a paragon of confidence growing up, so it's lucky I turned out the way I did, according to one study:

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

Of course, there's always the possibility that in Berkeley, everyone was out to get those conservative kids.