Table 2.

Summary descriptive statistics for non-surgical sample (n = 386,375).^a

	Extroversion	Agreeableness	Conscientiousness	Neuroticism	Openness
Mean	56.11	68.47	66.2	49.27	66.80
Standard error	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
Median	56.25	69.44	66.67	50	67.5
Mode	56.25	69.44	69.44	50	67.5
Standard deviation	20.58	15.55	17.45	20.32	16

^aIt is of course highly likely that the ‘non-surgical’ sample contains a very small number of responses from surgeons (around 150, if the proportion of surgeons in the population is reflected). For the sake of simplicity, the very minor potential impact of these responses is ignored and the BBC survey is referred to as ‘non-surgical’.