These weird random studies are actually something that interests me so I have read up on this one a bit. One thing I read that I wanted to add is: “Higher status people are thinking about what others should be doing while lower status people are worried about what they should be doing” I think that explains it a lot.
Also, in the Wall Street Journal it lists the different experiments used to prove this study. Once I found particularly interesting: “The fifth study was the most unusual. Researchers looked at email communication that the U.S. government had collected (and translated) from the Iraqi military, made public for a period of time as the Iraqi Perspectives Project. They randomly selected 40 correspondences. In each case, the person with higher military rank used “I” less. “
Thanks TAOM for bringing this up 🙂