 	But instead of unpacking these issues more, let’s turn to the Big Five directly. Starting mainly in the 1980s, psychologists arrived at the Big Five taxonomy using two different paths (McCrae and John 1992: 181–187; Goldberg 1993: 30; for a review of earlier work, see John et al. 2008a). Lewis Goldberg is most famously associated with the first. He held that we can learn about personality traits from ordinary language, as over long periods of time the way we speak is shaped by the different ways people tend to be. Here is one statement of his so-called “lexical hypothesis”: