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What personality is that blog?

41 points by erikstarck 17y ago

abscondment 17y ago
Interesting. My blog home page is only titles, and that wasn't enough data for a correct prediction - it said I'm an ESTP. With more data (i.e. my rss feed) it was spot on: INTP.
3pt14159 17y ago
I'm an especially strong ENTJ, but my blog (zachaysan.tumblr.com) is classified as an ISTP. Is there an explainable reason for this?
- mattiasostmar 17y ago
  Yes, what is normality called personalitype refers to the idea that you ARE something, which is BS. What words you have used at a particular moment (if unconciuos about this) shows two interesting things however: a) What parts of reality you focus your attention to about a situation (the people, the facts, the values etc) b) Your cognitive preferences over time. Call it a personality type if you want to or just "a people-oriented type" etc
  - erikstarck 17y ago
    (FYI: mattiasostmar is the inventor of the Typealyzer.)
deathbyzen 17y ago
See also: http://genderanalyzer.com/ http://genderanalyzer.com/
- patio11 17y ago
  Unlike personality classifications (which are essentially witchcraft with better marketing), gender is objectively verifiable (yeah yeah gender studies students, I passed the class too, thanks for your comment) and so makes for a much more productive area of research. Trivial algorithms (~60 lines of awk last time I did it) are very capable of pegging gender with 80%+ accuracy for some corpora. See generally: http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final.pdf http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final....
  - dkimball 17y ago
    You're speaking of "sex," not "gender" -- the former is biological and there are two of them; the latter is cultural or social and there could be arbitrarily many. I say this while being a conservative; the semantic distinction is a useful one, although attempting to blur the distinction between a (biological) sex and a (cultural) gender never does any good.
    - youngian 17y ago
      Why couldn't patio11 be speaking of gender? In fact, I think a study measuring gender would identify with even more accuracy, although data collection would be harder (you would need the authors to report how they identified). Anyways, the linked study uses the word "gender" - it's probably conflating the two, as often happens.
      - aaronblohowiak 17y ago
        ... because he said that it is objectively verifiable
        youngian 17y ago
        Which gender is. Your gender is how you identify, so unless you are lying to a researcher who asks you what gender you identify as, it's objectively verifiable.
    - aaronblohowiak 17y ago
      there are intersex biologies to account for if you want to be very precise
- smokinn 17y ago
  It was 79% sure my blog was written by a man but it was 74% sure my girlfriend's blog was written by a man as well. I'm not impressed.
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  - dkarl 17y ago
    It's 57% sure http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/ http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/ is written by a woman, too.
  - orangecat 17y ago
    You need a larger sample size before being impressed or unimpressed. If it's 74% sure of something, it should be wrong a quarter of the time; if not, its confidence estimate was too low.
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synnik 17y ago
It was correct for both my technical blog, and my personal blog on which I tend to pontificate, but incorrect on my weight-loss blog (no, I haven't lost any yet). Overall, that seems pretty good, as the only inaccuracy is on a site on which I post short, one sentence updates.
BobbyH 17y ago
This is very cool! I think it would also be cool for bloggers to link to an analysis of a site using a GET link, e.g. http://typealyzer.com/?url=www.techcrunch.com http://typealyzer.com/?url=www.techcrunch.com. This might also lead to viral growth (if desired).
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j_baker 17y ago
Mine was exactly right: INTP.
j_baker 17y ago
I'm curious how this can pick up on introversion vs extraversion. It would seem that such would be difficult to analyze just based on a person's writing.
- Entlin 17y ago
  Easy. Blog: extraversion. Empty page: introversion.
  - abscondment 17y ago
    I know you're probably joking, but that's a really ignorant and unsubstantiated suggestion. I'm strongly introverted, yet I blog and (gasp) argue with people online. Introversion is not the same as being shy, awkward, diffident, or mute. It has more to do with what situations energize you, which ones drain you, how you enjoy spending your time, how you relax, et cetera.
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scotch_drinker 17y ago
I tried all three of my blogs, personal, tech and gardening and got three different answers. I'm definitely a T but all others are up in the air. For what it's worth, I float back and forth between INTJ and ISTJ. My personal blog was ENTJ, my tech blog was ISTJ and my gardening blog was ESTP. That last one seemed really odd and I dug in a little further. It appears that my gardening blog has been hacked at some point and literally hundreds of links for viagra and other fun stuff has been added to my page. No wonder the TypeAnalyzer thought I was a doer. Now I'm off to try and fix it.

41 points by erikstarck 17y ago

Interesting. My blog home page is only titles, and that wasn't enough data for a correct prediction - it said I'm an ESTP. With more data (i.e. my rss feed) it was spot on: INTP.

3pt14159 17y ago

I'm an especially strong ENTJ, but my blog (zachaysan.tumblr.com) is classified as an ISTP. Is there an explainable reason for this?

mattiasostmar 17y ago
Yes, what is normality called personalitype refers to the idea that you ARE something, which is BS. What words you have used at a particular moment (if unconciuos about this) shows two interesting things however: a) What parts of reality you focus your attention to about a situation (the people, the facts, the values etc) b) Your cognitive preferences over time. Call it a personality type if you want to or just "a people-oriented type" etc
- erikstarck 17y ago
  (FYI: mattiasostmar is the inventor of the Typealyzer.)

deathbyzen 17y ago

See also: http://genderanalyzer.com/ http://genderanalyzer.com/

patio11 17y ago
Unlike personality classifications (which are essentially witchcraft with better marketing), gender is objectively verifiable (yeah yeah gender studies students, I passed the class too, thanks for your comment) and so makes for a much more productive area of research. Trivial algorithms (~60 lines of awk last time I did it) are very capable of pegging gender with 80%+ accuracy for some corpora. See generally: http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final.pdf http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final....
- dkimball 17y ago
  You're speaking of "sex," not "gender" -- the former is biological and there are two of them; the latter is cultural or social and there could be arbitrarily many. I say this while being a conservative; the semantic distinction is a useful one, although attempting to blur the distinction between a (biological) sex and a (cultural) gender never does any good.
  - youngian 17y ago
    Why couldn't patio11 be speaking of gender? In fact, I think a study measuring gender would identify with even more accuracy, although data collection would be harder (you would need the authors to report how they identified). Anyways, the linked study uses the word "gender" - it's probably conflating the two, as often happens.
    - aaronblohowiak 17y ago
      ... because he said that it is objectively verifiable
      - youngian 17y ago
        Which gender is. Your gender is how you identify, so unless you are lying to a researcher who asks you what gender you identify as, it's objectively verifiable.
  - aaronblohowiak 17y ago
    there are intersex biologies to account for if you want to be very precise
smokinn 17y ago
It was 79% sure my blog was written by a man but it was 74% sure my girlfriend's blog was written by a man as well. I'm not impressed.
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- dkarl 17y ago
  It's 57% sure http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/ http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/ is written by a woman, too.
- orangecat 17y ago
  You need a larger sample size before being impressed or unimpressed. If it's 74% sure of something, it should be wrong a quarter of the time; if not, its confidence estimate was too low.
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synnik 17y ago

It was correct for both my technical blog, and my personal blog on which I tend to pontificate, but incorrect on my weight-loss blog (no, I haven't lost any yet). Overall, that seems pretty good, as the only inaccuracy is on a site on which I post short, one sentence updates.

BobbyH 17y ago

This is very cool! I think it would also be cool for bloggers to link to an analysis of a site using a GET link, e.g. http://typealyzer.com/?url=www.techcrunch.com http://typealyzer.com/?url=www.techcrunch.com. This might also lead to viral growth (if desired).

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j_baker 17y ago

Mine was exactly right: INTP.

j_baker 17y ago

I'm curious how this can pick up on introversion vs extraversion. It would seem that such would be difficult to analyze just based on a person's writing.

Entlin 17y ago
Easy. Blog: extraversion. Empty page: introversion.
- abscondment 17y ago
  I know you're probably joking, but that's a really ignorant and unsubstantiated suggestion. I'm strongly introverted, yet I blog and (gasp) argue with people online. Introversion is not the same as being shy, awkward, diffident, or mute. It has more to do with what situations energize you, which ones drain you, how you enjoy spending your time, how you relax, et cetera.

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scotch_drinker 17y ago

I tried all three of my blogs, personal, tech and gardening and got three different answers. I'm definitely a T but all others are up in the air. For what it's worth, I float back and forth between INTJ and ISTJ. My personal blog was ENTJ, my tech blog was ISTJ and my gardening blog was ESTP. That last one seemed really odd and I dug in a little further. It appears that my gardening blog has been hacked at some point and literally hundreds of links for viagra and other fun stuff has been added to my page. No wonder the TypeAnalyzer thought I was a doer. Now I'm off to try and fix it.