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Show HN: Predict a Reddit user's Myers-Briggs type from their profile

112 points by ragnarkar 6y ago

lethologica 6y ago
Seems broken at the moment. I get a 502 error.
Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Not even close on my profile. Did this work for anyone?
- OscarCunningham 6y ago
  It worked quite well for me (u/Oscar_Cunningham). I usually measure as INTJ, sometimes as INTP. It predicted INTP 0.235691 INTJ 0.198247 INFJ 0.114691 INFP 0.111443 ENTP 0.074658 ENFP 0.057476 ISTP 0.040370 ISFP 0.030426 ENTJ 0.027369 ESTJ 0.026705 ISTJ 0.025700 ENFJ 0.023411 ISFJ 0.016983 ESTP 0.009655 ESFP 0.004322 ESFJ 0.002852
- Meekro 6y ago
  I got INTJ, which is correct. But given the Reddit and HN demographics, you could just always guess that.
  - hedberg10 6y ago
    Same. INTJ 0.170579 INTP 0.158083 ENTP 0.140082 INFJ 0.121986 INFP 0.115873 ENFP 0.070730
  - shawnz 6y ago
    Same issue here. Can anyone track down a non INTP/INTJ?
    - hedberg10 6y ago
      I could, but as an INTJ, why would I? They're vexatious things.
  - adjkant 6y ago
    +1 INTJ 0.299023 INTP 0.155863 INFJ 0.113193 INFP 0.104380 ENTP 0.072341
  - audiometry 6y ago
    similar result... Personality Probability INTJ 0.198738 INTP 0.163618 INFJ 0.135469 INFP 0.111934 ENTP 0.102679 ENFP 0.058846 ISTP 0.051312 ISFP 0.032267 ENTJ 0.030964 ISTJ 0.027256 ESTJ 0.026231 ENFJ 0.024828 ISFJ 0.018011 ESTP 0.010239 ESFP 0.004584 ESFJ 0.003024
  - loceng 6y ago
    INTJ 0.297332 INTP 0.164725 INFJ 0.111596 INFP 0.108814 ... then results drop to .06 and continue down. INTJ is correct.
- justwalt 6y ago
  For me it guessed ISTJ at 60%, INTJ at 8%, then INTP at 6%, the last of which is what I test as.
lormayna 6y ago
Can I ask how is working? I am mostly ENTP, but your test told me that I am INFP
- chandureddyvari 6y ago
  I’m guessing text classification model trained on https://www.kaggle.com/datasnaek/mbti-type https://www.kaggle.com/datasnaek/mbti-type or similar dataset. The script parses all the comments of the user from reddit and feeds it to the model and model predicts the probabilities of the 16 possible personalities.
  - ragnarkar 6y ago
    Yep, you've figured it out!
gbanfalvi 6y ago
Can it guess my star sign too?
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  It can guess your Reddit birthday-based star sign.
- uyt 6y ago
  The birth date effect is actually real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_age_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_age_effect So maybe machine learning can turn astrology into a real science after all!
  - t-writescode 6y ago
    Could this be explained by children being older when they're going through school, allowing them to be more able to play successfully in sports / be in the middle of puberty at a more convenient time in the years where they would join a sport?
- mettamage 6y ago
  I read research a long time ago that people who believe in astrology tend to behave more like their star sign. I forgot where I read it though. Definitely a self-fulfilling prophecy effect.
- deleted 6y ago
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moksly 6y ago
Interesting that it scored me as: ESTP 0.993968 ISFP 0.003365 ENFJ 0.000944 ISTJ 0.000374 INTJ 0.000271 Which is actually rather accurate to how I test. My work profile is ESTP, my private life profile is ISFP. The weights are obviously off, and my Reddit account is completely tied to my personal interests around blood bowl. Either way, I’m surprised to see astrology for people who don’t believe in astrology on HN. I never fully understood HRs reliance on these tools, once you’ve taken a few, you can score exactly as you want to, but I’m truly surprised to see them on HN.
- searchableguy 6y ago
  > I never fully understood HRs reliance on these tools, once you’ve taken a few, you can score exactly as you want to, but I’m truly surprised to see them on HN. You have them for work related purposes?
  - moksly 6y ago
    Not MBTI directly but stuff they’ve build upon the meyers brings and DISC profiling lines of thought. They’re pretty common in any enterprise organisation here, typically in some form that any given HR department has developed themselves in partnership with some consultant agency for lots and lots of money. It’s given to anyone heading for a management related position. As I advice top management on tech decision I always end up taking them when getting hired or reorganised. I do tell the truth on them of course, but it’s a bunch of black magic as far as I’m concerned. I don’t even think it’s a nice tool for talking because it’s often either/or results when everyone is really a tad of everything. But yes, they are very common.
    - dvtrn 6y ago
      Question, are you permitted to view your own results? My company conducts a similar series of assessments for all roles; and as a hiring manager I am able to see how applicants score across a battery of indicators from agreeableness, deferential nature, leadership ability, along with how individuals do in raw aptitude testing. Became curious one day and asked HR if I could view my scores and was told no. Furrowed my brow a bit at that one. I furrow it even more knowing the company doesn't expect hiring managers to actually use these scores with any meaningful weight, nor does recruiting actually rely on them during the screening process-or so I was told when asked-they merely ship them direct to the decision maker, forcing me to wonder why we put candidates through them to begin with. Certainly the common refrain is that giving candidates their results could open companies up to liability if they pass on a candidate, which causes a further reaction on my part "all the more reason to do away with them and find another means of assessing talent. Maybe this is a process that doesn't require the reduction of humans to a few data points and indicators n a scoreboard for the privilege of a friendly career conversation".
SkyPuncher 6y ago
This is extremely interesting! Thank you for sharing. I haven't taken a Myer Briggs in a while, so I can't remember what "I am". I'm curious how my Reddit persona compares to an actual test. I know for a fact that I have a different personality on Reddit than I do in other conversations. Over the years, I've "figured out" a Reddit (and Hacker News) communication style that trends towards populist (i.e. tending to receive upvotes). I'll also jump straight to conclusions on Reddit - especially if I know they're "hivemind" opinions. In real life, I have a much different approach to most communication - which I'd expect to reflect differently in a personality test.
- gmadsen 6y ago
  You are more contrarian in real life, versus an anonymous message board? That seems unusual.
  - johnmaguire2013 6y ago
    I'm not sure that's what they meant - any group of people shares certain beliefs and values, and those beliefs differ from another group's. Values and beliefs influence our communication style as well. Further, on an anonymous discussion board, the risks of things like "jumping to conclusions" [not what I would call "less contrarian"] are much lower than in real life, where your reputation as a human is on the line.
  - blaser-waffle 6y ago
    Real life has consequences. Anonymous message boards have points, gotta post what people want to hear for upvotes that give that self-validating dopamine hit when you check your score and it's higher than ever.
sxp 6y ago
What is the distribution for HN & Reddit? I've found that most tech people self-describe as xNTx so I expect that for most HN users. I was INTP the last time I checked and got ISFP 0.320051 ENFP 0.170778 INFP 0.121951 INTP 0.111226 INTJ 0.101262 ...
usepgp 6y ago
I put my reddit name in and it broke the site. Either that or it was hugged to death.
- e1ghtSpace 6y ago
  Patience, my friend.
silly-silly 6y ago
Today I learned my Myer Briggs type is "Error 502". I should have expected that.
- dylan604 6y ago
  Better than a 501 I guess. Although, some other codes could be fun to interpret this way as well [0]. A 403 would just be not for you. A 410 could be apropos. I'd love to test positive for a 426, however, I would probably get a 300. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
- raxxorrax 6y ago
  Must be the http error code for bad personality when the webserver doesn't want to serve you.
- Yoric 6y ago
  That's the new type for 2020.
- dsr_ 6y ago
  I'm a little teapot.
- microtherion 6y ago
  I'd probably end up as a 418.
smcleod 6y ago
Fun, but keep in mind that Myers-Briggs is largely disproven and non-scientific. There is almost no (quality) evidence behind it.
- visarga 6y ago
  It's missing one extra axis (should have 5) and the labels are binary which is unfortunate for precision, but it's much more fun and a nice exercise in self knowledge.
- crispyporkbites 6y ago
  I know my profile is correct, I took a lie detector test that proves it
- RoboTeddy 6y ago
  I've heard this too, but I'm not sure how it could be true. What would we hope for from a personality indicator? We'd hope that it would be useful for making predictions. At an absolute minimum, MBTI could be used to predict the answers people give on an MBTI questionnaire. And what about beyond that? On the basis of someone testing as an I (introvert) vs E (extrovert), we might be able to predict whether someone would feel drained or invigorated after a busy social event. Has there really been work done to show that MBTIs have zero useful predictive value? I will readily believe that there might be more useful models of personality, and that MBTI is no longer in vogue in psychological literature, and that MBTI was originally motivated on pseudoscientific principles, and that there more principled alternatives — but it doesn't necessarily follow that MBTI cannot be used to make useful predictions.
  - NalNezumi 6y ago
    >What would we hope for from a personality indicator? Consistency, to begin with. (among other things) MBTI is not consistent, The thing Adam Grant did [1] I tried myself: Take the SAME test twice(or more) with about 3 weeks in-between. Hilariously enough, on one test I got that I were "entrepreneurial" and "social" while the second time I got "introverted" and "analytic/cautious". Not by itself contradictory but inconsistent nevertheless. >but it doesn't necessarily follow that MBTI cannot be used to make useful predictions. The problem is that it does follow that! Especially when it is used in HR practice! I have seen HR people construct "project groups" based on the members MBTI score! When you take in to account these "personality tests" you have to consider the false classification too; If you base your judgement on false classification the test have now done damage to whatever process you used it for. Would you be willing to follow & trust a medical diagnosis test that have NO scientific backing, not consistency, have a lot of false diagnostics, and based on that test, conduct life-endangering surgery? It's fun for personal recreation, but MBTI is used in more than that, and have lasting effects to the individual and organizations when practiced. And that's why the fad has to die. [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-mbti-the-fad-won-t-die https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309...
raverbashing 6y ago
Seems like the server died already, oops
heipei 6y ago
Next up: "Predict a Twitter user's Myer Briggs type solely by whether they talk about Myer Briggs types in their bio" ...
rorykoehler 6y ago
As I always suspected I don’t have a Myers Briggs type. Is there any compelling evidence that they exist? I’ve always been a bit bemused by these tests but they seem very popular in startup world.
- ma2rten 6y ago
  They are simply categories that are defined, so they exist by definition. But they have poor predictive power. From wikipedia: Though the MBTI resembles some psychological theories, it is generally classified as pseudoscience, especially as pertains to its supposed predictive abilities. The indicator exhibits significant scientific (psychometric) deficiencies, notably including poor validity (i.e. not measuring what it purports to measure, not having predictive power or not having items that can be generalized), poor reliability (giving different results for the same person on different occasions), measuring categories that are not independent (some dichotomous traits have been noted to correlate with each other), and not being comprehensive (due to missing neuroticism). The four scales used in the MBTI have some correlation with four of the Big Five personality traits, which are a more commonly accepted framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi... EDIT: My theory is that Myers-Briggs is more popular among laypeople than Big5 precisely because it's less scientific. People feel like their Myers-Briggs type tells them something non-obvious about themselves. Big5 is so straightforward that it doesn't tell them anything they didn't know before.
  - rorykoehler 6y ago
    By exist I am referring to the validity of the binary measurements. If I ask you where you generally sit on the binary scale of awake and asleep you couldn’t give a definitive answer because it changes depending on the circumstances. It’s a meaningless measurement (as alluded to in your copy paste). I get the same from MBTI.
  - dragonwriter 6y ago
    > My theory is that Myers-Briggs is more popular among laypeople than Big5 precisely because it's less scientific. My theory is that it is more popular not directly because it is less scientific, though for a closely related reason--because its so heavily marketed by the private firm behind it and their army of certified consultants, which has created lot of visibility (much of which is at least one step removed from the marketing, so that people are often not directly aware of the marketing.)
Aspyre 6y ago
Good job. INTP. :) Personality Probability INTP 0.215613 INTJ 0.198558 INFP 0.133773
epaga 6y ago
Wow, it nailed it for me, this is wild. How in the world does this work so well? Is this based on some kind of research re: personality & vocabulary or something?
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  Assuming !/s the reason it worked so well on you is because odds of 16-1 are not odds of infinity to 1. The same reason you bump into an old friend in a foreign airport, or someone calls you at some point in your decades of living at the moment you thought of them. Etc.
1m2r3a 6y ago
Here is the chart for Myer Briggs type: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator#/media/File:MyersBriggsTypes.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi... Maybe the chart can be added when the results are displayed.
bryanmgreen 6y ago
I got the same result across 4 different accounts. There are 4 different ones I use. One I use professionally, one to mod an extremely large subreddit, one I use that’s semi-anonymous, and one I’ve had for like 8 years. Different audiences for each account but apparently all indicating the same type. I guess that validates the consistency of the tool.
icodestuff 6y ago
AutoModerator is INFP, with 50% confidence, INTP with 11%.
micheljansen 6y ago
N+1: it produced very similar results as some of the surveys I have previously used, with about the same (low) probability and near tie between INTP, INTJ and INFP. It would be nice to see a breakdown of each of the dimensions on the model. I personally find those more insightful than just the archetype and – in my case – explain the low accuracy by showing on which dimensions I rate near the middle of the scale.
DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
In 2004 I lost my job because I was a specific MBTI type usually associated with "entrepreneurial skill", "thinking outside boxes", "natural LeAderShIPP", and "causing trouble", and because there were already 2 others with that MBTI in the team it was used as the justification to not extend my contract. The test was conducted by an external HR consultancy that pictured itself as an expert in MBTI and all things psychology. (they should have just told me they don't like my personality which would have been less of an insult and more honest) So no doubt with a bit of marketing this nonsense can be sold into HR departments. The Karen's and Kyle's of this world will no doubt think it's brilliant, buy it and feed their own biased decision making process. MBTI's are astrology for people who think they're too smart for astrology. Both are total nonsense and dangerous in the hands of the wanna-be psychologist Karen's usually in charge of HR. [0][1][3] It's all fun and games until people lose their jobs. Unlikely you will lose your job because you got the wrong MBTI, but when a company is downsizing and wants to pretend they're using scIeNtiFfic measures to make that decision in the name of performance it's likely they use garbage software like this to dress up their "cultural fit" bias. I urge OP to put a big fat warning label on their product and market it as a way to educate people why MBTI's are dangerous garbage and guide those that use it onto a path that helps them understand why it's dangerous. Make it educational by showing the users where the problems are instead of claiming that this is in any way safe. Also my MBTI is GTFO. [0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12441 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12441 [1] https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personali... [2] https://nesslabs.com/mbti https://nesslabs.com/mbti
- tigerlily 6y ago
  > In 2004 I lost my job because I was a specific MBTI type Holy Lord that is unfair. MBTI is egregious mumbo jumbo.
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- quickthrower2 6y ago
os7borne 6y ago
Someone please re-purpose this to use Twitter handles!
- ragnarkar 6y ago
  It's in the works. I privately tested it on Twitter users but it wasn't giving the results I expected (for example, classifying Trump as an INTP most likely.) It seems the general writing style on Twitter is different than Reddit which may explain it. In the worst case, I may need to build my own custom dataset scraping the Twitter profiles of known celebrities and their MBTI types from personality-database.com and train a separate model. Of course, I may simply repurpose this same model for Twitter once the current excitement dies down (to minimize 502 errors since I'm on a cheap hosting plan.)
moltar 6y ago
Got pretty close. Self assessed type was in second place. But the first one was just one letter off, which I can also be sometimes. So, overall, not bad. But at the same time, the science says these categories are BS. So I don’t really know what to do with these types. /shrug
senectus1 6y ago
pffft while I find these sorts of profiling tools a load of crap, I'm mildly amused by my results.: Personality Probability INTJ 0.191244 INTP 0.163233 INFP 0.117823 ENTP 0.116617 INFJ 0.116165 ENFP 0.061458 ISTP 0.053393 ESTJ 0.034183 ISFP 0.031543 ENTJ 0.028374 ISTJ 0.026644 ENFJ 0.024270 ISFJ 0.017606 ESTP 0.010009 ESFP 0.004481 ESFJ 0.002956
micheljansen 6y ago
I wish it had more explanation about how the model works. The same website also has a "Predict MBTI Personality from Text": https://gimmeserendipity.com/mbtimodel/text/ https://gimmeserendipity.com/mbtimodel/text/ What's interesting about it is that normally learning someone's MBTI type requires their active involvement. They either have to fill in some type of survey or tell you their type. This would be fine, were it not that there are plenty of people who attach WAY too much importance to MBTI types.
- simplify 6y ago
  Same here. Do they have a dataset of writings that are labeled with their respective author's MBTI category? I wonder how they managed to get that.
- CGamesPlay 6y ago
  Hmm, mine gave me very high coefficients for INTP (0.36) and INTP (0.18), which seems to line up with what I remember from when I've taken these sorts of tests. Except... my reddit is very sparse. From where did it draw these conclusions? This tool highlighted my suspicions. It's very biased towards these results (I don't know if Myers-Briggs is also, which might be possible). For example, "lorem ipsum" scores INXX all above 0.13, with everything else below 0.08. Similar results for "youtube reddit" or "the quick brown fox".
  - ponyous 6y ago
    I got ENTJ which matches my test from few years ago.
- rollinDyno 6y ago
  Yes, if the site does not explain this method then I have little reason to believe the prediction. It's no different to a Buzzfeed quiz.
RealityVoid 6y ago
Hah, it gave me pretty much the opposite of my type.
fattybob 6y ago
not bad at all, quite surprised
qwerty456127 6y ago
Auto-completion and shortcuts only work well with languages like English and alike which don't make heavy use of [often irregular] morphology. In many languages the same word could have a hell lots of forms (different endings) depending on the grammatical case and other things[1]. Ordinary autocompletion provides little help when typing these languages. Perhaps GPT-3 could manage but I don't feel like sending everything I type to the cloud monster. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/8xp58c/a_joke_about_finnish_language/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/8xp58c/a_joke_abou...
iron0013 6y ago
Myers Briggs is completely without value, and gives all personality inventories an undeserved bad name! There certainly exist well-validated personality inventories that reflect the scientific consensus that personality can be represented within the Big Five or similar HEXACO frameworks, but they bear no resemblance to Myers Briggs. Frankly at this point it’s irresponsible and borderline unethical to keep Myers Briggs alive as anything other than an embarrassing historical footnote.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Myers Briggs is completely without value, and gives all personality inventories an undeserved bad name! There certainly exist well-validated personality inventories that reflect the scientific consensus that personality can be represented within the Big Five or similar HEXACO frameworks, but they bear no resemblance to Myers Briggs. That's not entirely true, since two of the Meyers-Briggs axis are strongly correlated with Big Five axes; so something that maps well to Big Five will likely bear a resemblance to about half of MBTI.
Cactus2018 6y ago
MBTI Personality Prediction for maxwellhill Personality Probability INTJ 0.194212 INTP 0.180541 INFP 0.138535 INFJ 0.129220 ENTP 0.089378 ... etc Controversiality: 0.51 % https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506313/Ghislaine-Maxwell-secretly-operated-one-powerful-Reddit-accounts-time.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506313/Ghislaine-M...
- blonde_ocean 6y ago
  An HN-style shitpost. I like it.
InTheArena 6y ago
Not even close for me. Every result I have ever had is a insanely strong ENFP. This tool came up with INFJ (.23). That said, I work really hard when I write something to advocate for a position and to examine how it could be interpreted (something that has burned me badly in the past), and it may be that behavior that is throwing it off. ENFPs can be "fake extroverts", but I don't think anyone my entire life has accused me of being introverted. Personality Probability INFJ 0.230443 INTJ 0.163436 INFP 0.149911 INTP 0.134871 ENTP 0.066254 ENFP 0.056532
- johnmaguire2013 6y ago
  edit: The below text is not true, I didn't read the chart correctly - they are all different. (Inverse introversion/extraversion, but in the same order.) ENFP and INFJ are actually very similar - if you believe in the personality test. Despite the difference in letters, they share all the same cognitive functions, just in a different order. https://www.typeinmind.com/nefi https://www.typeinmind.com/nefi (ENFP) https://www.typeinmind.com/nife https://www.typeinmind.com/nife (INFJ)
  - dragonwriter 6y ago
    If you have a system of four binary indicators, and swapping position on two of the four makes little difference, you probably have a very poor system.
    - johnmaguire2013 6y ago
      Not to be snarky, but this is spoken like someone who hasn't tried to understand the system at all - not that I believe in it either. Typically MBTI personality tests measure you based on four indicators: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/iNtuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving Each combination of indicators is given a "type." There are 16 possible types. The MBTI personality test also defines 8 cognitive functions, believing that everyone must absorb information (perceiving) and turn it into actions/decisions (judging). It states that there are four ways of perceiving, and four ways of judging... extraverted/introverted sensing/intuition and extraverted/introverted thinking/feeling. Each personality type has four cognitive functions associated with it: primary, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior. You will have both an extraverted and introverted perceiving function as well as an extraverted and introverted judging function. Your primary cognitive function will match your introversion/extraversion trait, and then will flip back and forth between introversion/extraversion for the rest of your functions. Since there are only 8 cognitive functions, and each personality type has 4, it's not surprising that they will often share cognitive functions - it also means that types can behave more similarly than one would expect based on their indicators.
TurkishPoptart 6y ago
How does this work? Based on their posts, or subreddit subscriptions, or what?
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stefanmichael 6y ago
Fairly impressive for my result, 20% (the highest) probability for what my type actually is.
Ninjinka 6y ago
My actual type was ranked as my fifth by this analysis. I wonder if this says more about how I portray myself online, how I think of myself when I take the test, or if it's just plain wrong.
- enkid 6y ago
  MBTI is literally called psuedoscience and bullshit on the Wikipedia page. It may have nothing to do with you.
np_tedious 6y ago
https://gimmeserendipity.com/mbtimodel/reddit/u/shittymorph https://gimmeserendipity.com/mbtimodel/reddit/u/shittymorph With 45%, Shittymorph (the 1991 undertaker threw mankind... ) account is very strongly ESTP. When using my own account, it was only 20% for the first entry (which did not match any test result I've ever had). I guess this sort of makes sense. My posts are kinda all over the place but Shittymorph is very... consistent
- dylanz 6y ago
  Classic! I ran my own Reddit username first, and then read about my result (I know nothing about these personality types). It was pretty accurate to be honest. Then I immediately went back to that page to look up /u/shittymorph, but the page wouldn't load. I'm assuming they're getting hammered by traffic right now, and hoping they'll be able to serve more traffic due to the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table. Edit: Sorry I had to. The point being that after reading through multiple types of these results, mine was 100% spot on compared to 2nd-5th place.
  - np_tedious 6y ago
    Haha nice. Oh man I got the very year wrong in my first post!
VectorLock 6y ago
Management pseudoscientists would be positively frothing at the mouth if it could tell you what your DiSC color profile is.
alestsurko 6y ago
As I'm ENFJ, this is absolutely wrong Personality Probability ISFJ 0.505107 ISFP 0.441592 INFJ 0.015237 INTJ 0.011497 INTP 0.009005 INFP 0.006540 ENTP 0.003931 ENFP 0.001573 ESTJ 0.001450 ISTP 0.001228 ENTJ 0.000833 ISTJ 0.000782 ENFJ 0.000712 ESTP 0.000294 ESFP 0.000131 ESFJ 0.000087
LordGrey 6y ago
Huh. 21.5% probability that I'm an INTJ. Which is ... correct. I'd like to know more about the algorithm behind this.
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  Look up Derren Brown and horse racing.
Brendinooo 6y ago
Nice! Lined up with a test I remember taking years ago. What does "Controversiality" mean?
CPLX 6y ago
Can you point it at HN profiles?
sudosteph 6y ago
Interesting. I have two reddit accounts that I use for different subreddits, and they got totally different results. One is my main that I use for most boring stuff, some niche stuff - it's one where if someone knew me well, they'd probably figure out it's mine - and I'm ok with that. The other is for discussion topics that I don't want tied to me in an obvious way (ie, politics, religion). I won't share the name of either account, but it's interesting that the "main" account, got 60% ESFP, and "discussion" account got 40% INTJ/INTP and 30% INFP/INFJ. I don't feel like my writing style is incredibly different between each account, so I wonder if the specific subreddits that a user prefers contribute to the label. It's either that, or I really do self-censor more dramatically than I had imagined. Edit: I've always got INTP or INTJ in past MBTI tests - though it's been near a decade since I took one last.
- specialist 6y ago
  Back when I got tested, one of the smart things the huckster said was that we can adopt personas as needed, but not being our natural state it takes more effort.
Kagerjay 6y ago
ISFJ 0.441844 INFP 0.104401 INTJ 0.098827 INTP 0.084555 INFJ 0.080399 I'm not sure what my personality is anymore. Since I moved to a new city my personality has been shifting, I'm more extraverted and judgemental now but before I was more thinking and introverted.
doodlebugging 6y ago
I tested two of the accounts that I can remember having that still have content available and my wife's account. Her account has "Controversiality" well below that of either of my accounts. What is the meaning of that term? I couldn't find it explained anywhere. I found that both of my accounts gave nearly identical results. Interestingly enough my wife's account also is nearly identical to mine through the first half of the results and the last 6 entries are in identical order and similar percentages. Did I accidentally find my match all those years ago? Maybe something in the way this algorithm is designed pigeonholes everyone into similar groups. It's pretty hard to trust something when so many people from such different backgrounds get similar results.
mrkstu 6y ago
Its entirely consistent with my past scoring on the test: Personality Probability INTP 0.319997 INTJ 0.210713 I've always pretty much scored as an INTP with the P/J fairly evenly matched. As far as MB being scientific or not- they are measuring something persistent, so in that sense it is measuring something durable/real. Whether it is useful or not... shrug.
keynan 6y ago
Maybe next you'd like to guess their star sign
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altrunox 6y ago
Personality Probability ISFJ 0.911772 INTP 0.014028 INTJ 0.013168 ENTP 0.012464 ENFP 0.010893 ... Controversiality: 2.51 % Interesting, looks like I'm more of a protector in the iternet than in real life... the last time I did the test I got ENFP
tsjq 6y ago
Curious what type is the recent GPT-3 bot u/thegentlemetre :)
sunstone 6y ago
Myers-Briggs has almost zero validity as a method of assessing personalities (check the straight dope) so this is really a fools errand. Anyone wanting to use a validated assessment should check out the big five personality test. And it's free.
- liminvorous 6y ago
  If you’re using validity in its psychological jargon sense here I think a lot of mbti enthusiasts on Reddit would say that the tests are unreliable, but the classification is still good for finding a sense of community with people who think in similar ways to you.
  - ragnarkar 6y ago
    Yep, that's similar to how I feel about MBTi. One thing you need to separate out the 16 MBTI archtypes with the test(s) used to determine which type you are. Not everyone fits into one of the 16 types perfectly and not every test reliably figures out which of the 16 types you are, not to mention that dividing the entire human population into 16 types is an overly simplistic way of categorizing personalities. That doesn't mean MBTI is useless. You can take a test and hope that it reasonably finds what type you are or you can simply read the archtypes for all 16 types and figure out which type you are closest to. I think the community element is the most underrated aspect of MBTI, esp if you're a rare type that's been misunderstood most of your life. I can certainly related as an INTP and have struggled most of my life when taking the advice of my parents, teachers, professors, mentors, even self-help gurus only to get limited results despite following their advice almost exactly. When I learned that I was an INTP and followed the advice from other INTPs, I finally felt understood and was able to follow a different set of advice that got me much further in life than following the conventional advice from the former parties. Is it scientific? It's debatable. Is it useful? It depends but personally, it has been tremendously helpful.
- jclos 6y ago
  "Astrology for nerds" is one way of describing it that I always liked even though I don't know who is the original author of the expression (if there even is one).
axilmar 6y ago
I have two accounts, in one I was found introverted, in the other I was found extroverted. Go figure...
richardjdare 6y ago
Interesting. We had a Myers-Briggs guy come to our workplace a few years ago and I tested as INFP. Reddit profile: INFP 0.253485 INTP 0.191204 INTJ 0.165780 INFJ 0.107387 ENTP 0.051260 ... Controversiality: 0.0 % What I find interesting about these kinds of personality systems is how they can provide you with additional concepts for thinking about people you don't really understand, or people who aren't on your wavelength. They may not be accurate, but they give you a starting point for engagement.
_where 6y ago
If the author were to release the source and GPL it, that’d be more helpful to everyone than pointing it at Reddit.
getpost 6y ago
My result was wrong, but interesting nonetheless. Tested as ENFP Prediction results: INTP 0.175752 INFJ 0.165195 INFP 0.157366 INTJ 0.149600 ENTP 0.075153 ENFP 0.065921 ISTP 0.040638 ...
kyuudou 6y ago
Not bad: INTJ 0.197490 INTP 0.138727 INFJ 0.127998 INFP 0.125142 ENTP 0.091211 I consistently score INTP. Another account which I have about 8 years of sometimes voluminous comment history with for non-technical topics produces the same results in the same order. Hmm, maybe I'm turning into an INTJ with age... Kind of makes sense. Like others, I'm wondering what the "controversiality" value indicates. I'm pleasantly surprised and slightly uneasy.

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lethologica 6y ago

Seems broken at the moment. I get a 502 error.

Polylactic_acid 6y ago

Not even close on my profile. Did this work for anyone?

OscarCunningham 6y ago
It worked quite well for me (u/Oscar_Cunningham). I usually measure as INTJ, sometimes as INTP. It predicted INTP 0.235691 INTJ 0.198247 INFJ 0.114691 INFP 0.111443 ENTP 0.074658 ENFP 0.057476 ISTP 0.040370 ISFP 0.030426 ENTJ 0.027369 ESTJ 0.026705 ISTJ 0.025700 ENFJ 0.023411 ISFJ 0.016983 ESTP 0.009655 ESFP 0.004322 ESFJ 0.002852
Meekro 6y ago
I got INTJ, which is correct. But given the Reddit and HN demographics, you could just always guess that.
- hedberg10 6y ago
  Same. INTJ 0.170579 INTP 0.158083 ENTP 0.140082 INFJ 0.121986 INFP 0.115873 ENFP 0.070730
- shawnz 6y ago
  Same issue here. Can anyone track down a non INTP/INTJ?
  - hedberg10 6y ago
    I could, but as an INTJ, why would I? They're vexatious things.
- adjkant 6y ago
  +1 INTJ 0.299023 INTP 0.155863 INFJ 0.113193 INFP 0.104380 ENTP 0.072341
- audiometry 6y ago
  similar result... Personality Probability INTJ 0.198738 INTP 0.163618 INFJ 0.135469 INFP 0.111934 ENTP 0.102679 ENFP 0.058846 ISTP 0.051312 ISFP 0.032267 ENTJ 0.030964 ISTJ 0.027256 ESTJ 0.026231 ENFJ 0.024828 ISFJ 0.018011 ESTP 0.010239 ESFP 0.004584 ESFJ 0.003024
- loceng 6y ago
  INTJ 0.297332 INTP 0.164725 INFJ 0.111596 INFP 0.108814 ... then results drop to .06 and continue down. INTJ is correct.
justwalt 6y ago
For me it guessed ISTJ at 60%, INTJ at 8%, then INTP at 6%, the last of which is what I test as.

lormayna 6y ago

Can I ask how is working? I am mostly ENTP, but your test told me that I am INFP

chandureddyvari 6y ago
I’m guessing text classification model trained on https://www.kaggle.com/datasnaek/mbti-type https://www.kaggle.com/datasnaek/mbti-type or similar dataset. The script parses all the comments of the user from reddit and feeds it to the model and model predicts the probabilities of the 16 possible personalities.
- ragnarkar 6y ago
  Yep, you've figured it out!

gbanfalvi 6y ago

Can it guess my star sign too?

quickthrower2 6y ago
It can guess your Reddit birthday-based star sign.
uyt 6y ago
The birth date effect is actually real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_age_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_age_effect So maybe machine learning can turn astrology into a real science after all!
- t-writescode 6y ago
  Could this be explained by children being older when they're going through school, allowing them to be more able to play successfully in sports / be in the middle of puberty at a more convenient time in the years where they would join a sport?
mettamage 6y ago
I read research a long time ago that people who believe in astrology tend to behave more like their star sign. I forgot where I read it though. Definitely a self-fulfilling prophecy effect.
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moksly 6y ago

Interesting that it scored me as: ESTP 0.993968 ISFP 0.003365 ENFJ 0.000944 ISTJ 0.000374 INTJ 0.000271 Which is actually rather accurate to how I test. My work profile is ESTP, my private life profile is ISFP. The weights are obviously off, and my Reddit account is completely tied to my personal interests around blood bowl. Either way, I’m surprised to see astrology for people who don’t believe in astrology on HN. I never fully understood HRs reliance on these tools, once you’ve taken a few, you can score exactly as you want to, but I’m truly surprised to see them on HN.

searchableguy 6y ago
> I never fully understood HRs reliance on these tools, once you’ve taken a few, you can score exactly as you want to, but I’m truly surprised to see them on HN. You have them for work related purposes?
- moksly 6y ago
  Not MBTI directly but stuff they’ve build upon the meyers brings and DISC profiling lines of thought. They’re pretty common in any enterprise organisation here, typically in some form that any given HR department has developed themselves in partnership with some consultant agency for lots and lots of money. It’s given to anyone heading for a management related position. As I advice top management on tech decision I always end up taking them when getting hired or reorganised. I do tell the truth on them of course, but it’s a bunch of black magic as far as I’m concerned. I don’t even think it’s a nice tool for talking because it’s often either/or results when everyone is really a tad of everything. But yes, they are very common.
  - dvtrn 6y ago
    Question, are you permitted to view your own results? My company conducts a similar series of assessments for all roles; and as a hiring manager I am able to see how applicants score across a battery of indicators from agreeableness, deferential nature, leadership ability, along with how individuals do in raw aptitude testing. Became curious one day and asked HR if I could view my scores and was told no. Furrowed my brow a bit at that one. I furrow it even more knowing the company doesn't expect hiring managers to actually use these scores with any meaningful weight, nor does recruiting actually rely on them during the screening process-or so I was told when asked-they merely ship them direct to the decision maker, forcing me to wonder why we put candidates through them to begin with. Certainly the common refrain is that giving candidates their results could open companies up to liability if they pass on a candidate, which causes a further reaction on my part "all the more reason to do away with them and find another means of assessing talent. Maybe this is a process that doesn't require the reduction of humans to a few data points and indicators n a scoreboard for the privilege of a friendly career conversation".

SkyPuncher 6y ago

This is extremely interesting! Thank you for sharing. I haven't taken a Myer Briggs in a while, so I can't remember what "I am". I'm curious how my Reddit persona compares to an actual test. I know for a fact that I have a different personality on Reddit than I do in other conversations. Over the years, I've "figured out" a Reddit (and Hacker News) communication style that trends towards populist (i.e. tending to receive upvotes). I'll also jump straight to conclusions on Reddit - especially if I know they're "hivemind" opinions. In real life, I have a much different approach to most communication - which I'd expect to reflect differently in a personality test.

gmadsen 6y ago
You are more contrarian in real life, versus an anonymous message board? That seems unusual.
- johnmaguire2013 6y ago
  I'm not sure that's what they meant - any group of people shares certain beliefs and values, and those beliefs differ from another group's. Values and beliefs influence our communication style as well. Further, on an anonymous discussion board, the risks of things like "jumping to conclusions" [not what I would call "less contrarian"] are much lower than in real life, where your reputation as a human is on the line.
- blaser-waffle 6y ago
  Real life has consequences. Anonymous message boards have points, gotta post what people want to hear for upvotes that give that self-validating dopamine hit when you check your score and it's higher than ever.

sxp 6y ago

What is the distribution for HN & Reddit? I've found that most tech people self-describe as xNTx so I expect that for most HN users. I was INTP the last time I checked and got ISFP 0.320051 ENFP 0.170778 INFP 0.121951 INTP 0.111226 INTJ 0.101262 ...

usepgp 6y ago

I put my reddit name in and it broke the site. Either that or it was hugged to death.

e1ghtSpace 6y ago
Patience, my friend.

silly-silly 6y ago

Today I learned my Myer Briggs type is "Error 502". I should have expected that.

dylan604 6y ago
Better than a 501 I guess. Although, some other codes could be fun to interpret this way as well [0]. A 403 would just be not for you. A 410 could be apropos. I'd love to test positive for a 426, however, I would probably get a 300. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
raxxorrax 6y ago
Must be the http error code for bad personality when the webserver doesn't want to serve you.
Yoric 6y ago
That's the new type for 2020.
dsr_ 6y ago
I'm a little teapot.
microtherion 6y ago
I'd probably end up as a 418.

smcleod 6y ago

Fun, but keep in mind that Myers-Briggs is largely disproven and non-scientific. There is almost no (quality) evidence behind it.

visarga 6y ago
It's missing one extra axis (should have 5) and the labels are binary which is unfortunate for precision, but it's much more fun and a nice exercise in self knowledge.
crispyporkbites 6y ago
I know my profile is correct, I took a lie detector test that proves it
RoboTeddy 6y ago
I've heard this too, but I'm not sure how it could be true. What would we hope for from a personality indicator? We'd hope that it would be useful for making predictions. At an absolute minimum, MBTI could be used to predict the answers people give on an MBTI questionnaire. And what about beyond that? On the basis of someone testing as an I (introvert) vs E (extrovert), we might be able to predict whether someone would feel drained or invigorated after a busy social event. Has there really been work done to show that MBTIs have zero useful predictive value? I will readily believe that there might be more useful models of personality, and that MBTI is no longer in vogue in psychological literature, and that MBTI was originally motivated on pseudoscientific principles, and that there more principled alternatives — but it doesn't necessarily follow that MBTI cannot be used to make useful predictions.
- NalNezumi 6y ago
  >What would we hope for from a personality indicator? Consistency, to begin with. (among other things) MBTI is not consistent, The thing Adam Grant did [1] I tried myself: Take the SAME test twice(or more) with about 3 weeks in-between. Hilariously enough, on one test I got that I were "entrepreneurial" and "social" while the second time I got "introverted" and "analytic/cautious". Not by itself contradictory but inconsistent nevertheless. >but it doesn't necessarily follow that MBTI cannot be used to make useful predictions. The problem is that it does follow that! Especially when it is used in HR practice! I have seen HR people construct "project groups" based on the members MBTI score! When you take in to account these "personality tests" you have to consider the false classification too; If you base your judgement on false classification the test have now done damage to whatever process you used it for. Would you be willing to follow & trust a medical diagnosis test that have NO scientific backing, not consistency, have a lot of false diagnostics, and based on that test, conduct life-endangering surgery? It's fun for personal recreation, but MBTI is used in more than that, and have lasting effects to the individual and organizations when practiced. And that's why the fad has to die. [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-mbti-the-fad-won-t-die https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309...

raverbashing 6y ago

Seems like the server died already, oops

heipei 6y ago

Next up: "Predict a Twitter user's Myer Briggs type solely by whether they talk about Myer Briggs types in their bio" ...

rorykoehler 6y ago

As I always suspected I don’t have a Myers Briggs type. Is there any compelling evidence that they exist? I’ve always been a bit bemused by these tests but they seem very popular in startup world.

ma2rten 6y ago
They are simply categories that are defined, so they exist by definition. But they have poor predictive power. From wikipedia: Though the MBTI resembles some psychological theories, it is generally classified as pseudoscience, especially as pertains to its supposed predictive abilities. The indicator exhibits significant scientific (psychometric) deficiencies, notably including poor validity (i.e. not measuring what it purports to measure, not having predictive power or not having items that can be generalized), poor reliability (giving different results for the same person on different occasions), measuring categories that are not independent (some dichotomous traits have been noted to correlate with each other), and not being comprehensive (due to missing neuroticism). The four scales used in the MBTI have some correlation with four of the Big Five personality traits, which are a more commonly accepted framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi... EDIT: My theory is that Myers-Briggs is more popular among laypeople than Big5 precisely because it's less scientific. People feel like their Myers-Briggs type tells them something non-obvious about themselves. Big5 is so straightforward that it doesn't tell them anything they didn't know before.
- rorykoehler 6y ago
  By exist I am referring to the validity of the binary measurements. If I ask you where you generally sit on the binary scale of awake and asleep you couldn’t give a definitive answer because it changes depending on the circumstances. It’s a meaningless measurement (as alluded to in your copy paste). I get the same from MBTI.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > My theory is that Myers-Briggs is more popular among laypeople than Big5 precisely because it's less scientific. My theory is that it is more popular not directly because it is less scientific, though for a closely related reason--because its so heavily marketed by the private firm behind it and their army of certified consultants, which has created lot of visibility (much of which is at least one step removed from the marketing, so that people are often not directly aware of the marketing.)

Aspyre 6y ago

Good job. INTP. :) Personality Probability INTP 0.215613 INTJ 0.198558 INFP 0.133773

epaga 6y ago

Wow, it nailed it for me, this is wild. How in the world does this work so well? Is this based on some kind of research re: personality & vocabulary or something?

quickthrower2 6y ago
Assuming !/s the reason it worked so well on you is because odds of 16-1 are not odds of infinity to 1. The same reason you bump into an old friend in a foreign airport, or someone calls you at some point in your decades of living at the moment you thought of them. Etc.

1m2r3a 6y ago

Here is the chart for Myer Briggs type: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator#/media/File:MyersBriggsTypes.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi... Maybe the chart can be added when the results are displayed.

bryanmgreen 6y ago

I got the same result across 4 different accounts. There are 4 different ones I use. One I use professionally, one to mod an extremely large subreddit, one I use that’s semi-anonymous, and one I’ve had for like 8 years. Different audiences for each account but apparently all indicating the same type. I guess that validates the consistency of the tool.

icodestuff 6y ago

AutoModerator is INFP, with 50% confidence, INTP with 11%.

micheljansen 6y ago

N+1: it produced very similar results as some of the surveys I have previously used, with about the same (low) probability and near tie between INTP, INTJ and INFP. It would be nice to see a breakdown of each of the dimensions on the model. I personally find those more insightful than just the archetype and – in my case – explain the low accuracy by showing on which dimensions I rate near the middle of the scale.

DyslexicAtheist 6y ago

In 2004 I lost my job because I was a specific MBTI type usually associated with "entrepreneurial skill", "thinking outside boxes", "natural LeAderShIPP", and "causing trouble", and because there were already 2 others with that MBTI in the team it was used as the justification to not extend my contract. The test was conducted by an external HR consultancy that pictured itself as an expert in MBTI and all things psychology. (they should have just told me they don't like my personality which would have been less of an insult and more honest) So no doubt with a bit of marketing this nonsense can be sold into HR departments. The Karen's and Kyle's of this world will no doubt think it's brilliant, buy it and feed their own biased decision making process. MBTI's are astrology for people who think they're too smart for astrology. Both are total nonsense and dangerous in the hands of the wanna-be psychologist Karen's usually in charge of HR. [0][1][3] It's all fun and games until people lose their jobs. Unlikely you will lose your job because you got the wrong MBTI, but when a company is downsizing and wants to pretend they're using scIeNtiFfic measures to make that decision in the name of performance it's likely they use garbage software like this to dress up their "cultural fit" bias. I urge OP to put a big fat warning label on their product and market it as a way to educate people why MBTI's are dangerous garbage and guide those that use it onto a path that helps them understand why it's dangerous. Make it educational by showing the users where the problems are instead of claiming that this is in any way safe. Also my MBTI is GTFO. [0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12441 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12441 [1] https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personali... [2] https://nesslabs.com/mbti https://nesslabs.com/mbti

tigerlily 6y ago
> In 2004 I lost my job because I was a specific MBTI type Holy Lord that is unfair. MBTI is egregious mumbo jumbo.
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os7borne 6y ago

Someone please re-purpose this to use Twitter handles!

ragnarkar 6y ago
It's in the works. I privately tested it on Twitter users but it wasn't giving the results I expected (for example, classifying Trump as an INTP most likely.) It seems the general writing style on Twitter is different than Reddit which may explain it. In the worst case, I may need to build my own custom dataset scraping the Twitter profiles of known celebrities and their MBTI types from personality-database.com and train a separate model. Of course, I may simply repurpose this same model for Twitter once the current excitement dies down (to minimize 502 errors since I'm on a cheap hosting plan.)

moltar 6y ago

Got pretty close. Self assessed type was in second place. But the first one was just one letter off, which I can also be sometimes. So, overall, not bad. But at the same time, the science says these categories are BS. So I don’t really know what to do with these types. /shrug

senectus1 6y ago

pffft while I find these sorts of profiling tools a load of crap, I'm mildly amused by my results.: Personality Probability INTJ 0.191244 INTP 0.163233 INFP 0.117823 ENTP 0.116617 INFJ 0.116165 ENFP 0.061458 ISTP 0.053393 ESTJ 0.034183 ISFP 0.031543 ENTJ 0.028374 ISTJ 0.026644 ENFJ 0.024270 ISFJ 0.017606 ESTP 0.010009 ESFP 0.004481 ESFJ 0.002956

micheljansen 6y ago

I wish it had more explanation about how the model works. The same website also has a "Predict MBTI Personality from Text": https://gimmeserendipity.com/mbtimodel/text/ https://gimmeserendipity.com/mbtimodel/text/ What's interesting about it is that normally learning someone's MBTI type requires their active involvement. They either have to fill in some type of survey or tell you their type. This would be fine, were it not that there are plenty of people who attach WAY too much importance to MBTI types.

simplify 6y ago
Same here. Do they have a dataset of writings that are labeled with their respective author's MBTI category? I wonder how they managed to get that.
CGamesPlay 6y ago
Hmm, mine gave me very high coefficients for INTP (0.36) and INTP (0.18), which seems to line up with what I remember from when I've taken these sorts of tests. Except... my reddit is very sparse. From where did it draw these conclusions? This tool highlighted my suspicions. It's very biased towards these results (I don't know if Myers-Briggs is also, which might be possible). For example, "lorem ipsum" scores INXX all above 0.13, with everything else below 0.08. Similar results for "youtube reddit" or "the quick brown fox".
- ponyous 6y ago
  I got ENTJ which matches my test from few years ago.
rollinDyno 6y ago
Yes, if the site does not explain this method then I have little reason to believe the prediction. It's no different to a Buzzfeed quiz.

RealityVoid 6y ago

Hah, it gave me pretty much the opposite of my type.

fattybob 6y ago

not bad at all, quite surprised

qwerty456127 6y ago

Auto-completion and shortcuts only work well with languages like English and alike which don't make heavy use of [often irregular] morphology. In many languages the same word could have a hell lots of forms (different endings) depending on the grammatical case and other things[1]. Ordinary autocompletion provides little help when typing these languages. Perhaps GPT-3 could manage but I don't feel like sending everything I type to the cloud monster. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/8xp58c/a_joke_about_finnish_language/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/8xp58c/a_joke_abou...

iron0013 6y ago

Myers Briggs is completely without value, and gives all personality inventories an undeserved bad name! There certainly exist well-validated personality inventories that reflect the scientific consensus that personality can be represented within the Big Five or similar HEXACO frameworks, but they bear no resemblance to Myers Briggs. Frankly at this point it’s irresponsible and borderline unethical to keep Myers Briggs alive as anything other than an embarrassing historical footnote.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> Myers Briggs is completely without value, and gives all personality inventories an undeserved bad name! There certainly exist well-validated personality inventories that reflect the scientific consensus that personality can be represented within the Big Five or similar HEXACO frameworks, but they bear no resemblance to Myers Briggs. That's not entirely true, since two of the Meyers-Briggs axis are strongly correlated with Big Five axes; so something that maps well to Big Five will likely bear a resemblance to about half of MBTI.

Cactus2018 6y ago

MBTI Personality Prediction for maxwellhill Personality Probability INTJ 0.194212 INTP 0.180541 INFP 0.138535 INFJ 0.129220 ENTP 0.089378 ... etc Controversiality: 0.51 % https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506313/Ghislaine-Maxwell-secretly-operated-one-powerful-Reddit-accounts-time.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8506313/Ghislaine-M...

blonde_ocean 6y ago
An HN-style shitpost. I like it.

InTheArena 6y ago

Not even close for me. Every result I have ever had is a insanely strong ENFP. This tool came up with INFJ (.23). That said, I work really hard when I write something to advocate for a position and to examine how it could be interpreted (something that has burned me badly in the past), and it may be that behavior that is throwing it off. ENFPs can be "fake extroverts", but I don't think anyone my entire life has accused me of being introverted. Personality Probability INFJ 0.230443 INTJ 0.163436 INFP 0.149911 INTP 0.134871 ENTP 0.066254 ENFP 0.056532

johnmaguire2013 6y ago
edit: The below text is not true, I didn't read the chart correctly - they are all different. (Inverse introversion/extraversion, but in the same order.) ENFP and INFJ are actually very similar - if you believe in the personality test. Despite the difference in letters, they share all the same cognitive functions, just in a different order. https://www.typeinmind.com/nefi https://www.typeinmind.com/nefi (ENFP) https://www.typeinmind.com/nife https://www.typeinmind.com/nife (INFJ)
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  If you have a system of four binary indicators, and swapping position on two of the four makes little difference, you probably have a very poor system.
  - johnmaguire2013 6y ago
    Not to be snarky, but this is spoken like someone who hasn't tried to understand the system at all - not that I believe in it either. Typically MBTI personality tests measure you based on four indicators: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/iNtuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving Each combination of indicators is given a "type." There are 16 possible types. The MBTI personality test also defines 8 cognitive functions, believing that everyone must absorb information (perceiving) and turn it into actions/decisions (judging). It states that there are four ways of perceiving, and four ways of judging... extraverted/introverted sensing/intuition and extraverted/introverted thinking/feeling. Each personality type has four cognitive functions associated with it: primary, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior. You will have both an extraverted and introverted perceiving function as well as an extraverted and introverted judging function. Your primary cognitive function will match your introversion/extraversion trait, and then will flip back and forth between introversion/extraversion for the rest of your functions. Since there are only 8 cognitive functions, and each personality type has 4, it's not surprising that they will often share cognitive functions - it also means that types can behave more similarly than one would expect based on their indicators.

TurkishPoptart 6y ago

How does this work? Based on their posts, or subreddit subscriptions, or what?

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stefanmichael 6y ago

Fairly impressive for my result, 20% (the highest) probability for what my type actually is.

Ninjinka 6y ago

My actual type was ranked as my fifth by this analysis. I wonder if this says more about how I portray myself online, how I think of myself when I take the test, or if it's just plain wrong.

enkid 6y ago
MBTI is literally called psuedoscience and bullshit on the Wikipedia page. It may have nothing to do with you.

np_tedious 6y ago

https://gimmeserendipity.com/mbtimodel/reddit/u/shittymorph https://gimmeserendipity.com/mbtimodel/reddit/u/shittymorph With 45%, Shittymorph (the 1991 undertaker threw mankind... ) account is very strongly ESTP. When using my own account, it was only 20% for the first entry (which did not match any test result I've ever had). I guess this sort of makes sense. My posts are kinda all over the place but Shittymorph is very... consistent

dylanz 6y ago
Classic! I ran my own Reddit username first, and then read about my result (I know nothing about these personality types). It was pretty accurate to be honest. Then I immediately went back to that page to look up /u/shittymorph, but the page wouldn't load. I'm assuming they're getting hammered by traffic right now, and hoping they'll be able to serve more traffic due to the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table. Edit: Sorry I had to. The point being that after reading through multiple types of these results, mine was 100% spot on compared to 2nd-5th place.
- np_tedious 6y ago
  Haha nice. Oh man I got the very year wrong in my first post!

VectorLock 6y ago

Management pseudoscientists would be positively frothing at the mouth if it could tell you what your DiSC color profile is.

alestsurko 6y ago

As I'm ENFJ, this is absolutely wrong Personality Probability ISFJ 0.505107 ISFP 0.441592 INFJ 0.015237 INTJ 0.011497 INTP 0.009005 INFP 0.006540 ENTP 0.003931 ENFP 0.001573 ESTJ 0.001450 ISTP 0.001228 ENTJ 0.000833 ISTJ 0.000782 ENFJ 0.000712 ESTP 0.000294 ESFP 0.000131 ESFJ 0.000087

LordGrey 6y ago

Huh. 21.5% probability that I'm an INTJ. Which is ... correct. I'd like to know more about the algorithm behind this.

quickthrower2 6y ago
Look up Derren Brown and horse racing.

Brendinooo 6y ago

Nice! Lined up with a test I remember taking years ago. What does "Controversiality" mean?

CPLX 6y ago

Can you point it at HN profiles?

sudosteph 6y ago

Interesting. I have two reddit accounts that I use for different subreddits, and they got totally different results. One is my main that I use for most boring stuff, some niche stuff - it's one where if someone knew me well, they'd probably figure out it's mine - and I'm ok with that. The other is for discussion topics that I don't want tied to me in an obvious way (ie, politics, religion). I won't share the name of either account, but it's interesting that the "main" account, got 60% ESFP, and "discussion" account got 40% INTJ/INTP and 30% INFP/INFJ. I don't feel like my writing style is incredibly different between each account, so I wonder if the specific subreddits that a user prefers contribute to the label. It's either that, or I really do self-censor more dramatically than I had imagined. Edit: I've always got INTP or INTJ in past MBTI tests - though it's been near a decade since I took one last.

specialist 6y ago
Back when I got tested, one of the smart things the huckster said was that we can adopt personas as needed, but not being our natural state it takes more effort.

Kagerjay 6y ago

ISFJ 0.441844 INFP 0.104401 INTJ 0.098827 INTP 0.084555 INFJ 0.080399 I'm not sure what my personality is anymore. Since I moved to a new city my personality has been shifting, I'm more extraverted and judgemental now but before I was more thinking and introverted.

doodlebugging 6y ago

I tested two of the accounts that I can remember having that still have content available and my wife's account. Her account has "Controversiality" well below that of either of my accounts. What is the meaning of that term? I couldn't find it explained anywhere. I found that both of my accounts gave nearly identical results. Interestingly enough my wife's account also is nearly identical to mine through the first half of the results and the last 6 entries are in identical order and similar percentages. Did I accidentally find my match all those years ago? Maybe something in the way this algorithm is designed pigeonholes everyone into similar groups. It's pretty hard to trust something when so many people from such different backgrounds get similar results.

mrkstu 6y ago

Its entirely consistent with my past scoring on the test: Personality Probability INTP 0.319997 INTJ 0.210713 I've always pretty much scored as an INTP with the P/J fairly evenly matched. As far as MB being scientific or not- they are measuring something persistent, so in that sense it is measuring something durable/real. Whether it is useful or not... shrug.

keynan 6y ago

Maybe next you'd like to guess their star sign

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altrunox 6y ago

Personality Probability ISFJ 0.911772 INTP 0.014028 INTJ 0.013168 ENTP 0.012464 ENFP 0.010893 ... Controversiality: 2.51 % Interesting, looks like I'm more of a protector in the iternet than in real life... the last time I did the test I got ENFP

tsjq 6y ago

Curious what type is the recent GPT-3 bot u/thegentlemetre :)

sunstone 6y ago

Myers-Briggs has almost zero validity as a method of assessing personalities (check the straight dope) so this is really a fools errand. Anyone wanting to use a validated assessment should check out the big five personality test. And it's free.

liminvorous 6y ago
If you’re using validity in its psychological jargon sense here I think a lot of mbti enthusiasts on Reddit would say that the tests are unreliable, but the classification is still good for finding a sense of community with people who think in similar ways to you.
- ragnarkar 6y ago
  Yep, that's similar to how I feel about MBTi. One thing you need to separate out the 16 MBTI archtypes with the test(s) used to determine which type you are. Not everyone fits into one of the 16 types perfectly and not every test reliably figures out which of the 16 types you are, not to mention that dividing the entire human population into 16 types is an overly simplistic way of categorizing personalities. That doesn't mean MBTI is useless. You can take a test and hope that it reasonably finds what type you are or you can simply read the archtypes for all 16 types and figure out which type you are closest to. I think the community element is the most underrated aspect of MBTI, esp if you're a rare type that's been misunderstood most of your life. I can certainly related as an INTP and have struggled most of my life when taking the advice of my parents, teachers, professors, mentors, even self-help gurus only to get limited results despite following their advice almost exactly. When I learned that I was an INTP and followed the advice from other INTPs, I finally felt understood and was able to follow a different set of advice that got me much further in life than following the conventional advice from the former parties. Is it scientific? It's debatable. Is it useful? It depends but personally, it has been tremendously helpful.
jclos 6y ago
"Astrology for nerds" is one way of describing it that I always liked even though I don't know who is the original author of the expression (if there even is one).

axilmar 6y ago

I have two accounts, in one I was found introverted, in the other I was found extroverted. Go figure...

richardjdare 6y ago

Interesting. We had a Myers-Briggs guy come to our workplace a few years ago and I tested as INFP. Reddit profile: INFP 0.253485 INTP 0.191204 INTJ 0.165780 INFJ 0.107387 ENTP 0.051260 ... Controversiality: 0.0 % What I find interesting about these kinds of personality systems is how they can provide you with additional concepts for thinking about people you don't really understand, or people who aren't on your wavelength. They may not be accurate, but they give you a starting point for engagement.

_where 6y ago

If the author were to release the source and GPL it, that’d be more helpful to everyone than pointing it at Reddit.

getpost 6y ago

My result was wrong, but interesting nonetheless. Tested as ENFP Prediction results: INTP 0.175752 INFJ 0.165195 INFP 0.157366 INTJ 0.149600 ENTP 0.075153 ENFP 0.065921 ISTP 0.040638 ...

kyuudou 6y ago

Not bad: INTJ 0.197490 INTP 0.138727 INFJ 0.127998 INFP 0.125142 ENTP 0.091211 I consistently score INTP. Another account which I have about 8 years of sometimes voluminous comment history with for non-technical topics produces the same results in the same order. Hmm, maybe I'm turning into an INTJ with age... Kind of makes sense. Like others, I'm wondering what the "controversiality" value indicates. I'm pleasantly surprised and slightly uneasy.