Saturday, September 03, 2011

Typealyzer: Myers-Briggs based on blogs

Yesterday I Marg of Adventures of an Intrepid Reader posted about being typealyzed, ie. having her blog posts analyzed by code at Typealyzer. I snuck over and entered morsie reads right away and was intrigued by the results.


From my most recent blog posts, Typealyzer has determined that I'm an ISTP (introverted sensing thinking perceiving). What amuses me about this is that only one of the four indicators (the I) is true to my non-online personality. This blog isn't a personal diary so it makes sense that my blog persona is not completely in line with my real one, but I wonder how much of it is the subject matter (books and bookish things) and how much is an unconscious decision to project myself as different than I am. Apparently the ISTP is a daredevil, which I assuredly am not.

I'll have to re-typealyze with different posts to see whether my personality as expressed through the blog is consistent or not.

You can read more about Typealyzer at About Typealyzer and Psychographics.

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for the tip. I'm heading over there right now. I love this kind of stuff.

    -Anne
    My Head is Full of Books

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  2. I just took my test and my persona in my blog is a ESTP. when I've taken the Myers=Briggs tests before I am usually an INFP or INFJ. The exact opposite. Ha!

    How did you copy the picture to place it on your blog?

    -Anne
    My Head is Full of Books

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  3. Anne, I took a screen shot and cropped it.

    The results are quite interesting, aren't they?

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  4. I'm a doer! When we've done "Insights" at work I've put myself down as a blue yet others think I'm yellow so it makes sense that my blog reflects my yellow side!

    I think that means it doesn't matter if your blog is about books or not!

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  5. It is definitely interesting to do these types of exercises every now and again!

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  6. Indeed! (Hope you don't mind me linking to you)

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