Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Remote Personality Analysis

http://www.typealyzer.com/index.php?lang=en is a site where you can enter the URL of a blog, and the software will analyze the writing in said blog to do a rough personality profile of the author, including which parts of the author's brain were most used in creating the analyzed text.

Hmmmm.

Feeding in this blog (ulp!) produces this report about me:

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The analysis indicates that the author of
http://fredlanga.blogspot.com
is of the type:

ESTP - The Doers

The active and playful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.

The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.

Analysis

This show what parts of the brain that were dominant during writing.



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OK, it's me again.

And again, hmmmmm.

I've checked some friend's blogs--- people I know--- and the software is usually pretty accurate in a general way.

Of course, one's writing persona is usually different from one's in-person self: "author" is a role a writer plays, if you will. There are exceptions where the author becomes indistinguishable from their writing persona, or vice versa (Hunter Thompson leaps to mind), but I believe that most people only reveal a portion of themselves through their writing. One's writing voice is certainly a reflection of at least part of the author's personality, but almost never the whole story.

Or maybe I'm just hoping so because the analysis shows so little right-brain stuff going on in my head! Where's my corpus callosum when I need it? Connect, dammit!

But in any case, I FEEL and BELIEVE and HOPE and IMAGINE and INTUIT that, IDEALLY, I'm a SPIRITUALLY HARMONIOUS (not to say RHYTHMIC) whole and not just a product of my right brain half. ;-)

(Parse *that*, Typealyzer software!)

4 comments:

  1. "Parse that..." made me laugh..yes, out loud! Having read your newsletter, now your blog, and throwing in what you write for Secrets, I'm thinking Tyealyzer is probably pretty accurate.

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  2. From what it said, I'm guessing that it noticed that you liked to ride bikes and then makes the claim that you like the outdoors. Not a big stretch.

    Likewise, it may have noticed that you recently started this blog and sometimes took long breaks. From that it stated "keen on starting something new".

    Regardless...it's fun nonetheless.

    Randy

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  3. well, I am not the only one who thinks and knows and intuits that you ARE wonderful. :-)

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  4. Fred, you might want to look up the 'Barnum effect'. I think along with Gail's comment, it probably captures this website you mention. And I sense your own skepticism. :)

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