Posted by Racer on July 23, 2005, at 19:05:14
In reply to Re: You know what I find even more interesting... » Jen Star, posted by alexandra_k on July 23, 2005, at 18:34:45
> If people did one of those personality inventories and saved it to the server...
> (Like you can already do with some different tests)
>
> And their posts were analysed...
>
> You might be able to work that out.
>
> There might be some fairly reliable indicators of personality type that are apparant fairly early on from peoples posts...You know, I think that's a brilliant idea! I could see a couple of ways of doing it, too...
Let's see, have volunteers from the audience (Babblers, that is) take a couple of different personality indices, grab a few posts from each of them -- preferably in context, meaning whole threads -- and have someone else, someone unfamiliar with the boards, see if they can form an opinion based on those posts. Then take those opinions, and check them against the personality profiles. Finally, give those readers the opinions formed by all the readers, with three personality profiles for each, and ask them to work out which opinion they think most closely matches the profile. Or something like that...
By the way, in case anyone cares, I was thinking that out as I typed. I don't think about these things much before I start typing, so you're pretty much getting how I talk when you read my posts... Only the spelling is better when I type... ;-)
Anyway, I'm really diggin' this thread. I think it's a great idea, and would love to see the results if anyone came up with a real version of what Alexandra suggested.
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