Posted by alexandra_k on July 24, 2005, at 5:56:10
In reply to Re: You know what I find even more interesting... » alexandra_k, posted by Racer on July 23, 2005, at 19:05:14
But...
You would need some kind of personality typing test or whatever to get the 'definitive' classification of people into their personality types. So the whole thing would only be as good as the test you use to start with. If the test turns out to be chucked as a good test of typing peoples personalities then the results wouldn't be worth very much.
And personality assessment is controversial / problematic...
Then you would need to be careful about how you select the posts for the person to attempt to type people on the basis of their posts. You would want to rule out posts of the kind 'I was dx'd as having xxx personality disorder' because that would basically give the type away...
Then you would want whatever you have discovered to be reliable indicators of personality type to be a more useful heuristic than getting people to sit the test that you used to type them to start with...
I dunno...
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