Computers Psychoanalyze My Blog
The folks over at prefkt.se have created a fun little tool called Typealyzer. It (presumably) performs sentiment analysis on the text in your blog to give you a psychological classification. My blog is classified as…
INTP - The Thinkers
The logical and analytical type. They are especialy attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications.They enjoy working with complex things using a lot of concepts and imaginative models of reality. Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need some time to understand what they are talking about.
Not terribly inaccurate, in a broad-reaching horoscope sort of way. Thinking, after all, is one of my favorite activities…
Thanks to Greg Mankiw for the pointer.
[...] This is very exciting news, indeed, as I expect this to be one of the many factors in an upcoming AI revolution. No revolution is without a complete list of players, of course, and StockMood isn’t the only one.** In fact, I recently blogged about a web application that psychoanalyzes blogs. [...]
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