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Typealyzer Determines Your Personality Based on Your Blog

by Terrence O'Brien on March 25, 2009 at 08:30 AM

Typealyzer Tells You What Kind of Person You are Based on Your Blog

It isn't particularly revolutionary to suggest that your blog or Web site, and the language you use on it, could give a glimpse of your personality type. Using an automated language analysis tool to determine your personality type, however, is pretty interesting... if not entirely accurate.

The Web site Typealyzer, created by Mattias Östmar of the research firm PRfekt, uses an algorithm to measure the occurrence of certain words within a Web page and, using data from psychological research, renders a personality diagnosis of the page's author. Of course, Typealyzer isn't 100-percent accurate. It characterized the Switched staff as "guardians" -- highly organized, efficient, and respectful of authority. Five minutes hanging around the offices would completely disprove that.

You can see what your blog says about you by visiting Typealyzer.com and putting in its URL. Are you a guardian? An executive? A doer? Let us know in the comments, and tell us how accurate you think Typalyzer is. [From: Business Week]

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