IBM Watson Personality Insights

Okay, so here’s something random for today… The IMB Watson Personality Insights service.

The IBM Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates through blogs, tweets, forum posts, and more.

I input the text from three different sources (Game Spotlight: Life is Strange, Movie Spotlight: Mad Max Fury Road and Game Spotlight: Mass Effect 3) to get over 13000 words worth of text for Watson to work with and got the following information blurted out at me…

Your Personality*

You are shrewd and skeptical.

You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. You are independent: you have a strong desire to have time to yourself. And you are philosophical: you are open to and intrigued by new ideas and love to explore them.

Your choices are driven by a desire for efficiency.

You consider independence to guide a large part of what you do: you like to set your own goals to decide how to best achieve them. You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done.

*Compared to most people who participated in our surveys.

Data Behind Your Personality

Big 5

Openness 83%
Adventurousness 66%
Artistic interests 18%
Emotionality 35%
Imagination 80%
Intellect 84%
Authority-challenging 81%
Conscientiousness 38%
Achievement striving 36%
Cautiousness 69%
Dutifulness 35%
Orderliness 30%
Self-discipline 17%
Self-efficacy 81%
Extraversion 31%
Activity level 21%
Assertiveness 42%
Cheerfulness 18%
Excitement-seeking 15%
Outgoing 27%
Gregariousness 13%
Agreeableness 30%
Altruism 42%
Cooperation 59%
Modesty 31%
Uncompromising 38%
Sympathy 96%
Trust 48%
Emotional range 55%
Fiery 60%
Prone to worry 31%
Melancholy 50%
Immoderation 28%
Self-consciousness 42%
Susceptible to stress 31%

Needs

Challenge 43%
Closeness 42%
Curiosity 23%
Excitement 26%
Harmony 76%
Ideal 9%
Liberty 37%
Love 77%
Practicality 79%
Self-expression 8%
Stability 24%
Structure 29%

Values

Conservation 7%
Openness to change 94%
Hedonism 49%
Self-enhancement 53%
Self-transcendence 71%

*looks around and shrugs* I don’t know what to get out of any of that. To me, it feels pretty much the same as any other one of these personality tests and horoscopes and whatever asshattery that’s around on the net. But whatever, I guess that’s just my sceptical nature coming out or something.

In any case, apparently there’s some science behind it but since I’m no scientist, all of this goes way over my head if there really is anything to it. I dunno, I just found it mildly interesting so I thought I’d share it.