Language Log posted about the Typealyzer last month, and only today (while waiting for some video to digitize) did I get around to playing with it. The Typealyzer scans a blog and then decides what kind of Myers-Briggs personality type the blog represents. I’m allegedly an ENFP, so I thought it would be neat to see if this blog or the other I maintain would come up as such.
No such luck. Both blogs came up as INTP. Typealyzer characterizes the INTP blogger like this:
The logical and analytical type. They are espescially 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.
“Arrogant, impatient and insensitive”? If that’s what my blogs manage to appear, then that means they succeed! I think I’m actually proud of the fact that my blogs don’t come up ENFP. Cheap science as it is, Typealyzer suggests that I do a good job of maintaining a level of distance between what I write about and how I live my life–at least these days. That, I think, is full of win.
I also ran my friend’s blogs: Pete blogs as ESTP: “very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through.” That’s an amazing description of Banana Nutrient. Whet‘s blog is an ISTP: “especially attuned to the demands of the moment [and master] of responding to challenges that arise spontaneously.” Manan‘s blog, on the other hand, comes up INTP just like mine. I think that makes sense.
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