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jleopold  ·  3410 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Personality Insights about You Delivered by IBM's Watson

I had to put in some stuff I wrote for school and personal writing to get 6000 words, but I tried to use stuff that I really enjoyed writing, and where I had the freedom to play around with the style and subject some.

    You are shrewd and skeptical.

    You are independent: you have a strong desire to have time to yourself. You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. And you are authority-challenging: you prefer to challenge authority and traditional values to help bring about positive changes.

    You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of well-being.

    You are relatively unconcerned with both taking pleasure in life and tradition. You prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment. And you care more about making your own path than following what others have done.

The empathy thing is something I've been kind of worried about, but if Watson says I'm okay, I guess I'll buy it. I scored much lower on hedonism than I expected, but that isn't a side of me I write about really, especially not here or in school.

I also ran it with some things I've written for Spanish class, though I could only find about 1400 words, so it isn't suppose to be super accurate. There are some similarities though:

    You are unconventional and somewhat indirect.

    You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. You are energetic: you enjoy a fast-paced, busy schedule with many activities. And you are calm under pressure: you handle unexpected events calmly and effectively.

    You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of discovery.

    You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done. You value achieving success a bit more: you seek out opportunities to improve yourself and demonstrate that you are a capable person.

I think the English is for sure a better representation of me, but the Spanish isn't bad at pointing out what I am more like in that environment. Numerically, my dutifulness shot up 44% in Spanish; my activity level went from 8% to 91%; I got about 30% more assertive and cheerful; 70% more outgoing, altruistic, and modest; and trust, uncompromising and hedonism all shot up too. My needs stayed practically the same though, and besides hedonism, so did my values. I think looking at both evaluations together probably give the best sense of me, but the differences are interesting too.