Comments on: Personality types on the Internet

Personality types on the Internet

cpfeifer — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:40:51 -0800

Measuring personality types on the internet has been beaten to death. But a new survey at the University of Baltimore is trying to take into account typical social tasks including shopping, IMing, blogging, video chatting, online gaming as well as more solitary tasks; surfing for sex (pr0n, dating sites). The web has

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:49:00 -0800

Your anwsers are confidential and annonymous. People. Proofread. Please. You're making me and Baby Jesus cry.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:52:25 -0800

what got cut off, cpfeifer?

By: cpfeifer

cpfeifer — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:14:42 -0800

aargh. I clicked post when I meant to click preview again. Some days my life is one big parade of sad clowns. So, anyway, the last line is supposed to say something to the effect of: "The web's content and function has broadened to more than the CD collections, resumes and favorite pithy quotes of engineering college students in the US. 4 years ago the results skewed towards introverts, but with new forms of online social interaction has the web lured its fair share of extroverts?" but in a much more thought-provoking style. Something that would make Clay Shirky rub his bald head wondering "Yeah, what about that?" Oh well, maybe next post.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:16:30 -0800

Linking to a survey's results: potentially interesting Linking to a survey: not interesting.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:18:33 -0800

seriously. i was thrown off by "Caucasion." for those who don't read the intro and start answering questions, realize that there's no payoff. it's purely a form for submitted answers to the questionnaire. seems like a standard undergraduate psych project.

By: cpfeifer

cpfeifer — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:19:25 -0800

> Linking to a survey: not interesting. Agreed. But, if nobody takes the survey, there will be no results. We are the perfect audience for such a survey: I'm guessing the average MeFi reader spends a lot of time online interacting with other folks via blogs (reading, commenting, etc) and other electronic means, hence I passed it on.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:23:30 -0800

I did it...but i want a prize or something : > and i hate when that happens, cpfeifer

By: BlueTrain

BlueTrain — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:52:32 -0800

cpfeifer, it is now officially your job to post the results in September or October.

By: cpfeifer

cpfeifer — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:17:23 -0800

Most certainly. I'm very interested to see the results.

By: eatitlive

eatitlive — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:28:37 -0800

How much time do you spend clicking words that aren't links wondering to yourself why they don't go anywhere? Seriously, I want to know. I find myself doing that too much lately. Href ennui or something.

By: starscream

starscream — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:08:57 -0800

Wow, I spend so much time online that it was actually hard to guage my answers. I guess working for a software company doesn't help ;)

By: mosch

mosch — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:29:59 -0800

My online time is utterly obscene, since my company effectively has a virtual office, with interoffice communication consisted mostly of jabber, with the occasional email or phone call. Combine that with a penchant to play online poker on the laptop while my honey watches her tv shows and cripes, my profile is wicked scary.

By: willnot

willnot — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 04:18:50 -0800

What's with switching from hours per day to hours per week after a couple of questions? I barely caught the switch as I went flying through the thing. I bet they get a lot of junk data as a result of that. Plus, all of these types of surveys are really self-selecting. I'm not sure that the results would really be all that interesting or reliable.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:59:13 -0800

Metafilter: one big parade of sad clowns.