Scientists discover four personality types

[LHC]

I was surprised to learn that the subject of human personality profiling or classification to be contentious. Many of us would have heard of Myers Briggs personality types, or you may have undertaken such a test in workplace training. It turns out they were constructed empirically from small data sets; this constraints their validity and repeatability. But a new piece of work that applied the techniques of data science to analyse very large volume of personality traits data found that the respondent data can be clustered into four classifications. They used the five widely accepted traits of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness, to create a five dimensional space to map human personality. It turns out that four distinct clusters of personality types exist — average, reserved, self-centred and role model. While we may find ourselves having resemblance to one (or more) of the four types, our 'type' could actually change as we age. 

 

[EDIT: point of clarity. While the researchers found four distinct clusters, there are people with personalities that sit between the clusters. So the way to think about the clusters is that they are the four more easier to identify personality types.]

 

 

 

Edited September 19, 2018 by LHC

[Guest Muon N']

"So although people love finding patterns in the world, typecast carefully. That means not assuming that if someone matches a type in some ways, he will in others. Let’s say someone seems low in openness and conscientiousness. You might assume he is also low in agreeableness because those three traits cluster together as the “self-centered” type. But the chance that someone low in openness and conscientiousness is also low in agreeableness appears barely more probable than the chance that the person is high in agreeableness. Your assumption could easily lead you astray. 

Rather than suggesting that we categorize people, what this study reminds us is that people don’t always fit into the bins we expect."

 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/psyched/201809/are-there-really-four-personality-types

[Guest Muon N']

I don't go for personality profiling.

 

Edit: specifically these simplistic ones that are made up of a handful of types.

 

Edited September 19, 2018 by Muon N'

[Eddierukiddingvarese]

Would you like to see my Myers Briggs personality test

 

Sorry, I ate it Maxwell Smart style