Interesting! I tried the Typealyzer on my journal and on a few of the fanfics I've written. It didn't type me correctly, but I can see why it came to the conclusion it did based on the way I use my journal. For the fanfics, it did a pretty good job of identifying the tone of each story — a story centered around musical performance tested as an artistic type, whereas a story told from the point of view of a computer tested as more analytical.
IMO, the algorithm seems to do a pretty good job of analyzing what it's given, but it has no way to deal with the reality that people may only blog about a small part of themselves (or, as you suggest, affect a certain writing style). I wonder whether it would be more accurate for extraverts (and/or people who are simply more open in their blogs).
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Date: 2011-01-25 01:23 pm (UTC)IMO, the algorithm seems to do a pretty good job of analyzing what it's given, but it has no way to deal with the reality that people may only blog about a small part of themselves (or, as you suggest, affect a certain writing style). I wonder whether it would be more accurate for extraverts (and/or people who are simply more open in their blogs).