Watson knows me

[pyesetz]

porsupah mentioned this writing-analysis test from IBM's Watson.  I fed it my Mass. trip report '14 and it said:

You are inner-directed.

You are calm-seeking: you prefer activities that are quiet, calm, and safe. You are unconcerned with art: you are less concerned with artistic or creative activities than most people who participated in our surveys. And you are deliberate: you carefully think through decisions before making them.

Your choices are driven by a desire for discovery.

You are relatively unconcerned with both achieving success and taking pleasure in life. You make decisions with little regard for how they show off your talents. And you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment.

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[xolo.livejournal.com]

When I fed it the essay "Three Mighty Wrecks" (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7660727/), I got:

You are inner-directed, analytical and rational.

You are independent: you have a strong desire to have time to yourself. You are calm-seeking: you prefer activities that are quiet, calm, and safe. And you are self-assured: you tend to feel calm and self-assured.

Your choices are driven by a desire for revelry.

You are relatively unconcerned with both achieving success and taking pleasure in life. You make decisions with little regard for how they show off your talents. And you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment.

When I fed it the essay "Progress Perverted" (http://www.furaffinity.net/journals/ostrich/), I got:

You are a bit compulsive, guarded and skeptical.

You are melancholy: you think quite often about the things you are unhappy about. You are intermittent: you have a hard time sticking with difficult tasks for a long period of time. And you are unconcerned with art: you are less concerned with artistic or creative activities than most people who participated in our surveys.

Your choices are driven by a desire for belongingness.

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.

These are reasonably good analyses, both of them, even though they don't entirely match. I have no idea what triggered Your choices are driven by a desire for revelry., and Your choices are driven by a desire for belongingness. is in outright conflict with the rest of the analysis. I also spend a fair amount of time doing things that I classify as 'projects', but which might be art (few of them serve any functional purpose). I'm going to say it's reasonably good at reading my general emotional states and social affects, less so at inferring motivations. Still quite an impressive job, though.

[whitetail.livejournal.com]

I'm rather fixated on the fact that Watson apparently doesn't know how to spell 'extroversion'.

[pyesetz]

What do they say instead?

[whitetail.livejournal.com]

'Extraversion'. Not a terribly uncommon mis-spelling - I've seen it often before - but it's not a mistake I'd think an AI computer would make.

[pyesetz]

Wikipedia says that "extraversion" is the spelling used by psychologists, such as the people who wrote this AI program.  In fact, they claim that "extroversion" is a misspelling redirected to "extraversion"!  Conversely, dictionary.com says that "extroversion" is the headword and "extraversion" is an also-spelling.

[whitetail.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. My B.S. is in Psychology, and I never saw that spelling used in my entire curriculum.

[pyesetz]

"Three Wrecks" is a nice piece.  It's too bad that FA (and the modern Fandom in general) is so visually-oriented that only 13 viewers have shown up in three years.

As for "Progress Perverted", I think you've hit upon why Radio Shack went bankrupt.  They had lost their original hobbyist customer (or could no longer understand them due to MBA-itis) and just flailed around looking for a new business to enter.  I've never understood the attitude that since some people don't want to see the technical details, we must never show them to anyone!  Sayal is a store near me that reminds me somewhat of what Radio Shack used to be like — but recently they have stopped displaying prices on their website, so I never know whether to go there.

It's weird that Watson thought your crashes were about "revelry" (perhaps because of the single reference to DisneyWorld?) while your powerbrick-quest was about "belonging".  It seemed to me that both essays were about "community".