Predicting Character Traits Through Reddit

Abstract

This paper discusses the use of subreddits in the prediction of personality as determined by the Myers Briggs Personality Identification system. For the personality types of ESTJ and INFP the users are gathered from the respective subreddits and then the posts of those users are collected. Extracting only the surbeddit names of the posts, the data is aggregated then clustered. The centroids of these clusters are used to classify the data. This method proves to be more successful for the INFP personality type than the ESTJ personality type suggesting that through this method, certain users may be easier to classify than others.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1024328

Entities

People

  • Clarissa Scoggins

Organizations

  • Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Classification
  • Clustering
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Identification
  • Identification Systems
  • Internet
  • Language
  • Natural Languages
  • Personality
  • Psychological Tests
  • Social Media
  • Statistics
  • Training

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