aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Personal DNA

A VC points to a cool new Web service:

PersonalDNA is a web service that does a sophisticated and rigorous personality profile in about 15-20 minutes (I know because I just took one).  It makes use of lots of cool ajaxy things like sliders and buckets.

At the end you get a result which you can publish.

Not surprisingly, the VC’s an animated leader. I’m a benevolent analyst.

The test is quick and fun, and pulls you in (and seems accurate enough in its conclusion) but the niftiest Web 2.0 part promised is the ”psyche you/psych me” feature:

Invite people to assess you! They’ll be given reports that will represent their versions of your personality. If they share those reports with you, you can collect everyone else’s version of your personality and compare personalDNA strips and personality maps side-by-side with yours. You’ll also get a match percentage to see how well they know you (see a sample report here).

That said, and after sending off a link to friends, it’s not looking entirely intuitive as to how it works. This is my link; try it!