Predicting Personality from Book Preferences with User-Generated Content Labels. (The graphic expands for much greater clarity)
The colors are from the Big Five personality traits
C (yellow) - Conscientiousness
O (red) - Openness
N (dark blue) Neuroticism
A (light blue) Agreeableness
E (green) Extraversion
This was fun, not only seeing what are common personality features for the genres you love and those that don't interest you, but for the similarity of some genres. Journeys is close to balanced, and Classics, Racial, and Kids only a bit less so. Young Adult, Girls Fiction, and Fantasy have similar shape. One might expect that Philosophy, Religion, and Paranormal to have similar shapes, but they are in fact quite different. Does the graph show that girls become more conscientious as they become women, or that the type of person (likely female) who reads Girls' fiction as an adult is less conscientious than the type that reads Women's? Why are Drama and Plays so different? As these are user-generated tags, does it only mean that different personality types describe the same works in different words?
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Do they have such a breakdown of the personality types that _write_ those types of things?
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