So I was stumbling along reddit's front page when I found a thread on interesting tests to take for one's self. Toward the end I found this little beauty, https://watson-pi-demo.mybluemix.net/.

Now, what you're supposed to do is write some stuff about yourself in there. I knackered about for around 269 words, mostly on my writing habits and achievements, and it gave a decently accurate result, as most of these things tend to do.

Then I started having fun. Throwing some of my various writing pieces at it, which was... amusing. Most recently I plugged in the text of Chasing the Outer Night, a Dresden FIles challenge that I figured best fit the style they were asking after.

Yanno what it gave me?

I dunno, man. Is that sort-of maybe spot-on for Harry Dresden?

So yeah. What do you get out of it?

 

Spoiler

You are shrewd and inner-directed.

You are cautious of others: you are wary of other people's intentions and do not trust easily. You are proud: you hold yourself in high regard, satisfied with who you are. And you are laid-back: you appreciate a relaxed pace in life.

Experiences that give a sense of connectedness hold some appeal to you.

You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you. You are relatively unconcerned with taking pleasure in life: you prefer activities with a purpose greater than just personal enjoyment.

That's... remarkably accurate.

I'm probably going to play a little with this with passages from my favourite books.

Harry Potter in OoTP:

Spoiler

You are unconventional.

You are unstructured: you do not make a lot of time for organization in your daily life. You are confident: you are hard to embarrass and are self-confident most of the time. And you are laid-back: you appreciate a relaxed pace in life.

Your choices are driven by a desire for well-being.

You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you. You are relatively unconcerned with achieving success: you make decisions with little regard for how they show off your talents.

 

I pasted in a selection of DLP and Reddit posts giving opinions on various matters. It came out with:

I can agree with most of it, except the "unconcerned with tradition" part. I'm fairly traditional, I think.

 

This is what it had to say about me.

Interesting.

 

I suppose it's as accurate as it is vague.

These kind of tests always remind me of horoscopes. They're always deliberately vague so that no matter what kind of person you actually are, you will be able to find some sort of truth in it.

 

I don't think I've ever written that many words in one go. Should I just gather a bunch of my posts and paste them all or does it want something coherent?

 

I am not fiery. I feel insulted. That's definitely off. Also, I am not verbose. All the rest is pretty accurate, though. That's strange, considering I've put in only 388 words. I wanted to put in more, but writing 6k words in english would kill me.

edit: In retrospect, maybe it's not so accurate. I don't think I am that boisterous, or intermittent. I would have to write more words.

 

Well I got ~320 words worth of posts before I got bored...

And here's with the 168 words about myself that I decided to type on the spot.

Some things from both but not everything from either, like most people.