Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality
Very Bad Wizards
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Are You the Life of the Party?
Alexical analysis is a mathematical task, and it's very theoretical. You're basically putting all f that data, all of those data, into this technique to reduce the data. It's called sort of alexical analysis. So you're just taking all the terms that we use to socially describe other people,. And you're trying to see how many dimensions there are. There's some argument about how many dimension there are. But there has been consensus. Looking at a whole bunch of data that five seems to be the right number of dimensions that captures everything.
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