So That Explains It, Or Not

I've been doing this blog thing for almost exactly a year now. During that time I've pounded out close to 900 posts and in the process have learned a lot about a bunch of random subjects but I've also learned somethings about myself and that's the most valuable part.

From a study entitled "Who blogs? Personality predictors of blogging"...

The Big Five personality inventory measures personality based on five key traits: neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. Specifically, we examined whether the different Big Five traits predicted blogging.

The results of two studies indicate that people who are high in openness to new experience and high in neuroticism are likely to be bloggers. These results indicate that personality factors impact the likelihood of being a blogger and have implications for understanding who blogs.

I took the test and I came up out in the 30th percentile for openness to experience and the 18th percentile for neuroticism, both substantially below the average.

So much for the study!

If you want to see how you stack up you can take the test here.