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by nenadst 2710 days ago
Sorry (even as i am tempted to do this quiz), but ...

<paranoia mode on>

Is this sponsored by (the defunct) Cambridge Analytica or some similar entity ?

Isn't this exactly how many of those companies operate ?

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It doesn't ask for any personal details to complete it.

Seemed accurate enough as the result I got correlated closely with one I did I few years back that was definitely more intrusive but eye-opening.

Someone setup a crawler that would take your HN comments and pass them to Watson's personality insights. I was brutally honest just now and the results were the same.

There are a lot of tracking links on that page. It is THE perfect behavioral tracking info to attach to someone's online advertising profiles.
That would require them to be specifically tracking this questionnaire for that purpose and filing the results against your profile or shadow profile.

As I noted, it is possible to derive a reasonably accurate profile simply from the language a person uses, so if you're on Facebook, or use GMail they have enough data passing through their servers to profile you anyway.

Technology like this:

https://personality-insights-demo.ng.bluemix.net/

Including Google or FB advertising id?