Can the style of music you like most help you find your dream job? What do the books you read tell you about how you enjoy spending your free time? At Signal Patterns, our goal is to unlock the connections between personality, behavior and preferences.
Our scientists are developing research techniques that look across seemingly unrelated areas. Through our rigorous science and sheer computational power we are able to see patterns emerge in the data, making connections between disparate subject areas.
What Your Signals Show
We've developed research surveys that aim to discover people's attitudes on a wide range of subjects. These questionnaires help us evaluate the "signals" people emit, and in turn we can help them identify and recognize their own unique "patterns" of preference.
Using data from several thousand people, we are able to identify connections between personality characteristics, behavioral tendencies and stated preferences, and possibly even predict results in one area based on research in another.
What We've Learned
For example, results from our studies indicate that people who describe themselves as analytical are more likely to have careers in finance than less analytical people; people who are highly cooperative are far more likely to have jobs in helping professions such as healthcare and social work; and highly conscientious people are very likely to hold leadership positions at work
We are now beginning to identify the latent structure of leisure preferences. Studies show that people who enjoy listening to opera, jazz and world music also enjoy watching foreign films, documentaries, independent films and educational television programs, as well as well as books about history, psychology, and architecture, and biographies. In contrast, others tend to enjoy listening to country and pop music, watching romantic comedies, soap operas, day time talk shows and reading fiction books, including romance novels.
This information is incredibly valuable. Not only are people able to learn more fully about their true selves, they can now use that knowledge to seek out others to whom they are likely to relate. They can seek out other media or artists whose work they are inclined to enjoy. They can identify career changes and new leisure pursuits that they are likely to excel at and find enjoyable. Through inward reflection and scientific research, people are able to connect and communicate more fully with the world around them.
The Big Five
What are the best ways to describe an individual's personality? One might list all of the things that individuals do all day every day of their lives, but that would take too long and be far too detailed to be of much use. Alternatively, one might use more abstract attributes as a way of summarizing the major ways that individuals differ from each other.
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