It started with a challenge: how do psychometric test publishers collect more data for developing their products and conducting research? We built the site originally as a side project to collect and analyse global personality characteristics, but now our open source data has proved useful for researchers around the world.

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Personalitydata.org is the online data-collection arm of several psychometric test publishers. A team of psychologists started the open source project in 2018 as a side-project to collect more data for their research. When they spoke to other test publishers they found this was a shared challenge, so the the psychologists built a platform where personality data could be collected, analyzed, and published. Since the project was setup in 2018, the network of contributors has grown and the importance of the website has become apparent; the best way to gather large volumes of self-report data on personality is to host the questionnaires on a website with high-traffic; personalitydata.org was born.

Now test publishers, university students, and researchers from around the world all contribute to ensure personalitydata.org is up-to-date and accurate.

If you are in the field of psychology or personality research, we welcome your help with the project. We usually need psychologists, data scientists, content-writers, subject matter experts, and volunteers. If you have something to offer please do contact us.

Researchers who have helped with data collection and analysis

The hard work of collecting hundreds of thousands of data points from participants and running analyses (SPSS, Winsteps, Excel) is widely appreciated. Special mentions go to:

Beatrice Ma

Graduate Student; Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Ayodele Ojo

M.S., Psychological Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Anita Sudera

B.S., Psychology, University of Washington, Cognitive Neuroscience

Caroline Burnham

Research Fellow, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Psychologists who have helped develop our personality assessments

One of the many positive outcomes of the project is the development of new personality assessments. We have developed several tools, the most significant being our Enneagram test and Jungian Subtype Type Indicator (JSTI) (personality test). Principal researchers are:

Ellie Simmonds, MSc

University of Bath, Psychology

Chloe Ames, MSc

University of Chichester, Advanced Applied Psychology

Developers and content-creators who have helped with software and the website

How do we best run R packages and interpret the data? How do we succinctly publish our data online? How do we make a website that attracts more people to take the questionnaires? Our tech heros are:

Johnny Tran, BSc

University of Glasgow, Mathematics

Jordan Sadler

Freelance web designer, London UK

Martynas Venckus, MEng

University of Glasgow, Mechanical Engineering

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Open source collaboration project

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this the open source Personality Data Project. Through your help we shall continue to make this website a useful resource for accurate personality data and personality data collection.

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London, UK

We work remotely from different countries, but we often meet up at: 1 Waterhouse Square London EC1N 2ST, UK

 

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