PhilGoetz comments on The Machine Learning Personality Test - Less Wrong
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By coincidence, just after writing this, I read an article ("Why are modern scientists so dull?") claiming that creativity and psychoticism are strongly positively correlated. The explanation offered was different: that psychoticism (by which they seem to mean being a sociopath, not being mentally unstable) enables one to be more independent.
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In this context, Psychoticism is probably the trait from Eysenck's 3 factor model of personality.
Psychoticism corresponds to a combination of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness from the Big Five.
Here's a web test for Eysenck's personality inventory. My results: