Lonnen comments on Applied Bayes' Theorem: Reading People - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lonnen 02 July 2010 06:55:55AM *  1 point [-]

No, the article specifically warns against using a single trait. It gives specific examples of how a single trait can mean very different things. It takes a cluster of traits to establish something useful.

If you want to pursue getting the data, though, you could try to derive something like a table of probabilities from a self scored 'Big Five' test, like the one in the appendix of this review paper. From that same review paper you can also find the papers and data sets that gave rise to five factor personality analysis.

edit: fixed the link.