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Emisary: a Use Case for a New Psychological Metric

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I like to build psychological tests, but they tend to pigeonhole you into a type, which is static. I wanted to build one that would measure how people change from day to day. Emisary is a 10-dimensional metric (not a diagnostic test) that describes not what you ARE, but how you're perceived by others.

As a use case for this, I built this site, which prompts users to write about pressing, top of mind moments from their lives and then analyzes them to provide a response to how they are likely perceived by others.

These pointillistic impressions are collated into personality trend reports. It's built as a SAAS, but if you sign up with promo code 'Seriously?' you can use it free for a year. Would be interested in better use cases of this underlying metric. Thx.

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