I have a Doppelganger named David Evans. David is the founder of Psychster, (more info) an online psychological research specializing in the social science of social networking. He wrote to let us know about You Just Get Me, a Facebook application launched in October that helps people analyze whether others are forming accurate personality impressions of them from their online profiles. The site, which gives you an immediate accuracy score using linear statistics, is based on Funder’s (1999) Realistic Accuracy Model.
After users rate themselves on a 40-question personality inventory, people who visit their profile form an impression of them by answering the same 40 questions about the profile owner. Both parties immediately receive an accuracy score that indicates whether the impression matched the truth. The profile owners learn what image they are projecting, and the visitors learn how good they are at what Evans calls “online mind-reading.”
Facebook is not letting me add the application, something about an endless redirect. That’s not good.
Here’s a link to my profile.
Personal DNA is a competitor.
