Show HN: Try Archetype 360 – AI‑powered personality test, 3× deeper than MBTI

Re:Show HN: Try Archetype 360 – AI‑powered personality test,... by jaen on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:50PM (#47221428)

The dimensions seems very "profession"-oriented (as a contrast to other personality inventories that can also be used in professional psychology).

Questions:

1. Where did the 12 dimensions come from?

2. Are they ~independent (ie. don't have huge correlations making them redundant)?

3. Are they high-entropy? (ie. they split the population into roughly equal-sized groups and have predictive value)

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Re:Show HN: Try Archetype 360 – AI‑powered personality test,... by ddesposito on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:21PM (#47240538)

Hi, Jaen, thanks for the feedback. Whether they are independent or high entropy, its too soon to say, its a new framework I conceived and I am not a psychometrist, I would need to get to 500 or 1000 to see the recurrence of archetype clusters. I see your point however, some of the concepts may overlap, I am going to bring it down to 8 trait pairs / dimensions. Hogan has 7 dimensions seems. In your experience, how many archetypes exist in the human population? with 4 trait pairs, thats only 16, with 12, thats above 3000. Must be somewhere in between.

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