Historical Facebook research · 256 personality profiles

Movies and COMPILER Personality Types

A film can be popular across nearly every personality profile and still be especially common in a few. These comparisons distinguish overall popularity from disproportionate representation.

Eight COMPILER dimensions define the type codes. The same weighted factor scores and fixed global cutoffs are applied to every category; only the recorded preference field changes.

130,407 profiles have usable data for this comparison. Type samples range from 17 to 2,433, with a median of 404.

248 of 256 types meet the 70-profile sample minimum. 213 have at least five qualifying distinctive entries; 131 have twenty.

These are historical, unadjusted associations, not individual predictions. A missing mention is not a dislike. Age, gender, geography and list length may contribute to differences.

Distribution of category sample sizes across the 256 personality types

Patterns with substantial differences

These examples require at least 25 mentions in a type of at least 300 profiles, in addition to the common screening rules. They are examples with larger cells, not a claim of independent replication.

Fireproof

: 1.6% list this entry, compared with 0.2% outside the type. That is 7.46 times the listing rate, a 1.4-percentage-point gap (38 of 2,433 profiles).

Facing the Giants

: 1.8% list this entry, compared with 0.3% outside the type. That is 6.75 times the listing rate, a 1.5-percentage-point gap (43 of 2,433 profiles).

Waking Life

: 2.3% list this entry, compared with 0.5% outside the type. That is 4.87 times the listing rate, a 1.8-percentage-point gap (26 of 1,145 profiles).

The existing audited movie catalog and its ambiguous-title safeguards are reused. A title may also refer to a book, franchise or another work; locating it in the movies field reduces but does not eliminate ambiguity.

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Personality type

Reading the eight letters

COMPILER uses the original proposed pole names below. These are provisional shorthand for broader dimensions, not clean logical opposites, abilities, diagnoses or judgments of worth.

Position	Higher factor score	Lower factor score	Meaning
1	C: Caregiving	A: Autonomy	Prioritizing care for others and family or close relationships.
2	O: Openness	T: Traditionalism	Intellectual, imaginative and artistic exploration.
3	M: Materialism	F: Frugality	Placing importance on appearance, money and expensive consumption, not actual wealth.
4	P: Prudence	S: Spontaneity	Orderliness, caution and deliberate self-control.
5	I: Intimacy	G: Guardedness	Emotional openness, accepting help and interpersonal trust.
6	L: Leadership	Y: Yielding	Wanting to lead or control and being comfortable with confrontation, not leadership skill.
7	E: Equanimity	V: Volatility	Emotional calm and steadiness rather than a strong need for reassurance.
8	R: Religiosity	N: Nonreligiosity	Religious faith and conventional restraint.

In particular, Autonomy does not mean an inability to care; Frugality is broader shorthand here than thrift alone; Leadership includes control/confrontation preferences rather than demonstrated skill.

What the comparison can establish

The catalog contains 874 entries. Distinctive rankings require at least 70 usable profiles in a type, 200 mentions overall, 10 in the type, 50 outside it, and at least three in each deterministic half. Listing-rate lift must be at least 1.25, the absolute gap at least 0.25 percentage points, and the direction positive in both halves.

Lift compares the selected type with everyone outside it in the same usable category cohort. Lists can contain fewer than twenty entries. The split-half rule screens consistency; it is not external validation or a multiple-testing guarantee. Larger ratios based on ten or twelve mentions remain uncertain.

Each person counts at most once per matched entry, but can match several entries. Common whole-field dislike/negation phrases are conservatively screened out of preference fields. Education concentrations are not dislike-screened. The matching catalogs are not exhaustive and may miss languages, aliases or prose descriptions.

The factor model combines 35 original trait scores. Each of its eight global cutoffs splits 253,717 eligible historical profiles into 126,859 higher and 126,858 lower scores. Marginal balance does not guarantee equal-sized combinations. The source spans 2008–2011; it is not a representative sample of current tastes or the general population.

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All 256 sample sizes

Type	Usable profiles	Qualifying entries
	2,433	88
	2,213	170
	1,964	51
	1,521	96
	1,451	79
	1,404	85
	1,404	115
	1,392	98
	1,366	52
	1,360	128
	1,341	107
	1,256	80
	1,185	63
	1,153	59
	1,145	163
	1,141	71
	1,127	66
	1,121	42
	1,113	96
	1,073	72
	1,070	92
	1,055	37
	1,048	45
	1,046	55
	1,023	107
	1,018	110
	1,015	65
	992	40
	986	140
	983	67
	982	24
	957	43
	949	77
	948	49
	947	97
	928	71
	927	34
	913	65
	901	113
	901	57
	886	38
	883	108
	883	59
	879	30
	874	20
	857	99
	837	30
	836	41
	835	68
	832	56
	814	36
	794	44
	791	51
	785	33
	782	30
	763	75
	759	110
	747	29
	740	27
	727	32
	707	26
	697	27
	693	25
	691	72
	687	44
	680	51
	679	59
	666	41
	664	15
	664	73
	658	39
	655	66
	655	47
	651	72
	648	41
	640	33
	638	34
	625	97
	618	45
	617	36
	613	24
	609	47
	609	37
	608	44
	604	43
	591	27
	582	15
	567	57
	556	35
	553	49
	552	26
	551	15
	538	28
	538	15
	534	28
	499	46
	497	35
	497	25
	492	15
	488	48
	487	21
	470	30
	465	23
	463	18
	460	27
	457	24
	454	20
	452	36
	452	34
	450	58
	446	26
	446	21
	445	33
	442	13
	437	21
	431	30
	431	27
	430	34
	429	18
	429	17
	424	12
	421	16
	418	11
	417	46
	412	39
	412	22
	411	10
	405	14
	403	23
	402	28
	400	29
	397	7
	394	25
	392	13
	380	44
	378	31
	373	50
	368	8
	366	4
	364	21
	361	5
	361	7
	359	18
	359	6
	351	19
	342	25
	337	24
	335	17
	334	12
	332	13
	332	10
	330	12
	329	21
	328	38
	326	30
	321	13
	320	13
	319	11
	319	18
	319	6
	317	17
	316	9
	314	15
	312	9
	309	9
	308	28
	307	27
	305	5
	294	13
	294	7
	288	8
	283	15
	279	8
	278	21
	278	10
	276	21
	273	15
	267	10
	267	5
	265	10
	264	7
	261	5
	260	15
	259	18
	258	15
	255	11
	255	7
	252	3
	251	6
	251	4
	242	7
	240	6
	240	8
	236	14
	235	3
	234	10
	231	2
	229	11
	226	12
	224	8
	222	8
	220	14
	220	1
	219	8
	215	7
	209	10
	209	9
	205	3
	203	11
	198	8
	197	4
	197	4
	194	0
	194	0
	188	5
	183	4
	181	5
	179	6
	173	7
	172	12
	168	1
	162	1
	159	0
	152	2
	150	5
	141	6
	138	0
	132	3
	132	0
	129	6
	128	6
	127	0
	125	3
	122	5
	121	0
	118	1
	115	3
	112	0
	107	1
	104	0
	102	1
	96	0
	90	2
	87	0
	85	2
	79	0
	74	0
	71	0
	66	0
	61	0
	57	0
	56	0
	53	0
	38	0
	28	0
	17	0

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