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Facebook Likes Predict Select Personality Traits

Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
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Computer programs predict select personality traits through assessing Facebook “likes,” according to University Studies.

The researchers claim computer-based personality assessments involving five broad categories–degree of openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism–are more accurate than those made by humans.

It’s a fascinating study, but consider these points:

1. The studies are based on subjects completing a subjective personality test. Everyone knows you’re on your best behavior while taking self-tests. Also, it’s a given that some Facebook users will unthinkingly expose intimate clues about their lives through their “likes,” but many avoid this trap.

2. The study doesn’t consider that many Facebook users are concerned about privacy concerns, do selective “liking,” and avoid impulsive “liking.” Thus, you get a Facebook account that is similar to the face you show in public; the private personality, the real personality, remains hidden.

3. The computer models catch only a very limited number of red flag personality traits.

The computer models do hold great value for advertisers, considering this quote from the Wall Street Journal about the studies: “Using the data from Facebook, it could predict a person’s race with 95% accuracy and gender with 93%. The model also accurately predicted sexual, religious and political orientation; intelligence; the likelihood of substance abuse; and personality according to the profiles from the five-category test.”

The bold title of the study, “Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans,” is believable only considering the humans involved in the studies (friends and family of the subjects) are amateurs, untrained in reading personality.

In my view, three main ways exist to get consistently high accuracy rates in determining red flag personality traits: in-person psychologist assessments; private investigations/conventional security investigations; and unconventional security investigations, including the ones I offer. I recommend all three to reduce your overall risk as much as possible.

Copyright © 2020 Scott Petullo

Diversity and How to Determine Compatibility Between New Hires and Staff

Monday, January 6th, 2020
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Recently, I happened to see an article about the merits of hiring a diverse workforce. Beneath the article in the comments section was a debate about hiring primarily based on diversity, or hiring the most qualified candidates, regardless of race, sex, and sexual orientation.

But let’s say you have ten diverse candidates for three positions and all ten are equally qualified. As a hiring manager or business owner, you then must figure out which of the ten candidates are most compatible with your current staff, regardless of diversity.

My findings show race, sex, and sexual orientation have nothing to do with authentic workplace compatibility, putting aside individual biases that can ruin any professional relationship.

Real compatibility, well beyond surface rapport, is symbolized by natal and timing patterns in the comprehensive astrology and numerology charts. Subconscious strengths, fears, and defenses, as outlined by handwriting analysis, either mitigate or corroborate the innate compatibility found through astrology and numerology.

For example, a Hispanic female in marketing may be extremely compatible with a white male from the tech department, but may have horrible compatibility with a black female from accounting. The same black female from accounting may have wonderful compatibility with the white male from the tech department, but terrible compatibility with the black male who owns the company. Authentic affinity has nothing to do with race or gender, but soul energy, represented by comprehensive astrology and numerology.

Here are some of your options to determine new hire compatibility with staff:

  1. Each staff member interviews each candidate to determine how he or she matches. Although first impressions are important, everyone is on their best behavior until the pressure mounts on the job, the persona fades, and the real personality emerges. Unfortunately, you can’t get a complete idea of real character and compatibility through face-to-face interviews, no matter how strong your instincts. Although some people have amazing gut instinct, it’s not reliable 100% of the time.
  2. Multiple choice personality self-tests can be a little helpful, such as determining social inclination, but self-tests can be gamed.
  3. An in-person psychologist assessment can reveal much about potential personality issues, but little about innate compatibility between staff members.
  4. Hiring a security investigations firm can also help determine potential personality issues, but not much about inherent compatibility between employees.
  5. The combination of handwriting analysis and comprehensive astrology and numerology is one of the best ways to determine innate compatibility between staff. Handwriting analysis, like psychologist interviews and security investigations, reveals potential personality red flag issues. Comprehensive astrology and numerology identify the type of compatibility that is immutable—intrinsic compatibility isn’t a choice.

To determine genuine compatibility, I suggest you use multiple forms of evaluation, including some or all of those mentioned above. It may seem cost prohibitive, but hiring the wrong person for the job can be a lot more expensive.

Copyright © 2020 Scott Petullo

7 Reasons Why Even The Most Perceptive Sometimes Misread People

Monday, July 22nd, 2019
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One of the most useful abilities is to be able to read other people and identify strengths, or detect personality red flags, such as deceit.

Many successful business owners, CEOs, and others possess this talent; they usually don’t need to hire psychics, psychologists, handwriting analysts, astrologers, and other personality analysis professionals, or private investigators and security investigation firms.

The operative word is “usually.” Nobody is 100% accurate all the time. 80% of the time those with penetrating insight can get an accurate read on another person after a few minutes of conversation. But 20% of the time, he or she needs help.

“The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.”
Pierre Charron

Below I list seven reasons why even the most perceptive sometimes misread other people.

  1. Collective Universal timing (i.e., eclipses, retrogrades, Moon Voids of Course, etc.) symbolically interferes with his or her perception. For example, a business owner first learns of a prospective hire during questionable collective Universal timing, including an eclipse, and then first meets with the prospective hire during a Moon Void of Course. Questionable Universal timing symbolizes warped perception.
  2. His personal timing is off, also symbolizing questionable perception.
  3. The person she is meeting with is a master of deception.
  4. The person he is meeting is illusionary to him in relation to the astrology and numerology patterns. It can happen to the most discerning individuals: he can’t see what’s wrong with a particular person until it’s too late because the energy connection prohibits it.
  5. The astrology and numerology compatibility patterns dictate that she owes him, and she overlooks the glaring red flags in hiring him to her detriment.
  6. The astrology and numerology compatibility patterns indicate the new hire has a natural power over the business owner. She slips through the hiring process due to the exceptional bond, drastically in her favor, with the business owner.
  7. He isn’t at the top of his game and is having a bad day, and misreads the subject.

I recommend you avoid relying entirely on gut instinct and instead have a thorough system of checks and balances to screen potential hires, or anyone else that may pose a risk to your livelihood.

Copyright © 2019 Scott Petullo

One Surefire Way to Avoid Misjudging a Person

Monday, May 20th, 2019
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In business negotiations or everyday life, overestimating or underestimating someone can cause significant loss and wasted time.

A sure way to avoid misjudging someone is to find out what he values and what he doesn’t value.

In other words, if you know what motivates him, it’s a significant piece of data that will help you avoid misjudging him, thus know how to negotiate to your advantage. Offer him what he truly wants instead of what he doesn’t, because he appreciates it more than anything.

For example, you may be convinced she’s primarily motivated by financial rewards and security, but later discover she’s driven more by ego needs and approval, mostly due to her hidden insecurities. She has always needed to prove to herself and everyone else she’s good enough, but it’s unfortunate you found that out after the negotiations.

Appearances can be misleading, and self-assessments are notoriously inaccurate simply because most people just don’t thoroughly know themselves on an unconscious level. Subconscious motivations often differ greatly from consciously perceived ones. It’s frequently a surprise to find out a person’s true motivations—sometimes a nasty surprise, and sometimes a pleasant surprise. Extremes are easy to assess.

In my Motivation Assessment Analyses, I evaluate these core thirteen human motivations: financial rewards/materialism; altruism; ego needs; personal accomplishment; leadership; approval; challenge; social involvement; practical interests; security; knowledge/theory; creativity; pleasure.

Avoid intelligence failures. Don’t listen to what a person says about what motivates him or her. Instead, watch what they do, if you have enough time and resources to hire a private investigator. If not, unconventional security investigations, in conjunction with other forms of assessment (including your own observations) can help you save an enormous amount of time and money.

Copyright © 2019 Scott Petullo

The Ideal Partner Possesses These Ten Qualities

Sunday, October 14th, 2018
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Nobody is perfect, but select, dominant personality traits make a person either irresistible, or the opposite, incorrigible.

Everyone has his or her own unique challenging personality traits, to various degrees. Severe, dangerous cases aren’t common, but given there’s at least a chance the person may be a problem for you, leaping without looking isn’t advised.

Below I list ten common, admirable personality traits.

  1. Emotional balance and emotional maturity ensure you can talk through complex issues with your partner without him or her lapsing into a childish and impossible to deal with disposition.
  2. A lack of defiance and stubbornness means your partner is flexible enough to reason and compromise when appropriate.
  3. Authentic humility and modesty translates into a lack of vanity and narcissism. The narcissist’s demands make it a one-sided partnership; he needs near constant attention, praise, and admiration, or he is likely to be unhappy.
  4. A healthy, but not excessive, desire for the acquisition of money assures your partner won’t put the love of money above all else.
  5. A big picture outlook, instead of perfectionism and excessive attention to detail, makes a better partner.
  6. The ability to cope with a reasonable amount of constructive criticism, and a lack of excessive inhibition allow for a healthy alliance.
  7. Objectivity ensures the person won’t hinder himself or herself, and the partnership, with self-deception and excessive fantasy oriented thinking. An inferior sense of discernment can potentially be devastating.
  8. Integrity is one of the most desirable traits a person can have. Those who have great difficulty living up to his or her asserted convictions make appalling partners.
  9. Honesty is also one of the most agreeable traits, for obvious reasons. Insincerity, deception, and lies ruin many unions.
  10. Transparency means you won’t be kept in the dark about important matters. Excessive secretiveness and evasiveness aren’t admirable characteristics.

Please note: clinical behavioral terms (and other extreme expressions and conditions) such as “narcissistic,” “prejudiced,” “evasive,” “envious,” “paranoid,” “confrontational,” “sadistic,” “defiant,” “emotionally unbalanced,” “mental disorder,” “dejected,” “depressed,” “psychotic,” “vindictive,” “deceitful,” “domineering,” “dumb,” “psychosis,” “pathological,” “duplicitous,” “two-faced,” “hot-tempered,” “lacking in integrity,” and “dishonest” aren’t typically addressed in assessments related to potential hires (or other, similar situations) because they are unrelated to the personality qualities needed to successfully do a job. In order to do an assessment under normal conditions within ethical boundaries, the subject first allows permission for the formal analysis. Extreme situations such as an innocent person’s life being at risk and, or dealing with a dangerous criminal might warrant an analysis involving the types of personality characteristics featured in this article.

All of the above personality traits (in the extreme—high risk territory), negative and positive, are readily identified through unconventional security investigations.

While it’s true the perfect partner, either business or personal, doesn’t exist, you can make your life easier by identifying negative attributes before it’s too late.

Copyright © 2018 Scott Petullo

Avoid These Common Risk Reduction Pitfalls

Sunday, September 30th, 2018
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Effectively mitigating risk in your business and personal life equates to more success and less financial loss and wasted time.

Conventional security related risk reduction methods, such as private investigators, background checks, and psychologist interviews are advantageous much of the time.

However, relying exclusively on traditional security related risk reduction methods is ill-advised because these methods aren’t foolproof.

Unconventional security investigation methods, such as the ones I offer, aren’t infallible 100% of the time either, but they can be effective in cases where traditional methods offer limited results.

Examples of traditional methods offering limited results include the following: the subject either refuses to do an in-person psychologist interview or it isn’t feasible; the subject is talented at evading detection, so a private investigator won’t find anything amiss; the subject’s record is clean, but he or she possesses one or more hidden personality disorders.

You’ll reduce the greatest amount of risk possible with a thorough range of checks and balances, utilizing both conventional and unconventional methods.

Below I list common risk reduction pitfalls, and how to avoid them.

  1. A potential business partner impresses you so much you merely ask around about her reputation. But you fail to discover hidden problems, which sets you up for a rough partnership. Save yourself a lot of hassle by first finding out about any personality red flags, along with her true motivations, and the natal compatibility.
  2. A star employee seems to do no wrong, until you place him in the wrong position. Skip this problem by first discovering if the new responsibilities fit his abilities.
  3. You’re considering five different prospects for a new associate hire. Each has the necessary background, skills, and success. Discretion and confidentiality are vital. Are you really going to merely trust your gut after speaking with their former supervisors? That could be a costly mistake, considering the high percentage of new hires that don’t live up to expectations. Avoid that trouble by finding out about their potential red-flag attributes, and level of discretion before you hire.
  4. You’re excited about a new addition to your business and are in the process of planning the date of the initial launch to your potential customer base. You could launch whenever you’re finally prepared to do so, or you could optimize the success of your launch by identifying precise, optimum windows of time within the existing timeframe you expect to launch. Additionally, the approximate date and time of the original idea, and when you tentatively plan to launch (before consulting with an expert about personal timing), speak volumes about the success of the endeavor. Success, learning experience, or disaster scenarios are discernable through personal timing analyses.
  5. Your new romantic interest seems like a dream come true, until it turns into a nightmare. Instead, sidestep misfortune. The approximate time and date you first connected, natal compatibility, along with your collective timing tells the truth of the matter: rewarding romantic partnership, terrible connection, or somewhere in the middle.

Unconventional, along with conventional, security investigations are a fantastic way to avoid risk reduction pitfalls, giving you a huge advantage and peace of mind.

Copyright © 2018 Scott Petullo

Four Things That Wreck Compatibility

Monday, August 20th, 2018
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In a perfect world, compatibility would be entirely up to you. All you would need is the willingness to get along with your romantic or business partner.

Alas, in the real world, genuine compatibility isn’t a choice. It also has nothing to do with background, race, entertainment and dietary preferences, and political affiliation.

Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word compatible in the following way: “Capable of existing together in harmony.”

While the idea of harmony may be largely subjective, the extremes at either end of the spectrum are easy to identify; you’ve likely experienced that magically rewarding connection with another in which it’s effortless bliss. Alternatively, you’ve probably known someone with whom you share horrible compatibility no matter what you do or say—it’s an uphill battle, all discord and discomfort.

Four Things That Ruin Compatibility

  1. Personality red flags make harmonious connections impossible. A person possessing extreme emotional immaturity, vanity, arrogance, bias, argumentativeness, domineering tendencies and, or any other problematic subconscious fear or defense will continually repel potential partners, no matter the innate harmony.

    Severe fears and, or defenses are, for the most part, ingrained; one can’t simply “rise above” these serious attributes, which are most readily witnessed while the subject is under stress or pressure.

  2. Innate, challenging rapport between two people wrecks compatibility every time. You have zero control over inborn compatibility, which is compatibility on a soul level, for lack of a better way to describe it. You are born with it and it exists between you and another person before you ever meet. This is reflected in patterns derived from birth data, including full date of birth, time, and location.

    Extremes in harmony—rewarding or challenging—are easy to identify once you witness, time after time, the natal patterns symbolizing rapport between couples.

    After doing this work professionally since 1997, my view is that this type of compatibility is most important regarding interpersonal harmony.

  3. Personal timing is either your best friend, or enemy in relation to affinity with another person.

    You both may lack serious personality red flags, and enjoy wonderful natal compatibility, but your respective personal timing keeps you apart. Or, you may share numerous timing patterns which serve as the glue for your connection, but when your timing changes, the partnership dissolves.

  4. A bad attitude mars relationships. This is the only point of the four in this piece that you have full control over. Thus, compatibility is, at most, roughly 25% choice.

    Two people may share excellent interpersonal skills, similar levels of agreeableness and outlooks, and a lack of problematic personality traits, yet possess terrible compatibility, in large part due to contrasting natal and timing patterns. The worse the inborn compatibility between two people, the harder they must work to make the relationship tolerable.

Copyright © 2018 Scott Petullo

Warning: Key Personality Traits Are Inborn

Sunday, October 22nd, 2017
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The age-old debate rages on: are you born with your personality traits, or do they develop, mostly due to environment?

Ask any parent with multiple children if his or her kids all possessed blank slate personalities from the beginning and you’ll get a look of disbelief and be told all his or her kids were different from the start.

My findings agree with that notion; you are born with your main character traits, both rewarding and challenging.

It may sound “void of promise” to the idealists, but embracing this notion will save you an enormous amount of time because attempts to change another person’s principal character are futile. The core of your personality is carved in stone. It won’t change much, no matter how much effort you put into reinventing yourself. You can, however, learn to maximize your strengths and tone down your weaknesses within the boundaries of your personal fate.

Granted, early abuse by parents or others, for example, may contribute to one’s personality, such as deepening inherent fears and defenses, but it doesn’t change the person’s overall character.

My contention is supported by comprehensive astrology and numerology (based on time of birth data), which relentlessly outlines personal fate, and handwriting analysis, which discerns subconscious personality. Time and time again the latter parallels the former; personality always develops according to predetermination.

You’ve never known someone to change so much that you didn’t recognize his or her unique character because it simply doesn’t happen.

Self-discipline can lead to gradual, small changes, such as quitting bad habits or learning a new skill, but overall personality remains the same.

You can’t transform a reclusive loner into a social butterfly, a Neanderthal thug into a scholar, or one that needs operational structure and supervision into a solo-entrepreneur. Your true nature is fixed and doesn’t change much.

Although most humans can be spontaneous and changeable, each individual’s larger, unique personality framework makes them largely predictable.

Be grateful for who you are, and make every effort to make the most of it. But avoid trying to change other people because it’s pointless.

Instead, learn as much as you can about another’s character because with understanding comes contentment, and possibly a great reduction in your overall level of risk if he or she possesses major, hidden red flag personality traits.

Copyright © 2017 Scott Petullo

Face Analyzing Technology Possibly Identifies Terrorists

Monday, July 11th, 2016
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A facial personality profiling technology company claims to be able to evaluate specific personality traits with 80% accuracy, including those that help to identify terrorists.

They allegedly identified nine of the eleven Paris (11-13-2015 attack) terrorists “after the fact as potential terrorists with no prior knowledge,” while only three of the eleven terrorists had a previous record.

The science behind face analysis involves genetic predisposition, the face being a reflection of DNA.

Behavioral geneticists contend that DNA predetermines a person’s physical, emotional, and psychological nature to a great extent.

I agree that key elements of a person’s character are predetermined, despite it being a politically incorrect view. Though I believe it ultimately has to do with personal fate, and DNA is merely a reflection of that.

It seems logical to me that select personality traits can be identified through face analysis, considering a thorough enough analysis involving extensive empirical research.

Physiognomy, including astrological physiognomy, has existed for over 2000 years (only superficial forms of it have been “discredited”). I regularly witness how extreme patterns represent distinct characteristics, such as saturnine temperament and, or appearance, symbolized by Saturn playing a key role in the person’s comprehensive astrology charts.

Instead of saying facial analysis can be used to “…predict a person’s personality and behavior,” I’d say it identifies personality traits.

By itself, at 80% accuracy (which is good for any single form of analysis), means twenty percent of travelers could be falsely identified as terrorists. But security experts (at least those whose hands aren’t tied by political correctness) use body language, high-tech anxiety measuring devices, sophisticated data tracking systems, and a host of other means to ferret out terrorists. Thus, people shouldn’t be concerned about being falsely labeled a criminal through facial analysis.

Copyright © 2016 Scott Petullo

Case Study: Hidden Truth About Prospective Business Partner

Sunday, November 16th, 2014
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Uncertainty about a prospective business partner, employee, romantic interest, or other new person in your life is a common problem.

Consider the following scenario involving two potential business partners. Antonia was having a tough time accurately assessing Alex’s character. How much of the appeal was due to being away from her office, at a conference at an exotic location, and how much was authentic? How could she confirm her feelings that Alex would be a great business partner in her new venture? She needed more time, and a fresh perspective before she made a decision.

Here’s what Antonia needs to know:

  1. Overall compatibility between her and Alex, which includes key relationship issues, true motivations, and identification of potential red flags.
  2. Whether or not her collective personal timing is symbolic of excessive risk in business matters at this time—if so, a new business partner could represent serious problems.
  3. Whether or not the collective universal timing at the approximate time she first met her prospective business partner was negative or positive. Negative extremes in universal timing are ominous, though personal timing is more important.
  4. Whether or not her prospective business partner’s collective timing symbolizes challenging extremes, such as problematic finances—if so, this new business partner would be a drag on her professional prosperity.
  5. The type of conflict resolution style her prospective partner possesses.

Conventional wisdom may not tolerate esoteric methodologies, but you owe it to yourself to limit your risk, make the most of your life, and avoid surrendering your power.

Copyright © 2014 Scott Petullo