How Top Companies Are Using Language Psychology To Recruit Ace Teams

Why do some companies enjoy accelerated and sustained growth in defiance of supply-chain glitches, rising inflation and political disruption? Are they just lucky? After analyzing 30,000 businesses and millions of...

Certainly vs probably

In an age of IoT, smartphones, and dozens upon dozens of connected devices in our home, there is more data than ever for marketers to use and make informed decisions...

What makes for a good use case in understanding your customer at a deep level

What makes for a good use case in understanding your customer at a deep level? There could be many cases where understanding segmentation based on customer psychology has no use....

Can you predict Big Five personalities without online data?

I have previously documented my methodologies, connecting human activity data of large groups of people to a series of psycholinguistic based personality traits.  Recently, we began experimentation with personality traits...

How can psychometrics be used ethically?

Psychometrics works well and can be ethically used but when fools are added to the equation, things go very bad. Recent headlines have put many of us in a reflective...

The psychometrics of the happiest cities in the United States

What makes a city happy? Bike lanes? Micro pubs? Low crime? Can anyone really know? I built software designed to look at your CRM and figure out segments of customers...

How happiness can be understood with large scale computational psychometrics

There are several major technical areas to solve in order to quantify customer delight.  Customer delight is a well-documented, but hard to achieve KPI. It is a form of “measured...

The psycholinguistic trait difference between small house owners and large house owners

I examined 4 million home purchases in the United StatesAnd look at a calculated psycholinguistic personality traits score based on square footage of the house. Here are the preliminary results....

Segmenting people by ‘why they cut’ can grow electric equipment sales by 10x

Cutting lawns means many different things to many different people. Electric equipment has the possibility to change how people see lawn care: the days of gas and long extension cords...

How to Grow Subscription Boxes: Grow 10x by understanding people in a whole new way

Early adopters of subscription boxes are the visionaries. They try new things for the sake of trying new products, but your biggest hurdle is crossing the chasm into the mass...