3D Schizoidness Percentile Distribution

After collecting a significant number of responses for the AMBI test, I started wondering whether I could construct a meaningful metric to capture the statistical patterns distinguishing schizoid individuals. This isn't a cosmic sorting hat—there's no grand authority on "schizoidness"—but it does quantify how much your psychological profile aligns with the statistical patterns found in other self-identified schizoids.

This is very much a work in progress. For now, I've mapped out three dimensions. The goal? To visualize the shape of this peculiar psychological space and see what emerges. Numbers, like people, sometimes behave in interesting ways when you throw them together.

A high Schizoidness score means

• Your responses deviated from the population average in the same direction as those of schizoid individuals.
• On the traits most predictive of schizoid characteristics.
• To a greater extent than the majority of the reference population.

A lower score in someone who identifies as schizoid could imply:

1. Their individual trait profile differs from the statistical prototype used in this measure.
2. On the traits that most sharply distinguish schizoid individuals, they:
   • Show less deviation from population norms.
   • Exhibit patterns that are less strongly associated with the schizoid reference group.
3. This could suggest they either:
   • Possess schizoid characteristics that aren't among the most statistically distinctive ones.
   • Express schizoid tendencies in ways not captured by this particular metric.

The 3D visualization above maps score distributions for both the general and schizoid reference populations across three dimensions:

• High Scale (X-axis): Percentile scores on the most predictive scales where schizoid individuals tend to score above the general population.
• Low Scale (Y-axis): Percentile scores on the most predictive scales where schizoid individuals tend to score below the general population.
• Full Scale (Z-axis): The overall percentile score, integrating data from all 200 personality scales for a broad statistical comparison.

In the visualization, blue dots represent the general population, while red dots represent the schizoid reference group. You can rotate, zoom, and pan to explore how these distributions cluster and diverge across the three dimensions.

Note: In the AMBI results page, I provide a different measure of percentiles, which extrapolates into higher ranges and should better account for extreme high values.

And before you start questioning your entire identity because you're not seeing yourself at the 99.9th percentile—remember that this is just one way of measuring the unmeasurable. The point here is that schizoid traits cluster in statistically meaningful ways, consistently deviating from the general population in ways we can reliably measure. Though I suppose finding that pattern more interesting than personal validation is just another way of saying you’ve already passed the real schizoid Turing test.