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Technical Personality as Related to Intrinsic Personality Traits

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Technical personality is introduced and defined as a profile of the broad technical preferences of an individual. Intrinsic personality is the customary personality profile as measured by a standard personality test such as the Big Five personality test. The relationship between intrinsic and technical personalities is evaluated in this research. The proposed technical personality traits are defined, and statistical data about each technical trait is provided and evaluated in order to identify any correlation between intrinsic and technical personality traits. The result of this research provides a useful tool for self-discovery and can also confirm or dispel certain stereotypes in fields related to information technology.

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    At the time of publication, the survey could be found at http://bit.ly/TechPersonality.

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  1. Seminole State College, Sanford, FL, USA

    Marwan Shaban, Craig Tidwell, Janell Robinson & Adam J. Rocke

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Hamid R. Arabnia

  2. School of Computing and Data Sciences, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA

    Leonidas Deligiannidis

  3. Facultad de Informática - CIC PBA, National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

    Fernando G. Tinetti

  4. Department of Computer Science, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, USA

    Quoc-Nam Tran

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Shaban, M., Tidwell, C., Robinson, J., Rocke, A.J. (2021). Technical Personality as Related to Intrinsic Personality Traits. In: Arabnia, H.R., Deligiannidis, L., Tinetti, F.G., Tran, QN. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning. Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_42

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