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Table 2 Big Five personality prediction accuracies and average number of rows in intra-subject tests

From: Predicting the Big Five personality traits from handwriting

Type of training samples

Type of test samples

Number of training samples

Recognition rate (%)—Openness to Experience

Recognition rate (%)—Conscientiousness

Recognition rate (%)—Extraversion

Recognition rate (%)—Agreeableness

Recognition rate (%)—Neuroticism

Recognition rate (%)—overall (Undefined excluded)

Average % of cases where personality traits were Undefined

Average number of handwritten rows analyzed until the neural networks converge to a result

C*

C*

1

89.2 ± 0.1

82.3 ± 0.1

88.2 ± 0.05

81.2 ± 0.15

88.4 ± 0.05

85.3 ± 0.15

0.1

4

C*

R*

2

88.3 ± 0.1

80.2 ± 0.1

87.4 ± 0.07

79.8 ± 0.15

86.3 ± 0.07

84.4 ± 0.15

0.2

9

R*

R*

4

79.3 ± 0.2

71.4 ± 0.25

78.3 ± 0.1

70.5 ± 0.2

76.5 ± 0.1

75.2 ± 0.2

7

14

R*

R*

3

75.4 ± 0.2

70.3 ± 0.25

75.5 ± 0.1

68.4 ± 0.15

74.2 ± 0.1

72.1 ± 0.2

10

16

C* + R*

C* + R*

3

87.5 ± 0.15

79.5 ± 0.2

86.5 ± 0.15

78.5 ± 0.15

85.8 ± 0.15

83.4 ± 0.15

0.3

9

  1. C* controlled, R* random