Psychology
I wish I knew more about Psychology… then I’d be able to explain why this site is currently sitting on >95% accuracy. It’s only got one guess wrong (out of more than 20) - it thought I was over 50. That probably isn’t too far from the truth, thought pattern-wise 
Update:
Here is the list of its recent predictions (since I started copying & pasting them):
If given a choice of boxers or briefs (on yourself or on a guy), you’d choose briefs.
You are very interested in matters of technology.
You prefer instructions when they’re fuzzy.
You are fairly wealthy.
You probably like to take things as they come.
Your desk is a complete mess right now.
The only one there I’d dispute is fairly wealthy, but I’m willing to accept it based on:
- relative wealth
- family wealth
- likely future wealth
- non-financial wealth
Further Update:
It is obviously so accurate because it checks its internal consistency: it reshows each image from a “confused pair” in combination with different images to produce a more accurate comparison. As the images undoubtedly have multi-variable attributes, when used in differing combinations, this probably results in a high probability of successful determination. At a guess.
John says it got less accurate for him over time. Maybe I’m more subconsciously aware of the techniques they use and am modifying my answers to suit??? (e.g. prior exposure to mensa tests, IQ tests, psychometric testing, personality type profiling, tickle.com, etc. etc.)
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August 29th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
It’s first guess was that I’m a guy. (What does that say about me? More interestingly, why was my first reaction to be offended?)
Then it said my household income was lower middle class.
It got right that I went to college and have lots of friends, but then it told me I’m probably not a religious person - how is it defining ‘religious’? How am I supposed to give it feedback to improve the algorithms with such an ambiguous concept? Sigh.
It is a great tool for procrastination though :o)