There are a lot of personality tests out there, and we humans are endlessly fascinated by them. There are the ones popular in pop-psychology like Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram. There are highly clinical and academic models like the HEXACO and the MMPI.

One of the most widely used and respected personality tests in academic and scientific circles is the Big Five, or OCEAN model. It scores people based on five traits—Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. It doesn’t group people into concrete buckets with snappy names, like “The Innovator,” but your collective scores in the five areas it measured come together to tell a story about you.

But some people’s results don’t fit neatly into a story. It’s rare, but fewer than 10% of people have extremely unusual results that don’t fit within the usual personality maps.

Scientific research uncovers “personality mutants”

A 2018 study published in Frontiers in Psychology, conducted by researchers at the University of Tartu and the University of Warwick, coined the, admittedly provocative term after testing over 4,000 participants from the Czech Republic and Estonia. Each person completed a personality inventory and was also scored based on someone who knew them well in order to get the most accurate and realistic data.

What the researchers realized was........

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