[Released] Ultimate Pokedex-Accurate Dual-Type Pokemon Personality Type Test

[ProfessorBonsly]

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OVERVIEW

Hear me out: I know that "What Pokemon type are you?" quizzes are super common, but as far as I know, this one is attempting something that hasn't been attempted before.

After literal years of researching, compiling, and analyzing data of EVERY Pokedex entry, from EVERY game, for EVERY Pokemon (yes, really, thank goodness for Bulbapedia), I'm so happy to finally be able to share this: the Ultimate Pokedex-Accurate Dual-Type Pokemon Personality Type Test!
(see below if you're curious about the process!)

RESULTS INCLUDE
- Your Monotype, Primary, and Secondary Types
- 'Top 3' options for each of those
- Three most likely attributes from your hypothetical Pokedex entry (out of 46 possible traits)

ADDITIONAL FEATURES
- 50 oddly-nuanced questions
- 'Type Comparison' section
- ...nothing else, it is still just a personality test I guess

THE ANALYSIS PROCESS
In case you don't want to take my word for it - as you shouldn't! - here are the steps I took to make this:
1. Compiled the data from every Pokedex entry into one single description (around 1-3 paragraphs per Pokemon).
2. Quickly scanned those descriptions to get a sense of what might be common traits (e.g. "Toxic", "Helpful", "Ancient", etc.).
3. Read through all of those descriptions again and wrote down specific instances of traits for each Pokemon.
4. Compiled those traits based on type, and separated into Monotype, Primary, and Secondary.
5. Whittled and combined things where appropriate (e.g. merged "Intimidating" and "Unapproachable") and cut traits that didn't end up being relevant enough. (sorry, "Discerning (Food/Objects")
NOTE: These traits are the actual thing that the questions on the test is asking around, and then at the very end, those traits are used to calculate the final result.
6. Noted commonality within each type, as a percentage.
7. Compared and ranked percentages between types, using a bunch of statistics and standard deviations and junk (don't get me started).
8. If something was relatively common, or noticeably absent, then BAM! - that became a distinction that was worth mentioning in the final description.
9. Did a final analysis of Mono, Primary, and Secondary for each type, to make sure that there weren't outliers that were better explained by the other half of a dual-type.
10. Filled in gaps and made educated guesses for Pokemon types that STILL don't have a lot of data (specifically, Flying monotype, Fairy-primary, and Bug-secondary)
11. Finally, translated the more Pokemon-specific traits (surprisingly few!) into things more common for humans (e.g. "Shedding", which referred to any Pokemon who is constantly spraying harmful substances, like poison gas, electricity, freezing air, etc, was translated into being inconsiderate of others.)

There's also a bonus step you could insert anywhere of "screwed up and had to start over".

SCREENSHOTS (sorry they're so big, it's pretty text-heavy)

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Credits:
Prof. Bonsly - Design, writing, programming, and all non-official art (anything other than the Pokemon themselves, the Pokemon logo, and the Type symbols)

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