Using Classification to Determine Whether Personality Profiles of Countries Affect Various National Indexes

Nations are consisted of individuals, which makes it natural that these individuals affect a nation's social structure. The effect is stronger when large groups of like-minded people are present. In this paper, we analyze do personality types, according to the MBTI theory, affect various national indexes, such as the Human Development Index (HDI), GDP per capita, Gay Happiness Index (GHI), religiosity, democracy index, etc. This is done by using four different classifiers that try to classify a country in every index provided. A few other datasets, such as the population in 1998 and surface area of a country, are used as reference points of classifiers with low classification rates. Results show that classification is possible using the national personality profile. The highest classification rates are connected with the GHI and average IQ of a country, while the lowest is scored with the reference datasets and the military budget per capita index.