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> It’s relatively easy to pick up on someone’s personality in their application.

From the written application that's supposed to be as terse as possible? I think I could get a feel for someone in person since I could dig into particular questions on the spot, but seems I'd have a real hard time judging meanness if I could only see the 1-way communication of the written YC application.

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Good point, I could have made that clearer. Wasn't meant to be specific to "meanness", more so just personality. This can obviously be complicated by things like language barriers/etc, so isn't a catch-all.

In general, the point was that humans usually make subconscious judgments before they even start talking to you; at the least, you should be aware of this.

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