Here’s something neat that I thought
people might be interested in. It’s a personality quiz that claims not to be based on junk science. I mean, that probably isn’t true,
but it’s still neat.
How it works is you answer a few question
and it rates you on five qualities: Openness to experience, Extraversion,
Negative emotionality, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness. Each of those five
qualities also has three sub-qualities, although I’m not going to get into all
of them myself. Take the quiz yourself if you want to see them.
The average is that people end up
with a kind of pentagram shape showing how much of each trait they embody,
although the comparisons they gave show that the national average ends with
most people having one much shorter side—the negative emotionality. I, on the
other hand, had only a four out of a hundred in extraversion while my negative
emotionality was off the charts.
I was not surprised by this.
I doubt something so short can
really demonstrate the complexities of a human personality, but I found it
amusing nonetheless. And accurate. If any of you guys want to try it, I’d love
to hear what you think about it.
You, negative? Never.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that we are so fascinated with online personality tests? I guess we want to understand ourselves? (I'm at school right now, so I won't be trying this just yet. Maybe later.)
ReplyDeleteProbably, I'm not going to go do that.
ReplyDeleteI'm not much for personality quizzes since they invariably fall back on behavior and can be traced back to Myers/Briggs in some form or another.
The Enneagram is really the only personality describer I've found to be accurate over time.
I know I'm not agreeable.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Two of the indicators suggested I'd be a religious type - even going so far as to say I was a Ned Flanders. Not even close, test.
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