Comments | noumignon: Five-factor personality test results

noumignon

Five-factor personality test results

Mar 01, 2010 08:48

"Which Muppet character are you?" is not my idea of a personality test. Geoffrey Miller's book Spent got me interested in psychology's Big Five Personality Traits, which are supposed to be all independent of each other so you can really describe someone with them. (I'd heard of them before I read Spent, but I didn't really believe in them or see ( Read more... )

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selenite March 1 2010, 16:39:27 UTC

Interesting. Reasonably accurate. Broke down for me on the liberal/conservative questions . . . there's a lot of traditions I'd like to change, I just don't think the standard liberal alternative is an improvement.

noumignon March 2 2010, 15:52:17 UTC

My bro took this test and the differences it revealed between us were amazing, and fun to discuss. Let me know if you take it!

Tick says... anonymous March 12 2010, 00:46:30 UTC

Percentiles:

N-46
E - 13
O/E - 4
A - 0
C - 83

Sounds about right to me.

- Tick

Re: Tick says... noumignon March 12 2010, 16:18:31 UTC

Agreeableness zero? That's not a percentile! Perhaps you received negative points for being from Wisconsin where people are usually nice. I wonder if anyone else would rate you that low, since you're not extraverted enough to be rudely or argumentatively disagreeable.

My brother also got a 4 on openness to experience, but in his case I interpreted that as "original thinker" and in your case I'm thinking it means "cynical." It's weird because my stereotype is that higher-openness people think lower-openness are hidebound and traditional, but the lower-openness people I'm running into aren't like that.

So I have a question, if you wanted to look for a job, are you conscientious enough to go on fifteen interviews in a row? I've been blaming my low conscientiousness for my failure to execute that kind of plan.

Re: Tick says... anonymous March 14 2010, 15:50:53 UTC

I got the same score on agreeableness that you got on extraversion. That's all I'm saying.

Now, when you say fifteen interviews in a row, do you mean in one day, or over a 3 week span, or what? I would say in theory, yes. In practice, it remains to be seen. I mean, it's not like it's my duty to go out and get a job, but once I'm there, it's something I'm going to do to the best of my ability.

My thought process is all screwed up like that.