Big Five personality analysis
A bunch of my friends took this personality test, so I figured I would too. I think it ended up way off in a few places, but I think the scheme it's using is sort of interesting. I like to see different attempts to span the space of human personalities. They all have their strong points and weak points...
My Personality
Neuroticism
10
Extraversion
2
Openness To Experience
65
Agreeableness
88
Conscientiousness
51
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I especially liked the further breakdowns in the "full report" where each of the categories above is split into finer dimensions. I think some of the contrasts that appear in there are interesting, like in the "openness" category. I have no idea how my "intellect" score ended up so low, though. The description under that part even says "You prefer dealing with either people or things rather than ideas. You regard intellectual exercises as a waste of your time." Those statements are really, really inaccurate for me. And as somebody else said, I don't know what "Your thinking is neither simple nor complex," is supposed to mean. Otherwise, though, most of the descriptions fit me in at least a general way, and some pretty well.
I hadn't heard of the Big Five model before, but it's an interesting idea. They basically had a bunch of people write self-descriptions and then performed a massive factor analysis on the words to see which words tended to appear with which other words. As the Wikipedia article points out, factor analysis doesn't tell you how many factors you should pick, though. And some psychologists who study personality think five wasn't the right choice. Still, though, it's a neat idea for coming up with a sorting scheme.
My Personality
Neuroticism
10
Extraversion
2
Openness To Experience
65
Agreeableness
88
Conscientiousness
51
Test Yourself Compare Yourself View Full Report
MySpace Surveys, MySpace Codes and hi5 by Pulseware Survey Software
I especially liked the further breakdowns in the "full report" where each of the categories above is split into finer dimensions. I think some of the contrasts that appear in there are interesting, like in the "openness" category. I have no idea how my "intellect" score ended up so low, though. The description under that part even says "You prefer dealing with either people or things rather than ideas. You regard intellectual exercises as a waste of your time." Those statements are really, really inaccurate for me. And as somebody else said, I don't know what "Your thinking is neither simple nor complex," is supposed to mean. Otherwise, though, most of the descriptions fit me in at least a general way, and some pretty well.
I hadn't heard of the Big Five model before, but it's an interesting idea. They basically had a bunch of people write self-descriptions and then performed a massive factor analysis on the words to see which words tended to appear with which other words. As the Wikipedia article points out, factor analysis doesn't tell you how many factors you should pick, though. And some psychologists who study personality think five wasn't the right choice. Still, though, it's a neat idea for coming up with a sorting scheme.