What's your WW style? Read the definitions first!

[JDarvall]

Driving mostly........because of time restrictions.

which causes frustration because I'm really analytical. Details are very important. Thats where people look to guage your work. Looking for gaps at joints...etc. Doesn't matter how strong the thing is, a gap or two kills it.

Whats Rats ring Bob ?

[Honorary Bloke]

Whats Rats ring Bob ?

Thanks Jake. I understand. Rat's ring is just special for Cliffie. If you don't offer it, he raises holy he11. Apparently there are a few Cliffie wannabies. No accounting for taste.

[JDarvall]

gotcha

[Cliff Rogers]

... Rat's ring is just special for Cliffie. If you don't offer it, he raises holy he11. Apparently there are a few Cliffie wannabies. No accounting for taste.

Actually, it is an option that was first put in a poll by Gumby some time ago & I liked it.... I liked it that much that I happened to ask for it to be added to a couple of other polls & now it is a standing joke.

[Iain]

I try to work to a plan (mine or someone else's), make decisions quickly, push on thru stuff-ups, be in control of my project, results-oriented, not easily distracted with visionary, results-oriented, hate details, impatient, creative, frustrated at stuff-ups, easily-distracted enjoy the process as much as the result, persistent, enjoy working with mates, accept stuff-ups and keep going, relaxed approach to WW and woulf like to think I am a careful planner, great attention to detail, stops to examine progress often, perfectionist, finds stuff-ups unacceptable and often starts over if necessary.
I have never to date made, planned, polished or turned a rats ring, however, I do have a familyn of rats in the shed if anyone would like a plan.

[Frank&Earnest]

Well, Bob, this poll seems to have run its time, what is your considered opinion on the results? Does our perception of ourselves match your assessment based on the analysis of our posts?

What I found interesting, after putting on my social psychologist hat, was that because the options (deliberately or not) were roughly graded expressions of enthusiasm, from "I'm driven" to "I don't give a rat's", the distribution clearly follows the predictable Poisson curve. No surprises here. We would not be doing it if we were not interested. The low skew because of the mode in the "I care but I take it easy" option tells me that the majority of the membership is represented by older hobbyists...

Always easy to interpret in hindsight, isn't it?

[HappyHammer]

Expressive...GDI

HH.

[wheelinround]

I'd say all catagories but at times when things aren't going to well (like today less said the better) I loose it others just quietlly except the situation and work around it.

I'd say reading all the posts I have so far.... many are artists some more watch where you step others creative

[Honorary Bloke]

Well, Bob, this poll seems to have run its time, what is your considered opinion on the results? Does our perception of ourselves match your assessment based on the analysis of our posts?

Fair enough. Realising, of course, that this is worse than unscientific in this context, I am willing to make some broad genralisations based not only on this poll but on my observation of posts over time and my own experience with others.

First, the distribution is about what I expected. The low incident of Drivers supports your assertion that the board is skewed to older WWers. Those who were Drivers in their careers are happy to slow down a bit, although they will never quite shake the tendency. Also, younger Drivers are too busy to take up a hobby like WW as it takes too much of their time. So, the younger Drivers on the Forum will tend to be professional WWers who are quality-results-orientated but want to achieve those results efficiently. I offer Lignum as my example.

My half-arsed analysis also leads me to conclude that the Analytical types often self-select as Dark-Siders. The need for attention to detail and the analysis of the process as much as the result is a typical Dark-Sider/Analytical trait. For example, and based on no data points except his posts, I would place Major Panic squarely in this area. Someone who would painstakingly refinish an old tool which may or may not ever actually be used in anger is the poster boy for Analytical. Plus, I gather his shed is always pristine, a classic case!

The Expressives are much more likely to be electron-burners as they want a) to speed up the process and achieve the result, and b) know they can be prone to stuff-ups due to easy distraction and hope the next "great" tool will help them avoid mistakes. Their motto is: Ready, Shoot, Aim and as a result become quite adept at work-arounds and "fixing" problems. So as not to pick on anyone unnecessarily, I will offer myself as the example.

The Amiable contingent have the best of both worlds. They enjoy both the process and the result, as well as the cameraderie of sharing their work with mates. Along with some Expressives, they will often be found in the Drivel Forum where they can share a laugh with friends. But they still produce some serious work of quality, though perhaps not as quickly as some others. Many examples spring to mind in this category, but I'll pick on our mate Wongo as the epitome of the genre.

As for those who posted in this thread (but not based only on these posts):

Ruffly: Amiable right down the line
Cliff: Amiable Expressive
SilentC: Driving Analytical
Barry: Analytical
Speedy: Amiable Expressive
Wizened of OZ: Amiable
Capt Zero: Expressive
Skew: Amiable analytical
AlexS: Analytical
Dingo: As Expressive as they come! Off the friggin' chart!
BobL: Amiable
Apricotripper: Driving Analytical
Iain: Amiable Expressive
Frank & Earnest: Expressive Driver
HH: Expressive Amiable
Wheelin: Amiable Analytical


As has been pointed out, there is some back and forth movement, depending on the circs, but generally speaking we are all creatures of habit and will revert to type a good bit of the time.

If the blokes I chose as examples are offended, I'm sorry. If I left you out and you are offended, I'm sorry. If I pegged your style and you are offended, I'm sorry. Anyone wanting a private reading should write to me, using one side of the paper only, and enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope to cover return postage.

[Cliff Rogers]

What happened to the Rat's Ring option?????

PS. Good job Bob but you have me worried now.

[Zed]

im def a rats ring kinda guy, mostly coz i like the sound of it. but on any given day i can swing from one to another, depends on my monthly cycle i guess...

[Frank&Earnest]

What happened to the Rat's Ring option?????

Actually, it was very useful, Cliff, thank you!

Bob certainly used it as an indicator of "amiability", according to his definition, so it was not wasted in that respect.

Its real value, however, IMHO was to balance the spread of the options along the "commitment" (for lack of a better definition) axis, which allowed this small, unscientific example of popular psychology to become further evidence of the truth of two basic principles:

- any manifestation of human behaviour (in this case, commitment to WW) is described by the normal distribution (see how nicely the binomial distribution approaches the normal in this poll);

- personality inventories have superficial appeal because everybody can find, with some wriggling, a tag that makes them happy, but have no real value in predicting behaviour. (Bob might be a bit unhappy with this but...)

Bet you did not expect your Rat's Ring to be such a scientific breakthrough, did you Cliff?

[Cliff Rogers]

....Bet you did not expect your Rat's Ring to be such a scientific breakthrough, did you Cliff?

Can I vote again?

[munruben]

Analytical, hate when things don't look just right or don't fit right. Have scrapped many projects and started over because I didn't like the results.

[wheelinround]

Bob thanks for your efforts.

You may have just saved me from selling everything off and giving it all up.