Personality Test

[Cliff Rogers]

....to think if I liked black, red or yellow I could have been a 40+.
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Sounds like a good colour scheme for an indigenous flag

[Zed]

39 - this is bullsh*t. it reminds me of an old monty python sketch : "'ow can a watery tart handing out swords be used as a basis of government ? real executive power is the product of a clear mandate of a poll of the masses"

or some such nonsense - of course the parrallel i try to draw here is how can a simple questionaire askng such banal questions formulate the basis of personality??? isnt personality "how you behave" not "how others see you". it reminds me of IQ tests that assume you are a western male who has completed yr 10 mathematics. :mad:

[craigb]

39 - this is bullsh*t. it reminds me of an old monty python sketch : "'ow can a watery tart handing out swords be used as a basis of government ? real executive power is the product of a clear mandate of a poll of the masses"

or some such nonsense - of course the parrallel i try to draw here is how can a simple questionaire askng such banal questions formulate the basis of personality??? isnt personality "how you behave" not "how others see you". it reminds me of IQ tests that assume you are a western male who has completed yr 10 mathematics. :mad:

Yep. Which is why I never do them.

[silentC]

As a matter of fact, personality tests can be quite accurate, providing that the person doing them understands the questions. The theory is that there are a number of types of behaviour that are common to everyone and if you can identify these and ask questions that will polarise the people who respond in the positive or negative extreme then you can 'type' a person's personality with relatively few questions. We're talking a hundred or so, not ten.

I have done a lot of work on one of these and believe me when I say that most people are astounded by how accurate it is. It is in various languages now and so the possible errors introduced by the person not speaking english as a first language are being eliminated.

I used to think it was BS too until I started work on this one.

[bitingmidge]

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Irritating naturally,

P

[Bob Willson]

Your name says it all.

[Eastie]

general bastardisation of the above post... questions ... We're talking a hundred or so, not ten.

I recently underwent a professional one of these things - 210 statements/questions (2 hours), four choices in each in which you must pick one answer that 'is most like you' and one answer that 'is most unlike you'. Once you select your answers they disappear, so you can't see what you previously chose and it's weird when the same options that you previously selected start appearing with other choices (does that make any sense?).

The four statements in any one frame were like:

• I find people are often difficult to trust,
• I like to help others,
• I work well alone,
• I always play within the rules.

Having a terrible distrust for others and a morbid love of breaking rules, I'm sure the results will be good

[silentC]

Ours has a pair of statements that are polar opposites, although it's not always obvious. You select a score that indicates which statement you lean towards. The same concepts come up several times in different questions and the reason for that is to make sure you're not trying to answer the way you think they want you to.

Some people have trouble choosing between the two statements and they complain about it saying that they sometimes do this, sometimes do that. The point is that the fact they had trouble choosing one means that they don't really lean one way or the other. That puts them in the average group for that 'personality trait' and therefore it doesn't play a part in their personality. They choose a response in the middle and we basically ignore it.

Despite the wanky overtones, it's actually quite interesting...

[Barry_White]

of course the parrallel i try to draw here is how can a simple questionaire askng such banal questions formulate the basis of personality??? isnt personality "how you behave" not "how others see you". it reminds me of IQ tests that assume you are a western male who has completed yr 10 mathematics. :mad:

The interesting thing is Zed this not how others see you but how you see yourself appearing to others.

I am quite surprised how many replies there is to the thread and how people like to see how they appear to others.

After doing it myself I was quite surprised how accurate it is.

I have done a few of these when working for BHP and by using some of these tests they reduced their attrition rates of employees by slotting people into jobs that suited their personality

[Ben from Vic.]

Your right Barry.

Tomorrow I'm going to look in the paper for a company that requires a Conceptual Synthesizer.

Ben.

[DavidG]

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Problems with Q8 and 10 with no choice of : None of the above.

[Daddles]

Well, I'm not telling you what I got, but I am cute and cuddly ... and just a little delusional (well, a lot actually) :eek:

Cheers
Richard
my cat loves me

[goat]

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[Barry_White]

Looks like the the forum detectives have been at it again and removed a couple of posts.

[Loki]

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