Saturday, May 08, 2004

So I took some personality type exams again (it's been a while) at http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html. My results of a Myers-Briggs + Enneagram test:

Extroverted (E) 54.84% Introverted (I) 45.16%
Intuitive (N) 51.43% Sensing (S) 48.57%
Thinking (T) 70.59% Feeling (F) 29.41%
Judging (J) 60% Perceiving (P) 40%

my old scores from 3 years ago were about 60% Introverted, 70% Intuitive, 55% Thinking and 60% Percieving. I feel this exam didn't have enough questions to be accurate. ENTJ from INTP. who knows? Here is a good site for reading about these personality types:
http://typelogic.com/ at which you will see (if you know me) that I am definately an INTP and not an ENTJ.

On the Enneagram part, however, I feel it was very accurate. (the same questions, mind you):

Type 1 Perfectionism |||||||||| 40%
Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||| 53%
Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||||| 56%
Type 4 Sensitivity |||||| 30%
Type 5 Detachment |||||||||||||||| 63%
Type 6 Anxiety |||||||||| 40%
Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||||||| 60%
Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||||| 56%
Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||||| 60%

type-score-type behavior motivation
5----19----I must be knowledgable and independent to get what I want.
7----18----I must be energetic and entertaining to get what I want.
9----18----I must be peaceful and easy to get along with to get what I want.
3----17----I must be impressive and attractive to get what I want.
8----17----I must be strong and in control to get what I want.



hopefully those pictures will work. I have no experience with either the Enneagram test and little with the Big Five test, so I don't know what I "ought" to be. Anyway, my Big Five results are:

Extroverted |||||||||||||||| 64%
Introverted |||||||||| 36%
Friendly |||||||||||||| 56%
Aggressive |||||||||||| 44%
Orderly |||||||||||||||| 62%
Disorderly |||||||||| 38%
Relaxed |||||||||||| 48%
Emotional |||||||||||||| 52%
Openminded |||||||||||||||||| 74%
Closeminded |||||| 26%

These are fairly accurate, at least currently, though the description of them is inaccurate:

Extroversion results were moderately high which suggests you are talkative, optimistic, sociable and affectionate but possibly not very reflective.
Friendliness results were moderately high which suggests you are good natured, trusting, and helpful but possibly too much of a follower
Orderliness results were moderately high which suggests you are organized, reliable, neat, and ambitious but possibly not very spontaneous and fun.
Emotional Stability results were medium which suggests you are moderately worrying, insecure, emotional, and nervous.
Openmindedness results were high which suggests you are very intellectual, curious, imaginative but possibly not very practical.
Overall (of the Big 5 factors), you scored highest on Openmindedness and lowest on Emotional Stability.

The primary danger of these personality tests is that they first require you to actually know yourself well enough to answer the test correctly. 100 or so questions just isn't enough to significantly reduce the error ratio when you have 4 or 5 or 9 axes that those 100 questions apply to. If you are genuinely interested, there are 1000 question tests out there, but you generally have to pay for them. I was lucky to take an extensive Kiersey Myers-Briggs test freshman year of highschool when the sophomores and juniors were taking the PSAT and the seniors were sleeping in, so I had that to refer to when I took further personality tests in later years. It is also possible to just learn the 16 myers-briggs types or 25 Big Five personalities or all the Enneagram possible personalities and be able to judge people based on their observable characteristics. This also can be dangerous because it gives you a false sense of knowing people, when they might be completely different. The enneagram seems good in this regard, because it has a "conscious" personality type and an "unconscious" personality type, which reflects how many people see themselves. Anyway, I've talked too much, but this is my blog, darn it. You're reading it, so you can put up with it.

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