Personality Inventory
Posted on : 17-01-2008 | By : Alex S. Leung | In : Expletive
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I am generally not fond of taking those online personality tests that you may often find on people’s blogs. However, after reading this post from one of my former Sunday School students, I became curious as to how legitimate the personality test was.
The Personality Inventory that my friend linked to is created by Dr. Michael H. Birnbaum, Professor of Psychology at California State University, Fullerton. Birnbaum conducts research in the fields of judgment and decision making, psychophysical and social judgment, and mathematical models of behavior.
As his academic credentials testify, this guy appears to be relatively knowledgeable in the field of psychology. Thus, I took the liberty of doing the personality inventory myself. Here are the results:
Your Profile:
* You have a great need for other people to like and admire you.
* You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage.
* Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside.
* You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.
* You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others statements without satisfactory proof.
* You have a tendency to be critical of yourself.
* At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.
* At times you are extroverted, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved.
* While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them.
What do you think? Is this personality inventory accurate or not?
(FYI: try doing the test again, but with completely random answers & see what results you get;-) )
Well now I’m curious. what do you think… accurate or not?
I was suspicious from the start when Moyee and I got the same thing. Then Herman, then a whole bunch of other people. But the interesting thing is, most people seem to agree with nearly everything the results say about them (and about everyone else too…). That’s what happens when you get non-committing points like “At times you are extroverted, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved.” Anyway, glad you found it interesting enough to write about!
Human is too complex to be sterotypted or stratified that way - these tests results while interesting, could be compared to opinions of Mr FungSui(Mr Wind & Water) - they appear to make sense but …….
The resultant profile is the same for any variation of responses, FYI
And so, the effectiveness is in how accurate the above statement is for everybody:P May it be that those statements are universal to all personality types..
omg bro, we’re almost identical.
i did this test before reading yours…
* You have a great need for other people to like and admire you.
* You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage.
* Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside.
* You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.
* You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others statements without satisfactory proof.
* You have a tendency to be critical of yourself.
* At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.
* At times you are extroverted, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved.
* While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them.
wait…we are identical. how weird.