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04 July 2007

TopsyTurvy TestMe? After reading this askme comment, of course I had to go take the test to reassure myself that I'm a benevolent creator, which is pretty much what all the tests say - because this is how I imagine myself, and thus reliably answer the questions in a way that leads to this result (however accurate or inaccurate it might be). But one of these days that isn't July 4, we should do one of these tests (this one is too long) with a twist: everybody participating should answer as another member (how they think that member would answer), and see how close or far apart the results would be. →[More:]

So (using the last two people to post to the front page), for example, essexjan would take the test imagining herself as mischief, and mischief would answer as he thinks jan would answer; then each one takes the test as him/herself, and we get to see how the two versions for each person match up.

For fun!
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Prophet

post by: taz at: 02:08 | 35 comments

Doing the test for myself, I come out as a 'respectful leader', which is pretty damn funny. It took me too long to do it once to ever want to do it again for someone else.

posted by essexjan 04 July | 03:08

Hee. It sounds like a Maoist honorific ... and .... I, for one, welcome our respectful leader (omg!)!

No, this is definitely not the test for the playing - way too long.

posted by taz 04 July | 03:17

(did you copy the link? I want to read.)

posted by taz 04 July | 03:17

Damn, no I didn't.

posted by essexjan 04 July | 03:31

boo.

posted by taz 04 July | 03:39

Considerate realist here. Big on the masculinity and attention to style, low on the extroversion and confidence. Hmm.

posted by chrismear 04 July | 06:03

I'm a considerate director. Woot.

The slide-y things are fun, but the answer choices were as imprecise as all the other personality tests.

posted by mullacc 04 July | 07:30

Generous Curator here - that moniker sounds like I should own a huge expensive collection of things and give them all away to anyone who wants?...what a hoot.

...course, it did get the part about my being shy/reclusive right.... maybe a curator in a musty old museum

posted by mightshould 04 July | 08:37

Dynamic Inventor. Things that especially rang true:
Your vision allows you to identify what's missing from a given situation, and your creativity allows you to fill in the gaps.

You have enormous respect for those who have earned their success, and have little patience for those who try to bend the rules or ride on the coattails of others' hard work.

This is way off the mark:
There are those who find being around people exhausting—but not you! Interacting with others, whether at a party or in conversation, gives you energy.

I would add that I have limited energy for social situations. So I can seem very extroverted, but only in short bursts & need recovery time.

Possibly due to being a visually oriented thinker, I liked all the rating mechanisms (slidey, fill-ey, & crosshairy). None were any more electron mircoscope precise than any other similar test, which is the best hope for a measure of tendencies within relevant margins.

It'd be interesting to hear how literal or numeric oriented thinkers felt about the test.

posted by chewatadistance 04 July | 09:36

I guess I'm a free-wheeling idealist.

posted by seanyboy 04 July | 10:01

Here's my chart
It's pretty accurate to how I see me.

posted by seanyboy 04 July | 10:07

I'm like early Bob Dylan, I guess: You are a Free-Wheeling Creator.

posted by safetyfork 04 July | 10:08

Considerate Artist. I swear, I think we've done this test before and I think I got the same result last time. Which is cool, because I agree with it. The weird thing is I can remember the result but I didn't remember all those slidey charts and buckets and stuff, which you'd think I would. But then my memory lately has sort of gone up in smoke. . .

posted by mygothlaundry 04 July | 10:09

Hey, Cheech--

I think we did one like this too, but I don't remember the buckets and sliders either, maybe they upgraded the controls or maybe our minds are too flowy blowy for memory.

Chong Lokken

posted by safetyfork 04 July | 10:13

Considerate Idealist. Hmm... most of it feels accurate to me. I'm not sure I could answer those nuanced kind of questions in the role of someone else, though.

posted by BoringPostcards 04 July | 10:37

I am an advocating artist. Go figure.

posted by jonmc 04 July | 10:44

Considerate inventor. Looks about right.

posted by gaspode 04 July | 11:14

Considerate thinker. Seems fairly accurate. (Though I would have rather been an "artist" or "inventor"). Was it just me, or did this strike anyone else as having a lot in common with the Myers-Briggs?

posted by treepour 04 July | 12:02

Leader?

Maybe if we're all on road to doing very little, even then, I still like to stay towards the back of the pack. Maybe shepherd might be a better description.

posted by doctor_negative 04 July | 13:23

Reserved inventor.

And yeah, holy crap, that took forever.

posted by Fuzzbean 04 July | 13:25

ah, Benevolent Leader, somehow I missed the big title for the small one.

posted by doctor_negative 04 July | 13:27

ah, Benevolent Leader, somehow I missed the big title for the small one.

posted by doctor_negative 04 July | 13:27

Respectful inventor...but a lot of these questions look like the ones on the MMPI.

posted by brujita 04 July | 13:34

Animated Analyst.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 13:55

Moi je suis un Benevolent inventor. Wow! they even got my faults right.

posted by Wilder 04 July | 14:55

There's one glaring error in mine, it uses the word patience. As anyone who knows me will attest, Patience and I are unacquainted.

posted by Wilder 04 July | 15:00

I'm an Advocating Artist.

posted by miss lynnster 04 July | 15:53

(I'm the only one with either of my traits on this whole page, lol)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 July | 18:57

No other visionaries, reserved or otherwise, out there? I can. . .almost. . .picture you. . .

posted by rainbaby 04 July | 19:31

i'm another reserved inventor but it didn't all the faults under reserved weren't correct.

posted by stynxno 04 July | 22:44

Some of the yes or noes should have been sliders though. This says I have absolutely no femininity--and I would call myself a het butch, but I do like dressing up and wearing makeup if the situation calls for it.

posted by brujita 04 July | 23:07

Apparently I have low masculinity AND low femininity. LOL.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 July | 10:59

I'm more masculine than feminine, and if you don't believe me, I'll kick your ass. But first, please excuse me while I go answer an AskMe question I know nothing about.

posted by taz 05 July | 11:38

Mine says concerned curator. Most of it seems pretty true... such a sparkling personality.

posted by auntbunny 05 July | 12:15

Concerned Experiencer. Actually, the fact that it pisses me off that they have used a word that doesn't exist (experiencer?) probably says more about me than the quiz itself.

posted by dg 05 July | 22:22

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