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Re: Personality tests
Posted By: Paul A., on host 206.135.142.18
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 1999, at 15:36:29
In Reply To: Personality tests posted by codeman38 on Monday, December 27, 1999, at 22:04:53:

> Fobulis and I are curious: How many of you have taken a psychological personality test such as
> the Myers-Briggs (or similar)?

Ooh, lots. It's something that happens quite a bit when you're a psych student.
Can't remember any of the results offhand, though.

> And for those who haven't, I've linked one of the better-known personality tests-- the Keirsey
> Temperament Sorter-- below. Take it, if you're bored and have nothing better to do...

I am, it says, an Artisan/Composer.
This apparently puts me in the same category as Barbra Streisand and Johnny Carson. (Although, looking at some of the other examples of Artisans, I find myself wondering when Hemingway, Roosevelt, and Earhart found time to do the test...)

An interesting thing: My results in each pair of attributes was fairly even, except for Attentive/Expressive; I got 10 for Attentive and 0 for Expressive.
This reminds me of something I *do* remember from all those personality tests I've done: every time I've done a self-report test, I've got a similar result to that, but the one time we were asked to rate other people in our tutorial group, everyone else rated me as one of the most outgoing and expressive people in the group.

Paul