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mishalakYou are a WRCL--Wacky Rational Constructive Leader. This makes you a golden god. People gravitate to you, and you make them feel good. You are smart, charismatic, and interesting. You may be too sensitive to others reactions, especially criticism. Your self-opinion and mood depends greatly on those around you.
You think fast and have a smart mouth, is a hoot to your friends and razorwire to your enemies. You hold a grudge like a brass ring. You crackle.
Although you have a leader's personality, you often choose not to lead, as leaders stray too far from their audience. You probably weren't very popular in high school--the joke's on them!
You may be a rock star.
Hurm... Since this result plays to my conceits I'll go with it. <grin>
Really I think this quiz that has been circulating is a bit of subtle dig at other "scientific" psychological personality type tests. I mean really all those other ones are a modern version of astrology. People like the negative bits because it gives them an excuse for whatever problems they have. They like the positive bits because everyone loves their ego being... stroked.
In some ways this test isn't that great since the answers are not vague enough, unlike the famous four part Myers & Briggs test with its Extrovert/Introvert, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, and Perceiving/Judging. The fault in all these tests is that it that people don’t fall into nice neat categories. For an example I'll use myself.
I like people to a certain extent, but I also like being alone at times. It isn't at all clear if I'm an introvert or extrovert. The reason that the test works so well is because in answering ourselves we pick the answer that is most attractive to our mental self-image. For many years I would have always picked the introvert answers because that fitted with my mental conception of myself as the intelligent loner, the classic intellectual. So when I came up ISTJ, the description fitted (in a very general way) my self image and so I accepted it.
Anyway I thought it was a fun test since after my first try I came up with an answer that does a fairly good job of fitting my vain view of myself. So I judge this fad to be fun and possibly slightly useful in pointing out how silly some things labled scientific really are.
You think fast and have a smart mouth, is a hoot to your friends and razorwire to your enemies. You hold a grudge like a brass ring. You crackle.
Although you have a leader's personality, you often choose not to lead, as leaders stray too far from their audience. You probably weren't very popular in high school--the joke's on them!
You may be a rock star.
Hurm... Since this result plays to my conceits I'll go with it. <grin>
Really I think this quiz that has been circulating is a bit of subtle dig at other "scientific" psychological personality type tests. I mean really all those other ones are a modern version of astrology. People like the negative bits because it gives them an excuse for whatever problems they have. They like the positive bits because everyone loves their ego being... stroked.
In some ways this test isn't that great since the answers are not vague enough, unlike the famous four part Myers & Briggs test with its Extrovert/Introvert, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, and Perceiving/Judging. The fault in all these tests is that it that people don’t fall into nice neat categories. For an example I'll use myself.
I like people to a certain extent, but I also like being alone at times. It isn't at all clear if I'm an introvert or extrovert. The reason that the test works so well is because in answering ourselves we pick the answer that is most attractive to our mental self-image. For many years I would have always picked the introvert answers because that fitted with my mental conception of myself as the intelligent loner, the classic intellectual. So when I came up ISTJ, the description fitted (in a very general way) my self image and so I accepted it.
Anyway I thought it was a fun test since after my first try I came up with an answer that does a fairly good job of fitting my vain view of myself. So I judge this fad to be fun and possibly slightly useful in pointing out how silly some things labled scientific really are.
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Date: 2004-07-03 12:06 am (UTC)Is Myers Briggs a bit like astrology? Yes? Is it a useful tool too? Somewhat. Is this one a useful tool? Surely not.
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Date: 2004-07-03 06:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-03 11:13 am (UTC)