Re: Personality Quiz

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The Internet has already effectively written it. About a million times.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 7:49 AM
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But I would want to write some statements that I would strongly disagree with. For instance, "It is wise to engage in an MFF threesome shortly following an exhausting athletic event." I would probably disagree with that one now, though maybe not as an adolescent, even if we were to stipulate a perfect evenness in sexual attraction to the FFs.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 7:57 AM
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1) Did you know what a Likert Scale was without looking it up?

Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Agree
Strongly agree


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:12 AM
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The Internet has already effectively written it. About a million times.

This is in response to all the quizzes that make you pick between false dichotomies and try to create artificial clumps of people. Mine would allow for all 300 million personality types.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:12 AM
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I have a colleague who somehow manages to work the phrase "Likert Scale" into most of her conversations, so it now seems like a phrase that people use commonly.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:13 AM
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I'm familiar enough with the term to have understood it from context. I thought heebie was proposing a different sort of quiz in which one would first write a set of statements one agrees with. Then one would pick "strongly agree" for them all. While other options would be provided, they wouldn't ever be taken, as one had only written statements one agreed with. And afterwards one would be assigned a meaningless label, and be told that one's opposite was the fictional person who would have disagreed with all of them.

Was that not the idea?


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:22 AM
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And yes, that would be a silly idea for a personality quiz, but I thought perhaps heebie was taking the opportunity here to be silly, rather than demonstrating that she knows what a Likert scale is.

It would be interesting to come across my opposite. Though if it happened early in life, that might set up a bunch of conflict.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:26 AM
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I knew what a Likert scale was because I write up clinical trial results for a living.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:28 AM
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Woody Allen abused Dylan Farrow
Barack Obama's presidency has been a net positive
Late merging is the best!
Copyright laws are fair


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:30 AM
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Iranians come from Mexico.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:31 AM
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8: I use the term professionally also, starting back in my political science days.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:35 AM
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Maybe the quiz should have some feeling thermometers.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:38 AM
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For the negative questions you could use the Don't Likert Scale


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:38 AM
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The JP/apo scale in 9 and 10 is a bit more confusing.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:49 AM
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If the statements in 9/10 are the labels on a quasi-Likert scale, the question is, "I am an average news consumer."


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 8:59 AM
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On a scale from Woody Allen abused Dylan Farrow to Iranians come from Mexico, describe the level of discomfort you are feeling right now.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 9:00 AM
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Actually, I rather like football.
Canada exists.
Heebie is right.
Jessica Biel has a nice ass.
SWPL was a funny website.
Having a thread where everyone posted under a different pseud would be a good idea.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 9:02 AM
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Lolcat Scale:

DO NOT WANT!
CANNOT HAS
O HAI
CAN HAS
WANT!


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 9:02 AM
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We'll need one more option before we can map the JP/apo scale to the FPS-R.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 9:05 AM
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Though 17 maps pretty well.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 9:06 AM
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Likert scale? But I just met her!


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 9:06 AM
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For some reason, there are a lot of people in my FB feed commenting that their quiz results are eerily accurate, and I'm not responding "Congrats! You're a cliche!"


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 10:21 AM
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22 indicates that you are 75% introvert.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 10:30 AM
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Distressed babies made AOL have to cut benefits.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 10:32 AM
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24 is a question for the quiz.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 10:32 AM
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Is 22 a general observation or is there some specific quiz going around right now?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 10:34 AM
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all 300 million personality types

There are only four.


Posted by: Kreskin | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 11:00 AM
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For the record, I am beyond tense and pissy with this single parenting gig right now. Aaaargh. Obviously I'd get better at it if I was forced to do it regularly, and I'd deal, but right now my circumstances are exceeding my skillset by a long shot.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 11:12 AM
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Sit back and let 'em go full Lord of the Flies and only intervene to prevent death or serious injury.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 11:48 AM
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I can still sort of remember how exciting I found Meyers-Briggs in high school, the whole "narcissism of medium-sized differences" thing, blah blah, someone had finally told me WHO I WAAAAAS and now I just categorically find any such quiz makes my eyes cross with disinterest and if I get even three answers in they are all "it depends." Except for ones that ask me what they call roly polies where I come from because that's fun.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 12:02 PM
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I made Buck take the "Which David Bowie Persona Are You" quiz going around Facebook, (I read him the questions and didn't tell him what the point of the quiz was), but that's just because he was a Bowie obsessive when he was younger. He got "Present Day Bowie," which, probably the dullest possible option.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 12:07 PM
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Sorry, heebie. I feel your pain to some degree. I mean, at some point Lee will come back and she won't even have a perm, but all I want is a nap and a little quiet.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 12:13 PM
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which, probably the dullest possible option.

At least he wasn't the Thin White Duke.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 12:53 PM
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Apparently I am Ziggy Stardust. Seems questionable, but who am I to argue with Zimbio?


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 1:14 PM
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I just deleted a whole comment because I don't want to complain too much about Lee, but sheesh, I sort of do! How is she getting her second nap after going out for lunch on her own and planning to go out again this evening when we have a babysitter with the assumption that I can stay home and nap then, even though the reason for the babysitter was to take me out for a birthday dinner? Maybe when she wakes up she'll have her priorities changed a bit.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 1:31 PM
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Is there a quiz to let me know if I can go running in this weather without hurting myself?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 1:36 PM
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31 re Bowie, I still recognize him from his dental records.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtrjZRQ8TzU


Posted by: Econolicious | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 1:39 PM
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You know, there's a great deal to be said for a stationary bike.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 2:10 PM
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I made Buck take the "Which David Bowie Persona Are You" quiz

Thinking about where I might score I hope that "you are Brian Eno" is an option.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 2:10 PM
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I came out Ziggy Stardust, which I find puzzling, but I'll take it.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 2:49 PM
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You Scored as The Man Who Sold The World/Hunky Dory

Oh! You pretty thing! Androgyny is sexy, immortals are tragic as you feel you can be at times, and you're a peace-loving hippie. Love on ya!

Which doesn't fit well, but none of them were over 50%; that was just the best of the available options.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 2:57 PM
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Xeriscaping is taking pubic grooming too far.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 3:35 PM
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Fuck. I got "present day Bowie" despite shading my answers, without lying, to try and get either Aladin Sane or Ziggy Stardust.

Apparently, if you ask Bowie these days about the past almost every answer is basically "I don't know. Cocaine is a hell of a drug."


Posted by: RH | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 3:42 PM
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I got the early Bowie, about whom I know very little. I chalk it up to the conspiracy to question my manhood.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 4:05 PM
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The puzzling thing about this conspiracy is that my manhood is quite open for all sorts of dialogue. I don't understand why all the whispering is necessary.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 4:07 PM
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I also got "Alanis Morissette" for the "Which 90s female indie rocker are you?" quiz.* God damn it do these quizzes ever blow.

*The one that Shirley Manson took, but didn't get "Shirley Manson" on.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 4:27 PM
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81% Thomas Jerome Newton, 69% Berlin.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 4:40 PM
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I got Ke$ha, because I'm retrospectively futuristic.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 6:19 PM
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I got Kim Deal, which I'm fine with.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 6:29 PM
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I got the kids down to sleep.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 7:30 PM
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I've been waiting for rob h-c to tell us that he got Hermione Granger.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 7:54 PM
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helpy chalk is always already Hermione Granger.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 02- 9-14 9:23 PM
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Mine would allow for all 300 million personality types.

Only Americans have personalities. The rest of us are too inscrutable.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 02-10-14 2:32 AM
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Your quiz needs more Beyonce. Plus maybe favorite cocktails.


Posted by: simulated annealing | Link to this comment | 02-10-14 3:52 AM
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He got "Present Day Bowie," which, probably the dullest possible option.

??? Richer than Croesus for having outsmarted both RIAA execs and also financiers simultaneously. Married to Iman for two decades.

Please where can I these dullness lessons?


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 02-10-14 7:11 AM
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I meant dullest in the literal sense of least optically reflective. You have to admit that current Bowie is less glittery than pretty much any other option.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-10-14 7:15 AM
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Possibly less angular, too.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02-10-14 7:17 AM
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Maybe that's just because the screens today have so many more pixels.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-10-14 7:28 AM
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