Monday, April 16, 2012

Personality test results

The big five test was a very long personality test that looked for five different categories of personality as well as cognitive ability. This was my table:
ExtraversionLowHigh
AgreeablenessLowHigh
ConscientiousnessLowHigh
Emotional StabilityLowHigh
OpennessLowHigh
Percentile0 ---------- 25 ---------- 50 ---------- 75 ---------- 100
Extraversion - on the extraversion report I scored in the 37th percentile for girls aged 14-17, which is average. I do like to be around people most of the time and consider myself a social being so I thought I would have scored higher but maybe not. I was warned that I skipped one of those questions on accident so I'm not sure how that affected my score or if it did or not?
Agreeableness - on the agreeableness report I scored in the 75th percentile for girls aged 14-17, which is considered high. I value "cooperation" and "social harmony" that comes with being an agreeable person, so I believe this to be pretty true to myself. However, I don't really care much for being 'popular', which is a trait that agreeable people tend to have. I do my own thing.
Conscientiousness - on the conscientious report I scored in the 8th percentile, which is low. This surprised me because being conscientious means you can regulate impulses, and I can. I don't usually get in trouble or do anything bad but I guess I am more id-dominant than I thought.
Emotional Stability - on the emotional stability report I scored in the 25th percentile, which is considered low. My emotions can be affected greatly in response to positive or negative situations so I think this is probably accurate.
Openness - on the openness report I scored in the 80th percentile, which is high. I am an individual and I do my own thing, so I feel like this is pretty accurate. I am open to experiences and maintain a pretty open mind. I am a very private person though.
The cognitive ability I scored 6/12 and the average is 5.7/12 so I was pretty average. I really didn't know what was going on so I'm impressed that I got half right because those questions seemed difficult for me to wrap my head around.

The second test I took was very strange. It was composed of 36 True or False questions.The questions varied greatly and were accompanied by pictures that were sometimes relevant but almost always disturbing. Examples included: My eyes are always cold, Spinach makes me feel alone. What?! When I was finished with the test my results told me that I am critical of myself, have personality weaknesses but compensate for them, my aspirations are pretty unrealistic, I pride myself in thinking independently and do not accept other opinions without proof. It also said that I have found it unwise to be too revealing to others and that while I'm disciplined and controlled on the outside, I tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside.
I am amazed. The results I got were accurate and I could agree with most of them. I don't know how these questions got to the bottom of my personality but somehow they did and I would rank this more accurate than the Big 5 test, actually.

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