Friday, September 19, 2008

Personality Test

I woke up this morning with many troubling questions plaguing my mind. Among these were such questions as:


-Why does it feel as if I have an extraordinary number of things to do today, despite the fact that I actually have a very small number of things to do, a number that is, indeed, smaller than yesterday's?

-Why is the song Still Alive stuck in my head, despite the fact that, last time I checked, I had still never even played Portal?

-Why does everyone insist on "spreading the virtues of Democracy" (or whatever the cool kids are saying these days), despite the fact that the United States itself is not a Democracy?

-Why did I wake up with a mind plagued with such troubling questions, despite the fact that I want to add a phrase beginning with the words "despite the fact" so that it will be consistent with the other questions?


Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go Google the Roswell incident.
Why?
Because I can.


...Alright, well, I could have continued reading for several hours, but I have a blog post to finish. So yesterday I took a personality test that used the Myers-Briggs type indicator. I like taking personality tests, IQ tests, typing tests, etc. and I don't really know why.
Anyway, I think the Myers-Briggs is a really nice scale, since it grades in four different categories (so there's a total of sixteen possible personalities); it's not really fair to say "there are optimists and pessimists" or "there are loud, crazy people and quiet, reserved people." Also I like how it ignores lots of age and gender stereotypes (i.e., women focus on emotions and men focus on thoughts, older people are analytical and younger people act impulsively, etc.). Sure, if you were to look at statistics, certain personalities may be found more in women than men, or in older people more than in younger people. But not all the time.
Anyway, the test said I was INTJ (introverted intuitive thinking judging). I read about it and it seems to describe me well.
Apparently, famous INTJs include:

-Hannibal
-C.S. Lewis
-Susan B. Anthony
-Donald Rumsfeld
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
-Rudy Giuliani
-Lance Armstrong
-John F. Kennedy
-Thomas Jefferson
-Gandalf the Grey
-Professor Moriarty
-Ro Laren

(The latter three of which are, of course, fictional).

I read more stuff online, and was amused at some comments on one page under "dealing with INTJs", such as:

-"Try not to be repetitive. It annoys them."
-"Do not be surprised at sarcasm."
-"Do not expect INTJs to actually care how you view them."

It went on to describe people who are INTJ as "arrogant" and having "a morbid sense of humor."
The funny part is how true all of this is.


You should take one of these tests (just Google "Myers-Briggs personality test") too; tell me what it says you are.

Then you should take an IQ test. Some of them are stupid and lame, just to warn you. Try to find one that has some sort of "stamp of approval" from some sort of official-sounding university or organization; those tend to be the best ones (meaning, obviously, that the "official" "stamps of approval" are not lying). My IQ is (not to brag or anything) 134.

After that, find out how fast you type (go to http://www.typingtest.com). I can type (again, not to brag or anything) at 85 WPM with 97% accuracy.

If you find any other interesting tests, let me know so I can take them.


...Sorry if I bored you to death by talking, basically, about myself.
But whatever. Maybe, for whatever reason, that's what you come here for anyway.
If you did find this boring, though, scroll down to the poem I posted earlier, which I think is pretty funny.
Well, regardless you should read the poem. But I'm just saying that if you did think this was a boring post, today might not be a total loss for you.

1 comment:

Ben said...

I got frustrated with trying to find the actual type indicator test. I could find the website and whatever, but I couldn't find where to take the test. Too bad.
I hate IQ tests, which would explain why I didn't take one.
I did take the typing test. I did "The Enchanted Typewriter" for two minutes. My net speed was 57 WPM. My accuracy was 95%. And my gross speed was 59 WPM.