Friday test results

Animated Inventor

This "personality DNA" test was entertaining to take. If you scroll over the colored patches in the square at left, you can see my percentile ranking (in parentheses) for each trait that this test purports to assess. You can see the definitions of the personality traits here if you are interested.

If you place your cursor over the thin dark purply-blue line in the lower left right, you'll see my score on the "authoritarian" scale, which apparently measures "...adherence to the social order and how much you favor obedience."My percentile ranking of 6 on this means that of the people (n=30,000*) whose test scores they compare the results to, only 6% of them scored lower than me on this one. Ahem.

And my ranking on the "attention to style" scale (16) probably will surprise no one who knows me; it's supposed to be measuring "How aware you are of fashion trends. How much effort you put in to your own style." I'm fashion-impaired, in other words, which is partly explained by the functional vs. aesthetic scale; my score there indicates that I'm much more concerned with how things work than with how they look. Which tells you all you need to know about my home decor.

So anyway, I'm what they call an Imaginative Inventor, which you can read more about here for whatever that's worth.

Oh, and there's a feature here that allows you to assess my personality and then they compare your assessments to mine.

Go crazy.

*I haven't found any demographic or other information on these other test takers; 30,000 is a pretty huge sample size. But it would shed some light on the results to know whether they were mostly women, how they were recruited/selected to take the test (i.e. random or not), what the age range was, etc.