It's not Friday, but here are some interesting quizzes

They're not the kind of time-waster quizzes that I usually post; these are actual online scientific type studies and you don't get a result or a label that you can post on your blog. But they're pretty interesting and you'll be helping out some graduate students somewhere. The Cognition and Language Lab at Harvard, to be more precise. I've linked to their stuff before, but they've got a new site and I thought I'd link to them again. I know that some of you are language and cognition geeks, so go check it out.

They also have a blog here.

Friday test results: I'm not sure I get it

What Finger Are You?

I, apparently, am a pinky:

You are fiercely independent, and possibly downright weird.

A great communicator, you can get along with almost anyone.

You are kind and sympathetic. You support all your friends - and love them for who they are.

You get along well with: The Ring Finger.

Stay away from: The Thumb

Go ahead, take the quiz.

via Teh Portly Dyke.

Friday test results: the anarchist/communist edition

Which Western feminist icon are you?



I'm Emma Goldman!

You are the mama of Anarchist/Communist feminism and you inspired millions to embrace the labor movement. Without ever directly saying so, you directed efforts toward saving wymyn and children from exploitation. Oh yeah, you were also a total sexpot!

Take this quiz and find out!

Via oh I don't know whoall; I saw this one all over the place & it's been sitting in my files for a while.

Friday tests

No instantaneous results for these tests, which are actually real studies about cognition and perecption and so on. Kind of interesting and fun, so go take a couple of them if you're bored.

Via Lindsay at Majikthise. She also has a link to the Gender Genie, which purports to determine your gender based on a writing sample. I think it's kind of bogus, but your mileage may vary.

Friday quiz meets the Friday Random Ten

I found this one in the comments over at this post at Chris Mooney's blog Mixing Memory. You answer some questions about what kind of music you like, and some other questions, and it reveals your personality type. Or something like that. Kind of fun, anyway.

My results? I'm complex:

My Music Personality

So here's a list from the randomizer, which isn't playing anything particularly complex today:

"Wedding Bell Blues" by the Roches
"Snow" by Chris Brown and Kate Fenner
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" by Sheryl Crow
"Orphan Girl" by Emmylou Harris
"Sick of Myself" by Matthew Sweet
"San Diego Serenade" by Claudia Schmidt
"So Lonesome I Could Fly" by the Pinetops
"Sweet Sunny South" by Rory Block
"Bitter Tears" by the Magnetic Fields
"For Shame of Doing Wrong" by Richard & Linda Thompson
"Tavasz Tavasz" by Márta Sebestyén
"Braver Newer World" by Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Oops, I guess that's twelve.

Friday test results: the da Vinci version

You are Leonardo Da Vinci. You are artistic, and incredibly intelligent. You look at the world in a different way than most people, and you are very imaginative. Things that seem impossible to most people are easy for you. Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Another one I can't remember where-all I found it, but there you have it.

Friday test results: What's your major?

This one's been around a while, and I'm not sure where I found it, but it certainly wasn't very helpful; I had to do a tiebreaker on account of a multi-way tie. Which probably explains why it took me like seven years to graduate, and why I changed my major so many times. Also interesting: the lowest score on this list is the only field, of those listed, in which I've ever been employed. I don't think I ever took any journalism classes, though, not as an undergrad. But I was a philosophy major for a while, and English, and I gave serious thought to art and psychology, and German. I think I was a humanities major for a while there too. I'm not sure what to think of all the science & math, though, as I never took calculus. Or Algebra II, for that matter. Maybe I should have.

My undergraduate degree is in Linguistics, in case you were wondering.

You scored as Engineering. You should be an Engineering major! Biology 100% Chemistry 100% Mathematics 100% Dance 100% Philosophy 100% Theater 100% Linguistics 100% Psychology 100% English 100% Art 100% Engineering 100% Sociology 92% Anthropology 92% Journalism 83% What is your Perfect Major? created with QuizFarm.com

Friday test results: The Monday edition

Who knew?

I am: James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon)
	In the 1970s she was perhaps the most memorable, and one of the most popular, short story writers. Her real life was as fantastic as her fiction.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Via Mary at Pacific Views

Friday Quiz: Shakespeare v. The Bible

First I find out I'm a closet Unitarian, and now I'm a student of the bible? I guess I have read the whole thing a bunch of times, in several different translations. Which, apparently, is more than average. I've gotta say though, that if I scored this high, I suspect that the bar is probably pretty low.

You know the Bible 75%!

 

Wow! You are truly a student of the Bible! Some of the questions were difficult, but they didn't slow you down! You know the books, the characters, the events . . . Very impressive!

Ultimate Bible Quiz
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via L'Amour et le crane, formerly known as Ink and Incapability.

I've had the "If you could pick only one book to have stranded with you on a desert island what would you choose?" conversation several times lately. I got called a weinie for wanting some kind of scouting manual or one of those old hippie-survivalist 'how to build a shelter, purify water, find food, and heal the sick using only the contents of your handbag' type books. The kind with chord charts and lyrics for all the hippie folk songs in the back. Because of course I'd have a guitar with me, or could build one out of, like, bamboo or whatever. But no, my friend said, it had to be a work of literature. My argument that handbooks and folk music were literature was not purchased by my interlocutor.

Another friend of mine, an excellent writer, recently said that she'd pick the bible, on account of how it contains so many of what I guess you could call the foundational-type plot outlines that sort of define western literature. I don't disagree with her, not entirely, but if I've got to limit myself to literatary works, I'd probably stick with the complete works of old Will Shakespeare -- he's got all the same plots, but he's funnier. I'd want to bring an edition that includes the sonnets, though, in case I got tired of the plays. Check out that Shakespeare link, by the way; it goes to a site called Open Source Shakespeare, which is kind of cool.

Oh, and after you go there & brush up your Shakespeare, you can, if you like, go here and take a quiz. It's just a series of quotes to identify. I'm not clear about what my actual score is, but I got the response "Huzzah! You deserve most excellent accolades! A true Shakespearian Erudite!" Whatever an Erudite is. Watch out for the Chaucer they threw in there to try to trip you up. If you want more Shakespeare quizzes, there are plenty of 'em online. Watch out for the ones on about.com, though -- seriously annoying pop-ups and twitchy blinking items on the all the pages.

If you're looking for an online bible, this site has a whole bunch of English and non-English translations, and you can easily compare among them.

Friday test results: I resemble that remark

This one's right on the money, except for the part about other people's grammar mistakes making me crazy, although I admit that I used to care a lot. Maybe you could say that other people's grammatical mistakes have made me insane; that might be more accurate. But nowadays I really don't much care about how others say what they say, to be honest, as long as their meaning is reasonably clear. I feel like it's a waste of time correcting people's grammar, unless of course they ask, in which case I correct them and then explain exactly why it's wrong and give them several better ways to express what they mean. It's fun to watch their eyes glaze over. I'll also correct grammar mistakes if someone is paying me to do edit their writing. Which happens, sometimes. I edit with a red Sharpie®, though, which some people have said makes me seem hostile and aggressive. Whiners.

Oh, and I'm not in the final stages of a PhD, nor in any stage of one. I do, however, read quite a lot for work. And for fun. Pretty much whenever I'm not doing something else.

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.
Dedicated Reader
Book Snob
Literate Good Citizen
Non-Reader
Fad Reader
What Kind of Reader Are You? Create Your Own Quiz

via Jane Awake

Friday test results: the check's in the mail, right?

Found this one the other day via the Neurophilosopher:

My blog is worth $3,951.78.
How much is your blog worth?

Friday alternative health diagnostic quiz

Can't afford a trip to the doctor? Believe they're lying to you/ripping you off/in bed with big pharma/ignorant of the new quantum unified theory of self-healing anyway? Well, don't waste your time going from one alternative practitioner to another, free colon-cleansing herbs or not. Go over to the Woo World Self Treater and answer a few questions and concentrate on the vibrational level of your illness to get a FREE analysis of your auric field. Here's my reading:

"Quantum-consciousness analysis of your auric field shows you are suffering the symptoms of women's health issues, which is commonly seen among multigender entities born under the sign of Taurus. This may also be due to alien implants. Spiritually Guided Surgery has been shown to be effective* in relieving the symptoms of women's health issues and allowing the body to heal itself. You can also boost your immune levels by remembering to live a divine life, and commence colonic irrigations to remove toxins.

Since you are vaccinated you are also strongly urged to contact a naturopath or kinesiologist to test whether you have autism.

*Based on user testimonials."

via Orac at Respectful Insolence

Friday quiz results: Finding my religion. Or not.

This is a pretty interesting test: the Belief-O-Matic™, but I gotta say I'm a little surprised by the results. I've been perfectly happy all these years without a religion. Except for a short while when I was about eleven and wanted my family to be Amish, or maybe Hasidic Jews. I think I craved more rules and structure. A kid needs something to rebel against, or what's the point?

But anyway, who can resist this?

"Even if YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic™ knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Matic™ will tell you what religion (if any) you practice...or ought to consider practicing."

I'm not actually considering practicing a religion, but I took the test anyway, because -- well, mostly because Julie IM-ed me a while ago wondering where the Friday quiz was. I think she was bored. But also I wanted to see how a heathen like myself would score.

When you're all finished, the results page lists 27 faiths, each followed by a percentage score in descending order of how closely your stated beliefs match those of each particular faith. The explanation of the scoring system is as follows:

"The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic,™ in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa."

Well thank goodness they added that last bit. I'd hate to think that all Unitarian Universalists were a bunch of heathen commies like me. Likewise with the Liberal Quakers: I scored 98% on that one.

But the third one on my list was Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants? WTF? Secular Humanism, which is more or less how I'd describe my beliefs if I had to describe them, was #4 on the list (88%). I have to confess, though, that I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a Secular Humanist Association. I've never been to a meeting. But if there is an organization and it has meetings, it's probably not really my scene.

I was glad to see Scientology so low on the list (#22), but frankly a little surprised that New Age and Neo-Pagan were so high (#12 and #6, respectively).

Friday test results: It's in the cards

You are The Empress:
Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love.

Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

What Tarot Card are You? Take the Test to Find Out.

via Average Jane

Seven Deadly Quizzes

I took all seven of the Deadly Sins assessments over at BeliefNet. I didn't do as well as I'd hoped, considering what a heathen I am.

A couple of them I even took over because I'm really not all that virtuous. There were a couple of questions that I couldn't really answer in a meaningful way because they were about TV shows I've never seen or celebrities I've never heard of.

I suspect that the tests aren't very good instruments for measuring actual sinfulness, because even after do-overs, I still didn't do at all well on Pride, Anger, Envy, or even Gluttony. I mean, Gluttony, for crying out loud. How hard is that? But at least I had a respectable score on Lust and Sloth, and they are my favorites.

By the way, here's a little trick for remembering all seven of the deadly sins, should you need to name them: PALE GAS. Pride, Anger, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Avarice, and Sloth. Of course some lists call anger "wrath" and avarice "greed" which messes it up. Too many consonants.

So here are my results. The website doesn't provide any nifty graphics or handy code to post results on your blog, and the scoring is kind of eccentric. I calculated the percentages myself, but basically, the scores were grouped in three or four categories of increasing sinfulness. The ones marked with asterisks are the ones where my score fell in the second-lowest bracket. I re-took Greed and Sloth and moved up to that category in each. All the others I was in the lowest (i.e. most virtuous) category, even though I re-did Pride and Anger and Envy. I tried, people.

• Pride: 4/24 (17%) - "You might want to work on your self-esteem"
• Anger (Wrath): 5/27 (19%) - "You're a most patient person ... or about to blow like Mt. St. Helen's"
• Lust: 15/32 (47%!)* - "Your body isn't a temple, but it isn't a fast-food joint either"
• Envy: 2/24 (8%) - "Your freedom from sin is enviable"
• Gluttony: 9/41 (22%) - "Spiritually, you might be a bit too thin"
• Avarice (Greed): 11/37 (30%)* - "Your generosity outweighs your greed"
• Sloth: 9/25 (36%)* - "Your life is a good balance between activity and relaxation, but like most of us, you could use a spiritual supplement"

Image: detail from The Seven Deadly Sins by Hieronymus Bosch. Stolen from ibiblio.org's WebMuseum.

Friday Test Results: What's in a name?

A couple of facts:

• There are 810 people in the U.S. with the last name [my last name].
• Statistically the 32512th most popular last name. (tied with 1841 other last names)
• There are 199,479 people in the U.S. with the first name Regina.
• Statistically the 313th most popular first name. (tied with 2 other first names)
• 100 percent of people with the first name Regina are female.

HowManyOfMe.com

There is: 1 person with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

I actually know -- and, oddly enough, am not related to -- one other person with the same first and last name as mine. Neither of us is from the town in which we met, and we worked for a time at the same very large institution. When I left, the HR goons terminated her from the system instead of me. I kept calling to try to figure out why I wasn't getting my final paycheck, etc., and found out months later that her boss got the notification of termination while she was on vacation, panicked, called her mother to find out how to reach her. Apparently he thought she'd found a job while she was away and quit without notice. When she denied having done any such thing, he deleted the termination notification without realizing that there was another person with the same first and last names.

We had met several times and never realized that we have the same first name, as she goes by one nickname (Gina) and I go by another one (Nora) that is actually a diminutive of my middle name, (Elinore, if you wanna know). But it's an unusual enough last name (only 810 others have it, according to this website, anyway) that we were surprised to learn that I was not related to her husband's family. I had certainly never met anyone with my last name that I wasn't related to, although I've heard rumors about them for years.

A mildly interesting story about my last name: when my [great-?]great-grandfather and his brothers left Sweden in the late 1890s, they shared the last name Gustavsson, as they were all sons of Gustav. On realizing, however, that in their new country, their surname would be passed down in perpetuity, and not subject to the patronymic naming conventions of their old country, two or maybe three of the brothers decided to change their last name. They chose a Swedish word meaning, roughly, 'strife,' or 'struggle' (it is not, as my lovely ex-wife would have you believe, the Swedish word for 'stubborn.' I have no idea why she'd think that).


via Lauren at Faux Real.

Friday you-know-what

I am a Patriot!

Here's my score on The Are You a Patriotic American? Test: I got 75% in US Philosophy; 18% in American Pride (ahem); 73% for Involvement; and 100% in Citizen Status! Not bad, eh? There was another part of the results that I don't include here that indicates that my score on all four variables is higher than 99% of all other test-takers in my age and gender cohort. I'm suspecting that not very many middle-aged women have taken very many tests over at OkCupid, because it says that for every test I take over there.

Anyway, I thought this was a pretty good test, as far as it goes. It's not surprising, though, that I agree with a lot of the test's* stated opinions. Though I'm a little confused about how a test can have opinions, but whatever.

Philosophy reflects whether you agree with the philosophical foundations of the United States, such as: liberty, equality, democracy (though limited, not absolute), capitalism, checks and balances, constitutionalism, etc.

Pride reflects your assessment of the factual reality and history of the United States as a nation. It is your opinion as to whether the United States has been a "good" country and whether it has acted rightly or not.

Involvement reflects your level of political activism--whether you act to stay informed of what is going on in the world, and what you do on the basis of that information.

Citizen Status simply reflects whether you claimed to be a citizen of the U.S. when asked by this test.

It is the opinion of this test that, of these four factors, the only one that matters when it comes to being considered a Patriotic American is one's score in the first category--Philosophy. Therefore, if you scored between 0-33% in that category, you have been rated 'Unpatriotic'; 34-66%, 'Somewhat Patriotic'; 67-100% 'Patriotic'.

Certainly, the other categories provide interesting information for your (and others') consideration. However, they are not crucial for Patriotism, and they do not necessarily reflect a love, or its lack, for one's country. Regarding American Pride, some people will be surprised that it does not affect the outcome of the test; some people will be upset by this. However, if a person supports every military action the United States has ever engaged in, but does not really support his neighbors' right to live their lives in the ways that they see fit, then they do not truly love the United States. Further, and despite much of the rhetoric some political pundits engage in, a truly Patriotic American can be highly critical of many of the actions undertaken by the U.S. throughout history. Certainly, much of what the United States has done has been done poorly or for the wrong reasons. And while the author of this test believes that the United States has been mainly a force for good in the world (and the most-free, best nation ever to exist), he respects the opinions of those who would disagree with him and fully supports their right to dissent. For that is what America is all about.

Regarding Involvement, it has been said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. This is true, however it is also true that liberty means that people can be as involved, or not involved, as they want. Choosing not to vote, while perhaps unwise, is as much an exercise of political liberty as anything else. Certainly, however, a low score in involvement might mean that a person could stand to try to be more aware of current events, or more actively involved in shaping them, because sometimes they matter.

Regarding Citizen Status, I am certain that many people will believe that to truly be a Patriotic American, one must be a citizen of the United States. However, that is not so. One of the traits that sets the U.S. apart from many other nations in history, is that it is a country not organized specifically around a particular ethnicity, language, religion, culture or common historical origin, but a shared political ideology. The United States is organized around a common love of liberty, individual rights and free expression. This, in part, accounts for the unending stream of immigration starting from the very conception of the nation and continuing on to the present day. In today's United States, there are many thousands who are not citizens, and yet who live in the United States and share its dreams (and many of them will be citizens when they are able). The author would even argue that there are many Patriotic Americans who have never yet even set foot on U.S. soil. There are no requirements of language, skin color, religion, sexual orientation or particular condition of any other personal detail to be a "true American." Just a love of liberty.

Link: The Are You a Patriotic American? Test written by donathos on OkCupid

Friday test results: the late version

OK, OK. I know it's past Monday already. I just finally checked my email and a couple of you (you know who you are) are wondering already where is the Friday Quiz thingy? Maybe some people need to get a life, but it's entirely possible that I just need to be more, you know, predictable or something. So here's a goofy little quiz result. I gotta tell you though, that I just decided to take advantage of an opportunity to move into a new house. Which to those who've known me for a while is no big deal; I do that all the damn time.

But I've lived in my current house for almost three fucking years -- a personal best, I'll have you know! -- and I'm thinking it's time to move. There are a lot of factors contributing, but it adds up to the right time and a reasonably good move. But it's always exciting and stressful and goddamn time-consuming to move, so that's what I'll be doing for the next couple of weeks.

In the meantime, here's a little quiz I found a while back that seems to describe the moment:

Your Personality Is Like Acid

A bit wacky, you're very difficult to predict. One moment you're in your own little happy universe ... And the next, you're on a bad trip to your own personal hell!

What Drug Is Your Personality Like?

Fridge art + bonus catblogging

A couple of loose ends from the comments to the 5 weird things about me* post the other day:

Magpie, whom I've known in real life since before the 1st Gulf War, recalled that I had a cat who did a peculiar thing. I'm not sure how that makes me weird, but I do have photos of Anna with a paper bag on her head.

She'd really do this herself. You know how cats will crawl into an open paper bag if you leave it on the floor? Anna really loved smaller bags. Bags that fit on her head. She'd put them on her head and then walk around with them, sort of bumping into things repeatedly (and apparently on purpose).

The other cats in the house, who normally harrassed poor Anna mercilessly, gave her a wide berth when she had a bag on her head, sort of like they thought she might be somehow dangerous. In this picture, she had actually jumped up onto the mantel and picked up the ToyboatToyboatToyboat bag; I was afraid she'd fall down, so I lifted her off. You can click here to see her on the floor with a plain brown paper bag on her head.

My sister the mailman said that she thought it was strange that I used to keep a photo of Counselor Troi taped to the wall above the cats' dishes so they could watch her when they ate. I had to tell her that she was mistaken about that. For one thing, they ate in separate rooms. They did share a water dish though, and there was a picture above it. She's not totally nuts. The picture above their water dish was actually a postcard someone sent me with two cats who looked like Edie and Anna, and who were drinking water out of a bowl that was nearly identical to their water dish.

The photo of Deanna Troi was actually on the fridge, and it wasn't a picture of her, or even of the actress who played her, but rather it was a picture of my 25th birthday cake. A painter friend of mine used to make these fabulous cakes, and then get a bunch of white frosting, some food coloring, and a palette knife and mix all the colors herself and paint with the frosting on the cake from whatever photo you'd give her. Note the Star Fleet insignia (some made up, some from ST:TOS uniforms) on the cupcakes.

Yes, my friends and I were geeks when we were in our twenties. Somewhere there are photos of the Jean-Luc Picard cake that another friend got for her birthday the year after that cake. I'll post one if I can find it, if anyone is interested.

But speaking of stuff on my fridge: When I took down the DT cake photo this morning to bring it in and scan it, I noticed that some of the items next to it had been on my fridge since at least the early nineties. Which is kind of remarkable considering that I have moved house 13 times since 1990. Seriously. There are lots of magnets and old photos and postcards, and also some cartoons, which are torn and faded and yellow. I brought in a couple of them to scan, so that I can at least preserve them digitally. Quite a few of the cartoons have a dinosaur-extinction theme going, such as this one above from back when Dilbert was actually funny. Click here to embiggen and maybe it'll be more legible, depending on your monitor.

And this one is perhaps my all-time favorite cartoon, from Lynda Barry, one of my all-time favorite cartoonists. Click here to see all four of the panels in the strip; the whole file was just too big to post, and I couldn't make it any smaller without making it completely illegible.

The original is pretty illegible to begin with, even though I tweaked it and enhanced the contrast as much as I could. The date on it is 1996. The third panel is especially faded; here's the narration:

"Iguanadon told us the tar pits rocked. Me and Megalosaurus throught it wouldn't hurt to try it once. Next thing we knew we were hooked. We both got kicked out of our band. Iguanadon choked on his own vomit. The scene was getting ugly but we couldn't stop." And then the dialog between the two dinosaurs: Dino 1: "For godssakes! Iguanadon is dead and all you can think about is finding his stash!" Dino 2: It's around here somewhere."

I've always been fond of putting things on the fridge door. I used to collect headlines from tabloid newspapers (the Weekly Word News was my fave: More space aliens, less celebrity gossip) and arrange them on the fridge door.

The one pictured at left is my first solo apartment, sometime in the late 1980s. The cats on top are named Kolena and Martha. I'm not 100% sure which one is which, although I recall that the solid grey one on the right is the mom of the other one (also pictured below).

Those two cats were adorable, though. Unfortunately they only stayed with me for a few months to accommodate a long-term houseguest of their real mom. The poor houseguest was desperately allergic, but as soon as she went away, these two went back home.

Here's a picture of the younger one in a very popular spot: over the pilot light on the gas stove. That was the most wonderful stove I ever cooked anything on in my entire life. I wish I still had it.

I scanned some more of the fridge art, and some more very old pictures of cats that are no longer, in fact, alive. But I need to go do some other things right about now, so I'll save those for another post.

*I know I'm supposed to tag five more bloggers to complete the meme, but I don't do chain letters or anything like that, so if you want to list five weird things about yourself, please consider yourself tagged. You can post it on your own blog or put your list in the comments over on the original post. It is kind of fun to do.

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.