ATTF: what's your profile? (aka serious, fun and silly personality tests)

[anuna-81.livejournal.com]

Hello dearest bar! It's that time of the week! Are you ready to have some fun here? Today we should discuss (and if you choose, do) some personality tests. You know, those quizzy type of things that usually tell you what kind of bookshelf you are (messy, fancy, pretty... okay, I'm kidding), or give you some kind of profile, telling you about your most important personality traits? So here's what we can do:

1. I have a couple of fun links to quizzes and tests you can fill out, report here and tell everyone what kind of results you got, if you're surprised or not surprised at all

2. discuss and imagine how this would go with Clint and Natasha - every organization like SHIELD has psych evals. What do you think how that works at SHIELD? What kind of profile would Clint get? Is Natasha able to cheat on her psych evals? Is there some kind of running joke, for example, a competition who can give most outlandish answers to intern psychologists and give them a scare (this totally should happen in fic). Do agents try to find out about their results? Do you imagine Clint, Nat, Avengers, or other characters from MCU/Marvel taking one of those Hogwarts house tetsts and then freaking over the results?

3. have fun and get to know each other better, discuss everything and anything

Anyway, the whole point of it all is to have fun, so here we go.

1. Myers-Briggs personality test - this is a serious one, and it takes a little bit of time to fill out, but usually gives pretty good insight into personality traits.

2. the four temperaments test - somewhat simpler, it gives you a basic idea of your personality type.

3. Hogwarts house sorting test - what it says on the lid, it sorts you into one of 4 Hogwarts houses from harry Potter universe. It's a fun thing to do if you're a fan. (Also, can someone fill this one out as Clint or Natasha? That would be fun).

4. The Golden Compass Daemon test - again, based on a book - Phillip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials - discover what kind of animal your daemon would be :)

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Comments

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

PPSS: Enigma -- do chime in on the topic of confirmation bias ... ;-)

[anuna-81.livejournal.com]

What would you like to have confirmed? I can do it for you too, since enigma and I are of same profession.

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

Hey -- you're still awake! :-) What time is it there? Just that I found Enigma's comments in a recent LJ exchange on this very interesting. Views on how we are almost pre-conditioned/determined to recognize ourselves in these sorts of tests would be of interest. She managed to deflate my self-recognition pretty thoroughly! :-)

[anuna-81.livejournal.com]

I was talking to an Australian on skype, hence i stayed awake longer than usual. But before I collapse into bed I can try coming up with something useful.

Most fun tests, as well as horoscopes use general terms, and usually desirable traits, and they're general enough so that people *can* find themselves in them. Among these, I think Myers - Briggs and Hogwarts one are more on the precision side - less general (just look at how Hogwarts test is constructed, and the answering options on it). Real psychological tests aim for precision (Things like MMPI scales), of course, and they *do* have accuracy, but measuring someone's personality isn't the same thing as measuring length. That's why we call it evaluation... it's not real measurement :)

So it depends on what you believe about yourself to be true/how honestly you answer the questions/how precise the test is -- the more honest you are and more precision to the testing, the more likely you're to get your "true" psychological profile.

Does that make any sense? (I hope it does!)

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

Makes perfect sense! Thanks! :-)

[spyforaday.livejournal.com]

That is food for thought: "So it depends on what you believe about yourself to be true..."

This strikes particularly close to home as I prepare for a mini-milestone birthday next week. What do I believe about myself? Umm, that will require another glass of wine before I go there!

[happilydancing.livejournal.com]

It IS very interesting...I wonder how I would rate if someone close to me (my husband or sister for example) took it about me. Hmm....

[spyforaday.livejournal.com]

That is a great question. Although I could see me hovering over my husband's shoulder as he takes the test on my behalf and being all, "why would you choose that answer? I wouldn't do that." Which would be followed by his click of the mouse closing the site and a simple statement: "I told you that this was a bad idea. We're done with this experiment."

Yeah, I'll leave that to someone else. ;)

[happilydancing.livejournal.com]

Lollll....I honestly don't trust my husband not to make a joke of the whole thing. My sister on the other hand... That would be interesting. Maybe I'll ask her ;)