What manner of being am I?

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flyingblogspot and infamyanonymous both posted about personality type things just now, which got me thinking. I did the Myers Briggs test and as happened last time was totally unimpressed with the result (me, an overbearing leader? It is to laugh. The only bit I'm 100% happy with is the T) But this reminded me of a personality classification they were talking about on the Psychology 101 podcast, and after some digging I found it: The Big 5.

So according to that test, I am...


Results are in percentiles, ie a result of 70% means I have a higher result than 70% of women of my age and nationality(*). The answers are pretty detailed, I've left the major ones, plus any sub-results I got outlier-y results for :)

Extraversion...............55
Gregariousness...........83
Assertiveness............2
Cheerfulness.............80

Agreeableness..............74
Sympathy.................95

Conscientiousness..........31
The only ones I didn't HORRIBLY fail here were caution and Achievement-Striving :D

Neuroticism................76
Anxiety..................98
Anger....................3
Vulnerability............99

Openess to experience.....79
Imagination..............90
Emotionality.............1
Intellect................91
Liberalism...............99

So I'm a friendly messy messed up robot. Sounds about right :D(**) I think the reason this isn't as popular as Myers Briggs is that instead of a horoscope like vague, open ended results from indirect questions you get out exactly what you put in, ie I'm not very surprised I got a low anger results after saying "Strongly disagree" to the "Do you get very angry?" question.

(*) apparently they have data on lots of 28 year old australian women?
(**)Well, I'm a little unhappy with the low conscientiousness, and somewhat disquieted by the fact that I apparently have no emotions.

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I should say, they don't tell you anything about yourself that you don't already know, but they can tell you how the rest of the population compares.