Week 4 - Personality Tests

Jung Typology Test
This personality test evaluates the breakdown of percentages in different categories. My results were ESFJ. After answering a series of questions, I was said to be 22% extraverted, 25% Sensing, 50% feeling, and 78% judging. The test also brought up a few possible career paths that may suit me: management, sales/marketing specialist, fashion merchandising, social work, and education. They place people who scored about the same as me in the category of "guardians" who are usually: emotional, in charge, mothering, and people who senes danger all around. I felt that the results were quite accurate. I do tend to take leadership when situations call for me to respond that way and I am pretty emotional (when I see people cry, even in movies, it makes me cry). Also, I do get paranoid easily which would satisfy the "people who sense danger all around" result. The occupations listed were also surprisingly all fields that I at one point had an interest in, like being a teacher, fashion or interior desinger. I was very close to chosing marketing as my major for college. Overall, this Jung Typology Test is very accurate (it's amazing how just after a few questions they pretty much know your whole life story!)

Big Five Personality Test
This test measures the Big Five dimensions of adult normal personalities. The five styles are Expressive, Interpersonal, Work, Emotional, Intellectual. Out of 5, I scored a 2.9 on Expressive Style and people who scored the same as I are usually those who are active and confident in expressing enthusiasm and excitement, but do not want all eyes on them. I scored a 4.2 on Interpersonal Style and people with similar scores are very sympathetic to others' feelings and are good at maintaing relationships. I received a 4.7 on Work Style and those who scored the same as I are people that value commitment and responsibility, but do not really like change. They are very punctual, organized, and reliable. I also scored a 2.6 for Emotional Style and people who scored similarily usually express strong emotion during times of stress or frustration. These people are often tempermental and easily jealous. For Intellectual Style, I scored a 3.6 and those who received the same score are those who resist taking orders from other people. They are also the people who are creative, imaginative, and often challenge tradition. For the most part, I felt that the test results were accurate in most of the styles. I am, like they predicted, expressive, but also reserved when I meet new people. I also am very sympathetic to others' needs and problems. When it comes to working, I am responsible, organized, and reliable, as it suggested. During times of stress, I tend to over react and get frustrated when things are unexpected. I think I'm creative and imaginative, too, but I'm not so sure about the challenging tradition part. But all in all, like the previous one, this test seems to be rather accurate.

Attraction Test
This test asks for you to rate some characteristics that would be important in determining one's attraction. Then test presented fifty pictures of men that were supposed to fit those descriptions. I was to rate the attractiveness of them and the test gave results broken up into different dimensions. Apparently under the Counter-Culture dimension, I find guys that look rebellious and non-traditional slightly more attractive than the average woman. Then under the Seductiveness category, I find those men who appear sexually appealing and seductive less attractive than the average woman. For Cheerfulness, I found those men who appeared friendly slightly more attractive than the average. Then for Intelligence, I found the men who seemed to look intellegent signficantly more attractive than the average woman would. Finally, for the Trendy dimension, I found those who were supposed to look fashionable, urban, and trendy to be fairly attractive, but no more or less than the average woman would. This test was interesting, but I was pretty shocked at my results, because they do not seem very accurate. I don't think that by simply rating random people can really determine my tastes in guys. Also, I strongly believe that there is much more than just appearances that factor in to the attractiveness of a man. This test was more for laughs than for accuracy.

Big Seven Personality Test
This test is a measure of the Big Seven dimensions of adult normal personality. The seven personality discriptions are Ambition, Sociability, Likeability, Prudence, Adjustment, School Success, Intellectance. I scored high on Ambition, which means I am supposedly self-confident in social situations and find it easy to meet new people. I think that I should have scored medium on that, because I need time to warm up to people and I don't always find it easy to talk to strangers. I scored low on Sociability, which means I value privacy and am supposed to be quiet or shy. I think that contradicts what the test results said I was in the Ambition part. Also, I am not really shy around the people I know. Then for the Likeability part, I scored high, which means I am like people who are sympathetic and kind, which I think is pretty accurate. I scored high on Prudence, which means I am like those who value commitment and responsibility, which is true. I am organized, reliable, and follow the rules. For Adjustment, I scored low, which means I am like those who don't work well under stressful situations and are usually moody. I do stress out easily, but I don't think that I am necessarily moody all the time. I scored medium on School Success, suggesting that I enjoy most of what we do in school and understand things quickly, but do not consider myself an intellectual--which I find to be very accurate. For Intellectance, I scored medium which means I am open to less conventional ideas some times and can be seen as a progressive. I can agree to that; I don't go crazy over radical ideas, but am open to new things. This test along with the Big Five Test is probably the most accurate out of all the personality tests I took.

Deviant Personality Test
This test breaks down to eight major dimensions: Lack of Ethics, Dishontesty, Misanthropy, Arrogance, Dominance, Self-Aggrandizement, Impulsiveness, and Lack of Feelings. These eight traits make up three-super traits, which are Trusting vs. Manipulative, Self-Assurance, and Hero/Rogue. I scored lower than average on the Trusting vs. Manipulative trait which indicates that I am more trusting than the average person taking the test. I also, scored slightly below average on the Self-Assurance portion, which means that I less self-assured or confident than the average person. I am sometimes doubtful of my choices, but for the most part, I am confident when I speak to others or when I make decisions. For the Hero/Rogue part, I scored lower than the average person, which means that I am like those who are more fightened than average when it comes to emergency situations. These people are also more aware of danger and are more law-abiding than the average person. I agree with that. I usually follow all the rules and get easily paranoid. This personality test is pretty accurate overall.