^^http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151123-how-dark-is-your-personality
My results:
Moderately Nefarious.
Like Don Draper, you are moderately nefarious. You walk on the dark side of humanity, but your *can't read my own writing* streak will enable you to get ahead.
I had to look up Don Draper:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Draper
He sounds like a cool fellow.
Personality Match
Like Mao Zedong, you are intellectually curious and novelty-seeking to a fault. You are bored by doing things the tried-and-true way and love nothing better than to embark on a new and challenging project. However, keep in mind that those around you may not appreciate experiments as much as you do - particularly if they will have to deal with the consequences long after you've lost interest and moved on.
Words of Warning
Points to consider for people with your personality - have you ever:
- Chased after something completely new and untried because it stimulated your imagination, only to find that there were very good practical reasons that this particular solution had never been tried?
- Found yourself unable to focus because you were on such an intellectual high that you positively wanted to do everything at once?
- Driven others to exhaustion by seeking out argument and controversy, possibly even arguing both sides of a case just for the fun of it?
- Found yourself unable "to leave well enough alone," always having to tinker and push against the boundaries just to see what would happen?
- "Sweated the small stuff" and forgotten about important things like flight times, tax returns, and subscription renewals simply because you could not be bothered to deal with the nitty-gritty of practical matters?
Scientific Research
According to studies from Cambridge University (UK) and Texas AM University (US), your scores indicate that you are:
- More deliberate and thorough in your actions than the average person.
- Someone who is more reserved in social situations than the average person.
- Someone who has an easier time concentrating for long periods of time than the average person.
- Someone who likes to take more time to size people up and get to know them before you open up than the average person.
- Likely to have a richer vocabulary than the average person.
- Likely to be more knowledgeable than the average person on political and societal issues.
- Likely to have a quicker understanding of abstract concepts and ideas than the average person.
- More critical, cold-headed, and detached than the average person.
- More suspicious of the motives of others than the average person and quicker to detect a lie or an attempt to manipulate you than the average person.
- More at ease with making cynical and tough decisions than the average person.
- More likely than the average person to be barbed and acerbic with people who irritate you.
- More spontaneous and flexible in your approach to problem solving than the average person.
- More risk-prone, and less afraid of exposing yourself to risk, than the average person.
- More likely than the average person to believe that "rules are meant to be broken" and to utilize that belief to your own advantage.
- More likely than the average person to leave a messy room when you go to work in the morning.
- Less preoccupied than the average person with how you are perceived in the eyes of others.
- More psychologically robust and better at absorbing shocks and setbacks than the average person.
- Less worried about stressors and threats in your environment than the average person; not being one to be easily irritated or upset.
- Someone who performs better under pressure than the average person.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151123-how-dark-is-your-personality
My results:
Moderately Nefarious.
Like Don Draper, you are moderately nefarious. You walk on the dark side of humanity, but your *can't read my own writing* streak will enable you to get ahead.
I had to look up Don Draper:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Draper
He sounds like a cool fellow.
Which was... surprisingly accurate. I'm less heavy on the romantic love side of things, but the rest rang a bell.
