Interesting Personality Test! :)

[zxc]

I just tried the test at http://www.personaldna.com/ , which has nothing to do with MBTI, but I thought it was very good! The questions were very interesting in comparison to other personality tests.

I got 'Reserved Inventor', http://www.personaldna.com/report.php?k=xvBAYyqBvOQBCcT-GA-ACDCE-fbcb

Sliders and plotting graphs (and not to mention buckets!) made it fun and improved the accuracy I'm sure.

 

[Jordan~]

I got Reserved Creator.

 

[Raku]

Nice test.

The sliders make it more fun, but I can't help but adjust the sliders a bit every time I think over my answers. I got reserved analyst out of the test. It could be something different next time tho, since a few of the options (like earthy / imaginative ) are pretty close to 50 / 50. The sliders don't really help in that area, reflecting on yourself isn't that precise, or at least not for me yet.

 

[Agent Intellect]

i'm a Reserved Experiencer

 

[Dissident]

That was fun.
I got Reserved Experiencer

 

[Freddeh]

That was a cool test.
I got considerate inventor

 

[Kuu]

I got Reserved Creator as well, but I had taken this test before the buckets and stuff, some while ago, and had gotten Reserved Artist, which definitely seemed to fit more. (I'd link the results but it seems I've forgotten my username...)

 

[Aphasia]

Hmm, I got generous experiencer. I'm partly uncomfortable with what it mentions, so I guess it's at least partly true. I wonder what they mean when they talk about masculinity and femininity. And agency. And yes, I have nearly no sense of self-worth.

 

[Loraella]

This test is fun; I like how there various types of questions and also some untraditional ones (like emptying the bowls or setting a spot on a graph).
I also took it earlier, several months ago, and I got Rserved idealist then. But I felt like trying again to see if it would be different. And I got Reserved creator now.
http://www.personaldna.com/report.php?k=VTGCQMQDlhPLeZY-HA-ACAAA-8423&u=d7b435cf6c12

 

[fullerene]

that was a pretty cool one... Reserved Experiencer here. I was also curious as to what they meant by masculinity and femininity. I've never thought of myself much as masculine or feminine at all. I'm just... me. But somehow that's pretty one-sided, by their definition.

 

[Agent Intellect]

that was a pretty cool one... Reserved Experiencer here. I was also curious as to what they meant by masculinity and femininity. I've never thought of myself much as masculine or feminine at all. I'm just... me. But somehow that's pretty one-sided, by their definition.

we really are the same person

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

I took it around 5 am last night so maybe that skewed my results but I got generous observer as my result. It was a great and interesting test though.

 

[fullerene]

we really are the same person

lol dude, we differ by 150 points out of a possible 1300... and it definitely under-scored my empathy.

 

[Devercia]

It fails to make a distinction between empathy and sympathy, which makes us ITs look like jerks.

I got Reserved Idealist http://www.personaldna.com/report.php?k=cMFFUDtAsKLBJZa-EA-DBDCC-7858&u=967ab07522d6

I don't think my openness is that low. My agency should be a touch higher, but low.

 

[zxc]

It fails to make a distinction between empathy and sympathy, which makes us ITs look like jerks.

I got Reserved Idealist http://www.personaldna.com/report.php?k=cMFFUDtAsKLBJZa-EA-DBDCC-7858&u=967ab07522d6

I don't think my openness is that low. My agency should be a touch higher, but low.

I agree, I think I'm often empathetic but not sympathetic (and I scored 0 for empathy). Also, I got 32 for authoritarianism, which was rather weird, as I'm not authoritarian at all.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Respectful Inventor

That’s fairly accurate, rated me surprisingly high on masculinity; why?

http://www.personaldna.com/report.php?k=XVODlOvCQORVQkX-GC-DCACA-e7d8

 

[Raison D'etre]

Reserved Thinker

http://www.personaldna.com/report.php?k=BJCDApwAuADGAaR-AA-DBDBD-d2c2&u=a74eab67facd

 

[Ogion]

Ah well, you all say it was cool and nice, but i coulnd't do it. My browser (firefox; i'll try others in a minute, but i don't think that'll be better) doesn't get past your precious buckets...

Ogion

EDIT: Ok, i found a useful browser and i thought the test was nice too.
Reserved Idealist

 

[grey matters]

I got reserved experiencer. I believe that this is one of those tests where your type can change with time. When I was younger I would not have answered most of those questions the same way.

What is somewhat disturbing is that I probably would have answered the questions measuring masculinity and femininity in a similar way. I scored 2 for femininity and 90 for masculinity. So I showed the test to my husband (who took the test a few months ago and scored 100% in masculinity) and he confirmed that this sounded accurate,..... this is disturbing, quite disturbing.

 

[saorsa]

"respectful inventor" type here...


in case anybody wants to compare the percentages and try to figure out which traits they associate with each type



http://www.personaldna.com/report.php?k=krFMjwyCSCDIChU-GC-DCABD-29e4&u=36266ac6a8ba

 

[Loraella]

I got 6 for femininity and 32 for masculinity.
I don't find it disturbing though, considering that I don't believe in culturally made up gender stereotypes. I am convinced that what is commonly perceived as "masculine" or "feminine" as for personality characteristics or interests is so only because it's the way how people are being brought up and made to believe - by the whole society, starting already from their childhood in families. But I don't believe in anything like inherently masculine or feminine characteristics except for biological.
Considering that the creators of the test most likely lack the ability to think outside of the box and therefore used the stereotypical traits to measure "masculinity" and "femininity", the outcome doesn't surprise or bother me. For I don't believe that I *have to* act, think or feel a certain way just because of my sex.
Bleh, I remember there was even a question asking if my style of clothing is influenced by "celebrities" or "trends"... How silly. I don't see any reason why my style should be directed by what any other people have made up, instead of what I myself like. Seriously I have no understanding for trends followers. And as an INT- (or perhaps INX-, because from my tests and from the types characteristics it seems that INFP is quite close to me too - in both INTP and INFP characteristics I find a lot of accurate things but also some inaccurate), no wonder that also other "feminine" characteristics mentioned in the test (e.g. talking to friends about my problems instead of handling it on my own - I remember now that was there) won't apply to me.

 

[Ogion]

One thing i missed is some place where they would explain their vocabulary. Like femininity/masculinity. There are enough different definitions about it that they really should explain their working definition.
Or did i just missed that and they wrote it somewhere?

Ogion

 

[Ogion]

Ah, i did found a little glossary. Although it really is spartanic.

Ogion

 

[Chimera]

Reserved Inventor

I agree with everyone who is criticizing the empathy section.
I believe I'm quite good at understanding and feeling other peoples' emotions...
I just usually don't want to. ​

EDIT: Thanks for the link to the glossary, Ogion.
I thought the test meant "openness" as in "willing to spill out your guts".
I was a little worried, seeing how I scored 90 in that area.
>>​

...​

 

[grey matters]

Ogion, the glossary helped but didn't define what they meant by stereotypically male or female traits. I suppose the questions asked in the test defined that. In which case that would make me unsteriotypicaly female and steriotypecally male according to the way they defined steriotypically male and female, and this thought makes me feel better. That is that the reason why I don't test out as being something I feel I am is because their definition of both maleness and femaleness is bullshit.

Now this I would view as an INTP trait. That is to be male or female but not in the ways that society steriotypecally views gender.

 

[Ogion]

Yes, that glossary is really just a very basic explanation. And i have my problems with that too. Especially since the stereotypes about gender are probably a little bit different here in Germany than where that test came from. Besides that i am not buying into these stereotypes anyway^

Ogion

 

[zxc]

I really don't see why everyone is fussing over the stereotypical masculinity/femininity parts so much... I pretty much skipped them when I was reading my results. It would be interesting to know how stereotypes differ across different regions though.

 

[stefanie]

benevolent inventor apparently.
interestingly for a lady i got medium masculinity and very low femininity.
parts are spot on but im definately not that trusting.
pretty good for an online test though.
http://www.personaldna.com/report.php?k=teSbemcFkHINGXb-GO-ACACD-a185&u=8c4a2ca4bd00

 

[SafetyInNumbers]

Generous experiencer, really?

 

[Chimera]

_________
____________

I got high masculinity too and I'm female.
I don't care what they call their information. Their gender stereotypes could be called something else but it would still say the same thing. Just 'cause it relates to stereotypes and gender doesn't mean much to me.
Now if only they explained themselves better so I wouldn't have to look these things up. . .
____________
_________​

 

[saorsa]

I got 6 for femininity and 32 for masculinity.
I don't find it disturbing though, considering that I don't believe in culturally made up gender stereotypes. I am convinced that what is commonly perceived as "masculine" or "feminine" as for personality characteristics or interests is so only because it's the way how people are being brought up and made to believe - by the whole society, starting already from their childhood in families. But I don't believe in anything like inherently masculine or feminine characteristics except for biological.
Considering that the creators of the test most likely lack the ability to think outside of the box and therefore used the stereotypical traits to measure "masculinity" and "femininity", the outcome doesn't surprise or bother me. For I don't believe that I *have to* act, think or feel a certain way just because of my sex.
Bleh, I remember there was even a question asking if my style of clothing is influenced by "celebrities" or "trends"... How silly. I don't see any reason why my style should be directed by what any other people have made up, instead of what I myself like. Seriously I have no understanding for trends followers. And as an INT- (or perhaps INX-, because from my tests and from the types characteristics it seems that INFP is quite close to me too - in both INTP and INFP characteristics I find a lot of accurate things but also some inaccurate), no wonder that also other "feminine" characteristics mentioned in the test (e.g. talking to friends about my problems instead of handling it on my own - I remember now that was there) won't apply to me.

if I've got you right, you're saying that some of our common gender concepts are based on biological facts, but that most of them are based entirely on arbitrary social conventions that we should dispense with. fair enough----but how do you determine which are which?


question for everybody: are the gender questions threatening to hijack this thread? would it be better if gender topic were made into a separate thread?

 

[Decaf]

question for everybody: are the gender questions threatening to hijack this thread? would it be better if gender topic were made into a separate thread?

Oh, we've got plenty of them already

Needless to say, gender stereotypes are a big issue for us INTPs, male and female. Some think they're more legitimate than others on the whole, but I don't know of any of the prodigious posters aside from Thomas that believes in the majority of them.

I have no problem with people expressing their outrage here, but I think Saorsa has a point. Might be best not to hijack it too much or we'll miss out on the rest of what the test says.