Did any one else have trouble copy-pasting the links?
I normally score insanely high on Openness to experience (says she of the massive amounts of really weird hobbies), but for this test, I scored really low on Openness. Must be feeling particularly close-minded today. Weird.
Links from Google Forms instructions often don’t work, in my experience. They may work in some browsers but not others, and I am sure it does not help that I am often using an iPad for that sort of thing.
In Google Chrome on the Mac, the URL text would simply not stay selected. The moment I let go of the mouse after drag-selecting, the text would un-select, and the question’s text field would be focused.
Yeah, I ended up just selecting to the end of the question: then it stayed selected. I would delete the extra words after copy paste. Obsolete point now probably, but worth looking into for next year.
I scored really low on everything—in fact, I got 4th percentile Agreeableness. Not over-correcting for self-importance is hard!
ETA: I do actually have reason to believe that I’m not an extremely disagreeable person; I’m concerned that failing to acknowledge that or present those reasons made it look like I failed to consider that possibility.
I feel that my extroversion and agreeableness depend on who I’m with; the test scores were slightly higher than what I’d expect for when I am with average people and somewhat lower than I’d expect for when I am with people who I usually hang around with. (Both Big Five tests I took said I was below median extroversion, but the Myers-Briggs one says I’m E.) My conscientiousness score was somewhat less than I expected (okay, I do tend to procrastinate a lot, but when I do decide to take something as a matter of life and death, I fuckin’ take it as a matter of life and death), and my neuroticism score was substantially lower than I expected (which strongly disfavours one of my latest hypotheses about the reasons of my lack of romantic success).
I got 1th (1st?) percentile on agreeableness, and I disagree! (yes that sounds like High Fallacy)
Infact all of my Big Five scores were quite low barring N which was a nicely high number.
Oh golly, now I feel bad for using my OCEAN score from a recent test rather than re-taking it. This one was atypical? Sorry for adding noise to the data.
I had recently taken both this one (linked to from here) and the same one as was in the survey, and the scores for all traits were within 6 percentiles of each other. (Stability is the opposite of neuroticism so I should compare N to 100-S, right?)
To tell the whole story, I took the shorter test (the one in the survey) right after reading the results of the longer test, so priming effect might have caused the results to be closer that they would have been if I had taken the two tests several days apart.
Same here on O. I feel like the Openness questions featured a bizarrely high proportion of claims to the effect of “I am a brilliant and original thinker,” and despite my attraction to weird ideas (I’m posting here, after all) I don’t think I have the evidence to back up an assertion like that.
My suspicion is that the openness questions in that test are geared toward people who are also Myers-Briggs S’s; I also predict that LWers will be almost entirely N’s (50% confidence interval: at least 85% N), and so score significantly less openness.
I am a massive N on the meyers briggs astrology test, yes I scored 96% for openness on the big-5.
I suspect our responses to questions like “I am an original thinker” have a lot to do with our social context. Right now, the people I run into day to day are fairly representative of the general population with little to skew toward toward the intellectual or original other than “people who hold down decent jobs, or did so until they retired”. It doesn’t take a great lack of humility to realize that compared to most of these people, I am a brilliant and original thinker.
OTOH, it’s not like I’m Feynman or something. If I were working somewhere that filtered strongly for intelligence, like a hot tech startup or academe and had done so for long enough, I would probably feel relatively average and very focused on how to bridge the gap between me and those at the level or two above, vs. a dim awareness of the vast intellectual and originality gap between my associates and the typical person.
Took it!
Did any one else have trouble copy-pasting the links?
I normally score insanely high on Openness to experience (says she of the massive amounts of really weird hobbies), but for this test, I scored really low on Openness. Must be feeling particularly close-minded today. Weird.
I also got really low openness on that test. I’m suspicious.
Links from Google Forms instructions often don’t work, in my experience. They may work in some browsers but not others, and I am sure it does not help that I am often using an iPad for that sort of thing.
Selecting the URL, right-clicking it, and picking “Open in a new tab” worked in my version of Firefox.
In Google Chrome on the Mac, the URL text would simply not stay selected. The moment I let go of the mouse after drag-selecting, the text would un-select, and the question’s text field would be focused.
Had the same problem using Chromium on Ubuntu. I hit Ctrl+C while still holding down the mouse, which worked after a couple of tries.
Also Chrome on Windows.
Yeah, I ended up just selecting to the end of the question: then it stayed selected. I would delete the extra words after copy paste. Obsolete point now probably, but worth looking into for next year.
Yeah, wouldn’t stay selected.
I scored really low on everything—in fact, I got 4th percentile Agreeableness. Not over-correcting for self-importance is hard!
ETA: I do actually have reason to believe that I’m not an extremely disagreeable person; I’m concerned that failing to acknowledge that or present those reasons made it look like I failed to consider that possibility.
I got similarly extreme results on C/E/A (not that I disagree with the direction) and lower-than-casually-expected O: link
(Edited to add: Very amused by the Myers-Briggs question “Your actions are frequently influenced by emotions”. Um....)
I feel that my extroversion and agreeableness depend on who I’m with; the test scores were slightly higher than what I’d expect for when I am with average people and somewhat lower than I’d expect for when I am with people who I usually hang around with. (Both Big Five tests I took said I was below median extroversion, but the Myers-Briggs one says I’m E.) My conscientiousness score was somewhat less than I expected (okay, I do tend to procrastinate a lot, but when I do decide to take something as a matter of life and death, I fuckin’ take it as a matter of life and death), and my neuroticism score was substantially lower than I expected (which strongly disfavours one of my latest hypotheses about the reasons of my lack of romantic success).
I got 1th (1st?) percentile on agreeableness, and I disagree! (yes that sounds like High Fallacy) Infact all of my Big Five scores were quite low barring N which was a nicely high number.
the results of the big five test were highly suspect to me as well.
Oh golly, now I feel bad for using my OCEAN score from a recent test rather than re-taking it. This one was atypical? Sorry for adding noise to the data.
I had recently taken both this one (linked to from here) and the same one as was in the survey, and the scores for all traits were within 6 percentiles of each other. (Stability is the opposite of neuroticism so I should compare N to 100-S, right?)
I took both of those too, and for openness I got 74th percentile on the one you linked and 9th percentile on the one in the survey.
To tell the whole story, I took the shorter test (the one in the survey) right after reading the results of the longer test, so priming effect might have caused the results to be closer that they would have been if I had taken the two tests several days apart.
I reused my scores too. That shouldn’t be a problem unless the linked test is weird...
Same here on O. I feel like the Openness questions featured a bizarrely high proportion of claims to the effect of “I am a brilliant and original thinker,” and despite my attraction to weird ideas (I’m posting here, after all) I don’t think I have the evidence to back up an assertion like that.
My suspicion is that the openness questions in that test are geared toward people who are also Myers-Briggs S’s; I also predict that LWers will be almost entirely N’s (50% confidence interval: at least 85% N), and so score significantly less openness.
I am a massive N on the meyers briggs astrology test, yes I scored 96% for openness on the big-5.
I suspect our responses to questions like “I am an original thinker” have a lot to do with our social context. Right now, the people I run into day to day are fairly representative of the general population with little to skew toward toward the intellectual or original other than “people who hold down decent jobs, or did so until they retired”. It doesn’t take a great lack of humility to realize that compared to most of these people, I am a brilliant and original thinker.
OTOH, it’s not like I’m Feynman or something. If I were working somewhere that filtered strongly for intelligence, like a hot tech startup or academe and had done so for long enough, I would probably feel relatively average and very focused on how to bridge the gap between me and those at the level or two above, vs. a dim awareness of the vast intellectual and originality gap between my associates and the typical person.