Wednesday, June 12, 2002 Online quizzes: I was thinking about how popular they are. I'm not immune to them either; I think they are harmless in general but what about those that profess to be of a more serious/ scientific nature? For example, I took this quiz by humanmetrics; a "Jung Typology Test."
The results are as follows:
Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
(a portrait of the mastermind)

*stroking my chin*

Among the numerous qualities that are attendant with this personality type, I am supposedly: "more self-confident," "rather rare, comprising no more than 1% of the population." I am also "the most open-minded of all the types," but I am also "ruthless in implementing effective ideas, seldom counting personal cost in terms of energy and money."
The full description can be found here.
Famous people with the same Type include:
1. Isaac Newton,
2. Peter I of Russia,
3. Friedrich Nietzsche and
4. Niels Bohr.

and so on....

But what really interests me is how all these people have so much free time to break down personality types like this. Are we humans so predictable that someone else can come along and analyse our "makeup" like a chemistry experiment? I find the idea of being able to account for everything in one's "personality" positively disturbing. And the fact that so long as we find the right "compatible" type, we will be alright. I mean, if all these are true, then why do we bother meeting new people and keeping in touch with old friends? Why not just have everyone wear a sign over their heads that says what signs they are and save all this time?

posted by Sharon K at 9:52 am