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remmers
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response 25 of 54:
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May 23 14:58 UTC 2002 |
("if", not "of")
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jep
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response 26 of 54:
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May 23 15:46 UTC 2002 |
I guess that's a good question. I like to draw conclusions from small
statistical samples, but have no reason to suppose they're accurate.
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anderyn
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response 27 of 54:
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May 23 16:00 UTC 2002 |
I thought that my score correlated with my Meyers-Briggs results rather well.
I am an ISFJ, with real emphasis on the J and the I, not so much on the S.
So I'm a conservative quiet person who values tradition and stability. Yep.
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viper2
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response 28 of 54:
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May 23 16:47 UTC 2002 |
Well I got a 45 and I'm an ENFP =P
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bhelliom
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response 29 of 54:
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May 23 17:57 UTC 2002 |
Heh . . . beat you all. Got a 53 :)
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bhelliom
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response 30 of 54:
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May 23 17:58 UTC 2002 |
I took the MB test a loooong time ago. Can't for the life of me
remember what my results were. As it is, I think the results would be
different now.
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jaklumen
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response 31 of 54:
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May 23 21:07 UTC 2002 |
as stated earlier, 40 and a INFJ, which I thought was skewed a bit
since I knew I didn't answer really honestly on some questions. But
the results should be about the same: I'm about on the line between J
and P. I know many don't put much faith in the similar Personality
sorter test, which supposedly doesn't have demonstrated accuracy or
precision, but some of the *descriptions* seemed to apply to me:
idealist, dreamer, "ugly duckling," etc.
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jaklumen
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response 32 of 54:
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May 23 21:11 UTC 2002 |
Howard Gardner's theory of seven (well, actually eight now)
intelligences is also refuted by his fellow psychologists who say it
doesn't really follow defined global areas, but I think it's relevant.
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jazz
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response 33 of 54:
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May 23 22:22 UTC 2002 |
One of Gardner's tests is evolutionary plausibility, which most of his
fellows' pet theories *can't* pass. ;)
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void
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response 34 of 54:
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May 24 05:32 UTC 2002 |
49.
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keesan
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response 35 of 54:
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May 24 16:25 UTC 2002 |
Someone try grading me:
1. a) or b) (or when I have had enough sleep and food)
2. Depends who I am walking with, and where and why - slowly in the woods,
fast to get places or keep up.
3. I am usually sitting during conversations.
4. I sit crosslegged - is this the same as legs crossed?
5. I tend to respond with a ;)
6. I say hello audibly to the host when I arrive
7. I try to answer the phone politely when I am interrupted.
8. I like chestnut brown but otherwise orange or green will do.
9. In a cold room, curled in a ball - depends also on how flat the sleeping
surface is.
10. None of these.
I think it is stupid to give people multiple choice questions where the answer
is never 'none of the above' as not everyone fits neatly into slots.
How would you answer:
What do you usually eat for breakfast:
a) rice gruel with fermented tofu
b) bread with olives and mint tea
c) toast with fried tomatoes and mushrooms
d) a poptart
Or how about - if you had enough money, which if the following would you most
want to buy:
a) a refrigerator
b) a tape deck
c) a bicycle
d) food
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jmsaul
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response 36 of 54:
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May 24 16:45 UTC 2002 |
I got a 54.
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fitz
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response 37 of 54:
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May 25 12:16 UTC 2002 |
42, however I didn't see 'icky' listed amongst the attributes listed for that
score.
The test is obviously flawed.
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buddy
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response 38 of 54:
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May 25 14:20 UTC 2002 |
Okay i took the quiz and my score came out at 35. I read what it said about
my score and i am happy with what i got. Maybe i can get my mom to take this
quiz and see how she does.
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janc
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response 39 of 54:
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May 25 17:51 UTC 2002 |
I got a 49.
Having said that, I think this test stinks. For example, I sleep on my side
normally, because it is the best for my back problems, but when I have one
of my frequent sinus infections, I sleep on my back, propped up with a small
mountain of pillows. So what does this tell about my personality? Nothing,
unless back pain and sinus infections are personality traits. Most of the
other questions I was answering semi-randomly. They don't fit well.
I think what little this test can tell about a person's personality can be
more accurately judged by spending five minutes talking to them.
However, I'm a former professor, and can grade anyone. Grading Sindi:
1. (a) is 2, (b) is 4. We give Sindi a 3.
2. Sindi walks in a lot of contexts where other people don't walk. The
test isn't talking about those. Everyone walks fast when they are in
a hurry and slow when they are appreciating the landscape. The question
is what you do when you don't have any compelling reason to walk either
fast or slow. Sindi says "fast to get places". Well call that a split
between (a) and (b) for 5 points.
3. Evading. Obviously sometimes you stand while talking to people.
Where are your hands? Pending a sensible answer, we give Sindi a 4.
4. Yes. 6 points.
5. That's b. 4 points.
6. That's b. 4 points.
7. That's c. 4 points.
8. Your first choice is g, which is 1 point, but we award you a bit more
for your second choices. 2 points.
9. More evasiveness. I'm declaring you a c. 4 points.
10. You regularly dream, your dreams are often unpleasant but do not
involve falling, fighting, struggling, or searching. 2 points.
That's 38 points. You'll be relieved to hear that, although you have now been
consigned to a box, nobody else is in the same one, so you are confirmed as
a unique individual.
Void and I, however, are both 49's and are hence proven to be identical twins,
probably the same person logging in under different names. Who'd have
guessed?
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jep
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response 40 of 54:
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May 26 02:37 UTC 2002 |
re #39: Jan, since your dating program on M-Net, I don't think you have
standing to tell anyone any other test stinks. Heh.
(Dang, that was funny.)
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janc
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response 41 of 54:
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May 26 13:16 UTC 2002 |
Quite the contrary, that incident helps qualify me as an expert on
stinky tests.
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cmcgee
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response 42 of 54:
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May 26 14:02 UTC 2002 |
oooh, what is the dating program? Can we see it here?
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keesan
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response 43 of 54:
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May 26 15:48 UTC 2002 |
I do not regularly have unpleasant dreams, but I do regularly dream that I
am asleep and have to use the bathroom. This invariably means that I wake
up because I have to use the bathroom. What sort of personality does that
indicate? When I am standing talking to Jim I am usually washing dishes or
making supper - does that fit the test somehow? Or I am biking, which is
nowhere on the test, or walking. When do people simply stand around talking?
Jan, thanks for the assistance in finding the real me. What does it indicate
about someone if their hands are usually on the keyboard while they are
talking?
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slynne
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response 44 of 54:
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May 26 16:10 UTC 2002 |
That dating program was awesome! ;)
I got to meet lots of cool people I might not have otherwise talked to.
once in a while my name would come up for someone and they would send
chat to me in party and stuff. It was cool. I even got some dates out
of it *smirk*
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oval
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response 45 of 54:
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May 26 19:20 UTC 2002 |
sindi, you should peepee before bed.
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jep
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response 46 of 54:
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May 27 02:38 UTC 2002 |
re #42: Jan wrote a dating program for M-Net back in the 1980's which
became wildly popular. I believe at least one *marriage* resulted from
it. It was a questionnaire, asking all sorts of questions, and after
you completed it, it would spew out a list of up to 5 ideal dates for
you. You could go back and check (I think you didn't have to complete
the questionnaire again) and most of your ideal dates would be the
same, though someone new might have edged out one of your previous 5,
as new people got added to the data base.
It was a complete fraud. Jan didn't admit it for about 6 weeks after
setting up the program, as I recall. I forget how he matched people,
but it had nothing to do with the questions. Something based on
loginid or last name or something like that.
It was brilliant. It was hilarious. It was one of the most classic
pranks ever played on M-Net, along with remmers' Mary Poppins program
which was used as the April Fool's joke on Grex several times.
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jmsaul
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response 47 of 54:
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May 27 02:52 UTC 2002 |
Hang on. Someone got married because of it?
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jep
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response 48 of 54:
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May 27 02:59 UTC 2002 |
I thought so. I don't know who it was, though.
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janc
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response 49 of 54:
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May 29 17:02 UTC 2002 |
It was basically a random match. I used the questions to seed the
random number generator, but only so that people who entered different
answers would get different matches. There were questions about age,
sexual orientation and gender. It paid attention to those, so it would
match gay males with other gay males whose ages didn't differ by more
than ten years, but within those broad parameters it was random.
Quite a few people first started talking to each other because of that
program. One recently-engaged couple got very upset because they
didn't match, so Meg made me confess. (But they should have trusted the
program - their marriage didn't last long.) I have a vague
recollection that it matched up Mike and Carrie, but I don't know if
they first met that way or not.
I figured random matchings were as good as any other algorithm I'd be
able to come up with. I'm not exactly the world's greatest expert on
romance, after all. I don't know what makes couples work.
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