What Sort Of Facebook Quiz Are You?
What Sort Of Facebook Quiz Are You?
They're annoying click-bait. They're inaccurate. They're a waste of time that distracts from another waste of time. Yet you can't help yourself. You want to know what sort of person you are, so you click through on them. They're Facebook Personality Quizzes, and now you must know which type is most like YOU, because you are an individual whose individuality somehow corresponds to one of less than ten—hell, Less Than FIVE—distinct types. Wow, how unique. :eyeroll:
They're annoying click-bait. They're inaccurate. They're a waste of time that distracts from another waste of time. Yet you can't help yourself. You want to know what sort of person you are, so you click through on them. They're Facebook Personality Quizzes, and now you must know which type is most like YOU, because you are an individual whose individuality somehow corresponds to one of less than ten—hell, Less Than FIVE—distinct types. Wow, how unique. :eyeroll:
Complete this sentence: "I am . ."
Due to a lucky accident at work, you now have a day off with pay. How do you spend it?
True or false: I am usually early to my job, my appointments, and my social obligations.
Consider this sentence: "Politics are a part of everyday life."
THIS QUESTION DELIBERATELY LEFT BLANK.
You are a Myers Briggs Personality Test!
You are a Myers Briggs Personality Test!
You know the old joke, "There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't?" You're one of the people who do divide people into two types. You just do it four times over—2 to the 4th power is sixteen, the number of Myers Briggs personalities. This strange quantification of personalities was created by non-psychologists from the non-empirical psychological theories of C.G. Jung, and has less than no empirical evidence for it: that is, whenever its results have been scrutinized, they're been found to be wrong.
Outside of internet quizzes, the Myers Briggs personality test has found most popularity in corporate HR and related areas, such as career development and so-called life coaching. Check out the "Criticism" section of the Wikipedia article "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" or Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Bait and Switch" (many relevant passages online at Google books.)
You are a Role-Playing Game Alignment Quiz!
You are a Role-Playing Game Alignment Quiz!
Some role playing games categorize players' characters along moral and ethical axes, where the moral categories are "Good," "Neutral," and "Evil," and the ethical ones are "Orderly," Neutral," and "Chaotic." While this doesn't claim to exhaust a character's personality (or perhaps it does?), it might be a useful and informative way of looking at people in terms of their life histories and how they might behave in a given situation. It's not clear whether this typology has any empirical validity, but then again, no one is claiming it does.
You are a Movie/TV Hero/Villain Quiz!
You are a Movie/TV Hero/Villain Quiz!
Movies! TV! Fun! Entertainment! No real insight wanted here—or maybe you engage in a lot of wish fulfillment day dreaming, I dunno, but no (value) judgment intended, OK?
You're not playing the Game, are you?
You're not playing the Game, are you?
OK, we get it. You don't go in for personality tests either, at least of the Facebook variety, and perhaps generally (although one of the possible answers here might be an MMPI type quiz—maybe), although I don't want to speculate on that (and besides, if there were an MMPI answer here, that would be irresponsible, because the MMPI has to be administered by a trained psychologist, so don't you go looking for one. Seriously).
I'm not sure whether to congratulate you on your critical (judicious perhaps?) approach or tell you to lighten up and get a sense of humor. Maybe you need both? I sure as hell do. I have such a goddamn axe to grind about these things, I made up this damn quiz.
You are the goddamn Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Goddamn . . .
You are the goddamn Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Goddamn . . .
Wow. This one is hard to get. But yeah—you're a goddamn internet version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test (MMPI), which shouldn't even be possible in the first place, because the MMPI is only supposed to be administered by trained psychologists or trained affiliated professionals. It has a goddamn schizophrenia diagnosis component, for God's sake—would you take an online test that might come back and tell you you're schizophrenic—Seriously Schizophrenic, as in "OMG, call a shrink and take your thorazine" schizophrenic? I didn't think so. Anyway, I'm not going to diagnose you ("And why would you," you think, settling back contemptuously, "this is a test of which sort of Internet Personality Test I am, not what the results from it would be!" And you'd be correct, although I think people might also expect those sort of quiz results, too) but only say—damn, y'all are some stone cold analytical type, aren'tcha?