Weird Psychology Test

[Orphia Nay]

The Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic:

http://www.hypnoid.com/psytest2.html

Check out the (what seem to be) positively odd questions!

I quite liked my results, but that could be because of the Forer Effect. Some of it was a bit extreme, but it was relatively accurate.

Thoughtful to the extreme, you are often obsessed with perfection and the rules governing your own personal interests. Your world is black and white. You love to work within a logical system, such as language, computer programming, or mathematics. Manipulating a system that can be completely understood is a distinct pleasure to you, because of your confidence in the underlying veracity of your belief system. Because of your appreciation for logic and order, those who speak or think in a sloppy manner are apt to generate more than their share of wrath. Although very amiable, you are not drawn to friendships out of a sense of personal need. You are just as happy by yourself with a good book or puzzle. Because you are so involved with thought, you will on occasion have difficulty dealing with the day-to-day problems of a normal life. Taking out the trash, doing the dishes, these are often left until the last possible moment, if at all.

I hope other people do the (fairly short) test - I'd like to see how many different results are given. (Assuming we're not all similar personality types. )

 

[Kid Eager]

hmmm... I got the same thing as you. But I'm an individual!

 

[Trent Wray]

Interesting test and questions, but I got the EXACT same result as you did:

Thoughtful to the extreme, you are often obsessed with perfection and the rules governing your own personal interests. Your world is black and white. You love to work within a logical system, such as language, computer programming, or mathematics. Manipulating a system that can be completely understood is a distinct pleasure to you, because of your confidence in the underlying veracity of your belief system. Because of your appreciation for logic and order, those who speak or think in a sloppy manner are apt to generate more than their share of wrath. Although very amiable, you are not drawn to friendships out of a sense of personal need. You are just as happy by yourself with a good book or puzzle. Because you are so involved with thought, you will on occasion have difficulty dealing with the day-to-day problems of a normal life. Taking out the trash, doing the dishes, these are often left until the last possible moment, if at all.

Makes me a bit suspicious of it.

ETA: I see Kid Eager got the same as well.

 

[Piscivore]

That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. And I saw "Miss Congeniality 2"

 

[Trent Wray]

That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. And I saw "Miss Congeniality 2"

Perhaps you've never seen "Cabin Boy". In the theatre ....

 

[Piscivore]

Perhaps you've never seen "Cabin Boy". In the theatre ....

Yes, I did. Opening week. I was entertained. I can't say the same for "MC2"

I also can't answer questions that require me to project emotions and mental states onto shapes.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Very interesting!

On another, rather woo, forum, they've had these results so far:

Quiet and very self-assured, you tend to keep your own council. Pragmatic and practical to a fault, you are not one to worry about the finer points of philosophical discourse. In fact, because you are very much an individualist, you often finds yourself at odds with the established truth or the wishes of the majority. You will often earn the wrath of an employer by taking upon yourself decisions which are rightly those of your manager. You are not one to take credit unless it is deserved. Similarly however, you will also not happily give credit where it is not due. In a romantic relationship you can be very frustrating. While you do care deeply and sincerely, and are willing to work at a relationship, your confidence in your own abilities can on occasion make it difficult to see the world from a partner’s point of view. Quiet and stoic at times, you can drive a more emotional individual completely up the wall. You can become overstressed and fatigued without knowing it. Taking time to rest between bouts of hard work can help to prevent a breakdown later on.

Handy in the real world manipulation of objects and events, you are easily enthused by practical projects. You often ignore or conveniently forget rules and boundaries that limit your freedom. This need for freedom extends even to the personal sphere and though you are kind and gentle, you will often be hard to pin down to a monogamous lifestyle. Because you tend to verbalize so seldom, you can be seen as phlegmatic or impassive. In moments of high tension you can often surprise those around you with a lighthearted or humorous remark. Because of your facility with the physical world, you are often engaged in sports that require dexterity, such as motorcycling or hang gliding. You will rarely have time for flights of fancy or unproductive discussion. Constraints on your freedom will be regarded as a personal attack.

You have a poetic sensibility and an ability to see beyond the day to day. You often seem to be living in a higher realm, or to be not-of-this-earth. Occasionally you imagine interior lives for friends and associates that are near-complete fabrications based on your fears or hopes for the future. You are often not aware of your own feelings. You have a strong sense of right and wrong, and because of this are often disappointed. Despite what can sometimes be a destructive inward-turning anger, you are very gentle. You are sometimes a bit out of touch with the ebb and flow of modern life. If your behavior is out of synch with your moral values, a severe psychic disturbance can result. Because connectivity is so important to you, you can become quiet and sulky if you feel that others around do not understand your point of view.

And on the ASF, 2 skeptics I suspect weren't taking it seriously got two of the above results.

 

[Roger Ramjets]

Without even looking at the images, I answered 'A' to every question. The result:-

You are not a leader of men but an organizer of men. You need order and organization to feel secure about your life. You will usually have extensive knowledge of your family history and tradition. You have little use for things that are not useful. Hard work, thrift and dedication are the way to your heart. You will always deal with others in a steadfast and straightforward manner, and will consequently expect others to behave the same way. The strange, the illicit, the unusual, have no place in your mindset. Proper planning and organization is a distinct pleasure to you. Because of your sense of responsibility, you will often accept leadership roles that can be onerous and difficult. Your thinking is sequential. Relationships for you often revolve around a sense of mutual responsibility. Good parenting is of prime importance, as is the duties that one lover has to another. You are intensely loyal, but on occasion can be so obsessed with the duties of a relationship that you can forget to address the private moments that give a relationship meaning. Oddly, you can be extremely sentimental.

But here's where it gets weird; somehow it was still able to deliver a diagnosis that's 100% accurate!!1!!

 

[Trent Wray]

Yes, I did. Opening week. I was entertained. I can't say the same for "MC2"

I also can't answer questions that require me to project emotions and mental states onto shapes.

LOL .... dude. I have only walked out of two movies due to utter disappointment, wanting to burn the theatre down for even projecting them onto a screen. Cabin Boy, and Romy and Michel .... Romy and Mich ..... I can't even bring myself to type it all out. Cabin Boy, though, was by far the worst movie I have ever paid to see. One man's trash though, is another man's entertainment I suppose

On the flipside, I laughed so hard I cried almost the entire way through Rushmore.

 

[Piscivore]

I went through again and answered randomly:

Though quiet on the outside, you are often the hidden hero; someone who rushes in when needed and then after the emergency is over fades back into the woodwork.

Nope. In a crisis situation if I know how to deal with it, I usually get ignored in favour of a commitee descision.

Because of this sense of duty and honor,

I don't even believe in those things.

you can also on occasion be rigid in your viewpoint and unyielding in the face of other ways of thinking.

I'm arrogant, but not that arrogant. I know I don't know everything.

Usually cynical and rarely trusting of others, you maintain a small set of intimate friends. These bonds are stronger than most.

Nope. I don't have any intimate friends. My closest friends are all on this site, I've met only a few of you in person, and I wont pretend that our "bonds" are "stronger than most".

You are always grounded in the present moment.

I don't dwell on the past, certainly.

Your close bonds can also lead to clique-ishness and a tendency to gossip about those who are deemed less worthy.

That has nothing to do with "close bonds"- that's being human. Sports fans and political partisans that don't even know each others names do this.

You are an integrative thinker, collecting data from a wide range of sources and applying it to your worldview. You can become overly task-oriented. In stressful situations you often withdraw from the world to seek peace in contemplation. You often seem cold and withdrawn. Often you will withdraw rather than verbalize your discontent.

In other words, I'm human.

This test is nonsense, and the results could have been generated by a horoscope writer.

 

[Piscivore]

LOL .... dude. I have only walked out of two movies due to utter disappointment, wanting to burn the theatre down for even projecting them onto a screen. Cabin Boy, and Romy and Michel .... Romy and Mich ..... I can't even bring myself to type it all out. Cabin Boy, though, was by far the worst movie I have ever paid to see. One man's trash though, is another man's entertainment I suppose

On the flipside, I laughed so hard I cried almost the entire way through Rushmore.

Rushmore is gold. I love all Wes Anderson's work.

 

[yy2bggggs]

As for results, I got the second thing Orphia Nay posted above.

As for it's applicability to me, chance or no, no.

As for anyone who might have some inkling that this test might actually work as advertised, how would it work, how did it occur to whoever came up with it, and by what sane method did said author of the test convince himself it would work?

 

[jiggeryqua]

Though quiet on the outside, you are often the hidden hero; someone who rushes in when needed and then after the emergency is over fades back into the woodwork. Because of this sense of duty and honor, you can also on occasion be rigid in your viewpoint and unyielding in the face of other ways of thinking. Usually cynical and rarely trusting of others, you maintain a small set of intimate friends. These bonds are stronger than most. You are always grounded in the present moment. Your close bonds can also lead to clique-ishness and a tendency to gossip about those who are deemed less worthy. You are an integrative thinker, collecting data from a wide range of sources and applying it to your worldview. You can become overly task-oriented. In stressful situations you often withdraw from the world to seek peace in contemplation. You often seem cold and withdrawn. Often you will withdraw rather than verbalize your discontent.

I did try to take it seriously, but some of the later questions aren't even 'questions' as such, just bizarre statements with question marks at the end.

Piscivore, I appreciate your inclination to view this like stock horoscope phrases, but the humans I've known haven't all been, for example, 'often cold and withdrawn'. Can you say that all the remarks in the other results posted also apply to all humans?

More to the point, you say you did it again, responding randomly, and then criticise the 'reading' because it doesn't describe you. Of course it wouldn't - even if there were anything in it, you didn't answer the questions...

 

[yy2bggggs]

More to the point, you say you did it again, responding randomly, and then criticise the 'reading' because it doesn't describe you. Of course it wouldn't - even if there were anything in it, you didn't answer the questions...

Aha! There's your flaw.

I took the test as seriously as you can take such a test. But it's not like I would have believed the test works if the personality profile did correspond to me.

 

[Trent Wray]

Rushmore is gold. I love all Wes Anderson's work.

I've only seen a few of his flicks, but I liked them as well.

And I had a friend who named his dog Dignan

I did try to take it seriously, but some of the later questions aren't even 'questions' as such, just bizarre statements with question marks at the end.

Piscivore, I appreciate your inclination to view this like stock horoscope phrases, but the humans I've known haven't all been, for example, 'often cold and withdrawn'. Can you say that all the remarks in the other results posted also apply to all humans?

More to the point, you say you did it again, responding randomly, and then criticise the 'reading' because it doesn't describe you. Of course it wouldn't - even if there were anything in it, you didn't answer the questions...

I found it very "Year of the Dragon !!!"-horo-scopish as well, and the summary it gave about me was only about 30% correct or so, if that. And I tried to take it seriously. I enjoyed the questions and the associations

I wonder if it just spews out a few randomly generated summaries which have anything to do with the results at all. It might be interesting to take the test, the same way, three times in a row to see what happens.

 

[Orphia Nay]

http://www.salon.com/news/psycholog.../04/07/pierely_redford_crazy_personality_test

 

[Joey McGee]

It's a hoax!

No no no, it's not a hoax sorry, this is something serious, this is a test for transmedia-fiction-awareness

lol

 

[wombatwal]

As for anyone who might have some inkling that this test might actually work as advertised, how would it work, how did it occur to whoever came up with it, and by what sane method did said author of the test convince himself it would work?

Questions, questions, questions.
Just accept it, have faith.

 

[Piscivore]

I did try to take it seriously, but some of the later questions aren't even 'questions' as such, just bizarre statements with question marks at the end.

Piscivore, I appreciate your inclination to view this like stock horoscope phrases, but the humans I've known haven't all been, for example, 'often cold and withdrawn'.

Actually, I meant to separate that one out, but I was getting bored. I wouldn't say I'm "cold and withdrawn" often- but it is one of those cold-reading statements a horoscope will toss in the mix hoping for a hit.

Can you say that all the remarks in the other results posted also apply to all humans?

"All"? No. Enough to make it worthwhile to throw in there for an attempted hit? Sure.

More to the point, you say you did it again, responding randomly, and then criticise the 'reading' because it doesn't describe you. Of course it wouldn't - even if there were anything in it, you didn't answer the questions...

There wasn't any way to meaningfully- logically or emotionally- answer the questions. They were nonsense. Picking at random is the only recourse. As there cannot be any meaning in the questions, the answers are meaningless as well. I could show how any of the potential answers we've uncovered are a literal "hit and miss" guessing game, at least as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Kid Eager]

I developed a deep distrust of the red triangle - I'm sure it was up to no good.

From now on I'm cutting my toast into squares.