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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on May 23, 2009 23:39:26 GMT -5
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Post by Admiral Lithp on May 23, 2009 23:47:46 GMT -5
As a general rule, I dislike personality quizzes.
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Post by antichrist on May 24, 2009 1:06:20 GMT -5
Is the only answer phlegmatic? Because it doesn't fit me at all, but that's what I got.
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Post by Jedi Knight on May 24, 2009 6:01:00 GMT -5
The wikipedia article is interesting. It is strange how modern scientists have based their research upon something as arbitrary as the four temperaments. As you may know, these are connected to the four bodily fluids, each connected to its particular element: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumorismMainstream Western medicine was actually based upon these thoughts from hermetic "science" well into the 19. century. On a different but related subject, I'm a pisces.
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Post by The Lazy One on May 24, 2009 9:57:15 GMT -5
I got phlegmatic.
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Post by SimSim on May 24, 2009 10:09:12 GMT -5
I got Melancholy. I fit a fair bit of the description. But it's a personality quiz, so shouldn't really be taken as anything more than a diversion.
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Post by Sigmaleph on May 24, 2009 15:10:33 GMT -5
I got Choleric in both. Which is utter crap, because I'm as far from being confident or a leader as you get. I also find it interesting that in the scoring system used in the first, you can get the same answer if you are of one type than if you a mixture of the one above it and the one below it, e.g. if you are an equal mixture of sanguine and melancholic you get choleric, even if you don't give any choleric answers. My point being, online personality tests based on archaic conceptions of medicine scored using simplistic systems are not exactly reliable. Yet I take them anyway
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Post by wmdkitty on May 24, 2009 17:16:51 GMT -5
I'm a melancholic.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on May 24, 2009 18:00:52 GMT -5
I ended up as melancholic, though without my social hangups I'd probably be Phlegmatic/Sanguine. Oh well
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on May 24, 2009 18:40:16 GMT -5
If there is or was a more reliable test for this sort of thing I'd probably still get either Sanguine and/or Phelgmatic as they are the most fitting.
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Post by Jebediah on May 24, 2009 19:23:16 GMT -5
I can tell from the list of traits that I'm phlegmatic. There's really no question about it, but because I gave a few less-than-phlegmatic answers, it brought my score down to melancholy. Which I am not at all. The second quiz said I'm choleric, and I'm not that either. A friend of mine sent me this link. Our evaluations seemed to fit us pretty well. This is my result. It's me pretty much, just a bit more. If it were toned down a bit it would be me exactly. Out of the four sets of two you are given, pick out which fits you best. When you have your four options visit this page and find your result.
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Post by SimSim on May 24, 2009 19:44:17 GMT -5
I've taken that test for school a few times. It is pretty accurate.
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Post by Sigmaleph on May 24, 2009 20:45:14 GMT -5
Huh. I was very doubtful between thinking and intuition, chose thinking, checked to see it didn't match me, switched and it turns out INTP fits me much better. I'm distrusting of personality tests, though. Mostly because of the Forer effect.
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Post by 13rats on May 24, 2009 21:39:19 GMT -5
According to the test at writing.com, I'm melancholic, but based on their list of characteristics (which I read all of), I fit all of them. Depending on my mood, I fit just about all of the descriptions in choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic, and the vast majority of the descriptions in sanguine.
I dislike test like this because they invariably make generalizations; the whole point of the test is to group you, even if you don't fit the group. I would feel better if they had a disclaimer to the effect of "This test is made simply to give a general view of which category you fit, not to specifically state what you personally are like. You are the only one who can describe yourself in great detail based on observations of your tendencies." Also, you might give the answer to a question that doesn't really fit you for a reason that doesn't pertain to the test, but that is still true. In the second test, I said that the job I was most interested in there was being a teacher, but that's just because my mom is a teacher and she talks to me about her job all the time so I've seriously thought about teaching, and I haven't given nearly as much thought into being an adventurer or engineer.
tl;dr It can't hurt to read that chunk of text. Just do it later if you're that interested in what I have to say and you don't have the time.
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tempus
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Post by tempus on May 26, 2009 18:13:22 GMT -5
Apparently, our good friend Tim LaHaye is one of the principals behind the resurrection of the Humoral Theory of Temperaments: See Katherine Yurica's take on it here.He's also a proponent of graphology, another pseudoscience, and sees handwriting as a prime indicator of temperament. From the same link: A full-service crank, he is.
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