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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2007-06-21 10:00 am

Greeks bearing memes

The Greek Mythology Personality Test.

Close enough to be intriguing (the first sentence of the second paragraph sounds horribly plausible), but - I don't know, somehow it's not quite me. It's good to read that famous people like me, though!

33% Extroversion, 100% Intuition, 16% Emotiveness, 66% Perceptiveness

Heuristic, detached, and analytical to a fault, you are most like The Oracle. You are able to tackle any subject with a fine toothed comb, and you possess an ability to pinpoint nuances and shades of meaning that other people do not have and cannot understand. Accomplishment and realization of ideas are, for you, secondary to the rigorous exploration of ideas and questions -- you are, first and foremost, a theorist. You hate authority, convention, tradition, and under no circumstances do you accept a leadership role (although, you will gladly advise leadership when they're going astray, whether they want you to or not). Abstraction and generalities are your interests, details and particulars are usually inconsequential and uninteresting. You excel at language, mathematics and philosophy.

You are typically easy-going and non-confrontational until someone violates one of the very few principles that you deem sacred, at which point you can fly into a rage. Although you possess a much greater understanding of process and systems than the people around you, you are always conscious of the possibility that you've missed something or made a mistake. You don't tend to become attached to particular theories, and will immediately discard mistaken notions once they're revealed to be incorrect (but you don't tolerate iconoclasts who try to discredit validated theories through the use of fallacies and bad data). Despite being outwardly humble, you probably think of yourself as being smarter than most other people. That's because you are. In fact, in your dealings with people your understanding of their motives is so expansive that you know what they're going to say before they say it, and in world affairs, you usually know what is going to take place before it actually does. This ability would make you unbeatable in debates if only you were a little less pensive about your own conclusions, and a little more outgoing.

Famous people like you: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John McWhorter, Ramanujan, Marie Curie, Kurt Godel
Stay clear of: Apollo, Icarus, Hermes, Aphrodite
Seek out: Atlas, Prometheus, Daedalus
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:


You scored higher than 17% on Extroversion


You scored higher than 86% on Intuition


You scored higher than 6% on Emotiveness


You scored higher than 51% on Perceptiveness

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[identity profile] lamentables.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
It says I'm Orpheus and a treasure to the human race.

Curiously, despite scoring 0% on Extroversion, I still scored higher on extroversion than 99% of other people of my age & gender.

[identity profile] lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
There does seem to be a problem with those percentiles! I wondered in my case (33%; 100%; 72% and 90% - ALL higher than 99% of people my age and gender) if it was just that nobody female as ancient as I am has taken the thing yet.

Fellow Orpheus, btw, and all nice except the icky'childlike innocence'.
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[identity profile] lamentables.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I assumed that I was the only female of advanced years to have taken the test. I think that might make me feel cool. Or perhaps it indicates I should be doing more productive things with my time.

I mentally replaced 'childlike innocence' with 'sensawunda' which I do have and which I cherish.
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[identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure I've ever done one of those tests where I didn't beat 99% of contemporary females, so I've just assumed that bit of the software was broken; I was surprised that it seemed to be working for [livejournal.com profile] steepholm!

[identity profile] scholars-blog.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm an Orpheus too - surprisingly accurate in its summing up - and I LOVE that I'm like Shakespeare (if only I could write like him too !)

Michele
http://scholar-blog.blogspot.com/