Everyone else is doing it

[den_mother]

Or at least two of my friends in a couple day span have done this, so thought I'd jump on the bandwagon as I break my long LJ absence.

My Personality

Neuroticism

28
Extraversion

52
Openness To Experience

16
Agreeableness

44
Conscientiousness

31
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Comments

[johnnyilluminat]

Except for "openness to experience," you seem pretty balanced in all the areas. How accurate do you think the test was for you?

Glad you were "open to experiencing" yet another in an unending line of personality tests;)

Johnny Illuminati

[den_mother]

Seems fairly accurate, I guess. The description after my results summary felt pretty right, though I think it is definitely more how I present myself to others than how I actually am. It talks about me coming across as practical and down-to-earth, which I think is how I come across to people until they get to know me. And my imagination makes me far less practical as far as the things that go on inside my head.

I don't agree with the extraversion being as high as it is. But it includes how busy one's schedule is in its calculations, and I wouldn't really group the two together. I test as an extravert a lot because I'm comfortable acting like an extravert, but I'm wired up like an introvert. I thrive on alone time and I liken the difference between what goes on in my head and what actually makes it out into the real world to that quote about Hemingway being like an iceberg (thirteen-fifteenths of which is underwater

analysis

[curlygirlymm]

Finally a personality test that has some grounding in psychological research!!! I'm so excited, Kristen! This particular analysis (although I didn't look at the test itself), is called the Five-Factor Approach. Basically, about a century ago, a line of psychologists went through the dictionary and decided that any meaningful personality characteristic would have a word for it. Then, through the years and statistical analyses, various researchers have argued that all the original 2,000-ish personality characteristics could really be boiled down to 5 basic traits- Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism (or the acronym OCEAN for short). The subcomponents on each test are actually subject to debate- the originators of the test supposedly just picked some subscales that sounded right rather than actually testing these subcomponents. There are some people who are ardent adherents of this approach to personality, and a lot of other people who argue that it's not really all inclusive. Plus,