More Personality Stuff

The next personality test on the agenda was the Multiple Intelligences exam... and the results are posted in that horribly small picture next to this text...

So, apparently my highest score is in "Music." My explanation for this? It has to do with all those questions on the test about humming and tapping feet and all that. I used to play instruments, but I am by no means a musical genius... I think that I just have the ability to do stupid things like sing along to songs and memorize parts of raps and all that. I think I skewed my own answers by answering some of those questions in the wrong way. Hmm...

"Linguistics" came next... not so weird. I am gifted writer, and I hope also a gifted speaker... writing is a passion, and so I'm not so surprised about this category.

"Naturalistic" is the last of the intelligences, and I'm not too surprised. I would not fall in the outdoor-sy tree-hugging category.

Last of my personality tests:

Sorry about the picture quality. But yes, apparently, according to the information on the results page, I am "fairly well balanced," all except for that one dimension, which stresses that I am more intuitive than sensing. Therefore, I am including a nice little section on intuitive people that I found on a link off of the results page:

Sensing learners tend to like learning facts, intuitive learners often prefer discovering possibilities and relationships.
Sensors often like solving problems by well-established methods and dislike complications and surprises; intuitors like innovation and dislike repetition. Sensors are more likely than intuitors to resent being tested on material that has not been explicitly covered in class.
Sensors tend to be patient with details and good at memorizing facts and doing hands-on (laboratory) work; intuitors may be better at grasping new concepts and are often more comfortable than sensors with abstractions and mathematical formulations.
Sensors tend to be more practical and careful than intuitors; intuitors tend to work faster and to be more innovative than sensors.
Sensors don't like courses that have no apparent connection to the real world; intuitors don't like "plug-and-chug" courses that involve a lot of memorization and routine calculations.

Cool, huh? Of course, I'm not so much more inclined toward the intuitive side... just a bit. I am a creative person; I love writing (i.e. slam poetry, which combines the challenge of writing a good piece and the excitement of performing it), and I hope to be able to utilize my creativity in my future classroom. Also, I'm not always the most "methodical" person when it comes to schoolwork; whereas some people might spend a lot of time studying or reviewing or whatever, I am definitely a more last-minute type person, even when it comes to studying for tests.

So the important question to address here is: technology. I get bored fairly easily. That means that sitting through a lecture on how to use something is not necessarily the best solution for me. I am not saying I can't learn that way... but I think honestly, the perfect example of what I like when it comes to using technological processes is the sheet of paper we received which explained how to take a screen shot. Why is this a good example, you ask? Because I love having printed instructions on how to do something. Even having them on paper is a plus, because it gets rid of screen-switching and all that on the computer. Having instructions that are known to work, on a piece of paper in front of me- that's awesomeness.

Maybe I'm not contained to any particular type of learning style: I mean, I could easily follow along in class the other day when we worked with the Macs. But, having the paper and available instructions makes up for when I learn something but then forget it... so, I suppose you could say I need concrete evidence for some things so that I don't forget it (especially when I learned it in an active or auditory way, which didn't produce a sheet of notes).

Also, although it is probably because I have been exposed to computers a lot during my life, I am able to do some basic computer troubleshooting by myself. Case in point: using Apple message boards to troubleshoot iTunes.

The Beginning of the Personality Tests

So, as a note: I'm having a tiny bit of trouble with the whole screen-shot thing, and I am probably just going to blame my computer for the trials and tribulations it is putting me through. Ahhh- we go way back.

Anywho, the first test which I waded through was the Jung Typology Test. Apparently, my type is ISFP (Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving), with the greatest strength of preference being the feeling part (25%). Also, here is what else this test has said:

You are:
slightly expressed introvert
slightly expressed sensing personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed perceiving personality

Well, what can I say? To many I might appear to be a social butterfly (which I certainly am in some situations), but I suppose that my preferences to relax at home, my infrequent "partying" adventures, and my enjoyment of personal time have made this test biased in favor of a more introverted approach. My opinion? Although I know I have wide-ranging connections, and a huge expanse of acquaintances, I do still love my personal time... I cannot spend all of my time around other people. But is that so abnormal? I wonder if perhaps I am more introverted than extroverted. Maybe I am, and I just WISH to be more extroverted. Argh personality tests.

The thing about personality tests is that, when you get older, you sort of "figure out" their tricks. You know, like you can predict which answers will go with which type of personality. The nicer thing about this test was that it was not so blatantly obvious as to what type of personality it would award me. Still, one can work themselves into frustration simply by overthinking the various questions... and of course, one can easily get bored and pick an answer, or... one can be ashamed of the true answer to a specific question, and purposely pick the other answer.

I'm sure all of those have to do with some other personality attribute. Perhaps they should create a test to deal with those issues.

More to come on this test in its relation to technology after I complete the other personality tests. Ciao!