Is there a "personality test" you've done you found helpful?

Most are made up and silly.

The only one I’ve liked was in college I did a “communication style” one. Where it showed a bunch of different like emails, posts, and conversations and asked which you preferred to receive and which you were likely to write.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/25eff5cb-bd95-49c2-b463-5b2aa1647ff1.png

10 years later I still think about it, cause the goal of the work was to talk about how if you’re a certain communication style what to keep in mind with communicating with others. Like tips to not get frustrated with yellows who don’t care about facts when sending emails and how to write emails that don’t bore and frustrate people if you’re blue. (I’m blue green. I can sometimes write long emails)

I thought about it the other day cause a guy was complaining about all these emails that didn’t seem to say anything, they were just about feeling good, and he just wanted them to spit it out. Which corresponded to firey red getting mad at green.

So with that context, do you have any that actually had an impact on you?

TheKMAP,

MBTI, DISC, and love languages work well together. Even if there’s no hard proof, it at least gets your thinking about the fact that other people think differently. It’s very easy to live in your own head and make assumptions, so getting exposed to these concepts in a formal way can be really effective in building relationships of all kinds.

Acamon,

I really got a lot out of the Myres Briggs when I was younger. I know its not scientifically valid, and it’s stupid of folks take it too seriously, but it really helped young me understand that other people weren’t wrong/dumb/weird for approaching things differently. And it helped me understand some of the axis on which difference can lie in a helpful way.

I think in the post internet age people are very aware of different categories and identities, but growing up in the previous millenium it wasn’t something that we talked about much. The introvert / extrovert division is overblown and overly simplistic nowadays, but before people use to just criticise each other for being “too shy” or “too loud” like there was a “normal” way to be that everyone should get.

The big five is certainly more reliable and scientifically supported, but I never found that it helped me understand a coworker or friend better. Partly I think conscientiousness and neuroticism sound a little too value laden. People can happily self describe as “detail orientated” (Sensing) or “big picture types” (Intuitive) but nobody really wants to say “I’m closed-off and unconscientious”. And I think that’s why MB has been popular in business / organisation worlds, because it’s a useful way to get people discussing themselves and how they approach problems. It doesn’t matter that in reality my level of extraversion varies depending on the context, or I’m Judging in certain tasks but Perceiving in others.

RizzRustbolt,

All personality tests are silly.

Codifying human behavior into distinct categories is reductive and stupid.

So why not see which ninja turtle you are the most alike?

Artyom,

I used to have a job that was really into the Core Value Index. I thought it was pretty awesome because their categories were really simple and there are only 4 so you can really wrap your head around the whole thing at once.

It’s not a full personality test, it’s more focused on trying to answer the question “How do you want ideas presented to you?” And. “How do you prefer to interpret ideas?” I found myself making meanful changes in how I worked with coworkers where I knew their results, which isn’t something anyone can manage with more complicated tests.

bremen15,

I did the Luxx test and found it useful in helping me to understand myself more clearly.

The test is based on empirically found foundational motivations everyone has more or less strongly.

mac,
@mac@infosec.pub avatar

I found this one to be the most accurate, with both times I took it providing fairly accurate results I agreed with for the most part. It also has nice artwork and descriptions. It’s based on Myers Brigg’s system.

bitwaba,

I’m kind of a fan of the True Colors system but not because I “believe it”. More so that I just like that it makes you stop and consider how other people you’re interacting with might consider your behaviors and vice versa.

  • green: independent thinkers (logic driven, efficient, analytical)
  • gold: pragmatic planners (organized, responsible, respect rules and authority)
  • orange: action-oriented (short term changes, adventurous, impulsive)
  • blue: people-oriented (sympathetic, emotion driven, seeks harmony in groups)

Our exercise at work first required you to classify yourself, then everyone else voted to classify you. So you could get a picture of how you can see yourself compared to how others see you.

I think what helps the most for facilitating the conversation is that it groups traits that are similar under a single color, so you can quickly say “I’m gold, I think this other person is green”, then start diving into how one set of actions might be perceived by the other, etc. We didn’t take a personality test. We just went straight in with “here’s what I think I am”, so there’s no questionnaire pigeonholing you into something you might not identify with.

It helped me interact with my co-worker (and close friend outside of work), because he’s very impulse driven and constantly spitting out 200 line proof-of-concept things. But they’re messy and buggy and don’t have any safety rails and all kinds of other things. Where as I’m much more analytical, filing code changes to him for things like considering null inputs in fields, or to fix spelling mistakes (that one is more anal than analytical, but whatev).

By doing this classification exercise, we were able to see beyond “dude wtf are you doing you look at all this wrong stuff” and we’re able to consider how each of us worked was causing stress for the other. By realizing that and incorporating it to our work we were able to stop getting bogged down in arguments of really specific things and could stay focused on the general problem we were trying to solve.

My favorite part of the whole exercise when we did it at work was all of our managers said that they are Blue (considerate of others feelings, etc) where as everyone that reported to them said they were Gold (organized, respect authority), like ruthlessly Gold, and sometimes with a hint of Orange because they change focus of the team every time a new “issue” comes up before we’d finished resolving the open ones. It made me realize that management isn’t intentionally shitty. They’re just delusional to the point that they don’t even see how their actions are nothing like their intentions.

AnalogyAddict,

I hate them because when I try to take personality tests, there are rarely answers that fit me.

surewhynotlem,

An ADHD diagnosis test. Does that count?

deezbutts,

openpsychometrics.org/tests/characters/

SomeGuy69,

Official Hogwarts House Sorting Quiz

Dagwood222,

Possibly off topic.

I read and used a book called “Discover What You Are Best At” by Linda Gail. It’s a series of self administered tests and a list of jobs that use those skills.

It aimed me at a career I found I really enjoyed. It was helpful, but I don’t know if you count that as a ‘personality test.’

SkyeHarith,

Big 5 personality test

IonAddis,
@IonAddis@lemmy.world avatar

The Big 5 is the only “personality” test used in actual scientific studies, if I recall correctly.

beefbot,

BIG. FIVE.

it’s the only one not named after anyone because it wasn’t just ONE person or duo who came up with it.

IT’S THE ONLY ONE SUPPORTED BY >100 INDEPENDENT STUDIES. All caps here bc it’s kinda important that these things be more than just one researcher reinventing astrology*

*COUGH meyers briggs pile of bullshit COUGH

Samsy,

www.playalterego.com

stoy,

Nope, they are all made up recruiting companies to try and justify their ridiculous fees.

Requiring personality tests is just admitting that you are socially incompetent.

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