Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 gareth wrote: > well, hang on; Isnt it alligator, as its an amphibian, the others are > mammals? An alligator is a reptile, and a chicken is a bird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 > > > well, hang on; Isnt it alligator, as its an amphibian, the others are > > mammals? > > An alligator is a reptile, and a chicken is a bird. > > DOH!! :-) All the best, Gareth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 Hi, I was going to say all but the alligator are domesticated animals, but then there are people who have alligators as pets... Re: EQ SQ etc. > > > 1. Cat > > 2. Alligator > > 3. Horse > > 4. Chicken > > 5. Pig > > There is only one right answer. Anyone want to guess what it is? > > > > Chicken - because it's only got 2 legs and no teeth? > ******* > > well, hang on; Isnt it alligator, as its an amphibian, the others are > mammals? > > All the best, > Gareth. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 > I hate questions like that. You can make a persuasive argument for > any one of those five that it doesn't belong with the other four. That's why it's not a question that messures your IQ number, but rather your IQ style. Some of the questions on that test have more than one right answer, so that they can tell HOW you think, rather than HOW ACCURATELY you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 > I just did another Meyers-Briggs personality sorter thing. I have > always scored INTP or ISTP on all of these, but the scores are so > close on the N/S thing... I'm really right at the boundary between the > two. This one I just did was a crusty old DOS app, was quite long, > and it put me as ISTP, but the score for " S " was 28 and " N " was 27, so > it was very close again. If I read the descriptions of ISTP and > INTP, though, I am much closer to INTP. I have always viewed Myers-Briggs as a set of choices between false dichotomies. The only one that even makes *sense* to me is introversion/extroversion. But I was bored last night, so I took a Myers-Briggs-type test I'd never taken before, and I ended up with an exact 50/50 split between INTP and ISTP (it told me that in the case of 50/50 splits it chose one at random and to reload the page if I wanted to see my other profile). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 > Well, now I took the first one, and got 139. I think > that the math questions on both kicked my ass. I'm > just not able to think with the left side of my brain. Mathematics, like most tasks, is handled on both sides of the brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 << that iq test is not worth a squit. i got 155 too, and that is wayyyyy to high. i teach a child whose iq is 155 and she learns faster than i can show her things. those tests hope to tempt you to buy a product usually. so it is in their interests to please and excite you. >> Score on an IQ test and learning speed are not the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 Eeep. I'll be tested, formally, for autism in the next few weeks. I hope I won't have to take the Myers-Briggs. I fill that thing out at random. " I like to set things on fire, " and whatnot... or is that the MMPI I'm thinking of? I like personallity tests when it's on Quizilla and you get graphics and HTML to post to your blog. I hate personality tests when people with the power to give you an " official " diagnosis are judging the depths of your deeply disturbed psyche. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 wrote: > I have always viewed Myers-Briggs as a set of choices > between false dichotomies. The only one that even makes > *sense* to me is introversion/extroversion. But I was > bored last night, so I took a Myers-Briggs-type test I'd > never taken before, and I ended up with an exact 50/50 > split between INTP and ISTP (it told me that in the case > of 50/50 splits it chose one at random and to reload the > page if I wanted to see my other profile). Is there a free Myers-Briggs test I can take, and what's the URL? I tried to take one some time ago, but they wanted money. I could give the money, but doing so on- line was too hard to figure out. :-( Clay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 wrote: > Mathematics, like most tasks, is > handled on both sides of the brain. I don't think it is in mine, and I'm strictly right-brained. I lack all that mathematical, technological, and mechanical ability that many people have, whether AS or NT. I think I did pretty well on the spatial relationships questions, though not sure. Clay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 Clay wrote: > Is there a free Myers-Briggs test I can take, and what's > the URL? I tried to take one some time ago, but they > wanted money. I could give the money, but doing so on- > line was too hard to figure out. :-( > > Clay > Several, in fact...here's a link to one (in my experience they ALL give consistent results...I always test as INTP). http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 wrote: > Several, in fact...here's a link to one >(in my experience they ALL give consistent > results...I always test as INTP). > http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp Thanks I got ISTJ, whatever that means. Very strong on introverted, though. Clay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 > > Mathematics, like most tasks, is > > handled on both sides of the brain. > I don't think it is in mine, and I'm > strictly right-brained. I lack all > that mathematical, technological, and > mechanical ability that many people > have, whether AS or NT. I think I did > pretty well on the spatial relationships > questions, though not sure. Mechanical ability is generally considered " right-brained " by those who subscribe to the sort of barely-founded theories you are pretty much citing here, and linguistic ability, by the way, is considered " left-brained " by those theories. There's no such thing as a " strictly right-brained " person unless you've got no left hemisphere (and in fact a person who essentially has no left hemisphere, and who has been widely studied, has primarily skills that are normally considered to be allocated to the right side). Plus, even when tasks are lateralized in some manner, both sides of the brain handle certain aspects of them, and which side which part is lateralized on is highly dependent upon the individual person. If you're bad at math, you're bad at math, but it's probably not because you're " strictly right-brained " , unless your left hemisphere is damaged beyond recognition (in which case you'd be hemiplegic). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 > Is there a free Myers-Briggs test I can take, and what's > the URL? I tried to take one some time ago, but they > wanted money. I could give the money, but doing so on- > line was too hard to figure out. :-( http://similarminds.com/ Has a bunch of tests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 Re: EQ SQ etc. > Thanks > I got ISTJ, whatever that means. Very strong > on introverted, though. > > Clay Yeah...I scored 93% on introversion, myself...93% on thinking, too... " intuition " and " perception " were more moderately expressed (both in the 30-40% range). Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 As it anyone cares, i wanted to post my test results: ISTJ, pretty accurate personality type: 5w6 meantype:7w8 i dont know WTF this means sooo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 wrote: > > > Mathematics, like most tasks, is > > > handled on both sides of the brain. and I responded: > > I don't think it is in mine, and I'm > > strictly right-brained. I lack all > > that mathematical, technological, and > > mechanical ability that many people > > have, whether AS or NT. I think I did > > pretty well on the spatial relationships > > questions, though not sure. and she answered: > Mechanical ability is generally considered " right- > brained " by those who subscribe to the sort of barely- > founded theories you are pretty much citing here, and > linguistic ability, by the way, is considered " left- > brained " by those theories. Yes, I am aware of what they say in that regard, but, I think it has been established that my brain, and yours (and yours, and yours, and yours, etc.) are configured differently than is the norm. I know this is going to sound crazy, but I think I can " feel " exactly where the essential part of myself resides, i.e., in an area about 1 inch in diameter, beginning 3 inches behind my right eye, and about 2 inches above that. An MRI might prove it. Anyway, I wouldn't want to lose that part to an operation or a stroke. > If you're bad at math, you're bad at math, but it's > probably not because you're " strictly right-brained " , > unless your left hemisphere is damaged beyond > recognition (in which case you'd be hemiplegic). No brain damage that I know of, but I can recall sitting in class in 2nd grade, trying to understand what the teacher was saying about addition and subtraction. I realized that I " wasn't getting it " , and that there was a bridge between the sides of my brain that wasn't letting the information get through. I wasn't surprised when I learned many years later that there was a thing called the corpus callosum, which does that very thing. You may recall that I said on another list that when my daughter was 2 or 3, I praised her for something she did right, and then asked her how she knew to do it. She said, " My brains told me to. " Intrigued, I asked her, " How many brains do you have? " She rolled her eyes back, and then said, " Two. " I don't think she got that from anybody else at that early point in her life. Clay, between cases again. PS. Thanks for the URL, I'll take some tests later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 Thanks I got ISTJ, whatever that means. Very strong on introverted, though. Clay ********8 I got; INTJ so, there you go. All the best, Gareth (and thanks Chris) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 You may recall that I said on another list that when my daughter was 2 or 3, I praised her for something she did right, and then asked her how she knew to do it. She said, " My brains told me to. " Intrigued, I asked her, " How many brains do you have? " She rolled her eyes back, and then said, " Two. " I don't think she got that from anybody else at that early point in her life. ********* Arnt kids just great. Yours sounds really cool. All the best, Gareth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2003 Report Share Posted November 17, 2003 > As it anyone cares, i wanted to post my test results: > ISTJ, pretty accurate > personality type: 5w6 > meantype:7w8 > i dont know WTF this means sooo. It means that someone obsessed with categorizing you into 16 essential types in one case and 9 essential types (with wings) in another case decided to put you into a few of those categories on the basis of a test. In my case on that test, I got mixed INTP/ISTP straight down the middle, and either 5w6 or 5w4 (I don't remember, it seems to give me either one of those) with a 'meantype' of 8w7. The 9-type thing is basically someone who took 9 different personality types they observed and attempted to fit everyone in the world into them, and when that didn't work, I suspect, is when they started pulling out the 'meantype' and the " Well if you're 5 and well-compensated you act more like an 8 but if you're not well-compensated you act more like this other thing " . Sort of like with the Myers-Briggs they start talking about secondary and tertiary and whaddoyocallit functions until basically you have *all* of the traits they list so you can fit any description they gave you (such as, " What, you're an INTP and you're very emotive? Well that's just your secondary EF coming out " , and other things like that). Basically those theories are set up so that no matter what category you get put in, it will seem like it fits you, because they have several 'outs' for when you don't seem to fit the category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2003 Report Share Posted November 18, 2003 Hmmmm...sounds like when my MMPI-A came out " invalid " cause the K-scale lie factor thing was way too high, and " got too many yes answers " . However I did read and answer every question (there are consistant eraser marks throughout) and told the truth on all. My memory is too bad to LIE on it!!! lol ps- it also sounds like what psychics do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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