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[Faith No More]

Mediator 47.37%

"Meditators often combine two features that are rarely seen together — a relaxed, big-picture worldview and a strong propensity to question their own judgments. This mixture inclines Meditators to ponder life's big questions, which they can consider in great depth if they choose. Approximately 6% of the populace are Meditators."

Reflective, subjective, carefree, open.

The test seems quite flawed to me given its use of ambiguous questions and a heavy reliance on self-observation. It's a neat little exercise, but this is how it describes "open"...

"You are Open: You're not an aggressive skeptic or naysayer. You tend to consider information without immediately disputing it unless given clear reason to do so. Proving people wrong is not a high priority for you."

Anyone that knows me in meatspace would laugh at someone trying to describe me like that.

[Mr.wizard]

Executive:

Executives tend to be people of vision. They consider their own ideas as carefully as they consider ideas that others put before them, and they're adept at organizing both types of thought into clear plans of action for the future. However, they often prefer to leave the nitty-gritty components of these plans to others. Approximately 4% of the populace are Executives.

Reflective
Subjective
Prepared
Skeptical

Overall score: 68.42

[Jenny A]

The questions about money I didn't really get, "how much would you pay for this". They really didn't make any sense to me at all, they were pretty vague and without knowing what I'm supposed to put my money towards, especially in yank currency, it was a little difficult to not give seemingly random answers.

They were seeing if you valued your time in the same way under differing circumstances and also if you understood interest and the time value of money.

I'm a Rationalist.  And not particularly carefree.

[Whateverist]

No more than necessary.

[Napoléon]

Mediator 47.37%

"Meditators often combine two features that are rarely seen together — a relaxed, big-picture worldview and a strong propensity to question their own judgments. This mixture inclines Meditators to ponder life's big questions, which they can consider in great depth if they choose. Approximately 6% of the populace are Meditators."

Reflective, subjective, carefree, open.

The test seems quite flawed to me given its use of ambiguous questions and a heavy reliance on self-observation.  It's a neat little exercise, but this is how it describes "open"...

"You are Open: You're not an aggressive skeptic or naysayer. You tend to consider information without immediately disputing it unless given clear reason to do so. Proving people wrong is not a high priority for you."

Anyone that knows me in meatspace would laugh at someone trying to describe me like that.

Maybe it's using a different definition to open than what it originally meant. When I saw your other descriptors, I actually agreed with the 'open' bit until I saw how it defined it. I thought the mediator description was pretty good.

Like you say though, all of these kinds of tests are flawed IMO due to the fact it relies on you answering both honestly and with some degree of realistic self-observation. It also has a touch of the barnum effect going on.

[Saxmoof]

That's me: http://programs.clearerthinking.org/how_...ZpuDflVhBf
Let me know if the link works.

It just gives me my scores when I click it

[Faith No More]

Maybe it's using a different definition to open than what it originally meant. When I saw your other descriptors, I actually agreed with the 'open' bit until I saw how it defined it. I thought the mediator description was pretty good.

Like you say though, all of these kinds of tests are flawed IMO due to the fact it relies on you answering both honestly and with some degree of realistic self-observation. It also has a touch of the barnum effect going on.

The mediator is probably a pretty good description for me the more I think about it, but the fact that I didn't show up as skeptical has me scratching my head. I was raised to be skeptical. It was ingrained into as a child, and I've always thought I've done a pretty good job of exercising it. I mean, people get pissed at me, because I'm so anal about questioning what they say and their conclusions.

I just felt on several of the questions that I needed clarification or more information to truly answer properly. Except for the "open" part, I guess the rest was a pretty decent description of me.

[Metis]

Hrrm. I'm apparently a Free Spirit and don't reason all that well

Intuitive
Subjective
Carefree
Open

44.74%

[Napoléon]

The mediator is probably a pretty good description for me the more I think about it, but the fact that I didn't show up as skeptical has me scratching my head.  I was raised to be skeptical.  It was ingrained into as a child, and I've always thought I've done a pretty good job of exercising it.  I mean, people get pissed at me, because I'm so anal about questioning what they say and their conclusions.  

They're all really strings to the same bow. Just because it describes you as a 'mediator' doesn't mean it doesn't also recognize you as a skeptic, it's just it thinks the mediator description is more relevant I suppose.

[Excited Penguin]

It just gives me my scores when I click it

Thanks, but now I don't have any way of going back and checking the results, sadly.

Hrrm. I'm apparently a Free Spirit and don't reason all that well

Intuitive
Subjective
Carefree
Open

44.74%

Actually your results are exactly mine, I think. Weird isn't it? High five!