{"id":1280,"date":"2006-08-07T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/08\/07\/dna-personality-quiz\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T23:18:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T03:18:16","slug":"dna-personality-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/08\/dna-personality-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal DNA Personality Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/personaldna.com\/t\/?k=lolgcRnVYWQLoVg-HO-DAAAA-4358&#038;t=Benevolent+Creator\"> \n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>I research and evaluate workplace assessments as part of my flex-hours consulting job, so I&#8217;m &#8220;asssessed&#8221; all the time. I&#8217;d love to see how they crunch the numbers for this &#8220;Personal DNA&#8221; Quiz, since there is so much variation and subtlety in the choices here. I love the flexibility of the answers. The spine of it looks like a variation of the 4-quadrant model developed by Marston and Jung, with some alternative vocabulary. Comments from the developers are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>My results seem about right for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/bdi\/consensus.html\">puppet CEO<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/bdi\/joinvc_bdi.html\">Benevolent Deities Inc<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>About You:  <strong>You are a Creator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your imagination, confidence, willingness to explore, and appreciation of beauty make you a CREATOR.<\/p>\n<p>You are independent, and you enjoy your self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Defying convention, you are very innovative, and you have a vivid imagination.<\/p>\n<p>The look of things is important to you, and you have a keen eye for aesthetic beauty in multiple arenas.<\/p>\n<p>You have a strong interest in what is new and exciting\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand that includes forging ahead with new ideas, not simply discovering what is already out there.<\/p>\n<p>Your eagerness to seek new and varied experiences leads you into many different situations.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not set on one way of doing things, and you are creative when it comes to finding novel solutions to complex problems.<\/p>\n<p>You trust yourself to be innovative and resourceful.<\/p>\n<p>Your confidence allows you to take your general awareness and channel it into creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Your independent streak allows you to make decisions efficiently and to trust your instincts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you want to be different:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Appreciate the earthly, practical elements of things\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthere is beauty in form as well.<\/p>\n<p>While you are good at thinking abstractly, focusing on details a bit more may help you discover things about the world.<\/p>\n<p>~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/p>\n<p>How you relate to others: <strong>You are Benevolent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You are a great person to interact with\u00e2\u20ac\u201dunderstanding, giving, and trusting\u00e2\u20ac\u201din a word, BENEVOLENT<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t mind being in social situations, as you feel comfortable enough with people to be yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Your caring nature goes beyond a basic concern: you take the time to understand the nuances of people&#8217;s situations before passing any sort of judgment.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a good listener, and even better at offering advice.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re concerned with others at both an individual and societal level\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou sympathize with the plights of troubled groups, and you can care about people you&#8217;ve never met.<\/p>\n<p>Considering many different perspectives is something at which you excel, and you appreciate that quality in others.<\/p>\n<p>Other people&#8217;s feelings are important to you, and you&#8217;re good at mediating disputes.<\/p>\n<p>Because of your understanding and patience, you tend to bring out the best in people.<\/p>\n<p>Your independent streak allows you to make decisions efficiently and to trust your instincts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you want to be different:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You spend a lot of time taking care of others, but don&#8217;t forget to take care of yourself!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you can get overcommitted, and when you sacrifice spending time with those close to you, it can make them feel unimportant. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s a bar graph display of thirteen personality trait rankings based on the answers of 30,000 other people. I&#8217;d want to know more about the sample if I were paying for the quiz. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personaldna.com\/report.php?k=lolgcRnVYWQLoVg-HO-DAAAA-4358\"> some of the results<\/a>. For example (and maybe I shouldn&#8217;t go there), it ranks me as much more &#8220;masculine&#8221; than &#8220;feminine.&#8221; I think I&#8217;m a pretty even mix &#8211; psychologically speaking &#8211; of whatever we mean by that.  Is there substantial agreement on what is psychically\/spiritually\/psychologically more masculine and what is more feminine?  I wonder what descriptors they would use to label the gender of a psychology?<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m leaving this wide open to all sorts of comments, but hey &#8211; comment anyway. <\/p>\n<p>(thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/hellskitchennyc.blogspot.com\/\">Mr. H.K.<\/a> &#8211; that was a good one! )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I research and evaluate workplace assessments as part of my flex-hours consulting job, so I&#8217;m &#8220;asssessed&#8221; all the time. I&#8217;d love to see how they crunch the numbers for this &#8220;Personal DNA&#8221; Quiz, since there is so much variation and subtlety in the choices here. I love the flexibility of the answers. The spine of it looks like a variation of the 4-quadrant model developed by Marston and Jung, with some alternative vocabulary. Comments from the developers are welcome. 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