This in-depth personality questionnaire will help you know yourself better. Covering the areas of Introversion-Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Determinism, Sexuality and Social & Political Attitudes, it will help you to see yourself – your mental, emotional and behavioral strengths and weaknesses – more objectively.
Peter Shepherd
The basis of the questionnaire is the long-established Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, used worldwide by the psychiatric profession. The idea is to test against cultural stereotypes, that is the “norm”, the way a statistical majority of people actually are in Western society. The “norm” is not necessarily an enlightened point of view, it simply represents what a typical person’s responses are likely to be. It doesn’t mean the normal responses are ‘right’ or ‘correct’.
High or low positions on a scale may represent neurosis if your answers represent compulsions, obsessions or inhibitions, and you may want to become more free in that area. But if they represent conscious choices in the way you play the game of life, then of course, that’s fine! A person relatively free from cultural conditioning in an area of life is unlikely to be the same as the ‘normal person’ who tends to be riddled with such conditioning.
Normally answers are not available to the person doing the test. I have made them accessible so one can be aware of the test’s shortcomings, and also hopefully in the process become more aware of one’s own fixed or limited beliefs, as well as fears and neuroses – as well as how one is likely to compare to the average guy down the street. …
The idea is to expose fixed and conditioned ways of thinking, feeling and behaving, not to indicate that any particular way is right or better than another. The questions can expose ways in which you are a stereotyped product of your culture, more liberated than the norm or more neurotic than the norm, or just different – the interpretation is up to you, the more honest the better!
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Root
September 3, 2007
I know I am a whacko for sure. No need to take any tests. :)
brightfeather
September 4, 2007
I don’t believe for a single moment that you are a whacko. :)
And I think the tests produce information that we can view and benefit from.
Root
September 4, 2007
Well you dont know me. ;)
brightfeather
September 4, 2007
True. But as you are becoming a regular commenter on my blog I guess we are developing an online relationship. :)
So watch out because I could soon be up close and personal – a scary thought, eh?
Root
September 5, 2007
Heck. :) Do I need my attorney yet :)
brightfeather
September 5, 2007
Sheesh … what’s that supposed to mean? :(
Could it possibly be a reference to this exchange between you and adam? http://more404.com/article/38/cyber-sex-root-explores-the-dark-side#c000035
You’re not a whacko – you’re a joker … lol :D
Root
September 6, 2007
The new design looks spiffy. I always think red and black together mean hot and passionate temperament. :) NOthing wrong with that of course………
brightfeather
September 6, 2007
Hot and passionate are words that have been used to describe me, ’tis true.
I’m glad you approve of this theme change. But it is temporary because as you know this domain will soon be re-pointed to a hosted site with a great new theme that I love – BIGTIME. :)