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A Meme - Because Beth Told Me I Had To!

Beth normally doesn’t like memes, but when I saw she did this one, and she asked me to participate threatened me to within an inch of my life, I agreed. 

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Overview: This post is a community experiment with two broad purposes. The first is to create publicly accessible data about bloggers’ personalities, which may have sociological value in addition to being just plain fun. The second is to track the propagation of this meme through blogspace. Full details and explanation can be found on the original posting: http://pixnaps.blogspot.com/2005/06/meme-worth-spreading.html

Instructions (to join in the experiment):

1) Take the IPIP-NEO personality test and the Political Compass quiz, if you have not done so already.

2) Copy to the clipboard that section of this post that is between the double lines, and paste it into your blog editor. (Blogger users may wish to use ‘compose’ mode to preserve formatting and hyperlinks. Otherwise, be sure to add hyperlinks as necessary.)

3) Replace the answers in the “survey” section below with your own.

4) Add your blog information to the “track list”, in the format: “Linked title - URL - optional GUID“.

5) Any additional comments should go outside of the double lines, including the (optional) nomination of bloggers you wish to pass this experimental meme on to.

6) Post it to your blog!

Survey:

Age: 36 (younger than Beth!  :::ducking:::)
Gender: Female
Location: Nebraska, USA
Religion: Catholic
Occupation: A Manager of Supervisors with a comfy chair in a cubicle
Began blogging (dd/mm/yy): 23/12/04

Political Compass results

Left/Right: 5.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.18

IPIP-NEO results

EXTRAVERSION: 93
Friendliness 77
Gregariousness 89
Assertiveness 90
Activity Level 82
Excitement-Seeking 61
Cheerfulness 88

AGREEABLENESS: 37
Trust 76
Morality 45
Altruism 52
Co-operation 64
Modesty 40
Sympathy 0 (like Beth says ”suck it up”)

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS: 63
Self-Efficacy 89
Orderliness 22
Dutifulness 72
Achievement-Striving 81
Self-Discipline 43
Cautiousness 67

NEUROTICISM: 15
Anxiety 14
Anger 7
Depression 19
Self-Consciousness 29
Immoderation 72
Vulnerability 16

OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE: 14
Imagination 53
Artistic Interests 0 (doesn’t listening to Metallica count?)
Emotionality 44
Adventurousness 61
Intellect 47
Liberalism 0

Track List:

  1. Philosophy, et cetera - pixnaps.blogspot.com - pixnaps97a2
  2. Majikthise - 6ea37d10-e9b9-11d9-8cd6-0800200c9a66
  3. Ezra Klein - http://ezraklein.typepad.com
  4. Rox Populi - http://roxanne.typepad.com
  5. Verbatim - http://verbatim.blogs.com
  6. Black Currant Jam - http://blackcurrantjam.blogspot.com/ - black7currant7jam5
  7. TypeBlogs - http://typeblogs.com (offshoot of marlaswoffer.com)
  8. Ramble Strip - http://www.ramblestrip.com/blog/ - kal97ramblestrip
  9. basil’s blog - http://www.basilsblog.net/ - basilandhisblog
  10. My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - http://bamapachyderm.com/ - ctide12×1
  11. Merri Musings - http://www.merrimusings.typepad.com - merrimusings

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Oh, what poor victims to pick on?  Well, since Beth already picked on my hubby, I need to find someone else…soooooo….

Raven

Jo

Seth

tee bee

Certainly there’s no pressure to participate - I just thought it was fun!  Wheeeee….I actually liked this one!

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8 Comments
tee bee said:

Assertiveness 90

I love it. Not surprised, though. I'll have to take this up tomorrow. They don't ask your weight, do they? Hmmph.



Merri said:

No, they don't, thank God! Yeesh!

I was a bit surprised at the assertiveness rating (you've never seen us try to decide where to go for dinner) - but blogging and managing a large department must have honed those skills a bit. ;-)



Jo said:

Oh dang it all! I'll get to it tonight when I get home from work!



SherlockRWBShoes said:

Whew, that is way over my head. I love your blog, you are so talented, should be making the big bucks like that Dowd chick at NYT.

TTFN~!



Merri Meme - For Science, For Blogdom

I'm not a meme person. Not even for a meme I invented. But science and duty call, and I score high on the duty side.



Jo's Cafe said:

MEME Attacked!



tee bee said:

Well, I did it. Good thing there's not a grumpiness over test taking portion. I'd have some problems there. What did you think of the questions?

It seemed to me that they were asking the same things nine different ways on the IPIP, then the Compass qualified damn near every question so that I answered in very different ways accordingly, completely unsure which way my answers would be taken.



Merri said:

In my line of work, tee bee, I've taken so many of these tests. The questions were interesting, but in the end, the results are very similar to other tests I've taken. One thing I didn't like about the IPIP is that the whole "artistic interests" portion was about just that, art....what about music, theatre? Just because I don't go look at a painting doesn't mean I have no artistic interests, right? I'm in Omaha - we don't have a significant amount of "art" here, unless you count graffiti or stuff on my fridge. ;-)

I agree with you on the Compass - I was wondering if my results were going to show up with me as some kind of flaming liberal or sumthin' - I never would have lived that down in *this* house!

I had fun taking the tests and looking at other people's results, though. :-)

Fun stuff!