- I just cheated on Meyers-Briggs
with another personality test.
That's right, I took the Big 5 test.
The Big 5 has these different categories
like agreeableness, extroversion,
neuroticism, conscientiousness, and agreeableness,
did I repeat anything in there?
They compare your results to 10 thousand
other people who've taken the test.
So it's on a scale, so for instance,
with conscientiousness, if you score 60,
that means that you are more conscientiousness
than 60 out of 100 people who have taken this test.
I just got done taking it on
understandmyself.com.
What I wanted to do is go through the results live
with you, well it's not live,
but you know what I mean.
I haven't seen my results yet.
All right, so why don't we just go through
and I'll read my results
and we'll see how much of a loser I am.
All right so first up is agreeableness.
Agreeableness, I scored 77,
which probably means I'm a big doormat,
but maybe not as much as the other 28 people,
or 22, 23 if I can do math ahead of me.
Says here people with high levels
of agreeableness are seen by others
as cooperative, warm and considerate.
It also says women are hireable, hireable?
Geez.
Women are higher in agreeableness than men.
All right, so agreeableness is made up of two components,
so I think each of these five things
has two supporting components.
So the first one is compassion.
I score in the 61 percentile,
so I'm moderately compassionate.
Politeness is the other aspect of agreeableness.
Oh, I score in the 85 percentile in politeness,
not a surprise at all.
In fact, I'm also shocked I didn't score higher.
I'm one of the politest MFers you'll ever meet.
So now we move on to the next one,
conscientiousness which I think basically
translates to how hard you work,
so if I were to predict, I think I'm gonna score
like an F minus minus on this part.
Conscientiousness, oh!
I'm in the fourth percentile of conscientiousness.
Dang!
I didn't think it would be that low,
I thought I'd score ten, fifteen,
Fourth? Dang, man.
People very low in conscientiousness
do not regard duty as very important.
Someone like me in the fourth percentile
is very likely to obtain poor grades in academic settings,
see, but there are some things here
that are not quite resonating with me.
People low on conscientiousness tend
to be free of guilt, shame, and self-disgust.
I'm one of the most guilt-ridden people you'll know.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm actually high in contentiousness
but have some kind of problem that makes me not work,
or act like I'm conscientious.
The parts of conscientiousness
are industriousness and orderliness.
So industriousness, dang,
I am a basement dweller here.
First percentile in industriousness.
Man.
I don't know, maybe I didn't answer some
of these questions very good.
I'm trying to come up with a piffy way
to say what industriousness is.
Basically, I shirk all responsibility
and just concentrate on fun.
Orderliness, I'm in the 25%.
See, here's the thing with orderliness,
I really love being organized and orderly,
but I just never take the time to do it.
The best thing in the world is
having everything straight and everything in it's place,
but in my real life, usually,
everything looks like a tornado just swept through
and then a bomb went off.
So it's difficult for me to judge accurately.
I guess maybe more salient to the conversation
would be how quickly am I put off by a mess,
how quickly am I irritated by it,
and I don't get really irritated by messes.
I prefer them not to be there,
but I will let them stay there
and the dishes will pile up in the sink for four weeks,
and then I have to just set it all on fire,
and move to a different city.
All right, so the next big thing
on the Big Five is extraversion.
This is a little,
a little weird.
I score in the ninth percentile of extraversion.
And I'm not sure what I think about this
because that's my default I guess
is to not really go out there and engage or anything,
but I don't mind doing it.
I guess it's just not my natural thing.
Extraversion is the primary dimension of positive emotion.
Okay, now it makes sense.
People with low levels of extraversion
are strikingly unable to read.
Strikingly less enthusiastic, talkative,
assertive in social situations, or gregarious.
I can see it.
But I can be gregarious.
This is the thing is that I can turn it on,
I can turn it off.
The two dimensions of extraversion are
enthusiasm and assertiveness.
Enthusiasm, I'm in the eighth percentile.
Wow, I am unenthusiastic.
Individuals low in enthusiasm are quiet and un-excitable.
Well, that's me.
Assertiveness, I'm in the 18th percentile,
so I can occasionally, occasionally,
not just casionally, assert myself.
I can take charge of a situation,
and I don't mind doing it, I just don't like to.
What I was thinking about as I answered these questions was,
I know I have a very dim view of myself,
and so realistically, I don't know how to gauge anything.
I can say I don't think I am good at these things,
but that doesn't mean I'm not.
Oh, now we're getting to the stuff I'm good at.
Neuroticism.
Neuroticism I scored in the 97th percentile,
no surprise there.
People with exceptionally high levels of neuroticism,
like me, tend to think that everything in life
has always been going wrong and always will.
Uh-huh.
And it basically says I'll never
be successful at anything in life.
I'm also noticing a lot of these say that
females tend to be higher in neuroticism than males,
it's basically like I'm a woman trapped in a man's body
based on all these things here.
All right, so neuroticism is made up
of withdrawal and volatility,
and damn, I am acing this test.
Withdrawal, 97th percentile,
exceptionally, exceptionally high.
This is an exceptional white wine
that will go along with your exceptional withdrawal.
So it basically means that I have
extreme anticipatory anxieta.
Anxiety for those of you who don't know what that means.
Basically, I'm very likely to avoid or withdraw.
Volatility is the other aspect of neuroticism.
I score in the 96 percentile, so I'm volatile.
Basically which means I'm a moody bastard.
All right, so then we move on to openness,
openness is the last one.
Oh and look, this one sounds kind of positive,
and I score in the 85th percentile.
I'm high in openness to experience
which is a dimension of creativity,
artistic interest and intelligence.
People high in openness tend
to be characterized as smart, creative, and visionary.
Ooh.
So then what are the aspects of openness.
Intellect and then openness.
Oh okay, so openness is a aspect of openness,
okay, I'll go with it, I'll go with it.
Intellect, I score in the 60th percentile,
so that's like what, a D?
I'm smarter than most people,
but there's still a lot of people who are smarter than me.
Oh wait a second, it says don't confuse intellect with IQ,
so what they're saying is intellect is actually
just your interest in abstract ideas
and your ability to process them, I guess.
So yeah, that makes sense,
I'm interested in new ideas and abstract concepts,
and I'm not confused by them.
And then the last one is openness.
This is basically like creativity, I guess.
And I score in the 93rd percentile,
so not bad, not as high as I scored in neuroticism
and being a weirdo.
So it seems like I'm maybe more
creative than the average bear.
So there you go, that was my Big Five test,
it looks like I'm kind of a people pleasing, lazy shut in
who is basically on the verge of some kind of meltdown,
but I am good at creating things 'cause I'm open,
and I'm in my room making a video about it.
I recommend that you go over to understandmyself.com
and take this test.
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