Poll: [Experiment] How accurately does this describe you?

[Sgt. Dante]

So escapists, I have here a personality description that is suited almost exactly to you. As a social experiment could you rate this in the poll from 0-5 0 being "completely not me at all" and 5 being "it's like you've known me for years."

The results could be quite interesting. Also, especially if you vote low could you (breifly) explain your reasoning?

You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. Stability is one of your major goals in life.

Spoiler: Edits: Don't read until you've answered the poll please

Edit1: Minor alteration to the text to make it more... amenable to you happy chappy's. And I know that many of you may be aware of what 'cold-reading' is, but i'm more interested in your poll scores tbh, I have a hypothesis that will require a significant number of responses to verify.

I wanna see what makes you tick

 

[unicron44]

I remember seeing something like this similar on Penn and Teller: Bullshit. They were talking about personality traits and had an experiment where it was really general description of a lot of people.

 

[Redingold]

Cold reading, are you?

Please, we're gonna see right through this.

 

[Mr Thin]

I'd say about 2/5ths of it was right on the money, the rest just plain wrong.

So I picked 2.

 

[Falconsgyre]

That describes me exactly! You must be some kind of telepathic gen-

Oh wait. I see what you did there.

Though I am highly amused that there are people who this incredibly vague statement apparently did not apply to at all.

 

[Rawne1980]

I disagree but not just to be awkward it really didn't read as anything like me.

I have no need for people to like me, I care very little as to how others percieve me. The only people in my life who's opinions matter are my wife and my kids.

Never critical of myself. As i've said before I have an incredibly inflated ego and confident bordering arrogance.

As for unused capacity, not really. I've worked as hard as I possibly can to get where I am I honestly doubt I could have done any more.

Disciplined at times but i've never been one to worry or be insecure about anything (read above about ego) and while I undoubtly have flaws I relish in them rather than worry about them.

I never doubt any decisions I make, if I had reason to believe i'd doubt them I wouldn't do them in the first place. Once a decision has been made there is no point second guessing, you can;t do anything about it then.

I actually dislike change quite a bit, still stuck in the 80's (minus the mullet) and disagree with a hell of a lot of things that people view as "progress" (not technology wise but socially).

I tend to take people at face value unless they make a statement that is as far fetched as a bucket of shit from China.

I don't mind revealing myself to others (in a verbal sense not a "ooh look at my hairy balls" .... although I do strip a lot when drunk). As i've said before, people can take me for what I am and like it or get the hell out my way it matters very little to me what folk outside my house think.

Everybody, and I mean everybody is sometimes sociable and sometimes not. There are times you think "hey, I fancy going to visit a few friends today" and others "ahhh, to relax infront of the TV in silence ... bliss". Thats a very broad statement and covers everyone so you are obviously right there.

My aspirations are all realistic, i'm 30 year old and have done a hell of a lot so now only aspire to build a tardis and travel through time .... nothing wrong in that (humour people humour). My only real aspiration now is to live life comfortably which i'm managing so far.

Life is unpredictable so security is a myth.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

Cold reading, are you?

Please, we're gonna see right through this.

Ah, But i'm keeping my hypothesis a secret atm. In studies an average result of about 4.68 has been observed, And i wanna see how our community measures up.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Cold reading, are you?

Bingo...

Anyway, first half, mostly, second half, a bit. For all the significance that may hold.

 

[Fightgarr]

Yeah, I've read about this concept before. I had a studio-mate do an incredibly boring painting based off of it. I still don't think it describes me very well.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

Everybody, and I mean everybody is sometimes sociable and sometimes not. There are times you think "hey, I fancy going to visit a few friends today" and others "ahhh, to relax infront of the TV in silence ... bliss". Thats a very broad statement and covers everyone so you are obviously right there.

Catching onto the point a little... however i did have slight issure with

My aspirations are all realistic, i'm 30 year old and have done a hell of a lot so now only aspire to build a tardis and travel through time .... nothing wrong in that (humour people humour). My only real aspiration now is to live life comfortably which i'm managing so far.

Life is unpredictable so security is a myth.

So, all you want is a comfortable (presumably happy) life, but you don't belive in the security of that life? Also security more pertains to the stability of life, having things "just the way you like it." If you are "stuck in the 80's", how can you not like some measure of security?

 

[Lionsfan]

Well this is a pretty generic way to describe someone, you could be talking about virtually the entire world. I think it would be an oddity to find people who it didn't apply to

 

[Rawne1980]

So, all you want is a comfortable (presumably happy) life, but you don't belive in the security of that life? Also security more pertains to the stability of life, having things "just the way you like it." If you are "stuck in the 80's", how can you not like some measure of security?

My life has changed dramatically quite a few times and I know how unpredictable it can be.

I like it that way.

We can all crave that stable, secure life but most of us know that could change in a heart beat.

I like not knowing whats around the corner, knowing that my comfortable life i've got with my wife and kids could be gone tomorrow. If me or my wife had an affair for example or the love we have now faded.

I'm not saying security is a bad thing for people I just believe some people have far to hectic or too unpredictable a life for it to be a substantial security if you follow me.

And thats why i'm still stuck in the 80's. I prefer the music and the freedom we had then. And mainly because i've had that many changes I grew to dislike it.

Don't get me wrong i'd love nothing more than to be set how I am now knowing this will be my life from now on but i'm not naive enough to believe that it's set in stone.

Anything can happen my friend.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

So, all you want is a comfortable (presumably happy) life, but you don't belive in the security of that life? Also security more pertains to the stability of life, having things "just the way you like it." If you are "stuck in the 80's", how can you not like some measure of security?

My life has changed dramatically quite a few times and I know how umpredictable it can be.

I like it that way.

We can all crave that stable, secure life but most of us know that could change in a heart beat.

I like not knowing whats around the corner, knowing that my comfortable life i've got with my wife and kids could be gone tomorrow. If me or my wife had an affair for example or the love we have now faded.

I'm not saying security is a bad thing for people I just believe some people have far to hectic or too unpredictable a life for it to be a substantial security if you follow me.

And thats why i'm still stuck in the 80's. I prefer the music and the freedom we had then. And mainly because i've had that many changes I grew to dislike it.

Don't get me wrong i'd love nothing more than to be set how I am now knowing this will be my life from now on but i'm not naive enough to believe that it's set in stone.

Anything can happen my friend.

No, that's absolutely fair, and I can see why you might think that way, I was just curious as to your justificaition is all

While I find that stability and security is pretty much top of my personal list of want I can understand the people that live in a campervan and just see where the road takes them. I personally just wanna make sure my next cheque comes in on time. I find freedom important, but stability more so.

 

[Prince Regent]

I would remove the last sentence:

Stability is one of your major goals in life.

As the average forum user here is around 20 years old and this doesn't seem to be a goal that fits with that age category. Or at least not with me. For the rest it's very well done. And I supose that most can at least partly identify themselves with this.

 

[Weaver]

This describes like 90% of the people on the planet.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

I would remove the last sentence:

Stability is one of your major goals in life.

As the average forum user here is around 20 years old and this doesn't seem to be a goal that fits with that age category. Or at least not with me. For the rest it's very well done. And I supose that most can at least partly identify themselves with this.

This last point is giving me some trouble, It's supposed to read security, but that's vauge enought that people seem to be misinterpreting it. So I'm thinking of something more appropritate.

This describes like 90% of the people on the planet.

Yeah, that's kinda the point

 

[StBishop]

I accidentally voted 4 thinking 5 was the least. Dunno why.

Was trying to vote 1.

 

[savandicus]

Snip

So I say 0. That really doesn't describe me much at all.

You realise that in your post you said 6 of them describe you, 2 of them atleast in part describe you and then you somehow end with a 0. Your post clearly states that your a 2 and maybe a 1 at a stretch.