It’s been a while since we’ve had a personality test here, but on Glen’s recommendation, I just did this one. And I got pretty much the same result as Glen too!
This is your selected tribe:
New AquariansIncidence in Population
Proportion of Canadian population: 5 per cent
Proportion of Gen Xers: 14 per centOther Demographics
Mostly mirror the general populationFundamental Motivations
Social Justice and Experience-seekingKey Values
Adaptability
Concern for the less fortunate
Concern for the environment
Respect for education
Contempt for traditional authorities
HedonismWords to Live By
There is no being, only becoming
Everything changed in Seattle
No justice, no peaceIcons
Singer Sarah McLachlan
Author Naomi Klein
Singer/activist Jello Biafra
Rap-metal group Rage Against the Machine
Author/activist John Zerzan
Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar
Dead Prez
Technology OrientationMoney Orientation
Making it: I’d never do work I didn’t believe in.
Spending it: When I must consume at all, I consume with conscience.
Saving it: I’m not saving much now, but when I do I’ll call the shots.
Stealing it: No, thanks.
Giving it away: Environmental and social causes.
I can live with that, although I’m not about to start calling myself a New Aquarian (anyway, I’m a Sagittarian, fwiw).
If you take the test(/quiz/survey/whatever) let us know your result!
July 1st, 2006 at 10:32 pm - Edit
hey shannon . . . . i reckon this test will give pretty much all of your blog readers a similar answer . . . . is it rigged for us? heh heh . . . . . i got pretty much the same as you. exactly the same Y (vertical) axis result and slightly further right on the X axis (horizontal).
i had to do some damn myer briggs test at some course i was on a while back . . . reminds me a bit of those. (i ended up as INFJ apparently).
July 1st, 2006 at 11:16 pm - Edit
I thought I’d be a bit further to the ‘individual’ end on this one - I guess my community spirit shone through, lol.
I did Myers Briggs a couple of years ago and got INFJ(/INFP) too - so apparently you and I are clones!
Perhaps you’re right about readers of this blog being of a similar type, but let’s see. Any other results??
July 2nd, 2006 at 1:18 am - Edit
Bah! Apparently I’m a ’social hedonist’!
Although my red dot is squarely above the ‘new aquarian’ group - go figure…
Well I did alway fancy the position as a race car driver, but I’m not entierly comfortable with Austin Powers being my social icon.
July 2nd, 2006 at 1:50 am - Edit
Haha, and Ricky Martin!
Pass the joint!
July 3rd, 2006 at 3:41 pm - Edit
I am an ‘Autonomous Rebel’. [link]
However, the issue with the test, that as I am born 1965, it classified me as a Baby Boomer, a completely innaccurate generational classification. Generation X Remembers the band they were named after. I’m too young to have listened to Billy Idol’s first punk band — they were all born in 1960.
July 4th, 2006 at 11:38 pm - Edit
Social Hedonist - with my red dot drifting towards Autonomous Post-Materialist
Aesthetic instant gratification ahoy, and er yes….pass the joint
July 5th, 2006 at 1:45 am - Edit
Scot, of course Mr autonomous.org is an Autonomous Rebel! As for ‘Generation X Remembers the band they were named after’ - that sentence hurts my brain!
Adrian, the icon for Autonomous Post-Materialism is Bart Simpson! That’s gotta be your closest match.
July 5th, 2006 at 8:37 pm - Edit
New Aquarian for me, confirming Seb’s theory that we’re all alike, your fellow travellers. Absurd name which I would never self-identify with. So far south I was off the map, and further east than your good socialised self, too. Wonder how much money Adams made from his book Better Happy Than Rich?
July 9th, 2006 at 10:24 pm - Edit
I got Autonomous Post-Materialist, with a hint of Social Hedonist (hi Adrian!)
Which is COMPLETE bullshit though, from their wanky description. I hate personality tests, and they usually give completely nonsensical results for me. Probably if I do it again (even straight away) I’ll come up with something else.
But I do think, recalling the sort of answers I gave (which for at least 50% of them I wouldn’t change at all), it’s actually just a highly flawed test (whereas the Political Compass people seem to get it fairly right, for me - maybe because it’s not really a personality test). I happen to have a beliefs about how the world is (eg I’m a materialist in the philosophical sense) which are, according to certain types of assumptions anyway, seemingly in conflict with the way I think the world should be. (ie I think things are somewhat more complex than the test-designers do…)
So anyway, as Seb would know (*heh*) I would classify myself within all the descriptors of “New Aquarians” except for “Hedonism”. I would go for “Social justice” but not “Experience-seeking”. I’m highly rational but highly untraditional, very concerned about social justice and environmentalism but very individualistic, and it looks like the test just couldn’t cope ;)
I don’t think I identify with any of the descriptors of Autonomous Post-Materialist or Social Hedonist ;)
July 9th, 2006 at 10:24 pm - Edit
Ugh! Turn those fucking smiley faces off! Why do we need our nice typographical emoticons turned into stupid yellow icons? Ha!
July 18th, 2006 at 7:15 pm - Edit
OK Peteypie, just for you.