A week or so ago we offered our readers the chance to assess their personalities with our FREE NO OBLIGATION PERSONALITY TEST. All you had to do was answer truthfully each of the 50 questions selected to assess your PSYCHOMETRIC PROFILE which we could then match to a series of PSYCHIATRIC INDEXES [and so on] until we could find an answer to the question: what sort of reader are you? We also offered a prize. Incredibly, three people sent in their answers. Since it was offered in good faith, just send us your postal addresses and we’ll send you a little something in the mail.
Rachel A**
1. I have not seen a car in the past ten years – False
2. I feel sorrier for strangers than close friends – True
3. I enjoy reading books of fiction – True
4. Flaws in others disgust me – True
5. My partner’s genitals remind me of those of an animal – False
6. I am more conservative than risk taking. false
7. Sometimes I get very nervous – True
8. I am talkative, open and relatively easy to read – False
9. I more often introduce myself to strangers than strangers introduce themselves to me – False
10. I consider myself more of a doer than a thinker – False
11. I like to set goals before beginning a project – False
12. I like to follow schedules – False
13. I am easily distracted – True
14. I have had sex outdoors/in a public place/at a beauty spot – True
15. I lose important things/documents – False
16. I think it is OK to bend the rules to complete a task on time – True
17. I enjoy long weekends – False
18. I once built a model airplane that flew – True
19. When I was a child, I collected stamps – True
20. I like to repair mechanical things in my home – False
21. I am inclined to be slow and deliberate in my actions- False
22. When someone disagrees with me, I refuse to listen to his/her point of view – False
23. I often buy things on impulse – True
24. I often change my interests – True
25. I can find the good in even the most disagreeable people – False
26. Lincoln was a better president than Washington – True
27. I am cautious in novel situations – False
28. The thought of leaving red marks on my partner’s body makes me ill – true [unless we are talking in a sexy way, then perhaps false].
29. I am more irritated by desultory people than sappy people – False
30. People should shift interpretive frames rather than gather more facts – True
31. I prefer people to be ineffable than elite – True
32. I seem to speak without thinking some times – True
33. I need someone to tell me that I have done a good job in order to feel good about my work – True
34. I don’t think of myself as having my head “in the clouds” – False
35. I find it easy to put myself in someone else’s shoes – False
36. I can’t stop thinking about my problems – True
37. It upsets me to see someone in pain – False
38. I can usually sense what someone is feeling without having to ask him/her – True
39. When I’ve offended someone in the past, I could never really understand why they took it so badly – True
40. When people ask me a question I find obvious, I purposely respond using words even a child can understand – True
41. When I’m feeling down, I remind myself to focus on the good things in my life instead of the bad. sometimes
42. I have had sex in the bathroom of a friend/family member – False
43. When I get angry I have little self control – True
44. The opinions of others bore me – True
45. I always try to see the other person’s point of view – False
46. I masturbate often, sometimes more than once a day. true
47. People often invite me out to social functions such as dinners and parties – False
48. My interest in politics is often confused by others as anger or resentment – False
49. I cannot see “magic eye” pictures – True
50. I never liked my parents – True
Kuba D**
1. False 2. True 3. True 4. False 5. False 6. True 7. True 8. False 9. True 10. False 11. True 12. False 13. False 14. True 15. False 16. True 17. True 18. False 19. True 20. True 21. True 22. False 23. False 24. True 25. True 26. False 27. False 28. False 29. True 30. True 31. False 32. True 33. True 34. True 35. True 36. False 37. False 38. True 39. False 40. False 41. False 42. True 43. False 44. True 45. True 46. False 47. False 48. False 49. False 50. False
John D**
1. False 2.True 3. True 4. False 5. False 6. False 7. True 8. False 9. True 10. False 11. True 12.True 13. True 14. True 15. True 16. True 17. True 18. True 19. True 20. False 21. False 22. False 23. True 24. False 25. True 26. True 27. False 28. False 29. False 30. True 31. True 32. True 33. False 34. True 35. True 36. True 37. False 38. True 39. True 40. False 41. True 42. False 43. True 44. False 45. False 46. False 47. False 48. True 49. – 50. –
