Words Rate Your Personality
A Non-Fiction in about 150 words. Test your personality.....74 total reviews
Comment from sweetwoodjax
this is very well written, alcreator, you did an excellent job writing this essay about the way words reflecting the personality. i think it also rates the iq of a person as well. too many people just put out a cuss word instead of reflecting on something intelligent to say.
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this is very well written, alcreator, you did an excellent job writing this essay about the way words reflecting the personality. i think it also rates the iq of a person as well. too many people just put out a cuss word instead of reflecting on something intelligent to say.
Comment Written 24-Jul-2013
Comment from BunnyS
Hmmm... interesting concept. I wonder, though, how many of us hear or speak the same word and see the same mental picture? How many of us speak the same around everyone we encounter? Some may speak differently, for example, around a friend, than they would say... around their pastor or a parent. Some children cuss up a storm but never say those words around their mom.
It seems that the words we use do, to a point, say who we are, but I just wonder if it's a true test, or if we are different in every scenario.
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Hmmm... interesting concept. I wonder, though, how many of us hear or speak the same word and see the same mental picture? How many of us speak the same around everyone we encounter? Some may speak differently, for example, around a friend, than they would say... around their pastor or a parent. Some children cuss up a storm but never say those words around their mom.
It seems that the words we use do, to a point, say who we are, but I just wonder if it's a true test, or if we are different in every scenario.
Comment Written 24-Jul-2013
Comment from Rondeno
But can we all agree on what words mean? If there is no standard definition, how can words be used to calibrate our personalities?
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But can we all agree on what words mean? If there is no standard definition, how can words be used to calibrate our personalities?
Comment Written 24-Jul-2013
Comment from Dean Kuch
Traits are durable characteristics of a person. Types are collections of traits that are said to occur together in some individuals. For example, we might define the macho type as a person who tries to be tough, independent, courageous, or whatever the person perceives as masculine behavior.
What is the difference between traits and types? What are problems with the type approach?
There is little doubt that traits exist. In other words, that people have distinctive characteristics that we can use to describe them. However, it is risky to assign an individual to a type because, almost by definition, this involves overlooking the individual's unique characteristics.
A type is a good example of a construct; it is a concept that exists in the head of the observer, and it may not correspond to anything stable in the real world. Also, types tend to be a product of a particular place, time, and culture. When reading descriptions of personality types and traits from the 1930s, for example, the traits sound familiar, but the types seem strikingly out-of-date or just unfamiliar, like something from another time and place...which is exactly what they are.
Examples of types from American culture of the mid to late 20th Century include: nerds, valley girls, hippies, greasers, GenXers, gangsta rappers, goths, and geeks. One can predict with confidence that most of these types will become strange or unknown, or just quaint and historical, just as the flapper type of the 1920s seems now. (Flappers were young ladies, decked out in the fashions of the time, typically with a hat and short hair, typically seen in early newsreels dancing the Charleston.) Types do not represent durable personality patterns; they reflect changing cultural patterns. Finally, when a type is identified, there is always the risk of stereotyping or creating a cartoon-like caricature of a group of people. When done by an insider this may be acceptable, but when done by an outsider it is almost always considered insulting.
So, can it be stated that our words determine what 'type' of person we are? Do they denote our intellect, experience, or signify talent? Sometimes, I believe that they do.
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Traits are durable characteristics of a person. Types are collections of traits that are said to occur together in some individuals. For example, we might define the macho type as a person who tries to be tough, independent, courageous, or whatever the person perceives as masculine behavior.
What is the difference between traits and types? What are problems with the type approach?
There is little doubt that traits exist. In other words, that people have distinctive characteristics that we can use to describe them. However, it is risky to assign an individual to a type because, almost by definition, this involves overlooking the individual's unique characteristics.
A type is a good example of a construct; it is a concept that exists in the head of the observer, and it may not correspond to anything stable in the real world. Also, types tend to be a product of a particular place, time, and culture. When reading descriptions of personality types and traits from the 1930s, for example, the traits sound familiar, but the types seem strikingly out-of-date or just unfamiliar, like something from another time and place...which is exactly what they are.
Examples of types from American culture of the mid to late 20th Century include: nerds, valley girls, hippies, greasers, GenXers, gangsta rappers, goths, and geeks. One can predict with confidence that most of these types will become strange or unknown, or just quaint and historical, just as the flapper type of the 1920s seems now. (Flappers were young ladies, decked out in the fashions of the time, typically with a hat and short hair, typically seen in early newsreels dancing the Charleston.) Types do not represent durable personality patterns; they reflect changing cultural patterns. Finally, when a type is identified, there is always the risk of stereotyping or creating a cartoon-like caricature of a group of people. When done by an insider this may be acceptable, but when done by an outsider it is almost always considered insulting.
So, can it be stated that our words determine what 'type' of person we are? Do they denote our intellect, experience, or signify talent? Sometimes, I believe that they do.
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The highest and the lowest rating are not included in calculations.
Comment Written 24-Jul-2013