I'll Say She Is!
Friday, 22 August 2003
Proof that I test well

I am good at taking multiple-choice tests. For example, even though I failed Algebra on a number of occasions in high school, I knew enough about how the SAT worked to get a decent math score. Apparently this skill allows me to fool "The Man" into thinking that I, one of the least logical people on the planet, have, get this, "a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization". I can hear Godfrey howling with laughter at this. Other amusing phrases are in italics. Take the quiz yourself here. I hijacked this from Jen's Very Big Blog. (Welcome back from Pennsic!)

Your Brain Usage Profile
Auditory : 53%
Visual : 46%
Left : 58%
Right : 41%

Ginevra, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance.

You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. [BUZZ! Incorrect, but thank you for playing! You'll recieve a case of Rice-a-Roni, the San Fransisco treat, and Turtle Wax.~Ginevra] You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in.

By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions [Punctuation please! /former proofreader]

When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do [??? English major no like this fragment! ~G] The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others.

Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. [Now THIS is true, I have inner monologues and dialogues all the time. ~G] Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement [Okay, you got me there, be sure to ask Lunchbox and Lisa about the "Dance of Dispair and Disillusionment" I performed in the middle of the Home Depot last Saturday when explaining the rat encounter. ~G] to enhance your comprehension and memory.

To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.

Wow, I haven't had a laugh that good in some time!

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I've been haunting everyone's blogs today and naturally I had to go check out the profiler. Am I coming around to the thinking of "The B'log People" or I'm just that bored?

I like these personality dealies, but it seems to me that taking a quiz that is anything less that a full MMPI (Minnesota Multi-Phase Personality Index - 200+ questions) will probably be no better than reading your horoscope. We humans are never as unique as we like to think so a short "personality quiz", just like a horoscope, simply has to be right about somethings. This is especially true when you consider that everyone puts a spin on their own "profile" that suits their self image.

So, science or flim-flammery? Everyone will have to decide for themselves, but just for grins here are my results. I think that, for such a short test and such a short body of text, it's an uncanny description of me. Sure, it doesn't cover everything, but the topics it does cover seem spot on to me.

Maybe there's something to these things after all.

Your Brain Usage Profile

Auditory : 26%
Visual : 73%
Left : 76%
Right : 23%

Brian, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always.

Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that your learning style is organized and structured, detail oriented and logical. Your visual preference, though, has you seeking stimulation and multiple data. Such an outlook can overwhelm structure and logic and create an almost continuous state of uncertainty and agitation. You may well suffer a feeling of continually trying to "catch up" with yourself.

Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor. You can "size up" situations and take in information rapidly. However, you must then subject that data to being classified and organized which causes you to "lose touch" with the immediacy of the problem.

Your logical and methodical nature hamper you in this regard though in the long run it may work to your advantage since you "learn from experience" and can go through the process more rapidly on subsequent occasions.

You remain predominantly functional in your orientation and practical. Abstraction and theory are secondary to application. In keeping with this, you focus on details until they manifest themselves in a unique pattern and only then work with the "larger whole."

With regards to your career choices, you have a mentality that would be good as a scientist, coach, athlete, design consultant, or an engineering technician. You can "see where you want to go" and even be able to "tell yourself," but find that you are "fighting yourself" at the darndest times.
OMG, Brian's reading blogs, what's next?

JOIN US!! BLOG-HOTEP! BLOG-HOTEP!
Well, that was weird. I took the test, and when I went to the "review answers" section, the ones it showed me as having picked were not, in fact, the ones I picked.

I did (and "blogged") this one a few weeks ago. They got me horribly wrong in a few amusing ways... ways which I dissected much as you have done here. ;-)
I remember that! The Man can't pin us down!