My sophomore year has gotten off to a much more rocky start than my freshman year, oddly enough, probably due to a lack of obsessive contingency planning. I still don’t have all my textbooks, and my class schedule only recently was finalized. Sad to say, my business classes (Management and Accounting) are entirely unimpressive. I was convinced that I would love Accounting since I adore Economics, but I’ve fallen asleep in two consecutive classes so far (and I’ve only been to two). Management so far has been entirely unenlightening. I’m becoming increasingly convinced that you can’t teach leadership, which is terrible news for me, since I intend to learn it. My peppy Management professor had us all take the Big Five personality test, which informed me that I was “Disagreeable” (critical, rude, harsh, callous). According to the professor, this means I should go into advertising.
My business classes are being thoroughly outdone by my non-business ones. I’m taking a stellar class with Admiral Inman on U.S. foreign policy, which is already my favorite, a Russian class for Russians which is forcing me to learn to type in Cyrillic, and philosophy with Robert Solomon, who, impressively, has a Wikipedia article.
10:54 pm on Friday, September 8th, 2006
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I’m a O65-C41-E83-A92-N7 Big Five!!
I don’t think you’re disagreeable. Although you are critical, rude, harsh, and callous. Nah, just kidding.
You’re not rude. *wink*
The reason these tests are all flawed is that there’s no objective standard — everyone is evaluating themselves, and so most people are going to get scores like you - open to new experiences, friendly, and not disagreeable or neurotic! I prefer the inkblots.
I like the test you have here even better. “Please add 4 and 2.” If you get it right, it will post your comment! That way you don’t have to read any analysis, the result speaks for itself. Brilliant.
I like that idea. If the questions where more complex and targeted you actually could keep comments to only experts in a particular area. ie “If one function can be continuously deformed into another they are called ___.”
david smeltzer’s version of dr. solomon’s claim to fame:
a) he hosts a kegger for his students once a year
b) he was in “waking life.”
anush’s version of dr. solomon’s claim to fame:
a) wikipedia.
typical.
Well, not “everyone” will be scoring in the 50th percentile and above - more like half. If anything, the test gives you an idea of how highly (assuming all these characteristics are ones that generally considered positive) you hold yourself compared to other students/people associated with the sample. But knowing how you compared with all of the other random people who took the test isn’t really helpful.
Oh, this is John from your MAN 336H group. I was just surfing Facebook and happened clicked on your blog. I really like the layout and design of your site and your photography look very professional. My link doesn’t work but I scored O65-C30-E31-A17-N22. I see that we scored the same on agreeableness - hurray for group projects!