personality questionaire- highly 'recommended'

[kath23]

http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum...rsonalityB.htm let me know what you think :o

[Lord Muck oGentry]

Looks like:

http://skepdic.com/forer.html

Or am I missing something?

[kath23]

Precisely! They haven't even changed the wording so I just had to google one of the phrases to confirm my suspicion.

I was so annoyed after taking the time to fill it in. (Sometimes I'm in the mood for a dose of woo/questionaire.)

I refused to rate its accuracy at the end and in the comments box I put 'you need to reword this so sceptics can fall for it too.'

Judgement on me I suppose for following the urge for such entertainments.

The enneagram again for me I suppose :)

[Lord Muck oGentry]

I got a first assessment by ticking no boxes at all, and then a second by ticking a couple of boxes at random. Only took a few seconds.

When the assessments came up the same, Forer sort of swam into view. :)

[tkingdoll]

I ticked no boxes at all, just pressed the Score Me button, and got:

Your Profile:

* You have a great need for other people to like and admire you.
* You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage.
* Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside.
* You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.
* You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others statements without satisfactory proof.
* You have a tendency to be critical of yourself.
* At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.
* At times you are extroverted, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved.
* While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them.

[Lord Muck oGentry]

At first I thought it was a student prank. But possibly not:

http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/

[kath23]

I'd seen the statements of Forer elsewhere, the wording is very distinctive so I recognised it, especially this bit


'* You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage.'

He needs to reword it if he's going to take the gullible sceptic like me in

I presume he's trying to see which demographics fall for it the most, as he asks for age, education etc.

But I felt cheated, cheated :o :)

[Lord Muck oGentry]

I'd a vague memory of the thing from many years ago, but it seemed wiser to check whether the questionnaire was going to give the same results whatever dross was put into it.

I may be higgerant, but I try to make up for it in low cunning. :D

[tkingdoll]

If he's running a Forer experiment, he needs to work on his IT. It's not difficult to have a form which can't be submitted with no boxes checked.

Lazy, and sadly, sloppy.

[Admin]

It said I'm a snivelling little shit. :(

And it's not even in the list of descriptions!! :o

I'm unlucky me.

[kath23]

It said I'm a snivelling little shit. :(

eh???? :o :D

[Araneus]

* You have a great need for other people to like and admire you.

That's the one that always sets off my "Forer alarm", because I don't actually give a rat's ass whether anybody likes or admires me, and would never answer a personality questionnaire in such a manner as to give that impression.

Most of the others I can almost believe though. I guess everyone considers themselves an "independent thinker", even the ones who have never had a skeptical thought in their lives.