I've made something of a habit of not posting results of various tests taken on the internet to this blog, but this one involved all sorts of inscrutable abbreviations and a really long test, so I figured what the heck, ahhh, the things I do for science.
In typical fashion, I think the entire exercise has raised more questions than it answered, particularly about guids [sic] and wether or not have I've set this up correctly. People take these tests to discover more about themselves, since they tend to increase my general sense of confusion (or wonder, take your pick), tend to stay away from them. That and I don't need any help appearing self-conscious and somewhat dorky.
The one noticeable thing about the test is that I scored "high" in every are but two, neuroticism and conscientiousness (low) and the latter is the category that measures, among other things, how much worth one might find in scoring "high" on a series of tests.
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Overview: This post is a community experiment with two broad purposes. The first is to create publicly accessible data about bloggers' personalities, which may have sociological value in addition to being just plain fun. The second is to track the propagation of this meme through blogspace. Full details and explanation can be found on the original posting: http://pixnaps.blogspot.com/2005/06/meme-worth-spreading.html
Instructions (to join in the experiment):
1) Take the IPIP-NEO personality test and the Political Compass quiz, if you have not done so already.
2) Copy to the clipboard that section of this post that is between the double lines, and paste it into your blog editor. (Blogger users may wish to use 'compose' mode to preserve formatting and hyperlinks. Otherwise, be sure to add hyperlinks as necessary.)
3) Replace the answers in the "survey" section below with your own.
4) Add your blog information to the "track list", in the form: "Linked title - URL - optional GUID".
5) Any additional comments should go outside of the double lines, including the (optional) nomination of bloggers you wish to pass this experimental meme on to.
6) Post it to your blog!
Survey:
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Location: Kent, OH, USA
Religion: None
Occupation: assistant professor
Began blogging (dd/mm/yy):
Political Compass results
Left/Right: -4.00
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28
IPIP-NEO results
EXTRAVERSION: 73 (high)
Friendliness: 40
Gregariousness: 57
Assertiveness: 56
Activity Level: 52
Excitement-Seeking: 97
Cheerfulness: 85
AGREEABLENESS: 72 (high)
Trust: 91
Morality: 54
Altruism: 46
Co-operation: 51
Modesty: 42
Sympathy: 90
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS: 23 (low)
Self-Efficacy: 12
Orderliness: 36
Dutifulness: 57
Achievement-Striving: 59
Self-Discipline: 14
Cautiousness: 12
NEUROTICISM: 56 (average)
Anxiety: 30
Anger: 46
Depression: 62
Self-Consciousness: 60
Immoderation: 68
Vulnerability: 66
OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE: 88 (high)
Imagination: 91
Artistic Interests: 63
Emotionality: 68
Adventurousness: 66
Intellect: 88
Liberalism: 76
Track List:
1. Philosophy, et cetera - pixnaps.blogspot.com - pixnaps97a2
2. Majikthise - 6ea37d10-e9b9-11d9-8cd6-0800200c9a66
3. free the turtles - BSlgY7j9EzQJ
4. (add your entry here)
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Thursday, June 30, 2005
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005
MIT Weblog Survey : Preliminary Results
If we're lucky, this link:MIT Weblog Survey : Preliminary Results will lead to the results of the survey I just took which I'm publicizing in through that fairly ugly white patch over on the left.
The Great Brain - Is Umberto Eco's new novel about memory really postmodern? By Robert Alter
In reference to the most recent post, I gather that Eco's most recent novel is about the discovery of one's self from recalling childhood pop culture. I guess I'm in good company. On the other hand Slate's review of the novel, The Great Brain - Is Umberto Eco's new novel about memory really postmodern? By Robert Alter, rightly points out this is really just a story we (Umberto and I) tell ourselves. Real psychologists with real science can tell us how memory and identity really work, this stuff about comic books is composed of speculative ruminations, and I still can't figure out what the point of those things are. That is, unless Aristotle is right and the the finest things are those that are done for their own sake alone. This would make reflecting on comic books a very fine thing to do indeed.
on comics and politics
How could I let this go by without comment: Pandagon on the politics of comic books.
Comic books themselves presented my first awareness of any number of topics, at least in part because I was rather late to reading, being completely uninterested in what the schools wanted to me. Comic books were an important catalyst in my becoming a reader. At least that's what I tell myself. In any case, comic books made me think about politics. There were two stages to this, at first I was the only person I knew who read comics, so I didn't discuss the stories with anyone else because no one was interested.
Marvel comics, especially, are populated with moral ambiguities. The good guy is always good, and the bad guy always bad. But each of them is really in conflict with themselves and their unusual places in their environments. Some manage to over come their problems and become heroes like Spider Man, others are consumed by their own desires and become villians, like Dr. Doom giving into vanity and rage. There's also a significant group, such as Magneto, who walk back and forth across the hero-villian line and the morally ambigous, hulk on a rampage, Nick Fury in his treatment of espers etc. Of course, there are others who are simply unexplained toad people. Why do toad people do what they do? I don't think we're ever meant to know. The point being that the stories can often become a complex dance between the motivations of the characters. The actual punching could come as a relief to trying to understand the problems motivating a story. Since these stories tend to reflect the most prominent anxities expressed at large when they are written, the step towards more real world style political thinking was easy.
Turns out that not eveybody read comics this way. The second stage was after a comic book store opened in my town and created a community of comic readers. In general comic book readers are intrigued by ideas, but don't take to them naturally. I remember one long discussion in which a group of store regulars could not figure out a way in which they could reliably become rich given a time machine. Try this exercise yourselve. Moreover, most felt that the violence in the comics needed to be understood as a literal solution to the sorts of problems that might be considered. (Spiderman's punching and web-slinging was a solution to crime, whatever Stan might say on his soap box. It was as if Godzilla showed the way to fight environmental corruption when he took on the smog monster. Apologies for media jumping.)
The second stage didn't so much change my political reflections as it made it clear that having an intelligent conversation about comic books, at least in my small part of the commonwealth, meant leaving the comic shop.
Comic books themselves presented my first awareness of any number of topics, at least in part because I was rather late to reading, being completely uninterested in what the schools wanted to me. Comic books were an important catalyst in my becoming a reader. At least that's what I tell myself. In any case, comic books made me think about politics. There were two stages to this, at first I was the only person I knew who read comics, so I didn't discuss the stories with anyone else because no one was interested.
Marvel comics, especially, are populated with moral ambiguities. The good guy is always good, and the bad guy always bad. But each of them is really in conflict with themselves and their unusual places in their environments. Some manage to over come their problems and become heroes like Spider Man, others are consumed by their own desires and become villians, like Dr. Doom giving into vanity and rage. There's also a significant group, such as Magneto, who walk back and forth across the hero-villian line and the morally ambigous, hulk on a rampage, Nick Fury in his treatment of espers etc. Of course, there are others who are simply unexplained toad people. Why do toad people do what they do? I don't think we're ever meant to know. The point being that the stories can often become a complex dance between the motivations of the characters. The actual punching could come as a relief to trying to understand the problems motivating a story. Since these stories tend to reflect the most prominent anxities expressed at large when they are written, the step towards more real world style political thinking was easy.
Turns out that not eveybody read comics this way. The second stage was after a comic book store opened in my town and created a community of comic readers. In general comic book readers are intrigued by ideas, but don't take to them naturally. I remember one long discussion in which a group of store regulars could not figure out a way in which they could reliably become rich given a time machine. Try this exercise yourselve. Moreover, most felt that the violence in the comics needed to be understood as a literal solution to the sorts of problems that might be considered. (Spiderman's punching and web-slinging was a solution to crime, whatever Stan might say on his soap box. It was as if Godzilla showed the way to fight environmental corruption when he took on the smog monster. Apologies for media jumping.)
The second stage didn't so much change my political reflections as it made it clear that having an intelligent conversation about comic books, at least in my small part of the commonwealth, meant leaving the comic shop.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Online Papers in Philosophy
Here's something so cool I thought I had to link to it, but its not the sort of thing that my students would necessarily be interested, so I put it over here on the audience-free blog, you know the one all my friend read.
Online Papers in Philosophy
Online Papers in Philosophy
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