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Six Factor Personality Test-Paul Nachbar
Six Factor Personality Test
Please rate according to your preferences, values or desires, the
following six factors of human experience (below). Factors should be
listed in order of descending appearance - no letters or numbers at this
point, just write the words. Some terms, deliberately too-inclusive,
deserve an explanation. 'Folklore' is a term I employ to describe all
culture, whether literature or comic books, films or novels. 'Facts'
refers to an interest in provable truths .e.g., sciences, math, social
sciences (sometimes) etc. 'Fights' can refer to any disputes from those
described in the "Short and Bloody History of High-iq
societies" to weekend Scrabble games or even World War II. The rest
are fairly self-explanatory.
(factors,
in no particular order of importance):
Food
Faith
Freedom
Fame
Finances
Facts
Fights
Fun
Folklore
Folly
If you want, just send your version of the list to psnachbar@
netscape.net. I'm not sure what sort of analysis I might apply to any
results -certainly nothing overwhelmingly valid or precise. However, the
point of my test was to try to simplify the concerns of dozens if not
hundreds of often complex tests I have seen and/or taken, on and off the
Internet. Whether Phd-validated or not, many of these seem to go too far
in their attempts at complexity. In other words, they do not really
produce any new knowledge about people, but only refine old ways of
measuring mentalities, personalities, etc -over time periods of one, two
or more hours. DO we learn anything new or important by trying to figure
out how many people from group x answered question y correctly versus
the number of people from group z who answered the same question
correctly? This could be beyond my abilities -my math education stopped
when I was 16- but from the little I learned these conclusions seem
pretty petty to anybody not in one or several of those same clubs (my
math SAT in 1974 was 760, not bad for a poet who spent his math classes
mainly drawing on his desk and suffered the consequences in terms of
actual grades...86.something GPA in 1975 It is possible to drive a car
quite well without any formal training or license, just as it is
possible to write extraordinary poems without their being
M.A.-validated, etc, or write brilliant programs without a degree from
MIT.
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