I've just been trawling around in the depths of my blog and found this little test that I did a few weeks ago:

[www.mindmedia.com]

My username is thursday _next, since I managed to bag it before anyone else did *smug grin*. These are the results I got:

"Thursday, you possess an interesting balance of hemispheric and sensory characteristics, with a slight right-brain dominance and a slight preference for visual processing.

Since neither of these is completely centered, you lack the indecision and second-guessing associated with other patterns. You have a distinct preference for creativity and intuition with seemingly sufficient verbal skills to be able to translate in any meaningful way to yourself and others.

You tend to see things in 'wholes' without surrendering the ability to attend to details. You can give them sufficient notice to be able to utilize and incorporate them as part of an overall pattern.

In the same way, while you are active and process information simultaneously, you demonstrate a capacity for sequencing as well as reflection which allows for some 'inner dialogue'.

All in all, you are likely to be quite content with yourself and your style although at times it will not necessarily be appreciated by others. You have sufficient confidence to not second-guess yourself, but rather to use your critical faculties in a way that enhances, rather than limits, your creativity.

You can learn in either mode although far more efficiently within the visual mode. It is likely that in listening to conversations or lecture materials you simultaneously translate into pictures which enhance and elaborate on the meaning.

It is most likely that you will gravitate towards those endeavors which are predominantly visual but include some logic or structuring. You may either work particularly hard at cultivating your auditory skills or risk 'missing out' on being able to efficiently process what you learn. Your own intuitive skills will at times interfere with your capacity to listen to others, which is something else you may need to take into account."

I'd say that lot was reasonably accurate, give or take the odd point here and there. It might also explain why I happen to be ambidextrous! I wonder what the real Thursday would get?



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

Sarah, you're ambidextrous too? Wow! This all gets curiouser and curiouser! (said Alice) - thanks for that anyway, I'll have a go in a bit and feed the results back here later...

I think we really _were_ separated at birth... except that you're six years older than I am, so obviously there was a bit of a slip-up involving the ChronoGuard here!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

OK here's my results...

Ptolemy, you are moderately right-hemisphere dominant and have even preferences between auditory and visual processing, traits that might make people perceive you as "slightly off balance."

You are most likely to be slightly disorganized, a "dreamer" and a person who focuses more on the end result than the immediate task at hand. You are creative and spontaneous if somewhat lacking in direction and focus. You are a learner who is generally patient and a person for whom time is an ally, not an enemy.

You are more passionate than most people with regard to life and learning and recognize your own intuitive abilities. You have sufficient goal-direction to satisfy yourself and guarantee success without being or feeling driven. You are willing to be reflective about yourself and others without getting lost in rumination.

The balance of your sensory modes allows for both learning and expressive capabilities achieved by few. You are active and "seeing" while retaining an equally strong propensity for being reflective which slows you down a little but allows for a more comprehensive perception and analysis of situations and problems. You do not spend excessive time analyzing since you mostly trust your perceptions.

In all likelihood, you have a tendency to overcommit and cannot under- stand why others get upset since you operate on a different "time table" than they do. Your organizational abilities are frequently overwhelmed by the stimulation seeking and active nature of your mind as well as by the tendency to create new categories and gloss over details, making categorization and classification almost impossible at times.

- the third and last paragraphs are particularly true, I gotta confess....

that test is flawed!! I took it 3 times, answered the questions exactly the same all three times and it came up with three VASTLY different answers...and then whe I'd do the questions review, it would highlight the wrong ones. Something is a little messed up I think.

Interesting test though!

There's a host more similar tests here...

Anybody want to choose one/some and do some more comparisons?

[www.queendom.com]

[www.emode.com]

[www.wizardrealm.com]



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I tried the queendom IQ test and thought it was very poor. Lots of odd questions about which of these 5 is least like the others, and some odd things to choose from : horse, zebra, deer, moose, eland, for example.

Also some general knowledge questions, such as Napoleon's last battle. Not a true judge of IQ really.

The Sparks Personality Profile is fun, particularly since it lets you see the types of and how compatible you are with other people you know who take the test.

I'll send it to a few people, but anyone else who wants to take it can follow this link, and then when you're done enter "magda_vogelsang@yahoo.com" in one of the boxes on the right, and then click the "add friends" button.

TheSpark.com's Personality Test

Thanks, magda! I'll have a go at that later!

I just scored 67% on the "freak" test meanwhile

Some would say that's low for me! LOL

[www.outofservice.com]

I did the Personality test - dante@geeklife.com to put in my address. It was quite interesting - I've changed from the last time I did it from submissive to dominant (which is probably ture) but that *totally* changes the personality given. I used to be a guru, which sounds much more like me.

I also did the freak test - 68%.



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Do something pretty while you can...

I did the 'TheSpark' personality test: It defines me as a "Mastermind".

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Simon, I did that too, and got the same result at first. Trouble is when I delved into it I found I was actually the chair on Mastermind and not a contender at all. And you thought I was just a part of the furniture around here?

Ah... this would explain why I got an e-mail from TheSpark this morning. I blocked it because I thought it was spam. Sorry, Magda!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

No prob.

I'm a MasterMind too, btw. It's supposed to be a relatively rare type, but I seem to know rather a lot of them (including my brother).

I thought I'd try the site recommended back at the top of the thread. I not sure it's entirely right about me 'downplaying' my creativity :). The suggestion that neither hemisphere of my brain may be more accurate. I can write stories, but I was doing very well on my programming course, and enjoyed the logic work needed.


Gillian, your hemispheric dominance is equally divided between left and right brain, while you show a moderate preference for auditory versus visual learning, signs of a balanced and flexible person.

Your balance gives you the enviable capacity to be verbal and literate while retaining a certain "flair" and individuality. You are logical and compliant but only to a degree. You are organized without being compulsive, goal-directed without being driven, and a "thinking" individual without being excessively so.

The one problem you might have is that your learning might not be as efficient as you would like. At times you will work from the specific to the general, while at other times you'll work from the general to the specific. Sometimes you will be logical in your approach while at other times random. Since you cannot always control the choice, you may experience frustrations not normally felt by persons with a more defined and directed learning style.

You may also minimally experience conflicts associated with auditory processing. You will be systematic and sequential in your processing of information, you will most often focus on a single dimension of the problem or material, and you will be more reflective, i.e., "taking the data in" as opposed to "devouring" it.

Overall, you should feel content with your life and yourself. You are, perhaps, a little too critical of yourself - and of others - while maintaining an "openness" which is redeeming. Indecisiveness is a problem and your creativity is not in keeping with your potential. Being a pragmatist, you downplay this aspect of yourself and focus on the more immediate, the more obvious and the more functional.

Well so far I'm 89% compatible with Simon, and 69% with dante (but only 48% with dante's old results), on the test at TheSpark. Interesting.

The 89% is reciprocal, but it claims that I'm 98% compatible with Dante.

It's greatly oversimplified, of course: How could I possibly be anywhere near that compatible with anybody else when I don't even feel that compatible with myself?

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The compatibility score isn't strictly type related either, since my brother is the same type I am (Mastermind) but we only have a score of 65%. On the other hand, my best friend is a Dreamer, but we have a 98% score, and I have high scores with several other types.

A bunch of my friends took this last year, and interestingly, the people I had the most trouble getting along with had some of my lowest scores.

Even more interestingly, when I logged in as them, they had a lot more low scores with other people than I did.

Out of 36 friends of mine, my lowest score was 56%, then I had 5 in the 60s, 7 in the 70s, 6 in the 80s, 12 in the 90s, and 5 scores of 100%. Which suggests that either I'm easy to get along with, or I'm good at picking friends I'm compatible with.

BTW, I took the test at the top of the thread myself too, and according to it I am perfectly balanced, oddly enough. This would actually fit with the fact that on many of the questions, I could see more than one right answer, and had trouble choosing.

Auditory: 52%
Visual: 47%
Left Hemisphere: 52%
Right Hemisphere: 47%

Summary:
Magda, you are one of those rare individuals who are perfectly "balanced" in both your hemispheric tendencies and your sensory learning preferences. However, there is both good news and bad news.

A problem with hemispheric balance is that you will tend to feel more conflict than someone who has a clearly established dominance. At times the conflict will be between what you feel and what you think but will also involve how you attack problems and how you perceive information. Details which will seem important to the right hemis- phere will be discounted by the left and vice versa, which can present a hindrance to learning efficiently.

In the same vein, you may have a problem with organization. You might organize your time and/or space only to feel the need to reorganize five to ten weeks later.

On the positive side, you bring resources to problem-solving that others may not have. You can perceive the "big picture" and the essential details simultaneously and maintain the cognitive perspective required. You possess sufficient verbal skills to translate your intuition into a form which can be understood by others while still being able to access ideas and concepts which do not lend themselves to language.

Your balanced nature might lead you to second-guess yourself in artistic endeavors, losing some of the fluidity, spontaneity and creativity that otherwise would be yours.

With your balanced sensory styles, you process data alternately, at times visually and other times auditorially. This usage of separate memories may cause you to require more time to integrate information or re-access it. When presented with situations which force purely visual or purely auditory learning, increased anxiety is likely and your learning efficiency will decrease.

Your greatest benefit is that you can succeed in multiple fields due to the great plasticity and flexibility you possess.



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--Ross Smith

Magda: that last line seems to suggest that you should take up gymnastics.