![]() ![]() You aren’t given five images of different sunsets and asked to pick which one best reveals your inner soul. You aren’t asked about which words you like best. You aren’t asked about hypothetical situations. The most popular - used by the vast majority of scientists who study personality - is called the Big Five, a system that organizes personality around five broad clusters of traits: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience. That’s because, while most of the personality tests shared around the internet are, indeed, bogus procrastination devices, there is a science to personality, and it’s something that researchers really can put into a quantified, testable format, said Simine Vazire, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis. Instead, I get to spend 2018 immersed in a new series of personality tests - ones that are actually evidence-based and scientifically sound. And as my colleagues and I compiled a list of the junk science we were resolved to let go of in the new year, I fully expected to be writing about how I was going to stop taking these damn things. ![]() The point is, I always regarded personality quizzes as strangely addictive horse hockey, good for trading memes with friends, excellent at consuming your cash (or your employer’s - sorry, Nate), but not much more. Call me a Ravenclaw with a dash of Slytherin. Not even the Myers-Briggs - a test that is frequently used in professional development and hiring settings and costs $50 to take online. But I’ve never really taken these tests seriously. ![]()
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