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I'll admit that I have a fondness for personality tests. I find them interesting, but I have no delusions about their ability to contribute to any meaningful analysis of one's life. That said, I don't think it's helpful to compare a system that is based on when you are born, to one that is based on answers to a variety of questions about how you would respond to different scenarios. The ways these tests are used by employers is exploitative, but that doesn't mean that there aren't interesting things to glean from categorizing trends in how people respond to these questions.

Astrology is uninteresting because it lacks even this barest of links to what you might be experiencing as an individual, but personality tests at least try to group you with like-minded groups. There are so many valid criticisms of personality tests, but at least they try, whereas astrology is lazy in so many ways.

anyways if you can't tell I'm an INTP and therefore always trying to understand things at a deeper level and probably better than you and or bad at communicating or something.

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[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

We had to do this colour personality test in nursing school. Everyone got greens and blues, those were supposed to be the caring, patient, relaxed or analytical, deliberate, precise colours. Some people got yellow, that was supposed to be the happy, sociable, persuasive colour.

I was the only one to get red and I felt so singled out lol, in all my cohort of 100. Red was like competitive, demanding, strong-willed

I dont think the colour personality test is a popular one or whatever but I couldn't believe I was the only one!!!