…and this is a 
Your goal should be to achieve a score as close to mine as possible
Category: Personal • Weirdness
Posted on: July 19, 2007 9:36 AM, by PZ Myers
This is irrational, an intrusion into my privacy, rude, and beneath me, but I have been tagged with another meme by the behavioral ecology blog. I am to take this test of my personality defects, post the results, and pass it on.
These are not personality defects. How can you call perfection "defective"?
Haughty Intellectual
You are 100% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 0% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant.You are the Haughty Intellectual. You are a very rational person, emphasizing logic over emotion, and you are also rather arrogant and self-aggrandizing. You probably think of yourself as an intellectual, and you would like everyone to know it. Not only that, but you also tend to look down on others, thinking yourself better than them. You could possibly have an unhealthy obsession with yourself as well, thus causing everyone to hate you for being such an elitist twat. On top of all that, you are also introverted and gentle. This means that you are just a quiet thinker who wants fame and recognition, in all likelihood. Like so many countless pseudo-intellectuals swarming around vacuous internet forums to discuss worthless political issues, your kind is a scourge upon humanity, blathering and blathering on and on about all kinds of boring crap. If your personality could be sculpted, the resulting piece would be Rodin's "The Thinker"--although I am absolutely positive that you are not nearly as muscular or naked as that statue. Rather lacking in emotion, introspective, gentle, and arrogant, you are most certainly a Haughty Intellectual! And, most likely, you will never achieve the recognition or fame you so desire! But no worries!
To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.
3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.
4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Schoolyard Bully. (Bullies like to beat up nerds, after all.)
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Braggart, the Hand-Raiser, and the Robot.
Although the "brutal" score is a filthy lie. Just to prove it, I will gladly torment others with this pointless exercise.
CultureCat - Rhetoric and Feminism
Comments
True, that.
Posted by: Caledonian | July 19, 2007 9:45 AM
Wow, that's scary. You and I are quite similar.
Posted by: Kelly | July 19, 2007 9:46 AM
Additional:
Re: PZ's 0% Brutality rating:
A common error is to mistake possessing ethical awareness for weakness of will. An even more-common error is to mistake weakness of will for possessing ethical awareness.
You seem to lack an understanding of the hidden unity of cruelty and kindness. I suggest you further reflect upon the purpose of rigorous testing in science to gain understanding.
Posted by: Caledonian | July 19, 2007 9:48 AM
Hah! 100% rational 15% BRUTAL! Eat your heart out, matey (afore I do it for ye)! AARRGHHHHHARRHGHH!
Posted by: Ian H Spedding FCD | July 19, 2007 9:51 AM
You are 100% Rational, 42% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant.
So, more extroverted, less brutal, and just as arrogant. This explains lots (not least why you are the Evil Twin).
Posted by: John Wilkins | July 19, 2007 9:52 AM
I am not giving them a list of my personality flaws AND my email address.
Posted by: Christian Burnham | July 19, 2007 10:06 AM
Here's another test:
What's your Asperger's quotient?
http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/asperger-test-aq-test/
Really quite interesting.
Posted by: Christian Burnham | July 19, 2007 10:07 AM
Sociopath; 100% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 71% Brutal, 71% Arrogant.
I don't know. "Sociopath" seems a little strong. It seems to describe more simply a "dick".
Posted by: Morgan | July 19, 2007 10:12 AM
My AQ is 35.
Posted by: Caledonian | July 19, 2007 10:13 AM
No, no, Wilkins -- your score says you are more brutal than I am. Which is to be expected from you militant extremist agnostics.
Posted by: PZ Myers | July 19, 2007 10:16 AM
You are 85% Rational, 57% Extroverted, 71% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant.
I am a Smart Ass
I think I lost some rationality points by admitting that I sometimes make decisions for emotional rather than rational reasons. And this is true. It's late. I'm thirsty. The day was rough. I drink beer rather than water. Why? Because it's late, I'm thirsty, the day was rough. This is not a rational reason to get wasted. There isn't a rational reason to get wasted. If I was rational, I'd drink a glass of water and go to bed. Same thing with my college choice. Rationally, I would pick the career I am most suited for, that will maximize the money I could make. Instead, I chose something that I enjoy but probably will never make me wealthy. Same thing with the choice of mate. Or the animals I have at home. Or the clothes I wear and from whence I purchased them. I do all sorts of irrational things like that. I have never met a person who doesn't.
Screw this test. Screw everybody. God damn, I'm so angry I could beat an emo kid and brag to gaping bystandards as I did it.
Posted by: Ezekiel Buchheit | July 19, 2007 10:18 AM
100-42-28-57
Apparently, I am similar to PZ, but, when I talk to people, I look at their shoes (PZ looks at his own), and once in a blue moon I stomp on their feet.
Posted by: bullfighter | July 19, 2007 10:20 AM
29 AQ. I'd take the personality defect quiz but the capitalist moral agents have barred such distractions.
Posted by: Tom @Thoughtsic.com | July 19, 2007 10:21 AM
Your Score: Smartass
You are 71% Rational, 57% Extroverted, 85% Brutal, and 100% Arrogant.
I think I lost rationality points because of the arts/sciences question...that one definitely needed a middle answer.
Posted by: Serrac | July 19, 2007 10:25 AM
"You are 85% Rational, 57% Extroverted, 85% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant
You are the Smartass! You are rational, extroverted, brutal, and arrogant. In fact, you could very well be the
anti-Christ, as you are almost the exact opposite of everything Jesus was supposed to be. While Jesus says love your enemy, you say love beating the crap out of your enemy. While Jesus raises the dead, you raise hell. While Jesus walks on water, you tend to sink. You probably consider people who are emotional and gentle to be big pussies who are obviously in lesser stature than you. You have many flaws, despite your seeming intelligence and cool-headedness. For instance, you aren't very nice. In fact, you're probably an asshole. And you are conceited and self-centered. Not only that, but you are very loud and vocal about all this, seeing as how you are extroverted. There is no better way to describe you than as a "smartass", I'm afraid. Perhaps just "ass" would do, too. But that's a little less literary and descriptive. At any rate, your main personality defect is the fact that you are self-centered, mean, uncaring, and brutally logical."
Ouch.
Posted by: rich | July 19, 2007 10:26 AM
Also a haughty intellectual, but apparently even more introverted than PZ and quite a bit more brutal: "You are 100% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant."
I really need to work on that brutality score so I can someday attain the coveted Sociopath status. ;)
Posted by: Steve LaBonne | July 19, 2007 10:27 AM
Your Score: Sociopath - You are 100% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 71% Brutal, and 85% Arrogant.
Bloody hell, guess my parents were right: I am a dick.
Well at least I'm a rational one, even if a bit "brutal" ;) Sociopath though? Nah. Though the line, "you prefer the silence of dead bodies to the loud, twittering nitwits you normally encounter in your daily life" certainly has it's appeal. Minus the dead bodies of course.
Posted by: Dustin | July 19, 2007 10:31 AM
How's that for a score? Eh?
I never realised I was so arrogant! Isn't that great? I am now off to the pub to show myself to the people.
Posted by: Arnaud | July 19, 2007 10:38 AM
You are 85% Rational, 42% Extroverted, 57% Brutal, and 14% Arrogant.
You are the Spiteful Loner, the personality type that is most likely to go on a shooting rampage.
Your exact opposite is the Televangelist.
Mwuahahaha.
As an aside, I find it depressing that I scored in the 90th percentile for rationality. And encouraging that I was 63% in brutality- though I'm unsure why answering yes to the anger questions means I am going to shoot people.
Posted by: Kerlyssa | July 19, 2007 10:38 AM
Spiteful Loner! I came awfully close to Starving Artist, but I am far too plump for that...
Posted by: mojojojo | July 19, 2007 10:42 AM
I score as robot, also 100% rational. Funny that, lots of 100% rational people here.
Posted by: Wilfred | July 19, 2007 10:44 AM
STOP MOCKING MY IRRATIONALITY! You Pharyngulites are so disrespectful!
Posted by: Kerlyssa | July 19, 2007 10:46 AM
No surprises here...
Posted by: Evolving Squid | July 19, 2007 10:48 AM
Hey! I'm a hippie! Humble, gentle, extroverted and intuitive!
Actually, I'm a sociopath, but I feel no guilt about lying to scum like you.
Posted by: aiabx | July 19, 2007 10:57 AM
Hey, this test is pretty accurate!
You are 57% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 14% Arrogant.
You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human. For instance, you are very humble and don't bother thinking of your own interests, you are very gentle and lack emotion, and you are also very introverted and introspective. You may have noticed that these traits are just as applicable to your laptop as they are to a human being. You are not like the robots they show in the movies. Movie robots are make-believe, because they always get all personable and likeable after being struck by lightning, or they are cold, cruel killing machines. In all reality, though, you are much more boring than all that. Real robots just sit there, doing their stupid jobs, and doing little else. If you get struck by lightning, you won't develop a winning personality and heart of gold. (Robots don't have hearts, silly, and if they did, they would probably be made of steel, not gold.) You also won't be likely to terrorize humanity by becoming an ultra-violent killing machine sent into the past to kill the mother of a child who will lead a rebellion against machines, because that movie was dumb as hell, and because real robots don't kill--they horribly maim at best, and they don't even do that on purpose. Real robots are boringly kind and all too rarely try to kill people. In all my years, my laptop has only attacked me once, and that was only because my brother threw it at me. In short, your personality defect is that you don't really HAVE a personality. You are one of those annoying, super-logical people that never gets upset or flustered. Unless, of course, you short circuit. Or if someone throws a pie at you. Pies sure are delicious.
Posted by: CalGeorge | July 19, 2007 10:58 AM
Christian - you can leave the email portion blank.
I'm a spiteful Loner:
You are 85% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 57% Brutal, and 0% Arrogant.
I'm not sure how I scored so high on brutality - I answered all of the questions about violence in the negative.
Posted by: Carlie | July 19, 2007 10:58 AM
I'm like you other people, except I'm more social.
Your Score: Braggart
You are 85% Rational, 57% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 71% Arrogant
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.
3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.
4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Haughty Intellectual, and the Capitalist Pig.
Posted by: Sonja | July 19, 2007 10:59 AM
I changed one answer and turned into a robot. I think I liked the spiteful loner better, as its opposite was the televangelist.
Posted by: Carlie | July 19, 2007 11:01 AM
You are 100% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 0% Brutal, and 28% Arrogant.
*sigh*...I'm a freakin "robot."
I just look like a hippie.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | July 19, 2007 11:24 AM
100% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 71% Brutal, 42% Arrogant... that makes me a Sociopath. Good to know that all of those high-school guidance counselors were right!
It's also nice to be in the company of so many of my fellow Sociopaths when reading Pharyngula. PZ should try to change his ad content to more accurately reflect his antisocial readership...ScienceBlogs could make a bundle!
Posted by: Jared | July 19, 2007 11:26 AM
I got the Brute, yikes. My AQ was 21, or the average for a male or female computer scientist.
Posted by: Clancy | July 19, 2007 11:29 AM
24 on the AQ and I am apparently a Robot. Not quite sure where to go with that, since I'm not a computer scientist or, for that matter, a computer. ;)
Posted by: PuckishOne | July 19, 2007 11:36 AM
You are 100% Rational, 28% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 14% Arrogant.
You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human. For instance, you are very humble and don't bother thinking of your own interests, you are very gentle and lack emotion, and you are also very introverted and introspective. You may have noticed that these traits are just as applicable to your laptop as they are to a human being. You are not like the robots they show in the movies. Movie robots are make-believe, because they always get all personable and likeable after being struck by lightning, or they are cold, cruel killing machines. In all reality, though, you are much more boring than all that. Real robots just sit there, doing their stupid jobs, and doing little else. If you get struck by lightning, you won't develop a winning personality and heart of gold. (Robots don't have hearts, silly, and if they did, they would probably be made of steel, not gold.) You also won't be likely to terrorize humanity by becoming an ultra-violent killing machine sent into the past to kill the mother of a child who will lead a rebellion against machines, because that movie was dumb as hell, and because real robots don't kill--they horribly maim at best, and they don't even do that on purpose. Real robots are boringly kind and all too rarely try to kill people. In all my years, my laptop has only attacked me once, and that was only because my brother threw it at me. In short, your personality defect is that you don't really HAVE a personality. You are one of those annoying, super-logical people that never gets upset or flustered. Unless, of course, you short circuit. Or if someone throws a pie at you. Pies sure are delicious.
Posted by: TheBlackCat | July 19, 2007 11:43 AM
i, robot.
Posted by: misterbowen | July 19, 2007 11:50 AM
"Your goal should be to achieve a score as close to mine as possible"
I took this quiz over a year ago and got pretty much the same result, just more brutal. I don't think I'll wait to not get tagged.
Posted by: Bob | July 19, 2007 11:52 AM
100% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 0% Brutal, and 28% Arrogant = Robot
The same results as Sven in #29, I see. Since PZ has set himself up as the standard, I compute my difference from him as SQRT((100-100)2 + (14-0)2 + (0-0)2 + (57-28)2) = 32.2. That appears to put me in a first place tie with Sven. Next appears to be bullfighter from #12 at 39.6, then John Wilkins from #5 at 50.5. (I only computed values for those that appeared close, though.)
Posted by: Alan Lund | July 19, 2007 11:56 AM
My AQ is 39, which is 4 points more autistic/antisocial than Caledonian! (I'm really in trouble.)
Posted by: Christian Burnham | July 19, 2007 12:12 PM
Carlie @ 26 - me too!
As for Asperger's, I scored a 35. No shock to me, my son has Asperger's.
Posted by: Bob | July 19, 2007 12:15 PM
Well looks like I'm a Braggart.
You are 85% Rational, 57% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 71% Arrogant.
To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.
3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.
4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.
I have an ego that needs lots of feeding, I'm only shy around people I don't yet know, if you harm my daughter - I will kill you- but thats the only reason, the arts question was a tossup.
PZ, I think we could be friends.
Ken
Posted by: Ken Mareld | July 19, 2007 12:15 PM
Oh, and 21 on the AQ. I'm not a computer Scientist, but I can play one on TV. See - I'm a braggart.
Ken
Posted by: Ken Mareld | July 19, 2007 12:30 PM
You are 85% Rational, 85% Extroverted, 71% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant.
AQ: 15 - well its tough to be autistic when your an extrovert
Posted by: other bill | July 19, 2007 12:34 PM
You are 85% Rational, 71% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 28% Arrogant.
Your Score: Hand-Raiser
"Clearly, the key traits of your personality are your rationality and your extroversion.
You
are like a little talkative calculator, in other words. You also tend to be rather gentle and less arrogant than most people. Your presence is a bane to everyone's existence, because you are too nice for your own good and you absolutely will not shut up."
Wow, this thing's good!
Posted by: Caveat | July 19, 2007 12:44 PM
You are 100% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 42% Arrogant.
Another robot, here. I kind of like the idea. But I'm moving the Third Law into first place.
Posted by: BobApril | July 19, 2007 12:57 PM
Apparently I'm a Robot, because my emotions aren't leaky enough to spill on any of the questions that were asked.
Posted by: Thanny | July 19, 2007 1:00 PM
I'm a flipping robot? Like my laptop, which I just threw across the room? Get out of my way, you stupid cats. I am so going to eat that entire bag of chips right now. *Crunch* And I thought that choosing "humble" as an answer proved my arrogance. Stupid test! What do I care, anyway? I don't care. Dumb test. *Bursts into tears*
;-) (No category for blog clown, I see.)
Posted by: Kristine | July 19, 2007 1:04 PM
My AQ is 37 (which comes as no surprise to me). Say it loud, I'm a geek and I'm proud! ;)
Posted by: Steve LaBonne | July 19, 2007 1:10 PM
Obviously that test is bogus. If it were valid, we'd all get the same rating, with brutal and arrogant maxed out.
Posted by: Bob | July 19, 2007 1:10 PM
Apparently I'm a smartass..... but at least I get to be the Anti-Christ! It says so right there on the page! YEAHHHH!!! As for the other stuff -- If I find the pantywaist who wrote those things about me, I'll pummel 'em! ;))
I'm *sure* I'm not that brutal!
You are the Smartass! You are rational, extroverted, brutal, and arrogant. In fact, you could very well be the anti-Christ, as you are almost the exact opposite of everything Jesus was supposed to be. While Jesus says love your enemy, you say love beating the crap out of your enemy. While Jesus raises the dead, you raise hell. While Jesus walks on water, you tend to sink. You probably consider people who are emotional and gentle to be big pussies who are obviously in lesser stature than you. You have many flaws, despite your seeming intelligence and cool-headedness. For instance, you aren't very nice. In fact, you're probably an asshole. And you are conceited and self-centered. Not only that, but you are very loud and vocal about all this, seeing as how you are extroverted. There is no better way to describe you than as a "smartass", I'm afraid. Perhaps just "ass" would do, too. But that's a little less literary and descriptive. At any rate, your main personality defect is the fact that you are self-centered, mean, uncaring, and brutally logical.
To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.
3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle.
4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.
Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Emo Kid.
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Capitalist Pig, the Braggart, and the Sociopath.
Posted by: tony | July 19, 2007 1:18 PM
Pretty funny quiz - I like finding these things and wasting time during breaks at work figuring out what Transformer I am (Optimus Prime), or what Family Guy character I resemble (Stewie).
This one was even more entertaining. We're compatible as well.
I'm 71% rational, 14% extroverted, 42% brutal, and 28% arrogant. :-)
Posted by: Heath the Robot | July 19, 2007 1:25 PM
My AQ is "0 - 12"
Apparently being a smartass/the anti-christ is the polar opposite of Asberger's
;)
tony, the anti-christ (I *like* the sound of that!)
Posted by: tony_the_anti-christ | July 19, 2007 1:30 PM
Your Score: SmartassYou are 100% Rational, 71% Extroverted, 57% Brutal, and 71% Arrogant.
You are the Smartass! You are rational, extroverted, brutal, and arrogant. In fact, you could very well be the anti-Christ, as you are almost the exact opposite of everything Jesus was supposed to be. While Jesus says love your enemy, you say love beating the crap out of your enemy. While Jesus raises the dead, you raise hell. While Jesus walks on water, you tend to sink. You probably consider people who are emotional and gentle to be big pussies who are obviously in lesser stature than you. You have many flaws, despite your seeming intelligence and cool-headedness. For instance, you aren't very nice. In fact, you're probably an asshole. And you are conceited and self-centered. Not only that, but you are very loud and vocal about all this, seeing as how you are extroverted. There is no better way to describe you than as a "smartass", I'm afraid. Perhaps just "ass" would do, too. But that's a little less literary and descriptive. At any rate, your main personality defect is the fact that you are self-centered, mean, uncaring, and brutally logical.
To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.
3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle.
4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.
Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Emo Kid.
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Capitalist Pig, the Braggart, and the Sociopath.
Posted by: dhonig | July 19, 2007 1:35 PM
I'm a robot with an AQ of 7.
Does that even make sense?
Posted by: twincats | July 19, 2007 1:36 PM
Of course it makes sense -- you are a robot modelled on the anti-christ!
Posted by: tony_the_anti-christ | July 19, 2007 1:38 PM
100% Rational, 71% Extroverted, 57% Brutal, and 0% Arrogant.
I can only guess the reason for the brutality is that I'm easily angered, but when I get angry I'm far far, far more likely to use sarcasm than fists (I haven't thrown a punch since I was eight, and he was trying to demand my lunch money at the time, and since rational reasoning had failed, since he wouldn't understand that my bringing sandwiches negated the need to bring money).
As for the beggars - if my local authority (in "socialist Europe" rather than the US) has requested that we give money to projects helping people with drug and alcohol problems, rather than handing over cash to individuals on the street, and has made it easy to do so, is not giving money to a beggar brutal, or is it rational?
Posted by: AE | July 19, 2007 1:40 PM
Thanks for the tag (not!). Turns out I'm a Robot. I am 100% Rational, 28% Extroverted, 14% Brutal, and 42% Arrogant. But I can be friends with PZ, because I would probably get along with the haughty intellectual!
Posted by: Random_Intelligence | July 19, 2007 1:50 PM
Your Score: Sociopath
You are 100% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 100% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant.
Guess...I am the most extreme sociopath around here.
Posted by: Ra | July 19, 2007 1:55 PM
I'm a Robot, I'm 85% Rational. Other Robots here are 100% rational. CalGeorge up there is a robot at 57% Rational. And yet, the description of Robot is, "You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by." And apparently that single characteristic can range from 57-100%
Gosh, you don't suppose this test is just complete bullshit do you? Can't be, I saw it on the innernets!
Posted by: fardels bear | July 19, 2007 1:56 PM
Well of course it's bullshit, but probably not complete bullshit. It's actually pretty similar to the Briggs-Meyers personality survey. There are 4 dichotomies rated on a 100-pt. scale, and they use 50 as the dividing criterion. So 51% would be scored differently than 49%, and in that sense it's clearly bullshit. Meaningfulness of each of the traits is increasaed with distance from 50.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | July 19, 2007 2:07 PM
My girlfriend scored Emo. My exact opposite. But being a Smartass I'll just tell her I did too. ;)
Posted by: Rich | July 19, 2007 2:16 PM
Asocial. Antisocial is a very different thing.
Posted by: Caledonian | July 19, 2007 2:22 PM
I'm offended, I scored capitalist pig....
...I'm a socialist.
Posted by: Leif Nepstad | July 19, 2007 2:28 PM
My wife scored '4' on the AQ test. I got '35'. Opposites attract, and I passed my Asperger-y genes on to my young'un.
Posted by: Bob | July 19, 2007 2:39 PM
I am a robot. Although, judging from the fact that I wrote this silly test years ago, it seems like "smartass" would be a much better description, because reading this stuff just makes me cringe at how...crazed...I used to be.
Now, of course, I'm totally fine.
Posted by: Saint Gasoline | July 19, 2007 3:45 PM
Okay, I took the test pretending I was George W. Bush:
You are 14% Rational, 100% Extroverted, 100% Brutal, and 100% Arrogant.
You are the Class Clown. This means you wear grease paint and have a big, red nose...
I really need to stop thinking so literally...
Anyway, I MEANT to say that you are the Class Clown, and this means that you are extroverted, mean, and arrogant. You are not very rational, so you gravitate towards things that produce feelings or emotions over thoughts (like fart jokes or spitballs, for instance). You are also an extrovert and rather full of yourself, so of course you want constant attention for yourself and think you are somehow better than others. (Upon hearing the expression "you are full of yourself", you probably also slyly feel the need to ask women if they would like to be "full of yourself" too. I am assuming you have a penis. I often make that assumption, being fond of the penis.) You can also be a bit mean-spirited, and like a class clown you wouldn't hesitate to make a joke at someone else's expense, no matter how terrible it would make them feel. A lot of people probably find your antics annoying, sophomoric, and desperately histrionic. Like some sort of crack-taking hyperactive monkey, you'd do anything, mock anyone, just to get someone to pay attention to you for five seconds. So your personality defects are that you have to be the center of attention, that you don't care about others, and that you are rather irrational and motivated by intuitions. Now stop walking around with those books on your head and sit down this instant! Or else I'll be forced to stand here, hands on my hips, doing nothing once again!
Heehee!
Posted by: CalGeorge | July 19, 2007 3:46 PM
After looking over all the possible combinations of the four personality traits, I have to conclude that the Braggart is in fact the best.
Yes we're rational and proud of it. But we also engaged in society, but in a gentle way.
Braggarts are the greatest!
Posted by: Sonja | July 19, 2007 4:12 PM
I'm a braggart, apparently, but I think the survey needed to a Likert type scale (1-5) to be more valid. I value science and the arts, for example, and while I like to receive notice for my achievements, it isn't something I demand.
You are 100% Rational, 71% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant.
But as a braggart, I believe that these are the important stats...
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 99% on Rationality
You scored higher than 99% on Extroversion
You scored higher than 99% on Brutality
You scored higher than 99% on Arrogance
Posted by: Robster, FCD | July 19, 2007 4:24 PM
"some sort of crack-taking hyperactive monkey"
that's the Shrub, all right.
Posted by: s | July 19, 2007 4:31 PM
Your Score: Sociopath
You are 85% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 85% Brutal, and 71% Arrogant.
Oh please, as if being a sociopath is a BAD thing...
Posted by: K | July 19, 2007 4:38 PM
No kidding, I actually got: You are 100% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 0% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant. In other words, I got EXACTLY your score. Are there prizes involved? :-)
I guess this explains why I like your blog so much.
Posted by: a | July 19, 2007 4:47 PM
"You are 100% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant"
Et moi, Brute. (to mingle/mangle Latin & French).
I must try to be more gentle (on my knees, to be true to etymology).
On second thought: fuhged aboud it.
Posted by: cyan | July 19, 2007 5:17 PM
YES! I AM THE ROBOT! I have always known it. WELCOME YOUR NEW ROBOT OVERLORD.
Posted by: mirshafie | July 19, 2007 5:21 PM
caca. That stupid site made me sign up for their dating crap before I could see the results.
They sucketh.
I will now, no doubt, be pestered to death by them.
Posted by: Will Von Wizzlepig | July 19, 2007 5:24 PM
Danger, Will Robinson!
Another robot here.
Do we now have a quorum on this blog for World Robot Domination?
Posted by: Jen Phillips | July 19, 2007 5:43 PM
You are 100% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 71% Arrogant. (Haughty Intellectual)
Posted by: Baratos | July 19, 2007 8:05 PM
You are 100% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 57% Brutal, and 100% Arrogant. Not surprising one bit. Just take one visit to my blog, haha!
Posted by: Tom @Thoughtsic.com | July 19, 2007 8:13 PM
The perfect ROBOT
You are 100% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 0% Brutal, and 0% Arrogant.
That must make ME the ROBOT Overload!!!
Posted by: Salgod | July 19, 2007 8:14 PM
Salgod: You can;t be an overlord.... you need to be both brutal and arrogant to be an overlord (and I should know,'cos I'm a *smartass*)
Posted by: tony_the_anti_christ | July 19, 2007 8:20 PM
Add me to the growing robot army. Soon, we shall take over the world!
Posted by: Bruce | July 19, 2007 8:30 PM
Snort! Apparently I am a "Robot", though I think a better classification would be "Vulcan". I do have emotions, I just don't think they are all that practical in determining the validity of what is or isn't factual.
100% Rational, 28% Extroverted, 14% Brutal, and 28% Arrogant.
Posted by: Kagehi | July 19, 2007 8:45 PM
I used to be a haughty intellectual, but now it seems I'm a brutal sociopath. At least I'm still 100% rational.
Posted by: Bob | July 19, 2007 8:46 PM
Your Score: Hand-RaiserYou are 100% Rational, 71% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 0% Arrogant.
You are the Hand-Raiser, that annoying kid in class who always had an answer for everything. No doubt, as a child you probably sat in the front of the class, anxiously waving your hand back and forth in the air while your teacher desperately tried to avoid calling on you because you were the ONLY fucking kid that answered her questions. Clearly, the key traits of your personality are your rationality and your extroversion. You are like a little talkative calculator, in other words. You also tend to be rather gentle and less arrogant than most people. Your presence is a bane to everyone's existence, because you are too nice for your own good and you absolutely will not shut up. So what is your defect, then? Well, you're boring, and when you're not boring, you are just plain annoying with your ultra-logical responses and constant need to talk to others. So keep waving that hand in the air, son. I'm still not calling on you. You are too logical, you talk too much, and your humility and gentleness only makes me hate you more, because they make me feel like I almost SHOULDN'T hate you. But I do. Big time. And by the way, the more you wave your hand in class--your extended hand becoming nothing more than a blur as you insanely wave it, thinking we can't see it--the more smug satisfaction the teacher takes in watching the look of excrutiating pain cross your face as you agonize over not being called on, and the longer we'll wait to call on you, just because we absolutely love torturing you so.
To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.
3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.
4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.
Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Brute.
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Braggart, the Haughty Intellectual, and the Robot.
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If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.
The other personality types:
The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.
Be sure to take my Sublime Philosophical Crap Test if you are interested in taking a slightly more intellectual test that has just as many insane ramblings as this one does!
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 98% on Rationality
You scored higher than 67% on Extroversion
You scored higher than 52% on Brutality
You scored higher than 0% on Arrogance
Posted by: ruejacobs | July 19, 2007 9:52 PM
which is distinctly odd, seeing how i always skipped class and partied instead...
Posted by: ruejacobs | July 19, 2007 9:58 PM
I'm the Haughty Intellectual, too, but I'm much more brutal than PZ. Dang, I wanted to be the Sociopath. I always score as a sociopath when I take these stupid tests.
Posted by: The Countess | July 19, 2007 10:35 PM
I found it interesting that one of the questions was (paraphrased): "Would you do something that was inconsequential to you but devastating to someone else?"
Choosing to assign a student that has failed a course a F instead of an A is fairly inconsequential, but quite possibly devastating to the student - there are many real and weighty consequences that result from such an action.
But I don't think many people here would regard that as unfair or contrary to compassion. I suspect most of you would accept that giving the earned grade is, in the long term, better for the student and ultimately more compassionate. But not giving an A instead can still cause a great deal of suffering.
There are other cases where suffering is not only deserved, but necessary. Refusing to inflict suf