--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@> wrote: > > > > > > Hmmm... > > > > > > I scored a 3. Â That's actually kinda pathetic; I definitely > > > need to think more of myself. > > > > > > Barry, I did the test for your internet personality and only > > > what I know and perceive of it in the limited time I've been > > > here. I scored you at 21, giving you the benefit of the doubt > > > that you don't like to look at yourself in the mirror and that > > > you don't want to rule the world, and a few other things I > > > had no idea about. > > > > > > Hmmmm....glad that your own personal assessment of yourself > > > is so far from my perceived assessment! No hard feelings. > > > > I suggested the idea, after all. :-) > > > > Interestingly, when I did the same thing for Judy, > > basing my answers purely on statements she has made > > here or on alt.meditation.transcendental in the past, > > and similarly assuming that she isn't big on vanity, > > she scored a 30. > > Gosh, I scored a 2. Maybe we should all fade into a gray background. > > What is interesting is that our evaluations of others differ > so drastically from their own perceptions of themselves. > Another idea is that the manner we speak on the forum may > be rather different from the way we speak in person as > certain psychological checks and balances of human > interaction are absent on a forum. The monsters of the > Id come forth here. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego#Id > > So which, if at all, is more accurate, the way we see > ourselves or the way others see us? Each of these could > just be a evaluative projection of our own selfish little > minds, which of course will always favour our own ideation > and disfavour all others'.
That is *exactly* what I had in mind when I proposed my own little "scientific study." My suspicion is that the most accurate -- if such a thing exists -- view of a person's personality characteristics would be the median between how we'd score ourselves on such tests, and how people who dislike us the most in life would score them.
