Left Brain or Right Brain — I’ll Take Both
I’m not a big fan of personality tests. I think I know myself pretty well. My answer to, “Would you rather poke sticks in your eye or hack off a toe?” is not indicative of whether I would steal pens (black, medium point, preferably Bic) from my next employer.
However, a friend Twittered the link to a Brainworks test today and I was hooked. This test purports to tell you, “things about yourself not revealed by other psychology tests.”
The questions were odd, but I tried to go with my gut. Seeing the results, I realize that I don’t really have a gut. In the intuitive-gut sense, at any rate. My brain usage profile is:
- Auditory : 64%
- Visual : 35%
- Left : 60%
- Right : 40%
I didn’t find those results particularly telling until I read the additional summary page. The things they had to say about me were eerily spot-on.
Annie, your results indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance.
That’s a very polite way of saying I don’t trust anyone and if you don’t show me facts, I won’t listen to you.
Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations.
Not rigid? Talk to my husband.
Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself.
Does this mean they know I talk to myself? How do they know that? I don’t know, have they been listening? That’s really weird, don’t you think? Well, screw ‘em.
Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.
Might have been nice if somebody mentioned that back when I was, say, 18?
And for the record, I’d hack off a toe. I think this makes me unusually thoughtful and caring, don’t you?
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June 6th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Annie? You are very very naughty for leading me to this
of course i got sucked in …
Here are my stats.
Auditory : 71%
Visual : 28%
Left : 62%
Right : 37%
-part of me was like: oo cool!
-part of me was like: time suck!
-part of me was doing a running commentary on the questions … (occupational hazard ;)) … like - i’m picking “a” a lot - i hope someone switched up the responses here to account for response biases … and the visual stuff simply wasn’t pretty to look at - so i tended not to pick those answers
-part of me was trying to pick an answer in spite of or beFORE that running commentary.
so - here’s my deets:
“mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing.”
“This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance.”
–this is partly true but i still also think the survey steered me this way a bit.
“Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions”
–whoo hoo, looks like me and Annie are kindred spirits here!
“Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself.”
-haH! Several parts of me were arguing, that’s for sure. looks like Annie and I kindred up once again! score two!
“Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory.”
–sufficient visualization capabilities my pasty pink kiester.
–interestingly I get more surprises, memorable insights when I work with things like collages, diagrams, yoga … something about those extra pieces of information (orientation in space (on paper and kinesthetic), relative size, position)
“Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.”
-and again, Annie and I align. YES! but… I took this career battery thingy when I was on my way out of graduate school and it pointed me to becoming a florist.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I couldn’t help myself, and I am SUPER glad you commented on MG and brought me here (because I’m insanely curious) and now I’m lovin’ some anniebinns.com and that test was waaaay cool. I would post the results here but I’m so intrigued I’m writing about it tomorrow.
Thanks for the inspiration, I hope you check out my results!
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June 24th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Posted here, Whoa!
Thanks again, very intriguing test.
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