Most are made up and silly.

The only one I’ve liked was in college I did a “communication style” one. Where it showed a bunch of different like emails, posts, and conversations and asked which you preferred to receive and which you were likely to write.

10 years later I still think about it, cause the goal of the work was to talk about how if you’re a certain communication style what to keep in mind with communicating with others. Like tips to not get frustrated with yellows who don’t care about facts when sending emails and how to write emails that don’t bore and frustrate people if you’re blue. (I’m blue green. I can sometimes write long emails)

I thought about it the other day cause a guy was complaining about all these emails that didn’t seem to say anything, they were just about feeling good, and he just wanted them to spit it out. Which corresponded to firey red getting mad at green.

So with that context, do you have any that actually had an impact on you?

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I’ve set up a few of them, but helpful ones by other people are scarce. Personality tests are constructed based on principles of litmus-style generalization and me and what I’m doing them for tend to slip through the cracks. I’ve taken many for instance to see what my political alignment is and it’s always inconclusive since they think in black and white, assuming it’s not outright wrong because they want recruits. I’m likewise credited with “sorting systems” which themselves work but perhaps because they’re not there to shoehorn distinguishing absolute borders between people.