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Does everyone else take these tests and find themselves unable to resist thinking about "right" and "wrong" answers for each question? I presume that subconscio

Does everyone else take these tests and find themselves unable to resist thinking about "right" and "wrong" answers for each question? I presume that subconscious dialogue colors how you answer, even if you're not necessarily cognizant of it. In addition, these questions are always asked in terms where you should really somehow evaluate every situation in your life that applied to the question, and somehow arrive at a "mean" answer that then informs your response. I find it absolutely impossible to not just think of anecdotes and base my answer on them. Which would be fine, if all my anecdotes lined up, but there's always "Well, that one time I did this, but this other time I did that, which is basically opposite!"

schrototo 16y ago
Yeah, in my mind, these kinds of tests, if anything, only succeed in determining what type of person you think you are or, even moreso, what kind of person you want to be. Now, granted, there's probably something interesting in those correlations as well...
viraptor 16y ago
Well, as they mentioned: "The test is not a means for making a diagnosis". Additionally, some of these questions I'd like to answer differently, but just life didn't teach me the other way. Like the ease of chitchat. I can do it with friends, but it comes much harder with new people if I don't have some obvious interest in common (usually it would end in silence / disaster :) ). However, I'd love to learn how to chitchat if it is possible at all (never seen a way really). With that in mind, I wonder which way would the results be skewed if the questions were about preference, not self-reflection. For example how would the correlation change if the question was "I like to enjoy social chitchat." (or something more subtle), instead of "I enjoy social chitchat."? I'm sure I'd get lower points and then again I consider myself taught to behave in autistic ways by various situations, rather than behaving like that naturally.

schrototo 16y ago

Yeah, in my mind, these kinds of tests, if anything, only succeed in determining what type of person you think you are or, even moreso, what kind of person you want to be. Now, granted, there's probably something interesting in those correlations as well...

viraptor 16y ago

Well, as they mentioned: "The test is not a means for making a diagnosis". Additionally, some of these questions I'd like to answer differently, but just life didn't teach me the other way. Like the ease of chitchat. I can do it with friends, but it comes much harder with new people if I don't have some obvious interest in common (usually it would end in silence / disaster :) ). However, I'd love to learn how to chitchat if it is possible at all (never seen a way really). With that in mind, I wonder which way would the results be skewed if the questions were about preference, not self-reflection. For example how would the correlation change if the question was "I like to enjoy social chitchat." (or something more subtle), instead of "I enjoy social chitchat."? I'm sure I'd get lower points and then again I consider myself taught to behave in autistic ways by various situations, rather than behaving like that naturally.