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I've also seen personality tests being used in high school and college to recommend career paths. It's pretty strange considering that your personality can sign

• analog31 7y ago
  I was supposed to be a baker.
  • teachrdan 7y ago
    Serious question: What do you think about that now?
    • analog31 7y ago
      Oops, I never ressponded to you, hope you check your threads once in a while. I'm guessing that I would have been bored as a baker. My parents are both scientists, I was good at math when I bothered to do my homework. And when I learned programming in high school, it clicked for me almost instantly. Granted, I took the test sometime around 1978, when the whole world was just about to change thanks to microcomputers, and I hopped onto that bus. Baking has probably become more of a niche activity, given that it already succumbed to automation when I took the test. (There is no way that the "careers" in the test were not at least 20 years out of date).
• ksdale 7y ago
  I remember taking one of those tests in school when I was about 13. I also remember giving the answers that I thought would produce a career recommendation that would impress my friends. Then I wondered how this was different than me just choosing a career, since I was able to game the test so easily. My 13 year old self just assumed that there was higher reasoning that I did not understand...