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Great insights. Curious about your result on my personality test: https://eristicstest.com/ https://eristicstest.com/ Disagreeable people often have an over-th
by kyleyeats 4y ago
Great insights. Curious about your result on my personality test: https://eristicstest.com/ https://eristicstest.com/
Disagreeable people often have an over-the-top people-pleaser side because they're bad at agreeability. For them it's usually a choice of being a doormat or a jerk.
When people are bad at agreeability in this way, but still agreeable, nobody is in a rush to correct them. Nobody threatens to quit over the doormat. But it's the exact same personality flaw, just expressed differently in Big Five terms.
- civilized 4y agoI got The Fixer. Very interesting test. I'm kind of impressed/mystified at how it got so much information about me from those questions. Like Myers-Briggs but seemingly both more ambitious theoretically and using fewer questions. I wonder how it would fare under psychometric validation (as I understand MBTI doesn't fare well despite being so popular and so many people including me finding insight there). Re: agreeability, it seems like you're speaking of it as a skill more than just a personality variable. I see the skill of being prosocial and the personality trait of agreeability as separate. I see myself as a high-functioning disagreeable person, where I see things more negatively than average and have more conflictual feelings than average, but usually manage to turn it all into something effective and prosocial when working with other people.
- kyleyeats 4y agoThanks! Yeah the test is super creepy. You can email me if you have questions (see profile). The "disgust" in your result (I have one too) is what's rare in tech and mostly what I'm talking about here. The Fixer is holding the entire industry together, from where I'm sitting, and the only archetype I ever 'click' with (I'm fear/disgust/pride, so we both have that instant inner critical voice). They are really good at the disgust -> prosocial process you mention. My archetype is... way worse at that. Re: Skill. Yeah it's both, agreed. A role for virtue too.
- ath3nd 4y agoIt was really lots of fun! Eerily, from so few questions, it got so many things things right about both me (The Wizard) and my wife (The Duelist).
- kyleyeats 4y agoThank you. That's a great pairing.
- civilized 4y agoOne other comment - I appreciate the work to endow the mess of emotions with a bit of vector space structure :)