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A bit worrying that she measured change by using an "online personality test to assess where I currently scored on the Big Five". I do believe that we can chan
by robocat 10mo ago
A bit worrying that she measured change by using an "online personality test to assess where I currently scored on the Big Five".
I do believe that we can change our internal responses by slowly teaching ourselves to respond differently.
However I also believe that thinking about thinking is a dangerous activity. The risks are training yourself to be neurotic, and a habit of overthinking.
We can use our rational minds to change our irrational responses.
However how many people are skilled at teaching themselves? We could look at how good they are at teaching others (especially emotional kids).
- thechao 10mo agoI took the test, and the results were completely meaningless. It said that I have a moderate or below average interest in science or engineering. This is patently wrong. This is a deep, abiding, long-term love-affair. It's why I've got a PhD in programming language theory, and have done all the course work, but not the dissertation for PhD's in Economics, Computational Biology, Statistics, Epidemiology, and Mathematics. So... yeah. Complete & utter baloney.
- throw4847285 10mo agoWhat Big Five test rated you on your interest in science? It only rates 5 factors by definition.
- thechao 10mo agoRight? It was a weird test. It started with OCEAN — which got a completely different result than the real OCEAN tests I've done — and then moved to a weird interest/aptitude test. It's clearly some BS marketing thing.
- machomaster 10mo agoSo you completed some BS online test, realized it, but still use its results to criticize the properly administered tests. This is weird. Just make a credible test (e.g. Jordan Peterson hosts one) and only after that draw conclusions.