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Swedish Army Personality Test
- scapegraced 17y agoI guess I'm not going to become an officer in the Swedish army. I only passed one part of the test.
- Deestan 17y agoCome to Norway! You're already well above the average for officers in the Norwegian Royal Guard. To quote one of my brighter commanding officers: "The time is now 4 o'clock, we meet back here in 3 hours. That means ... <counts on fingers> ... 6 o'clock. Get moving!"
- GiraffeNecktie 17y agoSeems like the perfect screening test for the military. The objective is apparently to see who is willing to submit to an order to perform an endless series of seemingly pointless tasks using cool looking but over-engineered and awkward technology.
- pavlov 17y agoThe Swedish Army has not actually fought a war since 1809, so they've had two hundred years to hone their Flash design skills to perfection... A very solid game-like web experience. Despite all the talk, it's going to be a while until HTML 5's <video> and <canvas> can deliver something like this.
- maw 17y agoIt's true. An all black screen with no apparent content will indeed be hard to replicate without resorting to the awesomeness that is Flash.
- CamperBob 17y ago"The Swedish Army has not actually fought a war since 1809" Well, they're doing something right, then.
- pavlov 17y agoSweden unwittingly executed a great strategic manoeuvre by surrendering all of Finland to Russia in that last war of theirs. That reduced Sweden's land border with Russia to a fraction of what it used to be. Later Finland became independent, which eliminated Sweden's Russian exposure completely. It's easier to maintain peace when you don't share a border with a chronically unstable aggressive empire.
- lutorm 17y agoIt actually reduced the border with Russia to zero.
- fhars 17y agoNo, it didn't. It still had a considarable length of common border with the russian province Finland in Lappland. (To be honest, that was my first reaction too, but as the GP wrote, Sweden stopped to have a border with russia only after Finland became independent in WW1).
- zipstudio 17y agoI quit after i failed to hit the red circle. Too slow of a process to complete at work.
- onreact-com 17y agoThe military is NEVER "amazing", only peace is.
- d_c 17y agoAgreed.
- die_sekte 17y agoThe military is amazing in a way that nuclear weapons are: Interesting science, but the application – for the lack of a better word – sucks.
- donw 17y agoThe alternative of not having a military sucks a lot worse.
- eru 17y agoNot necessarily. I doubt we need a military in modern day Germany to defend us against our neighbours. Just make sure to have enough cash on hand to hire mercenaries in case of attack.
- onreact-com 17y agoTwo million German civilians have fire arms and they train in their "Schützenvereine". No need for no army or mercenaries.
- eru 17y agoSmall nitpick: "Schützenvereine" are more about drinking beer and having a party ("Schützenfest"). If you want to shoot, join a "Schießverein".
- donw 17y agoModern-day Germany has a military: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr Call it a defense force, or a militia, or whatever you will, it's still the German military.
- psyklic 17y agoI don't think it's a good personality test (the instructions are often unclear), but it is a fantastic production.
- lutorm 17y agoApparently Swedish is no longer a required skill in the Swedish military...
- aik 17y agoHere's an officers test: http://aspirant.nu/ http://aspirant.nu/ It's only in Swedish but most of it is self-explanatory. It's much more fun. Found this on their miltary website.
- craigs 17y agoStyle versus substance. Slick but crap. To echo psyklic, I felt the production was great, but the instructions, implementation and interaction were shockingly poor.
- CamperBob 17y agoWhich may have been intentional.
- alex_c 17y agoGuess the Swedish Army doesn't want colorblind people.
- erikwiffin 17y agoI stopped answering questions pretty early on, as I was getting tired of clicking randomly at yet another colour test.
- jfornear 17y agoI've read that the ability to discriminate between "vivid red" and "vivid green" is actually very important for parts of the US military... I'm not really sure why though. Maybe for airborne jump signals?
- TriinT 17y agoAnd reading maps at night using red flashlights...
- dmix 17y agoGovernment marketing sites tend to be well done. The information and business critical sites are lowest bidder wastelands.
- gahahaha 17y agoI was below average. Hope it was because so many people do the test many times, not because I<am stupid.
- 3pt14159 17y agoI've taken the online US Military test and got 99/100 percentile on the English/verbal section and 100/100 on the math/logic portion. Output: Primary assignment: intelligence operative/analyst Secondary assignment: Combat engineer. I've also been scouted by my home country's intelligence forces (which I rejected). Things that bug me about this test: Q 10 - not enough time to evaluate each group so you auto fail, but upon redoing it and only choosing one without checking every group out I'm told I failed because I didn't check out every group. Autofail, unless you have reflexes like a cat. Q 8 I purposely got 2/3 both times I took the test. Once the test was over, I rated the first time as under average and the second time as over average. Both times I was told that I misjudged my abilities. Which is it? Q 4 The first time I did this test I thought she asked to look at the tape, as in the background color, so I got 0 out of 16 which put me in the bottom 10 percent (I'm not alone!) The second time I did it I got 16 / 16 with little time elapsed and only received top 22 percent. Ya right. Something fishy is going on here. Q 2 the physics were ridiculous (too much energy lost to wind resistance, not enough energy lost due to elastic deformation) and the aligning of the paddles was annoying. Q 1 stupid question. "save two people, also here is some useless information" ... "HAHA, you only saved 2, you could have saved 4" After redoing the test and getting every question except for the ball one, the telephone one, and the group one right I still get "below average" Hahahahaha. Right. I'd like to hire a Swedish PhD to sit down and do this test, he would get 1 or 2 out of 9 (the racial ethnicity question doesn't count). The accent of the woman giving the test is unbearable and the little clues like "Memorize" written on the wall are no help at all due to all the visual noise.
- Evgeny 17y ago"I'd like to hire a Swedish PhD to sit down and do this test, he would get 1 or 2 out of 9" Wouldn't that be the expected result? A PhD is probably not the best suited person for a career in military.
- raffi 17y agoThere are plenty of PhDs in a uniform and they do just fine. I've worked with a few of them.
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- zck 17y agoAm I the only one that's really confused by the beginning, where it's just an exclamation point in a triangle, and some dimly-lit wires/pipes? Previously, I got to where the triangle was replaced by a few numbers, but got stuck there. I refreshed, and am still not sure what's going on.
- christofd 17y agoThis test is cinematic, but badly implemented: couldn't understand the instructions clearly (accent, echo, background noise - even on 2nd pass through the game, I didn't understand the voice), the flow of interaction was awkward, didn't understand what the hell was going on. One thought occurred to me: maybe gamers used to dark video game environments do better here (I don't play video games). Usually I'm o.k. in testing environments (not a total loser). Here I didn't get anything right, or at least that was my impression. I didn't agree with the evaluation, the points pressed seemed contrived and artificial. I don't understand this test at all.
- j_baker 17y agoI knew I was going to fail the color test. It's a test that's commonly used to diagnose ADHD.