Issue Date: December 14, 2003
Personality tests reveal the real you
Many cubicle dwellers spend more time with their computers than with their friends. I certainly do, so I asked my computer to tell me how date-able I am (71%), how pure (64%), my destiny (to be a performer) and my sexual personality, which is ... something you'd rather learn about yourself than about me, right?
Take the Love Test at TheSpark.com, where you'll be asked which of your lover's facial features you like most.
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If so, go to Emode.com, a site that offers a variety of tests to while away the hours after you've punched in. Discover your best quality, your true talents, your emotional IQ and the best job for you with the site's Ph.D.-certified tests. Increase your productivity by learning whether your talents are verbal or spatial. Emode also has non-Ph.D.-certified tests, such as "Which Reality Show Is Right for You?" and "Who's Your Inner Rock Star?" Brief results are free; longer ones, $10 or $15.
For a serious, comprehensive assessment, try the Enneagram test at EnneagramInstitute.com. A short version is free; $10 gives entry to the full 144-question test to determine which type you are: the Reformer, the Helper, the Achiever, the Investigator, the Individualist, the Loyalist, the Enthusiast, the Challenger or the Peacemaker. Detailed analyses tell you the pitfalls of your type and how to encourage personal growth.
When no one is looking, go to TheSpark.com to take the Purity Test, Gay Test or Sex Test. You'll suffer the embarrassment of answering questions like "Have you ever performed a striptease?" but you'll end up learning how many people you'll shag in your life.
Except for TheSpark, which called me a Healer, all the tests gave me roughly the same assessment: I'm a free-spirited Enthusiast/Challenger. Now I'll quiz my friends to see what they think.
-- Laura Shin
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