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Dr. Phil gave this test on Oprah. Some folks pay a lot of
money to find this stuff out. Read on, this is very interesting!
Here’s something that you may find interesting
…psychological profile.
Don’t be overly sensitive! The following is pretty
accurate, and it only takes 2 minutes. Take this test for yourself and send it
to your friends, including the one who sent it, and let them know who you are.
The person who sent it placed their score in the subject
box. Please do the same before forwarding to your friends. Don’t peek but begin
the test as you scroll down and answer. Answers are for who you are now….. not
who you were in the past. Have pen or pencil and paper ready.
This is a real test given by the Human Relations Dept. at
many of the major corporations today. It helps them get better insight concerning
their employees and prospective employees.
It’s only 10 simple questions, so … grab a pencil and
paper, keeping track of your letter answers. Make sure to change the subject of
the e-mail to read YOUR total. When you finished, forward this to everyone you
know, and also send it to the person who sent this to you.
Make sure to put YOUR score in the subject box. Ready??
Be Honest!
Begin..
Questions
1. When do you feel your best?
a) in the morning
b) during the afternoon & and early evening
c) late at night
2. You usually walk
a) fairly fast, with long steps
b) fairly fast, with little steps
c) less fast head up, looking the world in the face
d) less fast, head down
e) very slowly
3. When talking to people you
a) stand with your arms folded
b) have your hands clasped
c) have one or both your hands on your hips
d) touch or push the person to whom you are talking
e) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your
hair
4. When relaxing, you sit with
a) your knees bent with your legs neatly side by side
b) your legs crossed
c) your legs stretched out or straight
d) one leg curled under you
5. When something really amuses you, you react with
a) a big, appreciative laugh
b) a laugh, but not a loud one
c) a quiet chuckle
d) a sheepish smile
6. When you go to a party or social gathering
a) make a loud entrance so everyone notices you
b) make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you
know
c) make the quietest entrance, trying to stay unnoticed
7. You’re working very hard, concentrating hard, and
you’re interrupted; do you …
a) welcome the break
b) feel extremely irritated
c) vary between these two extremes
8. Which of the following colors do you like most?
a) Red or orange
b) black
c) yellow or light blue
d) green
e) dark blue or purple
f) white
g) brown or gray
9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few
moments before going to sleep, you lie
a) stretched out on your back
b) stretched out face down on your stomach
c) on your side, slightly curled
d) with your head on one arm
e) with your head under the covers
10. You often dream that you are
a) falling
b) fighting or struggling
c) searching for something or somebody
d) flying or floating
e) you usually have dreamless sleep
f) your dreams are always pleasant
Scoring
POINTS:
1. (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6
2. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 2 (e) 1
3. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 7 (e) 6
4. (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 1
5. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 2
6. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 2
7. (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4
8. (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 3 (f) 2 (g) 1
9. (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 2 (e) 1
10. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 6 (f) 1
Interpretation
Now add up the total number of points.
OVER 60 POINTS: Others see you as someone should be “handled
with care”. You’re seen as vain, self-centered, and who is extremely dominant.
Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you, but don’t always
trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you.
51 TO 60 POINTS: Others see you as an exciting, highly
volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who’s quick to make
decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and
adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances
and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the
excitement your radiate.
41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively,
charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who’s constantly
in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to
their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone
who’ll always cheer them up and help them out.
31 TO 40 POINTS: Others see you as sensible, cautious,
careful & practical. They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but
modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who’s
extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in
return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your
trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over it
if that trust is ever broken.
21 TO 30 POINTS: Your friends see you as painstaking and
fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady
plodder. It’d really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on
the spur of the moment, expecting you to examine everything carefully from
every angle and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction is
caused partly by your careful nature.
UNDER 21 POINTS: People think you are shy, nervous, and
indecisive, someone who needs looking after, who always wants someone else to
make the decisions & who doesn’t want to get involved with anyone or
anything. They see you as a worrier who always sees problems that don’t exist.
Some people think you’re boring. Only those who know you well know that you aren’t.
Analysis
This item doesn’t really offer any specific falsifiable
claims other than the claim that the above-reproduced personality test was
created, proffered, or endorsed, by Dr. Phil. That claim is false:
Although popular psychologist Dr. Phillip C. McGraw
(better known to millions of television viewers as “Dr. Phil“) appeared as a
guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show many times between 1998 and 2002 before
becoming the host of his own nationally syndicated Dr. Phil television show in
2002, we found no evidence (by reviewing program listings and transcripts) that
he ever offered the test shown above on either program.
On his show of 25 November 2009, Dr. Phil ranked
personality tests as #1 on his list of the top five Internet-promoted items
that have misappropriated his name, telling his audience, “I don’t have a
personality test.”
The test antedates Dr. Phil’s first guest spot on The
Oprah Winfrey Show by many years, having been published as far back as 1987
(with a 1978 copyright), when it was attributed to a “Dr. Charles Vine.”
Who is Dr. Charles Vine? We don’t know — the only
references to that name we’ve found are bylines crediting him as the author of
this test.
Is this a “real” personality test? It might be in the
vaguely general sense that one can make some very broad generalizations about
personality types based upon the way people say they
stand, walk, work, interact with others, etc., and be
right somewhat more often than random chance would dictate, perhaps.
But this test is far more of a parlor trick best used for
nothing more than entertainment purposes — real clinical psychological tests
(i.e., the kind “folks pay a lot of money” for, such as the MMPI) are much more
complex, more varied, and longer, and their scoring methods and interpretations
are not publicly disclosed in order to maintain their viability.
The best way to regard this test is to consider it
similar to a horoscope or a fortune cookie: all of them make broad, general
predictions which could seemingly apply to a great many people. The skeptical
dismiss such predictions as random shots that occasionally hit their marks (in
the same way that a stopped clock is right twice a day); the credulous marvel
over their accuracy, find ways to make the results apply to themselves, and
overlook the parts that don’t fit.
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