> This is my personality according to the Hexaco personality test.
Oh wow! I always knew you were much lower in Aesthetic Appreciation than I am, but I don't experience you as being as low in Agreeableness as that. Thinking back, I could tell I was definitely trying your patience early on. You're very good at gritting your teeth and not a…
> This is my personality according to the Hexaco personality test.
Oh wow! I always knew you were much lower in Aesthetic Appreciation than I am, but I don't experience you as being as low in Agreeableness as that. Thinking back, I could tell I was definitely trying your patience early on. You're very good at gritting your teeth and not arguing with annoying people on your blog!
> When I presented this idea to Anders, he wasn't very impressed at all. What if people give different answers to standardized questions over time? he asked. Or in different cultures?
Except that self-other correlations are pretty good overall, and answers taken on different tests are similar.
Basically these tests are very much like thermometers with a mark at -100C and 100C, and no other marks on them. What if you put one thermometer in the sun, and another in the shade? What if you squint at the thermometer and think its 20C, and someone else thinks its 25C? "Oh no! Thermometers like that don't work, they are useless!" Sure, the thermometer will have trouble, but who cares? If it's below freezing, or above 40C, it works well enough that everyone can tell. Definitely its better than not having it at all.
I'll add that people at work all insist that I'm extremely Extraverted and high in Conscientiousness, much more than I rate myself (yes I've asked them to score me and yes they have obliged). And their descriptions of me are very consistent - I just got transferred to a new job location for a month, where people were very insistent on telling me "You are so positive, enthusiasic, and upbeat, you're so well organized" just like at my old job where I worked six years ago. Very likely this because work is just a place where the thermometer is in the sun. If you want enthusiastic, well-organized Apple Pie, you'll have to pay me for it.
I have concluded that my aesthetic appreciation should be smaller than that of many other people, because some people say that they feel things when they look at abstract paintings and that is the point of it. I don't feel things from seeing colors and shapes (except for some aversion when it looks really, really bad). I just see things.
On some points I don't belong to the perfect target group for the Hexaco questions. In reality I'm both very cynical over people and still like them a lot (and act as if I do). That wasn't really an option for Hexaco, which only registered my cynism. Also, I can't be that super non-greedy, because then I wouldn't own anything and I do. I just don't want to live among rich people.
> This is my personality according to the Hexaco personality test.
Oh wow! I always knew you were much lower in Aesthetic Appreciation than I am, but I don't experience you as being as low in Agreeableness as that. Thinking back, I could tell I was definitely trying your patience early on. You're very good at gritting your teeth and not arguing with annoying people on your blog!
> When I presented this idea to Anders, he wasn't very impressed at all. What if people give different answers to standardized questions over time? he asked. Or in different cultures?
Except that self-other correlations are pretty good overall, and answers taken on different tests are similar.
Basically these tests are very much like thermometers with a mark at -100C and 100C, and no other marks on them. What if you put one thermometer in the sun, and another in the shade? What if you squint at the thermometer and think its 20C, and someone else thinks its 25C? "Oh no! Thermometers like that don't work, they are useless!" Sure, the thermometer will have trouble, but who cares? If it's below freezing, or above 40C, it works well enough that everyone can tell. Definitely its better than not having it at all.
I'll add that people at work all insist that I'm extremely Extraverted and high in Conscientiousness, much more than I rate myself (yes I've asked them to score me and yes they have obliged). And their descriptions of me are very consistent - I just got transferred to a new job location for a month, where people were very insistent on telling me "You are so positive, enthusiasic, and upbeat, you're so well organized" just like at my old job where I worked six years ago. Very likely this because work is just a place where the thermometer is in the sun. If you want enthusiastic, well-organized Apple Pie, you'll have to pay me for it.
I have concluded that my aesthetic appreciation should be smaller than that of many other people, because some people say that they feel things when they look at abstract paintings and that is the point of it. I don't feel things from seeing colors and shapes (except for some aversion when it looks really, really bad). I just see things.
On some points I don't belong to the perfect target group for the Hexaco questions. In reality I'm both very cynical over people and still like them a lot (and act as if I do). That wasn't really an option for Hexaco, which only registered my cynism. Also, I can't be that super non-greedy, because then I wouldn't own anything and I do. I just don't want to live among rich people.