--Original published at Ariana's Blog

The first test I took was the color personality test. It told me that I was creative and emotional, always seeking fun and adventure. Even though, some of these results are correct, I don’t think that this test is credible at all. All I did was pick colors and it told me my personality. I don’t believe you can figure out a personality but the colors they like. The next test told me that I was an extrovert, emotional stable, and intelligent. I believe that this test was the most credible because it gave me a layout of my top 5 traits and I found those results to be most accurate. On the other two tests I got the label ESFJ. These are outgoing, friendly, caring, kind and sympathetic people. These two tests were more credible as well because they had 60 questions about what type of person you are. Some of the questions on each test were weirdly worded and hard to understand.

While I believe all these traits to be true about myself but I do not believe in personality tests. I think that the only real way to know someone’s personality is to get to know them personally; a test that takes 7 minutes is not going to be able to do that. Everyone has different personalities that encompass many traits in different categories and none of these tests take that into account. Overall, I think these tests did not give me any important information about myself and if I really wanted to know what traits I had, I would ask family and friends that know me well enough to give me accurate answers.

--Original published at Olivia's College Blog

In the HumanMetrics test, I was happy to see that my score reflected my career aspirations and how I view myself. My answers placed me into the “INFJ” category, with a preference for introversion over extraversion, and a preference for feeling over judging. INFJs are characterized as having a deep concern for their relationships with others and the state of humanity at large. People with this personality type are described as dreamers and doers having a “rare combination of vision and practicality”. I feel like these descriptions are spot on. While I am slightly introverted and value time to myself, I do have a lot of empathy for others and like to express my feelings to people I am close to. The first category for career suggestions is social, like counseling and social work. I thought it was very interesting that my questionnaire produced these results that matched me with counseling, which is the career I aspire to have.

The personality test center questionnaire placed me into the ENFJ category. In these results, I was matched into teaching for my best fit profession. Teachers, and people with this personality type are more extroverted. They are known for their authenticity and for being ‘natural visionaries’. I can see how this difference would cause the career shift from counseling/social work to teaching, since teaching is more centered around extroversion and having a presence that is easily felt. I realize I am biased toward the HumanMetrics test because it confirms what I want to hear about my career interests, but I do not believe I would be as good of a fit in a career that requires more extroversion. Afterall, since the answers I selected matched me with ENFJ, I would be open to potentially exploring careers in that field.

The psychometrics questionnaire evaluated 5 main personality traits. My extrovertedness scored 37%. It seems fitting that I am close to the middle because I do not feel as though I am one of the two extremes, but more toward the introversion end of the spectrum. Emotional stability was in the second percentile. This is interpreted as negative emotionality. My highest score is in agreeableness, at 87%. This is described as friendly and optimistic. To me, a combination of introversion and agreeableness is a healthy blend of the two characteristics. My contentious score is 67, indicating that I am careful and diligent. My intellect and imagination scored a 38%, meaning I am closer to the end of being traditional and not being as open if I were over 50%. If this score is a true representation of me, I would like to improve in my openness.

I completely disagree with the color test’s evaluation. The results listed me as having trouble forming emotional attachment, being picky in my relationships, and feeling as though relationship are a limiting circumstance. This is not how I view emotional attachment whatsoever; I prefer to have deep emotional connection with people and view that connection as very important. The color test also suggested that my desired objective is to be seen as a unique individual, wanting to gain recognition and observing how others are reacting to me. I can admit that I can be self-conscious at times, but nothing about the way I think or carry myself leads me to believe that my primary desire is to gain acceptance from others. I think the color test is a bizarre way of evaluating one’s character and is the least accurate/reliable of the tests I took today.

--Original published at Ben's PSY105 Blog

Taking the first three personality tests mainly just confirmed what I already knew about myself. I am a very introverted person, I like to keep to myself more often than not. In the first two tests I had the results show this. The third test gave me a very low score in extroversion, also supporting this statement. None of that was news to me, I have always known that I was an introvert, I keep to small friend groups with closer bonds. I have never enjoyed going out of my way to talk to new people or make new friends.

The first two tests classified me as ISTJ, and the third test supported those results. I believe those are accurate because I tend to trust logic first and foremost when trying to make decisions. I agree with the results because I rarely let my emotions impact my decision making. I stick to the things I know and things which can be proven. According to the description on the Personality Test Center, I seem to be on the right career path based on my personality type. I look forward to being an industrial engineer, which fits with the results showing that I would do well as a supervisor, a scientist, and an inventor. My future will most likely involve being a supervisor, using science to invent ideas to make the workplace more efficient.

The Color Quiz was the most surprising for me. In the few minutes I spent taking the test, which only involved clicking on different colors in order of preference, they were able to describe my personality almost perfectly. It said that I want people to see my unique qualities, but don’t want to come off as needy, so instead I have an “I don’t care” attitude. This was painfully accurate. It described my main objective as wanting to find a close relationship in order to relieve stress. It also says that my two biggest issues are wanting a close, mutually respectful relationship, and having a feeling of depression and anxiety from not achieving my desired goals. Both of these were pretty much spot on. Overall, the color test was the most eye opening of these tests based on the simplicity and accuracy.

--Original published at Kaity Takes on Psychology

I have always had an excellent gauge on who I am as a person. I seek fun, adventure, fulfillment in my personal life and helping others reach their fullest potential. Personality tests are fun, but I take them with a grain of salt – we are ever changing as humans and we grow from our experiences every day. Generalizing results will not achieve anything besides giving people arbitrary titles like ENTJ or INFP – yet cannot accurately gauge who someone is.

Interestingly enough, I got ENFP as the result for the first and second personality test. The third test indicates I am very extroverted and imaginative, pretty agreeable, moderately conscientious, and somewhat emotionally stable. I feel as though the third test reflected the results of the first two tests. I was not a fan of the color test – though it did yield results that I felt applied to me pretty well. The results felt very horoscope-esque, because it assumes a lot about a person based on the colors we choose. Color preference is pretty arbitrary, much like your zodiac sign.

I struggle to believe in personality tests because they sometimes stem from pseudoscience. During my first year at Elizabethtown College I took a plethora of extensive personality tests in one of my business classes during the spring semester. At the time I believed I could figure out who I am from these tests because data has been collected extensively over the years to make tests such as Clifton Strengths and the Myers-Briggs personality test more accurate. I studied Carl Jung’s work on character archetypes in my first year seminar and was super stoked to know my personality type. I have been told I am an ENFP by multiple tests I have taken over the years, yet I think personality is a bit more complex than the Myers-Briggs test might indicate. In my opinion, none of these tests are credible because the quizzes are too generalized. Determining personality is a lot more complicated than taking a 5 minute quiz.

--Original published at AlexisPattersonBlog

I personally feel some of the tests depicted my personality, while other ones did not. For the Metrics quiz, the big 5 personality test, and the second test (Personality test center), I feel it depicted correct results to my personality. The color quiz I feel did not. I didn’t find it as reliable as they were picking my lifestyle out from a group of color.

In the Color quiz, I didn’t quite see how picking colors will allow me to be judged on my personality. The results said I tend to blame others for my shortcomings, which I don’t find to believe true. If anything, I tend to be more hard on myself when I don’t do something correctly, rather than put the blame on someone. It also stated that one of my problems was I feel “held back” which I find also not true, as I have always been one up for a challenge and always push to be on top.

The Metrics quiz showed I was 47% extravert, 25% sensing, 16% feeling, and 38% judging. The personality test center classified me as a supervisor. It stated points that sounded like me such as favoring structure and schedules, making sure there are established plans and procedures, and that time frames are kept. The big 5 personality test also showed good aspects as well such as being open to experience, friendly and optimistic, and outgoing and social. I find all of these characteristics to be most like me, and I found the tests creditable for the most part. The personality test center asked if I would fill out more surveys when I wanted the results, so that made me question a little bit, but for the most part, they produced correct results.

--Original published at Jess Principe's Blog

By: Jess Principe

The first personality test, “humanmetrics,” told me through summary that I was caring, intuitive, slightly extraverted, and could easily pick up on other people’s feelings. The summary stated my type is organized and a planner, and that my actions can be followed by others through observation. This test I feel represents me pretty well, however, even though the survey asked over 60 questions, I didn’t always understand the wording of some of the questions for this one. The test seems somewhat credible, but not very organized. The second personality test, “personailtytest.net,” appeared well organized when I was taking it, however, when recieving my results it only gave me the mnemonic name, and no summary of the meaning behind the name. This test also had over 60 question, and the questions seemed categorized better than the previous personality test, but the results section was confusing. I don’t think this site is credible.The third personality test, “personality-testing,” had a very accurate results section that was colorcoded, divided by the top five factors it gave me, as well as percentages for each of those factors. This test and website I found to be the most credible of the four tests. The fourth and final test, “the color quiz,” I found to be completely made up, inaccurate, and not a credible source. The test had me select colors that appealed to me in order from favorite to least twice, and then proceeded to give me a huge summary based on just the colors I selected. No description was given between how the colors correlated with the results summary, and the results didn’t match up with the personality results the other tests gave me.

Overall, I feel a personality test on a website can not accurately describe how a person is because the questions can be presented with two completely opposite responses following them, and no happy medium. I found several questions hard to understand, or that the none of the possible options given after the question described me well. The results were interesting to read and I found some very accurate about myself, but other parts not so much. I don’t agree with the fact that people can be classified based off of any source on a website. In addition, truly all personalities are different and can’t be classified into a “type.”