Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts

5 February 2013

Archetype Me

Just a quick post today to say have a look at this cool website, archetype me. I noticed it pop up on instagram a couple of days ago with hearthandmade, modflowers and a couple of others posting their results (sorry I can't remember who else and my instagram feed won't go back that far).

As a psychology student I know you've got to take these things with a pinch of salt, if not a whole shovel. Measuring personality is a lot more complicated and time consuming than simply asking a few questions, and even then it's difficult to work out whether you've actually measured what you intended to. The problem with personality is that it's an incredibly difficult thing to pin down - how on earth do you define a person's personality? Although as a 'quick and dirty' personality test and a bit of fun I have to say I like this website. I'm not so sure about the idea of getting your own personalised website, but I liked doing the quiz.

So here's my results -

my archetype profile

I wasn't overly surprised with the characteristics it picked up, but I wasn't expecting quite those proportions. I was expecting slightly more intellectual, a bit more creative and a quite a lot less caregiver, but then again maybe it's the nature of caregiving personality traits that means you don't notice them. I'm still surprised at the proportions though.

Alex

Please note: This is not a sponsored post and all opinions are mine, I just thought you'd find this website interesting.