Zubon comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

65 Post author: Yvain 03 November 2012 11:00PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 November 2012 12:22:57AM 38 points [-]

Took it!

Did any one else have trouble copy-pasting the links?

I normally score insanely high on Openness to experience (says she of the massive amounts of really weird hobbies), but for this test, I scored really low on Openness. Must be feeling particularly close-minded today. Weird.

Comment author: Zubon 04 November 2012 01:44:48AM 1 point [-]

Oh golly, now I feel bad for using my OCEAN score from a recent test rather than re-taking it. This one was atypical? Sorry for adding noise to the data.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 November 2012 02:20:09PM *  3 points [-]

I had recently taken both this one (linked to from here) and the same one as was in the survey, and the scores for all traits were within 6 percentiles of each other. (Stability is the opposite of neuroticism so I should compare N to 100-S, right?)

Comment author: kalium 05 November 2012 07:03:05PM *  0 points [-]

I took both of those too, and for openness I got 74th percentile on the one you linked and 9th percentile on the one in the survey.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 November 2012 12:31:10AM 0 points [-]

To tell the whole story, I took the shorter test (the one in the survey) right after reading the results of the longer test, so priming effect might have caused the results to be closer that they would have been if I had taken the two tests several days apart.

Comment author: gwern 04 November 2012 03:06:25AM 0 points [-]

I reused my scores too. That shouldn't be a problem unless the linked test is weird...