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permetaform today and somehow that 20 Questions to a Better Personality meme came up. It came up again in a conversation with my roommate, adrienne2. It's a basic personality test. Only twenty questions, of course, so with a larger margin for error than the version of it you'd find in your average psychology class. Now I saw this meme and instantly fell in love with it. I usually hate memes. I loved this one because after I got my archetype, I went to look at all the other personalities. The quiz basically described each personality with all the most interesting aspects of that personality. So of course I read them and thought -- I want to meet these people. I want to write these characters.
Which fits my personality perfectly. I'm the Ayn Rand Ideal. I look at everything as a tool to help me with my goals (in this case, fic writing). I scored exactly 50/50 on the wacky/sober scale), so I also qualify as The Golden God. I found these results interesting because whenever I took personality tests (usually some school sanctioned thing) I was told I had definite leadership qualities. I don't think of myself as a leader at all, so it didn't really fit until I looked at these two personalities. The Ayn Rand Ideal doesn't want to lead so much as be the best. The Golden God doesn't want to lead so much as be admired and respected by everyone. Leadership qualities, but without the inclination to do any leading.
On a somewhat related note, any Harry Potter meme I ever took put me in either Ravenclaw or Slytherin.
As an avid fan of gender studies, I thought about how interesting it would be if the meme had come with statistics as to which personalities were more common to women/men. When I was thirteen I read an article on how little girls in our culture are taught to be self-depreciating. Any compliment is to be downplayed. Little boys, on the other hand, are taught to boast. To be competitive. I suppose I'm something of a born feminist, because at 13 I remember reading that article and thinking I am not like that, though most of my female classmates fit the description. I was just like my dad -- an overachiever with a short temper. Loud and smart and not afraid to say so.
Being in fandom, my next thought was of how this personality could be applied to various fandom types. The BNF, for example. Most BNF's are producers. Fic writers or vidders. Fanartists, as I can tell, are usually only BNF's to other fanartists, as fanart is it's own fandom, and kind of isolated as fandoms go. The same goes with vidding, though there's more crossover. Fandoms are generally fic centric, so of course fic writers would predominate. I'm digressing. It would be pointless to try to place any one personality type on BNF's, but I think it would be safe to assume that a personality that encourages followers is more likely to have leadership qualities.
Of course, even before I'm naming rules, I'm finding exceptions to them. As I mentioned, I was talking topermetaform. She said the personality type she got was the wacky rational constructive follower. The Paul Begala type. Paul Begala helped President Clinton get elected (I like the guy already). If you tried to define him with an adjective, I think the word you were looking for would be Enabler. permetaform is the only BNF I know of in fandom who became hugely popular not by producing, but by encouraging others to produce.
One last interesting note -- the three people I saw who got The Politician as a personality type didn't associate themselves with the description it gave. Two of them were in fact offended.
permetaform today and somehow that 20 Questions to a Better Personality meme came up. It came up again in a conversation with my roommate, adrienne2. It's a basic personality test. Only twenty questions, of course, so with a larger margin for error than the version of it you'd find in your average psychology class. Now I saw this meme and instantly fell in love with it. I usually hate memes. I loved this one because after I got my archetype, I went to look at all the other personalities. The quiz basically described each personality with all the most interesting aspects of that personality. So of course I read them and thought -- I want to meet these people. I want to write these characters.Which fits my personality perfectly. I'm the Ayn Rand Ideal. I look at everything as a tool to help me with my goals (in this case, fic writing). I scored exactly 50/50 on the wacky/sober scale), so I also qualify as The Golden God. I found these results interesting because whenever I took personality tests (usually some school sanctioned thing) I was told I had definite leadership qualities. I don't think of myself as a leader at all, so it didn't really fit until I looked at these two personalities. The Ayn Rand Ideal doesn't want to lead so much as be the best. The Golden God doesn't want to lead so much as be admired and respected by everyone. Leadership qualities, but without the inclination to do any leading.
On a somewhat related note, any Harry Potter meme I ever took put me in either Ravenclaw or Slytherin.
As an avid fan of gender studies, I thought about how interesting it would be if the meme had come with statistics as to which personalities were more common to women/men. When I was thirteen I read an article on how little girls in our culture are taught to be self-depreciating. Any compliment is to be downplayed. Little boys, on the other hand, are taught to boast. To be competitive. I suppose I'm something of a born feminist, because at 13 I remember reading that article and thinking I am not like that, though most of my female classmates fit the description. I was just like my dad -- an overachiever with a short temper. Loud and smart and not afraid to say so.
Being in fandom, my next thought was of how this personality could be applied to various fandom types. The BNF, for example. Most BNF's are producers. Fic writers or vidders. Fanartists, as I can tell, are usually only BNF's to other fanartists, as fanart is it's own fandom, and kind of isolated as fandoms go. The same goes with vidding, though there's more crossover. Fandoms are generally fic centric, so of course fic writers would predominate. I'm digressing. It would be pointless to try to place any one personality type on BNF's, but I think it would be safe to assume that a personality that encourages followers is more likely to have leadership qualities.
Of course, even before I'm naming rules, I'm finding exceptions to them. As I mentioned, I was talking to
permetaform. She said the personality type she got was the wacky rational constructive follower. The Paul Begala type. Paul Begala helped President Clinton get elected (I like the guy already). If you tried to define him with an adjective, I think the word you were looking for would be Enabler. permetaform is the only BNF I know of in fandom who became hugely popular not by producing, but by encouraging others to produce.One last interesting note -- the three people I saw who got The Politician as a personality type didn't associate themselves with the description it gave. Two of them were in fact offended.
