Comments on: Flash Personality Profiler

Flash Personality Profiler

cgc373 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:52:51 -0800

Imagini Visual DNA. A ten-webpage survey supposed to profile your personality. [via Robot Wisdom]

By: DU

DU — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:58:19 -0800

Whoa, it totally nailed that I'm unwilling to invest more than 10 seconds in pseudo-scientific crap!

By: papakwanz

papakwanz — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:02:34 -0800

I see "Art is..." then a bunch of nothing! How very zen.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:04:35 -0800

Yeah, DU, I'm not sure this thing is supposed to be "scientific," exactly. It's more hippy-dippy hey-man-it's-like-totally-art. You know.

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:06:10 -0800

Broken (Opera 9.23 and IE 7) as in it displays nothing at all.

By: billysumday

billysumday — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:07:25 -0800

Whoa, it totally nailed that I'm unwilling to invest more than 10 seconds in pseudo-scientific crap! Did it detect your willingness to invest hours a day commenting nearly ceaselessly on Metafilter?

By: demiurge

demiurge — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:11:20 -0800

I like the feeling I get when I pick the featureless gray box for all of the choices.

By: Crusty

Crusty — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:15:45 -0800

The last time I took a test like this the outcome was: "You're a dalmatian!"

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:16:40 -0800

You're the best I've ever had. That's all I'm going to tell you.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:22:47 -0800

It worked for me. And it was pretty boring. You get to the end and see some cosmo-style boilerplate that sounds like it was written by a soulless copywriter.

By: rusty

rusty — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:30:27 -0800

Wow! It's like they totally knew everything that I told them about myself! Amazing!

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:35:53 -0800

It says "Flash personality profiler," so I got confused and typed in the answers that would be appropriate for Barry Allen.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:37:19 -0800

If I like chocolate, don't make me select some crappy sugary milk-chocolate. If I like to listen to music at home, don't make me select some crappy Bose home-theater setup.

By: melissa may

melissa may — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:39:51 -0800

This is probably not the place to admit that I'm a touchy-feely dreamer.

By: mumkin

mumkin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:40:41 -0800

Yes, and you can now use this information to... go shopping. Or maybe meet people. I've looked at this in the past. Imagini strikes me as an interesting idea in search of an application to justify its existence. And on preview, what StickyCarpet said, too.

By: Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America

Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:41:48 -0800

I'm a sophisticated touchy-feely escape artist monkey? Hmm!

By: chrisamiller

chrisamiller — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:42:37 -0800

Take a Myers-Briggs test if you want some insight into your personality. This? This is no better than taking the "Which Disney princess are you?" quiz. (Ariel, for those who are wondering)

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:42:41 -0800

This is probably not the place to admit that I'm a touchy-feely Metro rider.

By: darth_tedious

darth_tedious — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:49:17 -0800

>You get to the end and see some cosmo-style boilerplate that sounds like it was written by a soulless copywriter. Actually, I'm pretty sure that copy *was* from Cosmo-- or rather, *will be* from Cosmo. Cosmo, circa 2219, will be just like this, except that it will be broadcast directly into our brains. This is a gift from The Future.

By: eurasian

eurasian — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:57:21 -0800

"You are a pathetic internet-junkie who thinks that your personality can be summed up by whatever you associate with random flickr images. You like long walks on the beach and witty photoshopped pictures with poor grammar. The latest internet meme that you've clung to is quickly losing cachet, yet you hope against hope that it warrants at least a few youtube parody videos before puttering out to the lands of O RLY and 'All Your Bases'. " It's like it has ESP!!

By: jfuller

jfuller — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:21:31 -0800

> [via Robot Wisdom] Ho, when did Jorn reappear? Robotwisdom went without an update for so long it just sort of faded out of the bookmarks.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:22:15 -0800

"As for music, it's the soundtrack to your world. You've got to grips with downloading and your mp3 is at hand." Eh? "When you're a little tense you need to unwind." No shit, sherlock.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:24:01 -0800

You're pseudo-science lacks the appearance of rigor required for me to take it on faith! I demand my gullible yet valuable time back. I believe personality scientists can do this because they have, or ideally should have, clipboards and with clipboards anything is officiously possible.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:25:49 -0800

Take a Myers-Briggs test if you want some insight into your personality. I just threw up in my brain.

By: davemee

davemee — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:35:27 -0800

The interface was very nice, for the amorphous questions you were answering. Do I like that room because of the decor, the lack of clutter, or the light? The criteria for your answer is as vague as the question, which feels like it works here (I'm not saying that it does or doesn't work though, it just *feels* like a better fit). It would be great to see a boilerplate demographics grab survey presented in this style. Thanks cgc!

By: spacediver

spacediver — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:46:55 -0800

can't load it in ie, opera, or firefox. http://imagini.net/ works, but not the personality page

By: everichon

everichon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:44:40 -0800

Mine just spat out "Christ, what an asshole".

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:09:01 -0800

I just threw up in my brain. Best comment ever. Google says it's original. Huzzah!

By: rmless

rmless — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:54:37 -0800

Hello, I don't know if you know this about me, but I am a "sofisticat conquerer touchy feely new wave puritan."

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:30:21 -0800

I just threw up in my brain. I'm on the scene.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:32:00 -0800

If I like chocolate, don't make me select some crappy sugary milk-chocolate. If I like to listen to music at home, don't make me select some crappy Bose home-theater setup. I agree. The images themselves were among the biggest problems of the quiz. That, and no image of prescription drugs for "vice." :) Seems made for a dating site.

By: Rashomon

Rashomon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:40:58 -0800

Right off the top the first choice Art is... is ridiculous. In my view they ALL are forms of art. How can I choose without compromising my views?

By: Hairy Lobster

Hairy Lobster — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:13:02 -0800

MetaFilter: throwing up in your brain

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:37:51 -0800

Beans, anyone? I dunno. Everything loaded fine for me, I picked the pic most conducive to my likes and interests, and got a cute little essay on who they think I am. Then I did the Wishes thing, which was also kind of cute and let me look at lots of strategically cropped photos of many things I really do wish I could do, have, or be. It was just a pleasant diversion with pretty pictures. I liked it.

By: the number 17

the number 17 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:56:33 -0800

robotwisdom doesn't look like it has been updated in the past few months. Am I missing something or is this from searching past pages?

By: Rubbstone

Rubbstone — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:27:39 -0800

Metafilter: I'm on the scene I liked it its like those paper things you played with as a kid

By: quin

quin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:49:41 -0800

Did that quiz just tell me that I'm a 'big softy'? Because I will burn this mother-fucking internet to the ground if shit like that starts getting out.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:44:24 -0800

Google says it's original. I just threw up in my brain.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:59:53 -0800

I liked it, and the results were surprisingly accurate, far as they went.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:15:03 -0800

the number 17, Robot Wisdom updates at a Blogger site now, I guess because it's free hosting?

By: rottytooth

rottytooth — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:42:29 -0800

Worked for me in Firefox. I just went through it twice, giving it all the same answers, and got two different results. In any case, there aren't enough questions for it to categorize in any meaningful way.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:30:34 -0800

3% of people, like me, find nothing in the pictures to be gross. That's really the only thing I learned here. And that's assuming the percentages mean what I think they do.