Personality Tests Only Reveal That You Don't Have A Personality

Every once in a while when I lurk in online forums and chats I stumble upon someone sharing some website about a personality test. Soon the rest of the herd starts taking the test and sharing the results.

The ritual of personality deduction through some random questions is no different than astrology. Along with other forms of petty deductive reasoning, these are pathetic attempts from people who are poor in critical thinking and half a rather low self esteem. No wonder they use these tests to find out or rather invent a personality. They don't have one.

So in a forum of shitcoiners I wasn't surprise to see that since their reputation is on the line, they try to come up with answers that enhance their traits. It is obvious but most people don't realize that the reason personality tests don't say anything about oneself is simply because you know already that is a personality test. In other words, the individual is being gamed in their own game before even start taking the quiz.

Second reason these tests are bullshit is the nature of questions. Much like with an astrological reading, all answers, win. They are designed this way since whether you take it for a job or leisure the result will be something that satisfies everyone. There is a place for you somewhere my special and precious one.

One can find any trait, prediction and characteristic about themselves in astrological signs because they are so incredibly generalized. Personality tests are even worse. The person or persons drafting the questions are already biased to test for specific things that are supposedly representing human nature. In order to do this, they use very broad questions that can go either way. So the person taking the test remembers only the situations that suit them and guide the test accordingly. Self-fulfilling prophecy at its finest.

"Oh yeah, that's so me" said the gullible noob that just wants validation for a personality that he so lacks. To their excuse, this is a rather common phenomenon in a world that is interconnected. Most people live online and where they don't have the knowledge, insights or experiences and so they rely heavily on the opinion of others. The more they rely on others the more they disassociate themselves with themselves. The "Who Am I?" product comes to be supplied from personality tests that serve the customer with exactly what they want. In other words, personality tests are popular and useful since they give personalities to those who need them most. "There you go son. You have one of these 4 letter combination personalities. You are no longer empty. Now you know who you are."

It gets even worse. The more personality tests one takes, the more they dive into the rabbit hole of self delusion. Every tests works as a confirmation bias for the next one, trying to improve, reflect and so on. If anything, the consecutive tests should reveal to people (that have above potato peal I.Q) that personality tests are not really tests and they are not really about personality. But as 99.9% of you are too stupid to get it, astrology and personality tests will continue outnumbering valid modes of reasoning.

The world does not change much. We like to think that we escaped from the shuckses of religion (or recently astrology) but humans seem to constantly fall into the same biased traps. Why? Well most people are children. They are forever victims of their emotions. My experience from that particular chat room was simply to understand what kind of people I was dealing with. That along with a past triggering, was great for evaluating market sentiment. It confirms that most people (as it happens with crypto) will follow some random person that shills a coin much the same as they followed the personality test meme without evaluating the validity of the tests.

So in a way, personality tests, at least the ritual of it, are extremely good for the Big Brother effect, not the plebs engaging in it. The markets are made up of people. Figure out how they react en-masse and you are granted to stay on top time after time.

TL;DR The lyrics from B-Movie - nowhere girl

Nowhere girl you're living in a dream,
Nowhere girl you stay behind the scenes,
Nowhere girl you never go outside,
Nowhere girl 'cause you prefer to hide.
Every day, every might
In that all old familiar light
You hang up when I call you at home.
And I try to get through
Ant I try to talk to you
But there's something stopping me from getting through.
Nowhere girl what you had you need,
Nowhere girl all functional and neat,
Nowhere girl in self-imposed exile,
Nowhere girl a martyr-like denial.
Every day, every might
In that all old familiar light
You hang up when I call you at home.
And I try to get through
Ant I try to talk to you
But there's…