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buffy quiz
Wow, this is a really good quality quiz. I liked the questions better than just about any personality quiz I can think of, I had to stop and think about some of them but I didn't think they were ambiguous or forcing you to choose between two bad options like some quizzes. As a bonus, Willow has always been my favorite Buffy character, so I'm very happy to get her. Although I wouldn't have guessed it from the questions until the end.
Interesting that I'm "more selfless than 0% of people" :) That should be on my resume or something.
| Willow Rosenberg 45% amorality, 54% passion, 54% spirituality, 9% selflessness |
Likely you're stronger on the inside than most people would give you credit for: like Willow, you're a decent person with both passions and a spiritual side, sometimes struggling for control. Willow is one of the most beloved characters in the Buffy universe; Congratulations! |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The 4-Variable Buffy Personality Test written by donathos on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
Interesting that I'm "more selfless than 0% of people" :) That should be on my resume or something.
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Apparently this test thinks I'm too selfless and not spiritual enough to be Willow.
Actually, from looking at several friends results, it appears to me that Angel is distinguished from Willow by being less than 50% on passion/repose and less than 50% spiritual. (I'm not sure why they treat passion and repose as synonyms; to me they are quite different. I guess they're trying to say willow spends more time relaxed and enjoying herself whereas angel is more up-tight and mechanical.) I'm not sure where spiritual fits into the questions at all, they must have extracted it from the ones such as "do you like spending time alone?" and "which is more romantic... passionate-lovemaking or intelligent soul-searching conversation?" Angel seems pretty selfless to me, but for some reason on the other person's journal I saw, it had less than 50% on selflessness which I think is the cutoff for switching to one of the other 16 results.
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Willow: moral, passionate, spiritual, selfish
Angel: moral, dispassionate, spiritual, selfish
So the only difference between Willow and Angel is that he is less passionate. But by passionate in this test they mean "enjoys freetime and the simple things in life"... Angel is too serious and focused on his own goals for that (even though one could easily make the case that passionate can mean the oppositte of what they're using it for here.)
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Makes sense, I guess, but when results seem to cluster so close to the 50% boundary it probably makes the answer a bit too random....
Agreed. That's why they give you two different results--the non-curved and the curved results (relative to others who've taken it). For the ideal test, these numbers would match exactly, but for most tests I've seen they're pretty different.
One negative consequence of having the cutoffs all at 50% is that there is a critical point at 50-50-50-50, at which you're right on the cusp of all 16 possible results. But the alternative is to test variables for which you expect to have a larger portion of the population on one side or the other... which makes it seem kind of "biased" in a way, although the tests usually end up this way empirically anyway.
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