A quick brain experiment

[geese]

I know everyone's done billions of these kind of things, but this one seemed to unnerve people at work more than usual and in a very short time

should probably have put it on the website forum but i dont know if anyone ever goes there.

I wonder how many people with day jobs will "discover" how much they like them.

ps try and remember to let the clock count to zero after you've done the first set of colours

http://www.colorquiz.com/

[arar]

Its risable.....the "results are so general as to be meaningless, and play upon feelings and characteristics that 99.9999999999% of the human population would have......

Try the following...retake the test but just choose the colours in quick sucsession with no regard to which one "makes you feel best" (whatever that means!) you will see that the results are much the same just basically redrafts of the first results but with different syntax (The semantics are the same)

Tests devised by psychologist generally tell you more about the people who devised them, than the people who take them

Any fair ground fortune teller, anybody with a set of Tarot cards, any palm reader, will make use of very generalised statements to establish feedback form the client that gives (very unsubtlely) them the impression that the practioner is onto something about "them"..it would be a miracle if there wasnt something about the client in what is said as we social being, who share a lot of thoughts and feeling, as well as norms and standards that we are expected to comply with......

For instance in many cultures one is supposed to feel sad at funerals, happy at weddings etc...think how many of the above events you attended were youre feelings were not in line with what is required....you'll generally try and keep it quiet

go to www.theory.org.uk and look at the trading card for psychologists!

[geese]

:-)

yes mr rea,

the amusement value comes from the initial discomfort people get when they first observe the results. The very fact that people take the time to check whether its real or not by changing sex or entering random positions rather than colours is part of the fun.

I have to work in an office adorned with embarrasing Harry Potter and Lord of the rings shite -and worse. It was amusing to see the intelligent perpatrators of these atrocities squirm for a while as they read the results. It was that element of suddenly seeing people think or analyse themselves and why they do things that made for an amusing post pub-lunch friday afternoon at work. My original introduction of this topic was to some extent drunkenly prankish and i hoped this would be betrayed a little by the inverted commas and encouragement not to miss out the most important part of the test - the countdown.

When I first did the test I went back to check it out as well but the fact that i did this showed that I was momentarily taken in too. And I did think it was relevant to me and the way i choose my interests and why i do what i do. I think its a fun look at the human condition.
I work with some intelligent people who've barely heard of the human condition, though maybe thats for the best.

Rather naughty of me but I'm sure if you could have seen some of the initial office results you would have been amused.

A case of having to be there i think. Anyway - im being watched.

[arar]

Actually, I think I'll forward the web address to people in my office..

[stu pitaus]

people have been so negative to me for so long, i could have cared less about the results i got. i told the web address to take a number and get in line.

[Lady E]

i really cannot see how that can possibly work. i normally am totally open to things like that but really. i chose the same colours in the same order both times and would always do that - i didnt like the shades anyway. what was the point in waiting for 3 minutes or whatever?

what is their reasoning behind the methodology?

maybe its because the reading was bollocks. if it had been right i would have been completely credulous

[geese]

Uh Oh, i'm starting to regret this.

It doesn't work in anyway except that which arar proposed, but there are many things about it which will hit the target in a lot of people. The few combinations i looked at were all pretty similar and the first one in particular painted a pretty good negative picture of me. It would have probably done something very similar to other muso types with day jobs. It also totally freaked out a nearby harry potter head amongst others. Had i not been in a state of considerable friday excitement and somewhat inebriated, I would have either thought better of posting it or at least constucted a better explnatory intro. I have given some thought to fitting breathalizers to our PCs before.

Its the kind of thing that isnt going to do harm to the people on a forum like this but there are probably a lot of middle american oprah watchers who could get very fucked up by it.

Re negativity:-

Yep, theres a lot of it about.

Excellent sites like tvgohome.com and theonion.com thrive on it.

Can't decide if its a depressing sign of the times or if its just human nature and not worth the worry.

I'm in considerable danger of being hypocritical anyway.

And Stu, there are probably some sensitive souls who might consider your avatar a little less than life affirming too :-).

[karitek]

yeah, i thought that one was rather crap. not really that accurate of a portrayal of my mood/state o mind at all.

my sister sent me this one a couple weeks ago. much better (and you don't have to do it twice or wait of anything). plus it's a pretty little site.

http://www.colorgenics.com/

[geese]

errr. I think this is probably just as bad as mine but without the high degree of malevolent intent. What had struck me about mine was its single minded desire to get people who were in unsatisfactory situations to feel even worse about them.
the countdown stood out as the biggest red herring.

I think its perhaps based on yours but taking the piss.

[phdbob]

no more privacy and this with a simple colorgame...whheeehh!

"You feel that nobody really appreciates you and this is causing you considerable stress. You feel that you have to sublimate your emotions and this is depressing you no end. You feel that the only way you can resolve this untenable situation is to get away from it all and re-establish your own individuality."

I FEEL I SHOULD TRY AND GET A CHAINSAW AND CUT THOSE WANKERS TO KUBES!!!

sob...i´m feeling so useless...