Category Archives: Meaningless Personality Quizzes

What kind of postmodernist are you!? brought to you by Quizilla

This one is dangerously close to true, except for the fact that I'm not a post-modernist. But I believe that I have colleagues who would be surprised to learn I have written at some length on a member of the Frankfurt School…

You are a Revisionist Historian. You are the Clark Kent of postmodernists. You probably want to work in a library or in social services. No one suspects you of being a postmodernist…until they read your publications!

Spotted at Alex Halavais's Blog.

I'm only for meaningless online personality quizzes, and only if they are funny or have a legal slant.

I don't intend to take part in the blog-fest of situating oneself on what seems to me to be an arbitrary and misleading (and falsely two-dimensional) left-right diagonal axis. I think it's pretty much meaningless, because the questions on that quiz are both too limited and too Procrustean (making one's answers too arbitrary). I'm staying out of this because people seem to think it has meaning. And it's not funny.

Here's a suitably meaningless quiz that's both legal and funny, spotted by the Invisible Adjunct: Which Founding Father Are You?

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It could have been worse.

Which Dr. Seuss character are you?
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My visit to What D&D Character Are You? produced this:

I Am A: Neutral Good Elf Mage Bard

Alignment:
Neutral Good characters believe in the power of good above all else. They will work to make the world a better place, and will do whatever is necessary to bring that about, whether it goes for or against whatever is considered ‘normal’.

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The Retreat was an occasion for introspection. This impulse leads naturally to meaningless online personality quizzes. Here's one result:

Which OS are You?

While I'm not in a position to vouch for the accuracy of this analysis of my personality, the list of possible answers is pretty funny.