by PriamNevhausten » Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:11 pm
Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm not attacking you for having posted this; I'm attacking them for taking this project so cavalierly, so without substance. A good personality test will take what you said, extrapolate the principles, and use the interactions of parts to explore deeper, more combinative processes not already explicitly stated by the user as a part of answering the questions themselves. Famous examples of good personality tests include the Big Five test and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
A bad test, on the other hand, will see you answering questions 1, 2, and 3 with C, B, and A, and then report that you answered A for 3, B for 2, and C for question 1. I knew that, thanks; I was there, watching me while I answered the questions. That's the type of test this is, and we as gamers deserve better.
The next step, if we care to take another step, is, how do we go about getting, or making, better.
"You haven't told me what I'm looking for."
"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections."
--Colin Laney and Kathy Torrance, William Gibson's Idoru