Rick, Analyzed.

From The Angry Young Man, via Endless from Tribe.net (whose blog is comically entitled, My Inner Child is a Mean Little Fucker), and also a nod to Success Warrior:  It's from MindMedia and I think it's called the Mind Prober.

Your Brain Usage Profile:      

          Auditory : 73%
          Visual : 26%
          Left : 64%
          Right : 35%

I guess that makes sense since I'm a math guy - very much a left-brain activity.  Being auditory dominant facilitates my love for audiobooks.    Then the summary flatters me:

"This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance."

And this exactly describes me:

"You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in."

"By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions."

But their job recommendations aren't so hot:

"To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management."

I've taught math, which is close I suppose to teaching science, and I enjoyed it.  But I hate sales (and suck at it) and I despise management so much that when I'm in management I loathe myself.

- rick, analyzed

Comments

[The Angry Young Man]

Great minds think alike, eh?

[Success Warrior]

I'll bet that other people hate it when you're in management too. =)

[a rose is a rose]

i took it and it told me i was cute AND i could dance!

auditory: 25%
visual: 75%
left: 42%
right: 57%

[mark]

while these "tests" seem to give "good" and believable results, I think this is along the lines of what PT Barnum said about tell the people what they want to here and they'll believe it. Several studies have been done on tests like this and people will tend towards believe things that make them feel good about them selves and are positive, even though the "results" are relatively ambiguous. regardless, here are mine:

Auditory : 62%
Visual : 37%
Left : 55%
Right : 44%

mark, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance.

You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in.

By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions

When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others.

Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory.

To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management

[Sideon]

I'm a lemming. A lemming, I say.

:)

My results are here.

[bex]

That MindWare site gives me the creeps... didn't any of you take a peek at what they were selling?!? Mythic Journeys, 30-minute IQ tests, Personality Evaluators, Idea Generators... double ish.

Sounds like a bunch of new-agey con artistry to me... I wouldn't be surprised if the founder was a scientologist.

[bex]

OK, I caved, I took the test.

* Auditory : 52%
* Visual : 47%
* Left : 52%
* Right : 47%

"Perfect balance", bitches!