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Discussion on: What are your saboteurs?

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Ben Sinclair

My biggest flaw is that I look at things like this:

A signup form with no labels and extremely poor contrast for placeholder text

and want to buy a plane ticket, fly over to meet whoever designed that form and give them a strong talking-to, about contrast, labels and the necessity of forcing people to sign up for something at the end of a multiple-question process.

I got my results anyway:

A graph of personality-test results, showing "Hyper Rational" as the dominant trait and "Hyper-achiever" as the least significant.

I think this is about as useful as Myers-Briggs, or any other self-defined test. That is to say, it's basically a, "what kind of Pokemon are you?" test.

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Stephanie Handsteiner

I had the same thought on the form. I didn't even get mine (yet), I checked the spam folder obviously, nothing, also no typos (auto-fill, huh).

The other thing in short: Barnum effect

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I already anticipated such an issue but I know you can always10minutemail.com

I've built 3 platforms with Psychometric testing with academics and this one would not come close to meeting their standard for accuracy but it's a fun endeavour.