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Jan 15, 2016 2:29 PM CST
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I also received this result: Your 5 dominant traits are: Spiritual, Emotionally Intelligent, Charismatic, Analytical and Grounded. You are very in touch with your senses and read other people very well. You are hungry for adventure and excited about life, but you are also very humble and sincere. You are a great problem solver and have a balanced perspective about things.

It doesn't describe me very well, though. For a start, I'm not hungry for adventure, I'm not very humble, and I don't read other people very well. I'm a little suspicious that this might be a case in which people are expected to feel that their traits have been captured because these are traits many people want to think they have.

I once read about an experiment a professor conducted in a psychology class. He asked his students for their birth dates and later handed out copies of the personalized horoscopes he had drawn up for them. All of the students were astounded by the accuracy of the astrological reports they had been given. The professor then told them that all of them had been given the same report, word for word.

Each student believed the report had described him or her perfectly because the report consisted of traits everyone claims. If you were told that you had a keen sense of humor, for example, would you deny it and say you have a lousy sense of humor? If your report said that you are extremely generous and you have often committed generous acts without letting anyone know about them, would you deny it? Even stingy people with no sense of humor want to think that they're generous and have a great sense of humor.

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