But what distinguishes this latest endeavor from most is that it doesn’t limit its reference points to a single piece of pop culture. Over the years, we’ve all enjoyed many a quiz of the sort, mostly thanks to early 2010s BuzzFeed. For example:īefore beginning, you may choose between a quiz consisting of 14, 28, or 121 questions like the one above. The quiz takes form as a series of questions regarding where you fall on a spectrum between two binaries. These are the sort of results some of us are really looking for, and these are the sort of results we can find by way of the Open-Source Psychometrics Project’s “Which Character” Personality Quiz. In March, Yale University opted to make freely available virtual access to one of its most popular courses: Psychology and the Good Life, known affectionately by Yale students (and now the general public) as the “happiness class.” Taught by Professor of Psychology Laurie Santos, the course encourages students to take a personality quiz of sorts ( available here) that identifies both your greatest strengths and those you could further stand to hone from a list of 24-traits included vary from kindness to humor to appreciation of beauty to prudence, among others.Īnd all that’s well and good and probably pretty helpful on the road to self-betterment, but it doesn’t tell you whether you’re more of a Brienne of Tarth or a Seymour Skinner or a Nymphadora Tonks.
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