Dr. Phil gave this test on Oprah. Some folks pay a lot of money to find this stuff out. Read on, this is very interesting!

Here's something that you may find interesting...psychological profile -- don't be overly sensitive!

The following is accurate. And it only takes a few minutes. Take this test for yourself and send it to your friends, including the one who sent it and let them know who you are.

The person who sent it placed their score in the subject box. Please do the same before forwarding to your friends. Don't peek but begin the test as you scroll down and answer. Answers are for who you are now...not who you were in the past. Have pen or pencil and paper ready. This is a real test given by the Human Relations Department at many of the major corporations today. It helps them get better insight concerning their employees and prospective employees.

It's only ten simple questions, so grab a pencil and paper, keeping track of your letter answers. Make sure to change the subject of the e-mail to read YOUR total. When you finished, forward this to everyone you know and also send it to the person who sent this to you. Make sure to put YOUR score in the subject box.

Ready? Begin...

1. When do you feel your best?
a) In the morning
b) During the afternoon and early evening
c) Late at night

2. You usually walk

a) Fairly fast, with long steps
b) Fairly fast, with little steps
c) Less fast head up, looking the world in the face
d) Less fast, head down
e) Very slowly

3. When talking to people you

a) Stand with your arms folded
b) Have your hands clasped
c) Have one or both your hands on your hips
d) Touch or push the person to whom you are talking
e) Play with your ear, touch your chin or smooth your hair

4. When relaxing, you sit with

a) Your knees bent with your legs neatly side by side
b) Your legs crossed
c) Your legs stretched out or straight
d) One leg curled under you

5. When something really amuses you, you react with

a) A big, appreciative laugh
b) A laugh, but not a loud one
c) A quiet chuckle
d) A sheepish smile

6. When you go to a party or social gathering

a) Make a loud entrance so everyone notices you
b) Make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you know
c) Make the quietest entrance, trying to stay unnoticed

7. You're working very hard, concentrating hard and you're interrupted; do you

a) Welcome the break
b) Feel extremely irritated
c) Vary between these two extremes

8. Which of the following colors do you like most?

a) Red or orange
b) Black
c) Yellow or light blue
d) Green
e) Dark blue or purple
f) White
g) Brown or gray

9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few moments before going to sleep, you lie

a) Stretched out on your back
b) Stretched out face down on your stomach
c) On your side, slightly curled
d) With your head on one arm
e) With your head under the covers

10. You often dream that you are

a) Falling
b) Fighting or struggling
c) Searching for something or somebody
d) Flying or floating
e) You usually have dreamless sleep
f) Your dreams are always pleasant

POINTS:

1. (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6
2. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 2 (e) 1
3. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 7 (e) 6
4. (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 1
5. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 2
6. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 2
7. (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4
8. (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 3 (f) 2 (g) 1
9. (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 2 (e) 1
10. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 6 (f) 1

Now add up the total number of points.

OVER 60 POINTS: Others see you as someone they should "handle with care". You're seen as vain, self-centered and extremely dominant. Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you, but don't always trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you.

51 TO 60 POINTS: Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.

41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.

31 TO 40 POINTS: Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful and practical. They see you as clever, gifted or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over it if that trust is ever broken.

21 TO 30 POINTS: Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It would really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment, expecting you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction is caused partly by your careful nature.

UNDER 21 POINTS: People think you are shy, nervous and indecisive; someone who needs looking after, who always wants someone else to make the decisions and who doesn't want to get involved with anyone or anything. They see you as a worrier who always sees problems that don't exist. Some people think you're boring. Only those who know you well know that you aren't.

Now forward this to others (if u email it out), and put your score in subject box.

Or answer here on the .org, with ur score!

By the way... I scored a 48.

b4
c7
d7
b6
a6
b4
c4
e3
c4
c3

48 points.



41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.


(with respect 2 IceNine's post, I had 2 "break it down")
[This message was edited Thu Feb 6 12:48:00 PST 2003 by June7]

47 for me.

43 for me

b 4
a 6
b 2
b 6
b 4
b 4
c 4
e 3
c 4
c 3

40 points


31 TO 40 POINTS: Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful and practical. They see you as clever, gifted or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over it if that trust is ever broken.

...
[This message was edited Thu Feb 6 12:01:03 PST 2003 by IceNine]

Ice that does not sound like you!!!

mdiver said:

Ahh, but it is... I am a very sarcastic poster and I am often quite misunderstood.

37 for me.

51 for me...volitaile is an apt word

IceNine said:

Actually, I quite heartily agree with this assessment.

1. C
2. A
3. D
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. C
8. E
9. E
10. D

Points: 40





31 TO 40 POINTS: Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful and practical. They see you as clever, gifted or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over it if that trust is ever broken.

1. B
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. A
6. B
7. C
8. B
9. B
10. 2

41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.

Accurate?

AprilMichelle said:

I got the same thing.

51 TO 60 POINTS: Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.

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[This message was edited Wed Feb 12 17:51:13 PST 2003 by katt]

39...hmmm. funny how i answered every question. i answered honestly, but it felt odd for...say, sleeping on my side--"surely Bill Gates sleeps on his back, face up" i thought.

I think I'm a bit hard on myself at times. oh well.

I'm sure this test can give a good indication, but the choices are too limited. I stopped after two questions where none of the answers would fit.

Aerogram said:

Use the closest one, goddamn you!!!

:Evil:

IceNine said:

:O

1. C
2. C
3. E
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. C
8. B
9. B
10. C

53...

51 TO 60 POINTS: Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.

IceNine said:

a little info on Dr. Phil's "philosophy"


Oprah Switches from Estrogen to est
September 10, 2001

http://www.bitchpanic.com...prah.shtml

So I hadn’t seen Oprah in years, because I had a job and all and don’t need help picking books to read. I had heard about the “Cult of Oprah” and assumed it was a euphemism for people who are unwavering in the belief that all of life lessons can be learned from her show. I guess I’m okay with that; you could call me a member of the “Cult of Simpsons.”

After seeing the premiere of this, her sixteenth season, I have concluded that she’s trying to create an actual cult. I can see no other reason why she’s doing what she’s doing, which is exposing her viewers to est behavioral modification techniques.

To celebrate her new season, Oprah has gathered forty-two volunteers and locked them in a room with Dr. Phil, the so-called “lifestyle specialist” who has become famous from “telling it like it is” on the show to Oprah’s dysfunctional guests. Now that I’ve seen him, it’s clear that Dr. Phil is nothing more than an est trainer, and Oprah should be embarrassed for inflicting him on the rest of us.

I became familiar with est training when I was researching a troubled private school for misbehaving teens for an investigative piece I was writing. The school’s administration used est seminars as part of the kids’ rehabilitation, and some parents had become concerned that rather than fixing the kids’ problems, they were simply being brainwashed.

There’s a host of information and criticism about est training available on the Internet, and if you’re interested in learning more about it, feel free to do some searches. What I can tell you is that est is essentially forced groupthink, where participants are pressured to reveal secrets about themselves and are judged harshly by the facilitator and the others if they so much as question what is going on.

Some of the stuff I saw comes directly from reports of est seminars I’ve read. The group has to be large, because it’s easier to force skeptical participants to comply when they’ve got a room full of peer pressure bearing on them. Dr. Phil is good at what he does, masterfully manipulating them. He tells all the volunteers early on that each member must participate in order for everybody to benefit. Immediately, that turns the group against anybody who hesitates or questions, because the other members are led to believe that they can’t progress if somebody isn’t on the same page as them. He tells them “You either get it, or you don’t,” a typical est catchphrase to encourage conformity -- if you don’t agree, then you just “don’t get it.”

And Dr. Phil doesn’t waste time putting his technique into practice. He reads off the rules of the five-day stay, which are typical to est seminars. At the end, he asks everybody to signify agreement to the rules by standing up. He swoops over to the woman who was the last to stand up and busts her for it. When, after questioning, she mentions that it was her husband’s idea to come, he twists her words to suggest that she doesn’t want to be there. In fact he misquotes her completely (claiming that she said her husband dragged her there), but she’s too intimidated by his behavior to point it out.

The intimidation is part of the game, and Dr. Phil is similar in that respect to most est trainers I’ve read about. It’s harder to question the logic and behavior of somebody you find intimidating. It’s simple bullying. Remember that big kid at school who cornered you in the hallway and made you say “I’m a stupid, smelly loser” as loud as you could? That’s Dr. Phil, except now he has pop-psychology vocabulary to back it up. He’s making these people say that they’re stupid, smelly losers and promise to change and then they’re thanking him for it.

Eventually, once you use this technique to break down somebody’s sense of self on independence, it’s a simple task to rebuild them in any way you choose. For that reason, these techniques are commonly used to encourage conformity in cults and has been tied to groups like the Scientologists. And allegedly, this technique was converted from Chinese brainwashing methods. The intimidation and peer pressure is used to get you to reveal all your weaknesses to the group. Then, these weaknesses are used against you if you question what you are told. It’s allegedly these “weaknesses” that are holding you back.

I was genuinely horrified when early on in the introductions, one of the women attending revealed that she had recently discovered that her husband was a child molester and needed help recovering and figuring out what to do. I was horrified because she so clearly doesn’t belong here. She needs professional psychological treatment. She doesn’t need to change anything about herself due to her husband’s behavior. She needs to adapt to a new life. But Dr. Phil didn’t suggest that perhaps this wasn’t the place for her.

And, of course, it seems that people benefit most from attending est seminars more than just once, and that costs money. Oprah herself mentioned that she had attended many of these seminars. I don’t know what to say, other than any respect I had for her when she was younger and fresher and a genuinely smart woman is gone. Oprah is a cult leader now -- for real, not just as a metaphor.

38!

31 TO 40 POINTS: Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful and practical. They see you as clever, gifted or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over it if that trust is ever broken.


I'm as shocked as you are.
[This message was edited Thu Feb 6 20:12:05 PST 2003 by Aerogram]

I place very little stock in what Dr Phil has to say, nonetheless I got 42.

41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.

Aerogram said:

Mine is exactly the same: 38!

The description if fairly accurate.

1. When do you feel your best?

c) Late at night

2. You usually walk


c) Less fast head up, looking the world in the face


3. When talking to people you


e) Play with your ear, touch your chin or smooth your hair

4. When relaxing, you sit with


c) Your legs stretched out or straight


5. When something really amuses you, you react with


b) A laugh, but not a loud one


6. When you go to a party or social gathering


b) Make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you know


7. You're working very hard, concentrating hard and you're interrupted; do you


c) Vary between these two extremes

8. Which of the following colors do you like most?


e) Dark blue or purple


9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few moments before going to sleep, you lie


c) On your side, slightly curled


10. You often dream that you are


f) Your dreams are always pleasant

POINTS:

1. (c) 6
2 (c) 7
3. (e) 6
4. (c) 2
5. (b) 4
6. (b) 4
7. (c) 4
8. (e) 3
9. (c) 4
10.(f) 1

Now add up the total number of points.



41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.

1.c
2.c
3.a
4.c
5.a
6.b
7,b
8.b
9.c
10.e

48 points.

IstenSzek said:

And we're both gay. It's almost as if we should get married.

I scored a 39.
1. c (6)
2. a (6)
3. a (4)
4. d (1)
5. b (4)
6. b (4)
7. c (4)
8. e (3)
9. c (4)
10. c (3)
31 TO 40 POINTS: Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful and practical. They see you as clever, gifted or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over it if that trust is ever broken.
[This message was edited Fri Feb 7 6:00:47 PST 2003 by wendy]

33

50


41 TO 50 POINTS: Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.