We don’t want to start any fights, but if you want to take a fun quiz for Valentine’s Day, try the Romanticizing/Pragmatizing Test from EQSQ.com. It takes about 5 minutes to complete, and it’s supposed to tell you if you’re a “heart rules head” or “head rules heart” kind of person. Of course, the site points out that the test is “rigorously unscientific.”
What is my score, you ask? I expected myself to be a pragmatizer, but the test said that I’m “balanced.” I guess that’s okay, in a vigorously unscientific kind of way.
4 Comments
krusch · February 8, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I feel that quizzes like this usually are wrong. I think that the questions they ask are asked in a certain way to make you answer then a certain way. The statistics on something like this just doesn’t seem very true to me. This was an interesting quiz, but I would not base anything on the results.
rsheffel3 · February 10, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Interesting quiz. It seems as if the majority of people’s results would turn out “balanced”, as I was. This is probably due to our own self-report bias on this type of quiz. We don’t necessarily always portray our own characteristics as they are in real life.
Christinawright · February 12, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I have taken many quizzes like this before and every time it seems like I come out a little different. On this one I was classified as a “Romanticizer (a score of 27).” This is true enough, I guess, but I have to admit I thought I would come out with a more “Balanced” outcome. It’s interesting how you change with time and relationships. I feel I used to be a hopeless romantic, but the more experience and education I get the less I believe in the “fairytale” that I used to. Isn’t that sad? Or maybe it’s good, I don’t know. I think I’m definitely more realistic in what I look for in a potential partner now. I do wonder how much education, especially in the area of psychology (my major) plays into this. I feel like when you learn so much about how relationships work (and don’t work), you can’t help but see love as less magical. But I was glad to see that I haven’t totally lost my romantic ideals!
KellyThornton · February 13, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Let me just start off saying that I grew up on these types of quizzes. My friends and I would always search through Seventeen Magazine just to find all the quizzes. But now, I see them as complete BS. When you see the title of a quiz, you automatically know how you want to be scored. I think that everyone answers the questioned biased so that they end up with the score or personality they want. Also, it takes me months to figure people out, how can a quick 20 question survey describe a persons personality? These quizzes can be fun, but they are 100% not accurate. I think that these types of quizzes are good marketing for magazines and websites because they get people interacting with them, but anything beyond that, just isn’t true.
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