Ever wonder what peronsality disorders you have. Via Pharyngula I have come across the totally unscientific, but interesting Personality Disorder Test.
| Disorder | Rating |
| Paranoid: | Low |
| Schizoid: | Low |
| Schizotypal: | Low |
| Antisocial: | Low |
| Borderline: | Low |
| Histrionic: | Moderate |
| Narcissistic: | Moderate |
| Avoidant: | Low |
| Dependent: | Low |
| Obsessive-Compulsive: | Moderate |
— Personality Disorder Test – Take It! — |
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It looks like I’m a self-centered clown with obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Jez, this test makes it sound like I’m Woody Allen.
Woody Allen is in our family?
All in the family!
Interesting… I got “low” on everything except for Schizoid, which came up as “high.” Funny, I would have expected the test to reveal many more of my disorders. What does that mean?
Sweet. I scored a very high, 2 highs, 4 moderates, and the rest low. So either I’m cracking up or I’m writing up…
I got one very high, five highs, and a moderate. But I notice that the first question is “what sex are you?,” which makes me curious how they factor that into their calculation of likelihood for each disorder. I cry foul.
So I re-took the test, pondering for a bit longer about the subjective meaning of “often” and “intense,” etc and got these results when I answered that I was male:
Results:
Paranoid: Moderate
Schizoid: Moderate
Schizotypal: High
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Moderate
Histrionic: Moderate
Narcissistic: Moderate
Avoidant: High
Dependent: High
Obsessive-Compulsive: High
with the same answers, except as a female, I got nearly identical results except for the Narcissitic category:
Paranoid: Moderate
Schizoid: Moderate
Schizotypal: High
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Moderate
Histrionic: Moderate
Narcissistic: Low
Avoidant: High
Dependent: High Obsessive-Compulsive: High
hrm… anyone else interested in posting results from the same set of responses, differing only in the answer to the gender question?
Not Woody Allen – but the other tendencies you scoerd “well” on – particularly the clown.
What exactly did I mean by scoerd?