Really, personality tests that look at these vague sorts of parameters are the absolute worst sort of pop-psych.
At a minimum the test has no way to control for variables in the person's recent experiences.
Like for example I saw a big, opaque, black cube not because I egotistic, authoritative and insular but because I recently watched that famous scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I saw a ladder with lots of rungs not because I have lots of friends but because that's what I think of when people say "ladder".
Real, well designed, personality tests seem to look for clearly defined things. Do you have symptoms of schizophrenia? Do you tend to lie on questionnaires?
Also look at the wording of the results: "In general" "it may not always be so" "it can also mean" "can also represent" Blatant shotgunning techniques, horoscopes and fortune cookies are more subtle.
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Shotgunning is very close to accurate. A fortune cookie is much closer, sometimes. If I were to chose again, I'd chose a black cube!
My cube was gigantically massive, was clear, and made out of a futuristic material, like clear adamantium or something. It was spinning around, in a clear wide open area, with sand duney hills in the background. It was blowing away the sand around it like it was a helicopter, hovering. It gave off light as it had a white glow around it. (This is how I would picture a giant cube, in the middle of a desert. STFU!)
My ladder was a little ways away from my cube, was so huge that it reached into the darkness of space, and each rung was made of a different delicious cheese which replenished itself when a chunk was bitten out. It had rungs evenly spaced as though it were a real ladder...just really really tall.
My horse was colossally huge (almost as big as the cube), it was all black, was shiny, was a unicorn (fer realz), and very muscular. It was running all around the desert, but stayed close to the cube and ladder.
The storm was really far away, off in the distance. It looked like it could be violent but I couldn't really tell.
What is the analysis of the "clear" color? STUPID!
What about a horse that is, like, 7 stories tall with he black unicorny horn?
I didn't get to the test because there was too much exposition to go through to get to it.
What does that say about my personality?
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