The test isn't all that scientific, admits its creator, Christian T. Rudder '98, managing editor of thespark.com.
"We just kind of made it up on the fly. There was a lot of hand wringing involved coming up with the four axes because we wanted it to be right," he says.
The list Rudder created consists of four pairs of opposing personality traits: dominant/submissive, introverted/extroverted, abstract/concrete, and thinker/feeler. The 16 different possible combinations each yield a separate personality type.
A guru--a submissive, extroverted, abstract feeler--is the most common result, according to Rudder.
A guru is "kind, knowing, giving. Like Buddha of old, you can be a persuasive speaker," the website says.
Generally, the descriptions are warm and fuzzy, Rudder says. But he says they tried to make them funny, as well. The gurus are warned: "be careful that your friends don't take advantage of your relaxed nature, that's what happened to Jesus."
Once Rudder and Chris R. Coyne '99 established the axes, they crafted the questions and personality types based on their own observations and other personality tests they had seen.
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