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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] saimen@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Your source does not support your claim at all. Seems like you are projecting your scientific illiteracy onto Jung.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 45 points 2 months ago

I mean, they're not wrong, but it does hurt a bit.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My high school paid for everyone to take some type of career aptitude test. Everyone got a list of various possible career choices. Burned in my memory now is that I scored "region 99" which apparently meant my personality type didn't fit any jobs. Or something. Like their magic 8 ball told me to try again.

[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

My school did something similar. It recommended I become a fish monger.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Haha, did you ever try it out? Maybe it really was your life long calling.

[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I didn't, but should I ever feel the need to try it I have already watched the tutorial video.

[–] kraftpudding@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

A friend of mine got the recommendation to be a pedicurist. Not a manicurist, not some general aesthetician, nope. Test wanted him to work with feet so badly ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Same story here. I didn’t pay attention and failed basic math. Suggestion: plumber.

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm supposed to be a bartender, which i guess sounds better than what i actually do.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I've become a computer tender.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

I think I finally found what I was put on this earth to do: Knife goes in guts come out.

-- Bart Simpson

[–] uservoid1@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Can I have an exception?

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"The samurai charged into battle, shouting You must install Adobe Flash plugin to view this content."

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

There ought to be a sub for that.

And no I'm not gonna be the change I want to see in the world, for the benefit of everyone involved.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Got that on Programmer Humor last year! Finding that kind of unintentional message is always funny

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago
[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Why do you have to personally attack me like that?

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Sigh! I should have known.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hey, that's Elite catastrophic failure!

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com -4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If you think 60 questions are going to tell you anything more than that you're the type of person who takes shitty online quizzes that's probably an accurate assessment.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

He's saying it's a feature!

[–] andioop@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

On one hand, you should probably indeed take personality quizzes claiming to be scientific online with a grain of salt and actually check if they have that kind of backing.

On another, they're fun. I am indeed the type of person who takes shitty online quizzes! (And their sometimes-higher-quality sibling, the academic survey. I really miss r/samplesize) And that doesn't necessarily make me an idiot. I do wonder how to let my fellow quiz takers know that there are a lot of claims to scientific validity out there that just are not true without being a buzzkill, or condescending to the ones who already know and still participate for fun—because I absolutely get wanting to combat pseudoscience and misinformation.

However, I didn't take this quiz myself, I found this in a post online and thought Programmer Humor subscribers would find it funny.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's psychological quizzes that are much shorter than that. There's a four question quiz that, on the surface, is about parenting. They're actually about authoritarianism, and the answers are highly correlated with support for Trump.

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 points 2 months ago

No one in 2025 has read all of that article.