Go here, please, and take the test. It should only take about 15 minutes max. Then post your results here so you can compare yourselves to one another. Please. Don't make me beg.

types two, seven and nine were within two points of each other, and the highest scores. what does that tell you?

i got a 1/4 way through it and realized it was gonna tell me i'm a loser dork so i quit. like i need to hear that again.

I didn't like this test. There weren't enough options in the questions. I kept thinking I don't apply to either of the choices given for some questions, and for others I thought I applied to Both the options. Here's me: Type 1 - 9 Type 2 - 24 Type 3 - 10 Type 4 - 26 Type 5 - 19 Type 6 - 15 Type 7 - 10 Type 8 - 6 Type 9 - 25

looks like we are similar, gee. whatever that means.

it means that you both actually spent the time to answer 150 pointless questions instead of just blowing it off and cracking open another beer. (like i did.) i asked joe what kind of "personality type" that makes me. answer: "drunken asshole" oh well. at least i didn't have to spend any time filling out HTML forms to get that conclusion.

you go with what ya know.

Your loss. It's weird that both of you, Agatha and Gee, had three numbers as your highest ones. Usually what happens is that one number is significantly higher than the rest, and then the next highest number is a number right next to it (eg. 8 is highest, then 7 or 9 is next highest). As for your troubles, Gee, what you should have done is leave the questions that didn't apply to you blank, and if two answers to a question both applied to you, you could check them both. That would give you the most accurate results. The test is long, I agree, and not perfect. There are other formats, one being a true-false list of statements. I don't like that either. What's best is when you talk to someone who knows the system. I know the system. But I can't talk to you, so I thought taking a test would be best. Seeing as you each had three numbers as your highest, I can't really tell you what your results mean. From a scientific standpoint, the best thing you could do would be to take another version of the test and see how your second results compare to your first. But that's not going to happen. The enneagram is very very involved, and each type (each number) is very complicated, with different levels of development, different directions of integration and disintegration, different subtypes, and different "prime addictions," as they call them. I have to go to class in a few minutes, so I can't explain further, but if you're interested, ask me again or email me (if you want a *really* detailed response, which I'm too lazy to give now anyway, and I don't have the book with me either, so...). I don't want to bore you (even more :) ) if you don't want to hear it all.

ok Rhi, you owe me a beer and smoke for that shit Type 1 21 Reformer 2 18 3 16 4 12 5 9 6 16 7 21 Generalist 8 23 Leader 9 8 wtf? i think the last half might have been skewed, i was cursing the damned test around question # 100

1 17 2 7 3 16 4 13 5 23 Thinker 6 9 7 24 Generalist 8 16 9 19 Peacemaker HAHAHAHA you can't choose more than one...i think that my personality is situational, and this test kind of proves that.

i had to skip a few where the answers seemed insanely irrelevant but 5 was the highest (thinker) and 4 was the next (artist) but for some reason mine came out relatively even

I would like to hear more, Rhia. I like to call you Rhia, because it looks like Rhea. I just realized that.

Gee, you have Greece on the brain. As do I, seeing that I have a Classics midterm in two days, skipped all last weeks' and Monday's classes, haven't done the reading in two weeks, and have spent all afternoon and will spend all tomorrow afternoon and evening studying for the godforsaken thing. Hence, all explanations will have to wait until this weekend, when I'll be at my house, where my book explaining all this stuff is at. Oh, would you like to know what my results are? I'm a 4 at level 4 with a 5-wing (meaning, 5 is my next highest type). But I have strong 6 leanings, and I'm integrating toward type 1. Yep.

I got to #20 and realized that too many of those questions gave me "either-or" choices where both were not mutually exclusive and both were applicable to me. Then I decided I'm far too complex for such trivial pigeon-holing and finished my beer. Y'all can decide better than a test can.

GODDAMNIT. here i took your fucking test and now i'm slowly realizing that the alternative was a BEER. WHAT THE FUCK.

i've been bangin my head against the wall for about 15 minutes now nate...i know i know......ain't that a bitch

i just went downstairs and killed a receptionist. i feel much better now. daisy....daisy...

1 - 20 2 - 11 3 - 15 4 - 22 5 - 22 6 - 23 7 - 3 8 - 7 9 - 21 see, i knew it. sixes are lame.

No, dude, sixes kick ass. Just you wait until I get a chance to tell you in more detail...

well, maybe. but fours are lame. i'm telling you all: I AM LAME! DO NOT ARGUE WITH LAMENESS, IT IS A BOTTOMLESS PIT!

Hey!! Four was my highest type! Hoser!

*grrrr* Mine too. How do you like that? I stick up for the guy, he bites me in the back! Must be that counterphobic insecurity he has.

I took that test twice,and couldn,t figure out the score.

hey! you're the hoser! you . . . HOSER! anyways, can't i kick my own ass without all this interfering guilt-tripping from everybody else? i don't need this shit from you people.

We would let you kick your own ass, Mr. Grumpy-pants, but then how would we have any fun?

you could watch maybe. it'd be interesting. well, sort of.

LOL "Mr. Grumpy-pants" Hahahahaahahaaaa!!! whew. That was good.

I can kick my own ass but why would I want to?

My highest scores were type 5: 21 (thinker), type 9:20 (peacemaker), type 6: 19 (skeptic) and type 4: 18 (romantic). Even though I am skeptical about these things, It does seem to be fairly accurate, at least for me. My highest scores were all in categroies I would have placed myself in anyway, although in a different order. I would still have put the Type 5 first, but followed by type four, then 6 and finally 9. This may be because I had teh same problem with the questions as everyone else, where I had to choose between tow that were not only not mutually excaptable but equally accurate in describing my motivations. And I did try to select both and it wouldn't let me. What's interesting is how a lot of us have high scores in a significant amount of the same types. Lots of romantic thinking peacemakers out there...

in other words: geeks and nerds and wimps.

Here's my scores. Also is it just me or has the board been kind of dull the past 2 or 3 days? #1 reformer 23 #2 helper 9 #3 motivator 20 #4 artist 14 #5 thinker 15 #6 skeptic 22 #7 generalist 10 #8 leader 20 #9 peacemaker 10 and one other thing, FUCK THE FRENCH!

that's it. You har a lot of stuff lately on the news about relative percentages of the major ethnic groups in america being on line. I think someone should correlate that with how much of the population of that ethnic group is likely to be percieved as geeks and nerds. I bet there's a direct correlation.

Type 1 9 Type 2 18 Type 3 11 Type 4 22 Type 5 25 Type 6 8 Type 7 13 Type 8 14 Type 9 24

Kids, I've got the book with me, and I'm looking at it, and there is no way in hell I'm going to type out all this. I'd get bored, you'd get bored, and it would be of no use to anyone. The page that I linked above (where you took the test) has a link to another shorter test...it's the link at the very top of the page (of the test page). So if you're a masochist and would like to torture yourself further, try it. You'll see a difference in your scores, and it may help you better determine which type you fall into if you have more than one type as your highest score. For example, my scores, first on the long test that you all took, then my scores on the short test: Type 1: 13........ -4 Type 2: 5......... -4 Type 3: 14........ 1 Type 4: 29........ 13 Type 5: 21........ 6 Type 6: 16........ -7 Type 7: 20........ 1 Type 8: 4......... -10 Type 9: 22........ 4 you can see in my scores the alternative form reliability between the two tests. (I may do my final psychometrics research on this personality system....THAT'S why I'm bugging you about this so much. I'm interested in the data.) Here are the explanations-- Type 1: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~becca/enneagram/epd/1.html Type 2: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~becca/enneagram/epd/2.html Type 3: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~becca/enneagrapm/epd/3.html Type 4: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~becca/enneagram/epd/4.html Type 5: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~becca/enneagram/epd/5.html Type 6: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~becca/enneagram/epd/6.html Type 7: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~becca/enneagram/epd/7.html Type 8: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~becca/enneagram/epd/8.html Type 9: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~becca/enneagram/epd/9.html For some reason, the link to the further descriptions isn't working, so go here: http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~becca/enneagram/dave/index.html and scroll down to whatever type you want to read about. If this does in fact interest you at all, please check out the section on Don Richard Riso. He's the best theorist of the lot, and all his work is seriously grounded in various valid psychological theories. The other people (especially Helen Palmer) take with a pillar of salt. If you have any questions about any of this (aside from why I have taken all the time to type all that out), you can always email me.

Shoot. I misspelled the link for Type 3, so if you're trying to go there...just type out the link, but take out that "p" in "enneagram."

i gave up after the procrastination question

My highest scores were 26-Enthusiastic, 21-Artist, 18-Thinker, 16-Peacemaker. Interesting.