Personality Tests and the Houseguests
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Biggusbrotherus

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 12:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've heard several of the HGs mention having to complete personality tests/inventories before being allowed in the house. I'm wondering if anyone knows which ones they completed. Was it as thorough and professional as the MMPI, e.g., so-and-so is depressive, so-and-so is paranoid, so-and-so is delusional, and so forth? Or something less formal like the Myers-Briggs? I'm curious because it seems that knowing HGs' personality "types" would allow for a pretty (or quasi-) scientific mixing and matching. For example, the Myers-Briggs has sixteen types -- with twelve HGs, you'd be guaranteed getting twelve unique types if that's what the producers wanted.

Cricket

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 12:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How did Josh get in? Surely he didn't pass a psychological evaluation.

Sanfranjoshfan

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It was an inkblot test....Josh got in because every blot looked like a threat of some kind and Chia got in because every blot looked like a penis.

Draheid

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Here's an interesting article ... from the most reliable of sources, of course! (Said with tongue in cheek!!!)

Click here!

Toolhound

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Josh may have passed the Rattle Snake test. He has a personality just like one.

Bmh

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
lol Cricket apparently not..the guy is a psycho..i have no idea how he got in..that is just crazy

Sanfranjoshfan

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think they used their pschological tests to keep IN the folks with the most entertaining neuroses, not to weed OUT the borderline schizos! :-)

Guiltyviewer

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That would sure explain a lot, Draheid :)!

Edno67

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think they had to make it through the maze on the back of the back of the paper place mat on the tables at denny's
Or at least half way

Sanfranjoshfan

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Draheid - great article! It completely supports my theory! (Of course, now I have to admit that The National Enquirer and I are thinking alike!) LOL

Ellenkats

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sanfran -- maybe the inkblots is where Josh got his funky beard design idea (the sides were mirror images)....hmmmm.....

Biggusbrotherus

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Each HG certainly has extreme personality traits, no doubt. The question is whether any of them exhibit personality disorders. That would be for a professional to assess. All of them, even Josh, seem to be functioning in society at some level, although Josh is the only one in the house who can't seem to call upon adult norms of behavior when the situation clearly requires it (i.e., detaching oneself from the situation for the greater good, or for the sake of social appearances, like Roddy can, or even Lisa and Chiara).

Maris

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Basically I think the test was straight forward:

1) would you hold a knife to someones throat if you got drunk?

2) How many curse words can you say without repeating yourself?

3) Can you name a fish which existed in prehistoric times and wasnt rediscovered till the 1930s off the Comoros Islands?

4) Do firemen turn you on?

5) Do blowhards turn you on?

6) Will you make your mother proud?

7) How effective is your fingerpointing?

8) Do you wash your hands after you go pee pee?

Ellenkats

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maris -- sounds right to me, I'd add:

9) Would you be willing to pop other people's zits?

10) Do you like pb&j?

11) Are your poops impressive enough to show off?

Teresah2000

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The real test to get on BB3, was if you could pull a key out of a box without falling out of a chair! hahaha!

Guiltyviewer

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Extra credit points for the 'right' response to these"

12) Do you believe in God?

13) Do you believe you ARE God?

Ellenkats

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmmm....

14) Do you hate women?

15) Have you ever been arrested for DUI?

16) Are all your parts real?

Woofy

Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 01:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
17) can you do something interesting with facial hair?