Do you take online personality tests to heart?

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If you look closely at those online personality tests, you'll notice how they're not really that professional most of the time. You could easily make one of your own on a few sites that do this. What does the maker of the personality test know about you? What do they know about psychology? What do they know about the animals or fruits or social groups that they give you? Most of the people who make those things are opinionated 12 year old girls who want to prove how not emo they are by making a quiz on emo people, or whatever. Or, one might tell you that you are a strawberry because you are nice, and even though you answered all of the questions honestly, you are not nice all the time. Those quizzes really can be fun if the results aren't too predictable. For example, if you answer the question with "Yes, I am independent" it's likely you'll get "You are a prarie dog because you are independent" or something like that. Sometimes the quizzes are really obvious like that. They have to be well made, or else I'll be very mad that I wasted my time on them. There are some really good quizzes out there, but most of them take a lot longer. This is a good thing. Would you rather answer ten questions on the kinds of clothes you wear just so you can be told that you have an ugly personality, or a fifty word question that will tell you if you are too clingy or too independent? Psychological quizzes, ones that were tested in universities, are the best. You have to know what to take seriously and what not to.