Personality-Based Emotional Intelligence Test
I have been spending time trying to understand more information about emotional intelligence, and how it combines with my ability to spot deception. Having read about emotional intelligence lately, I am finding the definitions fall short in describing the depth of my “tool set”, for a lack of a better term. While I do understand emotions extremely well, I believe there is more to reading people than just emotions. Emotions, to me, are a subset of my skills, as is deception detection. It’s one element, but not the largest element. Does that make sense?
The boarder picture is understanding people and human behavior, and one explanation that I have been exploring lately is personality intelligence. I seem to have templates in my head for understanding people. I feel like I live in a world without strangers. Maybe its due to pattern-matching of facial features, emotions, and behaviors together? I am trying to understand it more.
Today in my quest for more information, I took a test online, the Personality-Based Emotional Intelligence Test. When my score popped up, it said I scored higher than 96.2% of people who took the test. That caught my eye. I found the test easy and required little thought. I missed three answers. I wrote the website owner to find out more information about this test and the research behind it (see comments below–people are getting the same score for different answers–uh oh!).
I truly believe who wrote this test gets it! They understand what I am doing and I’d like to learn more about it! This correlates to the “facial profiling service” I offer.
On the website where the test is given, it says:
This website has been offering a wide selection of psychological tests, mostly personality tests, since late 2011 and has given millions of results since then. It exists to educate the public about various personality tests, their uses and meaning, the various theories of personality and also to collect research data. This website is under continuous development and new tests and information are being added all the time.
This website also exists for the promotion of open source assessments and open data. A number of open source measures of popular psychological constructs have been developed and are made available under a creative commons licence on this website, see the full list. Also, at the end of every test users are asked if their data can be saved and used for research. The (anonymous) data that this yields can be downloaded from the data page. This data has already been used in several academic articles.
How did you score on the test?
I’m almost scared to take it!
Okay, now that three of us with the same score. So question is: Is the test working?? Ha! Great job, Mark!
It would be helpful for us to see which questions we missed. I changed my answer on one before moving on. Makes me wonder.
Missed 3. the general concept is simple though found myself at something of an impasse with 2-3 of them.
Now I wonder if we missed the same ones?!
I missed 4. Yeah, I found that there were more than one correlating answers a few times. It would depend on circumstance and actual fact. I had neither, lol. I got a “better than 75%” comment on mine.
“You got 22 of 25 questions correct. That is better than 72% of people who take this test.” – Maybe your emotionally intelligent elite readership is skewing the results curve. Either that or some questions are worth more than others. Or maybe it’s timed and I’m just slow.
The results certainly have my eyebrows raised!! Many people got the same score, but different percentages. But others have scored lower. I do believe that people who read here regularly are more EQ intelligent, without question!
“You got 21 of 25 questions correct. That is better than 59.2% of people who take this test.”. Those numbers are changing a lot. I wonder how many people took this test.
Now I can’t help but wonder if I was like the 4th to take it and now as more people take it the scores change!
These are your results from the Personality-Based Emotional Intelligence Test.
You got 23 of 25 questions correct. That is better than 85.3% of people who take this test.
“You got 22 of 25 questions correct. That is better than 96.2% of people who take this test.”
I am often told I am emotionally intelligent, but I certainly do not have your ability to discern lies. Did anyone else do the additional questions, with the paintings? Any theories on what those were about?
Also, I read some of the comments after the test. A lot of people misunderstood and expected to get results about their personality types. They chose the the answers that best described themselves.
I’ll represent the left end of the distribution 🙂
“You got 13 of 25 questions correct. That is better than 30.8% of people who take this test.”
A lot of the things I’ve done (mainly in my career) would indicate that my emotional intelligence is good, but this is the lowest I’ve ever scored on a test of emotional intelligence. I usually score in the 80s and 90s, I hit 99.7% on one test of EI, so 30.8% is not my normal score, but I will see what I can learn from these results to improve my skills.
Thanks for posting, this quite interesting!
I wonder if the difference in the score vs. percent of people who take the test is related to doing the survey at the end where they gather demographic data? It could possibly be broken down by demographic for people who provide it, vs. scored against the entire population taking the test if you don’t provide it.
Otherwise it could certainly be due to being a new test, like you hypothesized.
I’m curious to hear what you hear back from them!
I just took it, and got 20 out of 25 questions correct…better than 59.2% of people who take this test.
I took the optional assessment at the end, involving choosing one painting over the other, with 30 painting groups involved. I love art and am a serious photographer, and so I enjoyed taking that assessment. I’m very curious how one’s artistic preference might correlate with personality-based emotional intelligence. Any hunches from others who took this assessment?
I don’t think of myself as someone that’s socially intelligent but I’ve got 21 on 25, apparently better than about 70% of the test takers. (but then again “socially intelligent” and likingbeing adept at social situations might not be synonymous)
You got 18 of 25 questions correct. That is better than 49.6% of people who take this test.
Thats the one I got.
You got 18 of 25 questions correct. That is better than 59.2% of people who take this test.
I got 23 out of 25 correct: 96.2%. I think that a lot of people who score poorly on this test are bad at following directions. The point is to figure out which of the choices matches the original statement, not to pick the one that describes you.
I found it difficult to complete this test. I can’t remember my score but it was somewhere around 15. I may be over doing tests.
You got 14 of 25 questions correct. That is better than 59.2% of people who take this test.
So I re-took the test a few times (I know, probably not great for their research) and figured out the correct answers. Eventually got to 25 out 25 but that’s ONLY because I kept going back to the test and changing my answers which helped me learn. As I contemplated the correct answer for each question, I eventually figured out why the answer was correct. When taking the test, I tried to think of people that I know/knew that have that certain personality characteristic posed in the test. Based on that knowledge, what have these people done in the past? “I reveal little about myself”. My experience is that these folks want to be left alone — which turns out to be the correct answer.
I scored 30%. But I am not sure that I am particularly emotional intelligent. I am INTERESTED, but probably not particularly skilled.