Okay, so I’ve been messing around with this thing called the California Psychological Inventory Test, or CPI for short. I heard about it from a friend who took it for a job interview, and I got curious. I mean, who doesn’t want to know more about themselves, right?
First, I went online to find a free version of the test. Let me tell you, it wasn’t as easy as I thought. There’re tons of websites that say they offer it, but most of them are just trying to sell you something or get your info. I finally found one that seemed legit, but it was a bit sketchy, not gonna lie.
Anyway, I started taking the test. It’s basically a bunch of true-false questions, like 434 of them! Some were easy, like “I enjoy going to parties.” Others were kinda weird, like “I sometimes feel like smashing things.” I just answered as honestly as I could, but I definitely overthought some of them.
- There are 434 true-false questions.
- 171 were taken from the original version of the MMPI.
- It is scored on 18 scales.
It took me a while to get through all the questions, maybe like an hour or so. I was sitting at my desk, just clicking away, and my dog kept giving me these confused looks. After I finished, the website gave me some results. It had all these different categories, like “dominance,” “sociability,” and “self-control.” It was kind of a lot to take in, to be honest. I learned that it provides an assessment of personal characteristics and social interactions.
I spent some time reading through the descriptions of each category. Some of it seemed to fit me pretty well, but other parts were like, “Who are they talking about?” I guess it’s not a perfect science, huh? It was still interesting to see how they categorized everything, though. I found that it can enable organizations to effectively find and develop leaders and high-potential employees.
I shared my results with a couple of friends, and we had a good laugh about it. They were like, “Yeah, that sounds like you,” or “No way, you’re not that introverted!” It was fun to compare our results and see how we’re similar and different.
Overall, it was a pretty interesting experience. I wouldn’t say it changed my life or anything, but it was cool to get a different perspective on my personality. I probably wouldn’t take it again, but it was worth doing once, just for fun. But next time I will try to find a more trustworthy source, for sure. Maybe I’ll even try to find the official version of the test, just to see how it compares.
