Zachery Roberson
Virtues and Actions
I participated in taking a survey created by the University of Pennsylvania to evaluate your personality on 24 different characteristics. The purpose of the questionnaire is to find which of the 24 character traits are your strengths. The survey is 240 questions long and is comprised of a series of statements, most of these statements ask how much you think the statement sounds like you, but several of them ask how other people see you. After taking the test, it listed several of my strongest character traits, the top 3 traits being perspective wisdom, self-control and self-regulation, and love of learning. When looking at the reading the description of what perspective wisdom is, I would say that it isn 't describing the correct attribute. While I would like to think of myself as wise I wouldn 't say that it 's the reason people come to me for advice. I frequently have people come to me with their problems whether to simply vent or to find a solution to their problem and after years of doing so, I know better than to think it 's because of my wisdom. I 've been told on …show more content…
I don 't think that the context in which the survey puts them in fits me personally but I would say it 's less inaccuracy, and more of a need for the answers to be vague enough to fit most people. With consideration to that, I would say that this survey does a very good job of creating a general summary of a person 's strengths based off of many questions which would seem to only be comprised of surface questions rather than deep psychoanalytical questions. I believe a survey like this would be extremely useful to many people, and could aid people in both using their strengths to their advantage but more importantly, find and improve areas of
Virtues and Actions
I participated in taking a survey created by the University of Pennsylvania to evaluate your personality on 24 different characteristics. The purpose of the questionnaire is to find which of the 24 character traits are your strengths. The survey is 240 questions long and is comprised of a series of statements, most of these statements ask how much you think the statement sounds like you, but several of them ask how other people see you. After taking the test, it listed several of my strongest character traits, the top 3 traits being perspective wisdom, self-control and self-regulation, and love of learning. When looking at the reading the description of what perspective wisdom is, I would say that it isn 't describing the correct attribute. While I would like to think of myself as wise I wouldn 't say that it 's the reason people come to me for advice. I frequently have people come to me with their problems whether to simply vent or to find a solution to their problem and after years of doing so, I know better than to think it 's because of my wisdom. I 've been told on …show more content…
I don 't think that the context in which the survey puts them in fits me personally but I would say it 's less inaccuracy, and more of a need for the answers to be vague enough to fit most people. With consideration to that, I would say that this survey does a very good job of creating a general summary of a person 's strengths based off of many questions which would seem to only be comprised of surface questions rather than deep psychoanalytical questions. I believe a survey like this would be extremely useful to many people, and could aid people in both using their strengths to their advantage but more importantly, find and improve areas of