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guslScientific-Intellectual Personality Profile
Please rate how much each of the following applies to you, on a scale from 1-5?
1:"it does not apply to me at all" 5="it applies to me very much"
) I enjoy, given statistical data, building models to explain it.
) I enjoy creating theories to explain observations.
) I enjoy solving puzzles
) I enjoy playing games that I know well
) I enjoy learning to play new games
) I enjoy "wild" speculations
) When learning a new area, I first try to get the big picture, understand the motivations, and learn the details later.
) I learn quite effectively from reading good books
) I enjoy analyzing concepts, and reformulating
) If I don't understand something really well, then I don't understand it at all
) I sometimes create computer programs just for the fun of it
) I feel excited when I see a connection between apparently unrelated concepts
) I have a strong need to put in a logical form
) I feel that the important concepts too often get lost in the math
) Working hard is essential to being a good scientist
) I have a strong desire to automate parts of my work, as I don't enjoy doing the same thing more than once
) Imagination is more important than knowledge
) My motto is: "whatever works"
) People of other philosophical convictions sometimes call me a "reductionist"
) If it (a theory, a method, a design) cannot be evaluated (i.e. tested against the real world), I am not interested in it
) I enjoy interdisciplinary work
) I like to get several perspectives on the same question
) I like to apply methods as widely as possible
) I have a problem with procrastination
) I get obsessed about my work
) I would work on academic things even if I had no external incentive of any kind
) I enjoy debating with laymen
) I enjoy debating with experts
) I enjoy explaining things to others
) I enjoy finding a logical form in which to present something
) I enjoy tutoring
) I am most productive when I have strict deadlines
) My grades make me attractive to graduate schools
) My creativity and my interesting ideas makes me attractive to graduate schools
) My track record of productive research makes me attractive to graduate schools
) I often want to invent new words, in order to precisely and unambiguously describe a concept I have in my head.
Take also AQ, IQ, Myers-Briggs for correlations.
(This questionnaire is under development, so please send questions you think are relevant)
(and likewise, send suggestions about scoring it)
Some possible traits:
logico-mathematical pleasure
Please rate how much each of the following applies to you, on a scale from 1-5?
1:"it does not apply to me at all" 5="it applies to me very much"
) I enjoy, given statistical data, building models to explain it.
) I enjoy creating theories to explain observations.
) I enjoy solving puzzles
) I enjoy playing games that I know well
) I enjoy learning to play new games
) I enjoy "wild" speculations
) When learning a new area, I first try to get the big picture, understand the motivations, and learn the details later.
) I learn quite effectively from reading good books
) I enjoy analyzing concepts, and reformulating
) If I don't understand something really well, then I don't understand it at all
) I sometimes create computer programs just for the fun of it
) I feel excited when I see a connection between apparently unrelated concepts
) I have a strong need to put in a logical form
) I feel that the important concepts too often get lost in the math
) Working hard is essential to being a good scientist
) I have a strong desire to automate parts of my work, as I don't enjoy doing the same thing more than once
) Imagination is more important than knowledge
) My motto is: "whatever works"
) People of other philosophical convictions sometimes call me a "reductionist"
) If it (a theory, a method, a design) cannot be evaluated (i.e. tested against the real world), I am not interested in it
) I enjoy interdisciplinary work
) I like to get several perspectives on the same question
) I like to apply methods as widely as possible
) I have a problem with procrastination
) I get obsessed about my work
) I would work on academic things even if I had no external incentive of any kind
) I enjoy debating with laymen
) I enjoy debating with experts
) I enjoy explaining things to others
) I enjoy finding a logical form in which to present something
) I enjoy tutoring
) I am most productive when I have strict deadlines
) My grades make me attractive to graduate schools
) My creativity and my interesting ideas makes me attractive to graduate schools
) My track record of productive research makes me attractive to graduate schools
) I often want to invent new words, in order to precisely and unambiguously describe a concept I have in my head.
Take also AQ, IQ, Myers-Briggs for correlations.
(This questionnaire is under development, so please send questions you think are relevant)
(and likewise, send suggestions about scoring it)
Some possible traits:
logico-mathematical pleasure