Let Me Present: You

I have taken the time and effort to analyze your specific personality type. I have written one specific for all of you coming to this site and you will only see the one that correlate to you due to the fact that I've coded them to your IP-addresses. I hope you don't mind me putting it here on the Internet, if you do just let me know and I'll remove it. Ok, here it goes:

You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.

So how did I do? Pretty good?

Well, as you all most likely know, what I said above about IP-addresses and so on is complete caca. In 1948, psychologist Bertram R. Forer gave a personality test to his students, and then gave them a personality analysis supposedly based on the test's results. He invited each of them to rate the analysis on a scale of 0 (very poor) to 5 (excellent) as it applied to themselves: the average was 4.26. He then revealed that each student had been given the same analysis, the one I gave you above. This is called the Forer effect. To make it effective, though, I really would have had to make you believe that the analysis was a result of some kind of test and therefore specific to you.

So, in conclusion: You are You, and I am happy that You are.