Beyond MBTI: Two more preference tests
Right on the heels of my experiment tracking designers’ Myers-Briggs results, I stumbled onto this creativity test from the Art Institute of Vancouver through a discussion on LinkedIn. The test is based on Dr. Roger Sperry’s Nobel Prize-winning brain research from 1981. Not surprisingly, many of the industrial designers in the group are reporting a near 50/50 split between left and right brain thinking.
What I find more interesting are the subcategories that make up each side. On the right side are holistic, random, concrete, intuitive, nonverbal, and fantasy-oriented. The left side is made up of linear, sequential, symbolic, logical, verbal, and reality-based. Take the test and look for interesting highs and lows. For instance, I scored high on sequential but low on linear processing. It’s important for me to understand how this seemingly narrow difference in processing could affect my ability to learn a new skill or digest an important piece of information.
Finally, Brian Westbrook offered up another test called the HBDI. It tests the whole brain: left, right, front, and back. Ned Hermann, a manager at General Electric, developed the test in the 1970s. For more information, download this PDF profile.
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Not surprisingly, I am a right-brained (57% right 43% left) I also scored high in sequential processing (left-brained), high in concrete processing (right-brained) and low in holistic processing.
hmmm, mine is
Left Brain (50%) Right Brain (51%)
Left Brain Percentages
40% Sequential (Your most dominant characteristic)
34% Symbolic
34% Reality-based
13% Logical
11% Linear
7% Verbal (Your least dominant characteristic)
Right Brain Percentages
36% Holistic (Your most dominant characteristic)
32% Fantasy-oriented
28% Concrete
19% Nonverbal
12% Random
10% Intuitive (Your least dominant characteristic)