I got this quiz from
The Old Oligarch and will interact with it bit by bit much as he did
his results.
Your Brain Usage Profile
Auditory : 40%
Visual : 60%
Left : 63%
Right : 36%
Shawn, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always.
So far this is accurate.
Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that your learning style is organized and structured, detail oriented and logical. Your visual preference, though, has you seeking stimulation and multiple data. Such an outlook can overwhelm structure and logic and create an almost continuous state of uncertainty and agitation. You may well suffer a feeling of continually trying to "catch up" with yourself.
This is a strange analysis -more of a mixed bag than solidly accurate. I seldom have uncertainty on any subject for long -though I do tend to wait for a position to crystallize before I start writing on it most of the time. But that is because I tend to approach subjects methodologically even when there is no apparent method involved. (Sorta like thinking three to seven moves ahead in chess.) That is not to say that I am always cool and calculating of course -Lord knows that is not true. But the balance of the time I do not have the kind of agitation that the test notes that my profile is susceptible to.
Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor. You can "size up" situations and take in information rapidly. However, you must then subject that data to being classified and organized which causes you to "lose touch" with the immediacy of the problem.
Okay, one point that must be made is that I am not as perfectly attuned to details as this analysis implies. And the rather "perfectionistic" attitude of subjecting data to "classification" and "organization" is also inaccurate. The parts about "sizing up" situations and rapidly taking in information is accurate though. (Though when I was younger I was more of a "sponge" in this regard.)
Your logical and methodical nature hamper you in this regard though in the long run it may work to your advantage since you "learn from experience" and can go through the process more rapidly on subsequent occasions.
This is accurate in that I do learn from experience and the same processes can be done quicker in subsequent situations than they can initially. But that is to some extent par for the course with a lot of left-brain dominant people.
You remain predominantly functional in your orientation and practical. Abstraction and theory are secondary to application. In keeping with this, you focus on details until they manifest themselves in a unique pattern and only then work with the "larger whole."
This is quite accurate actually.
With regards to your career choices, you have a mentality that would be good as a scientist, coach, athlete, design consultant, or an engineering technician. You can "see where you want to go" and even be able to "tell yourself," but find that you are "fighting yourself" at the darndest times.
I have been an athlete, a consultant, and also (in some capacities) a counselor of sorts. So these picks are accurate in that regard. (I am also currently a consultant as well in the finance field.)
As far as "fighting" myself, I do at times fight myself sure. That is the nature of the beast viz. having a speculative aspect to my musings. There is always the struggle to insure that one looks at things as they are rather than as one wants them to be.
My occasional overly-idealistic "engage the culture and change it for the better" inclinations tend to be balanced out by my occasional inclinations towards a "40 acres and a generator" like Donatist separation from it all. In that sense perhaps I am "conflicted" but it is a paradoxical element that I have come to accept in myself -particularly as I have gotten older.
In summary, this is a mostly accurate analysis of me; however there are areas which are not applicable. However, these tests often note probable tendencies and of course they are a form of "pop psychology" so in that respect there will be a degree of inaccuracy. But some areas are interestingly accurate nonetheless.
