Do you have a dark side? Take this very short quiz to find out.
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Clarissa's Blog 
I stayed up late and took this ridiculous test, and of course got ridiculous results.
According to the results, I score low on nacissism (2.2 out of 4.0), while 26% of people taking the test are more narcistic than I am. (I SERIOUSLY doubt that!)
I score relatively high on “Machiavellianism” (3.4 out of 4.0), yet 84% of people are supposed to be more “Machiavellian” than that!
I scored very low on psychopathy (o.7 out of 4.0), but only 1% of people are supposed to be more psychopathic than I am? Yeah, right???
When I saw the question that asked me how often I bought APPLESAUSE (!), I knew this test was desgigned for idiots. The ONLY TIME in my 71-year-old life that I’ve EVER bought applesause was literally a week ago (Safeway had it on sale), and that fact has a major effect on the test????
Okay, stupid time is over. Going to bed now — Goodnight!
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I never got asked about applesauce. Is it a different test?
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You get asked 2-3 questions when done with the test; I got asked gender and age, and then about the kind of food I’d buy at a fast food restaurant and the brand of shoes I’d buy. Maybe psychopaths only wear Converse and eat bean burgers . 🙂
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Dreidel, these are percentiles, indicating how many people scored less (not more) than you. For instance, with 3.4 out of 4 on Machiavellianism, 84% of people are less (not more) Machiavellian than you, i.e., you are well above average Machiavellian.
I scored 1.7 out of 4 on narcissism (14 percentile meaning, meaning 14% of people are less narcissistic and 86% are more narcissistic than me);
3.1 out of 4 (68 percentile, so apparently I am above average Machiavellian, which if you know me you know is very silly, because I consider myself quite naive and overly trusting in all the matter of politic; however, I am old enough to know that it’s a bad idea to be forthright with people and that you should keep your cards close to your chests because people in general are not well meaning or trustworthy; I suppose my Machiavellianism stems from, as they put it, “disillusionment of others.”)
1.2 out of 4 on psychopathy (6 percentile).
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I’m in the 94% percentile for Machiavellianism, which I didn’t even know existed before this test.
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I’m bad at these tests because I’m never sure how personally to take the questions.
A few times I answered descriptively about strategy (things I agree are good strategy though I wouldn’t do them myself).
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I got a question about Rosebud.
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my scores
1.4 narcissism – Only 9 % of people are less narcissistic than me…
2.8 machavelian – 51 % are more so than I am
0.9 psychotic – Just 3 % of people are less psychotic than me…
The wording is very, very confusing: The percentile is what percent of other people who have taken this test you score higher than.
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At least, I know I;m not in the least psychotic. And only very mildly narcissistic. Machiavellian sounds like the best thing to be of the three.
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It seems that they assume Machiavellian is the opposite of naive — I mean, who over the age of 16 thinks it’s a good idea to always be forthright with everyone and have no secrets? In my home country, even 9-year-olds know that people are not to be trusted. I have always considered myself among the most naive of my cohort, but it seems I am a veritable master manipulator according to US standards (which are those of extreme gullibility, it seems).
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“t seems I am a veritable master manipulator according to US standards (which are those of extreme gullibility, it seems).”
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I have always considered myself among the most naive of my cohort, but it seems I am a veritable master manipulator according to US standards (which are those of extreme gullibility, it seems).
Maybe you just don’t affect this open and gullible style. After all the test relies on your self report of your traits, so conversely scoring low on a Machiavellian trait test could be a measure of your Machiavellian aptitudes. Why let people know you’re not telling everyone everything like a child out of school? Tests like these are fairly obvious, just like those big box personality inventories that want relentlessly cheerful rigid rule followers.
Of course, if people answer this honestly, rather than what they think they should answer, it would explain so much.
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