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Old 10-23-2006, 02:35 PM   #16
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Hm. Says I have an Internal locus of control...which, given my life, hardly seems possible.

Bear in mind--I've been up for 24 hours.





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Old 10-23-2006, 10:12 PM   #17
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CF - that is impressive.
I dunno, I'm always afraid that in real life it manifests as an inappropriate lack of sympathy. On the one hand, I spend a lot of time rolling my eyes and shaking my head at certain foolish relatives (where they can't see of course), but there's a seed of doubt that wonders if I just don't actually know how to be compassionate.
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Old 10-23-2006, 10:26 PM   #18
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Internal 41%
External 59%

Looks like I've got work a little harder on that whole Personal Responsibility stuff I keep saying that I live by. Shit.

don't feel bad.....It's just a silly test. It's what's on the inside that counts.



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Here is the correct link.

I guess these things just happen to you, eh? Must be bad luck or somethin'.
haha well , yeah I guess that fits in that 20 odd percent of external measure I got.

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Old 10-24-2006, 09:58 AM   #19
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Internal Locus (56%) Individual believes that their life is defined more by their decisions and internal drive.
External Locus (44%) Individual believes that their life is defined more by genetics, environment, fate, or other external factors.
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Old 10-24-2006, 10:09 AM   #20
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Internal Locus |||||||||| 39%
External Locus |||||||||||||||| 61%

Not sure it's accurate in my case due to recent circumstances. I answered honestly, but my feelings are coloured by feeling I'm a bit of a failure and am not toally in control.

This doesn't mean I blame anyone for failures in my life, just that I'm aware I'm not succeeding at present.

Ah well, a 30 question test isn't going to explain the infinite mystery that is me
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Old 10-24-2006, 02:20 PM   #21
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Internal Locus |||||||||||||||| 63%
External Locus |||||||||| 37%


And I have the same thought about the result as limey did...
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Old 10-24-2006, 02:31 PM   #22
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External Locus |||||||||||||||| 61%

Not sure it's accurate in my case due to recent circumstances. I answered honestly, but my feelings are coloured by feeling I'm a bit of a failure and am not toally in control.

This doesn't mean I blame anyone for failures in my life, just that I'm aware I'm not succeeding at present.

Ah well, a 30 question test isn't going to explain the infinite mystery that is me
Internal Locus |||||||||| 34%
External Locus |||||||||||||||| 66%

I agree, Sundaegirl. I know things could be better in my life and I have been experiencing a lot of the 'woe is me' feeling. With a few mechanisms I am putting into place I may have an entirely different result in a couple of months. I know that I am the first to admit my mistakes so I don't believe that I try to put my failures (i.e. bad choices) off on someone else. Things just have been overwhelmingly f***ed up lately. Interesting test, though.
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Old 10-24-2006, 02:42 PM   #23
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I don't think it's necessarily negative, though. I've had lots of good luck, lots of bad luck, made good decisions, made bad decisions. In my mind, external forces don't dictate the exact path you choose, but they do tend to limit the number of choices you have. If you had asked me, I would've thought my score would be the inverse.
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Old 10-24-2006, 03:13 PM   #24
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I wonder if there's a correlation between how "religious" you are, and your internal/external locus. My hypothesis would be that believing strongly in a superior being would lead to a more external locus, in that there would be a higher likelihood that "God (or whoever) is omnipotent and caused this to happen to me".

Any thoughts?

I consider myself athiest. my results were

Internal Locus |||||||||||||||||| 73%
External Locus |||||| 27%
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Old 10-24-2006, 03:22 PM   #25
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I think that there is a stronger correlation (not 100% obviously, but it can be seen in the Cellar member results) between being female and having an external locus.
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Old 10-25-2006, 06:03 AM   #26
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I wonder if there's a correlation between how "religious" you are, and your internal/external locus. My hypothesis would be that believing strongly in a superior being would lead to a more external locus, in that there would be a higher likelihood that "God (or whoever) is omnipotent and caused this to happen to me".

Any thoughts?

I consider myself athiest. my results were

Internal Locus |||||||||||||||||| 73%
External Locus |||||| 27%
I'm an atheist. I don't believe anyone is in control of life life. Not even me at present! But like Shawnee, it's something I'm working on.
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Old 10-25-2006, 08:43 AM   #27
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I think that there is a stronger correlation (not 100% obviously, but it can be seen in the Cellar member results) between being female and having an external locus.
Hey Noodle! Clodfobble says you're a girl!
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Old 10-25-2006, 09:03 AM   #28
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Old 10-25-2006, 09:12 AM   #29
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Hey Noodle! Clodfobble says you're a girl!



As far as the religious thing, it would be interesting to see a bigger sample. I don't *think* it should make a difference, at least for Christianity. The concepts of sin and responsibility and self-sacrifice aren't very external locussy.

Religion does attract people who feel out of control of their own destiny, though. But the faith is supposed to take you out of that mode.


And Clodfobble, YOU"RE a girl. so there.
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Old 10-25-2006, 09:18 AM   #30
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no. she's a woman.
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