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10-23-2006, 02:35 PM
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Slattern of the Swail
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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. No, I am NOT doing cocaine. Or Red Bull. |
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10-23-2006, 10:12 PM
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Bitchin' Tiny Unicorn Jockey Wannabe
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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10-23-2006, 10:26 PM
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don't feel bad.....It's just a silly test. It's what's on the inside that counts.  Quote:
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10-24-2006, 09:58 AM
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Goon Squad Leader
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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Locus of Control Test Results
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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Remember: Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. -- Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and writer (121-180) |
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10-24-2006, 10:09 AM
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Co-Strawberry Festival Queen
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ye Olde Englande
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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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10-24-2006, 02:20 PM
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twatfaced two legged bumhole
Join Date: Jun 2004
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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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10-24-2006, 02:31 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
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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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10-24-2006, 02:42 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: under the weather
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Internal Locus |||||||||| 39%
External Locus |||||||||||||||| 61% 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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10-24-2006, 03:13 PM
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
Join Date: Dec 2005
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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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10-24-2006, 03:22 PM
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Bitchin' Tiny Unicorn Jockey Wannabe
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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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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10-25-2006, 06:03 AM
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Co-Strawberry Festival Queen
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10-25-2006, 08:43 AM
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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10-25-2006, 09:03 AM
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NOT food!
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Internal Locus |||||||||||||||| 69% External Locus |||||||||| 31% |
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10-25-2006, 09:12 AM
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bent
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: under the weather
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 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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10-25-2006, 09:18 AM
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NOT food!
Join Date: Oct 2003
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no. she's a woman.
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