# Anyone here ever try the Ansir personality test? Is it accurate/scientifically valid?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 25, 2009, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-ever-try-the-ansir-personality-test-is-it-accurate-scientifically-valid/482910 "2009-01-25T10:49:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-ever-try-the-ansir-personality-test-is-it-accurate-scientifically-valid/482910/21 "2009-01-25T22:30:12Z")

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> Care to elaborate? I’m just curious, if you’re willing to share.

Well, just off the top of my head Kinsman = “team player”, Empath = I work in health-care, Visionary = I like to have ideas and see them through.

They left off demented, and that’s why, I suppose, I don’t know how to handle what they’re telling me. I have other priorities, I reckon. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-ever-try-the-ansir-personality-test-is-it-accurate-scientifically-valid/482910/22 "2009-01-26T01:18:27Z")

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> You guys answering the test for the first time… don’t have you have anything more to say after reading the (free) profile briefs? 🙂 How do they relate to who you really are? What’s right, what’s wrong, what’s incredibly touching for you, etc.?
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> Just listing three words doesn’t tell us much 🙂

Fair enough. Kinsman completely describes me. I don’t like being the team leader; I like to be left to do my own thing and I’m happiest being the invisible support staff who keeps things running. I got ‘Kinsman’ twice on the results.

The last section result was Scintillator. I didn’t really understand what the heck it meant, so I can’t comment on that. If you feel like explaining it better, I can let you know if I think it sounds like me.

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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-ever-try-the-ansir-personality-test-is-it-accurate-scientifically-valid/482910/23 "2009-01-27T05:47:42Z")

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Visionary, kinsman, visionary.

I can see all your families!

This question was extremely badly phrased:

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> Their having been called weird so often in the past I now keep my ideas to myself

The ideas have been called weird, I guess, but it took me a bit to work out who ‘their’ was referring to.

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