Does anyone here know how I can get my hands on a Scientology personality quiz?

[Anal_Scurvy]

Particularly one from Edmonton? I don’t know if they vary from region to region.

There was a Scientology headquarters in Edmonton with a sign in the window that said HELP WANTED: LOW PAY, HIGH FUTURE.

My friends and I were walking by and decided to stop in and harass them. My friends went in first and I followed in a few minutes later because I had a great line to use. (“Nick! How’s it going? I haven’t xenu in awhile!”)

They weren’t sure what to make of that, as I had a slick delivery, but the people convinced my friends and I to take a personality quiz.

I swear to god these questions were on the quiz:

1. Have you ever derived pleasure from hurting small animals?
2. Would you have moral quandries if your government ordered you to invade another country?
3. If you were given a project, could you complete it in six months time?

It was priceless, they had a hundred questions along those lines. They didn’t seem to protect the quizzes at all, as I’ve heard some people tell stories of, and I even found one slid under my apartment door one morning. Since then I’ve moved from Edmonton, but I want that quiz! People don’t believe me when I tell them about it.

[reprise]

Unless things have changed radically, they use the Oxford Capacity Analysis. The best site for information related to Dianetics and Scientology is Operation Clambake, and you’ll find the test here on their site.

[Anal_Scurvy]

I think things have changed radically. I can’t imagine the quizzes I’ve seen as belonging to Oxford. They had a very tangible bent to them.

[leroy_the_mule]

About twenty years ago Playboy did a fascinating interview with L.Ron Hubbard’s son…in which he tore down the curtain in front of the Scientology machine.

One of the things he mentioned was the purpose of those quizzes was to extract leverage for emotional blackmail, (e.g.“you can’t be clear because look how sick you are. You have got to enroll in this expensive higher training course…”)

[reprise]

I guess you didn’t check the link to the test which I posted above - the origin of the test is explained at the top of the page.

This is the criticised “personality test” which for many is the first introduction to the “Church” of Scientology. Originally called “American Personality Analysis”, but probably changed to “Oxford Capacity Analysis” (OCA) because “Oxford” carries more weight. The original test was created by psychologist Julia Lewis and was later adopted and edited by CoS.

From the test itself :

Would the idea of inflicting pain on game, small animals or fish prevent you from hunting or fishing? (Q14)

If we were invading another country, would you feel sympathetic towards conscientious objectors in this country? (Q88)

Do you usually carry out assignments promptly and systematically? (Q138)

Sounds like the same test to me.

[Anal_Scurvy]

wow, I just got suckered by Scientology. How embarassing

[CalMeacham]

About twenty years ago Playboy did a fascinating interview with L.Ron Hubbard’s son…in which he tore down the curtain in front of the Scientology machine.

It wasn’t Playboy – it was Penthouse, of all places. I went so far as to track down a copy of it.

A lot of the material in that interview ended up in the book L. Ron Hubbard — Madman or Messiah?, with Ronnie de Wolf (l. Ron’s son) as co-author. If someone gives a book a title like that, you know what the answer’s going to be.

I’m no fan of L. Ron, but I have to caution about L. Ron Jr’s reliability. Read The Bare-Faced Messiah, Miller’s excellent biography of L. Ron Sr., for further information. To tell the truth, I suspect that most of the stuff Ronnie, Jr. says is probably on the money – it’s a matter of being 80% correct, rather than 10%, I suspect.