# Rate yourself on the Sociability Scale (not about sex or romance) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920 "2010-08-20T21:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/1 "2010-08-20T21:57:52Z")
This came up almost by accident in another thread. I thought it would make an interesting poll. This poll is intended to be about friendship and/or companionship, not sex or romance. The scale is not scientifically derived at all, just made up out of my head. Please find the closest spot that fits you. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/2 "2010-08-21T00:12:33Z")
I guess I forgot to mention, please feel free to comment on your selection, or anything about how you perceive your own sociability. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/3 "2010-08-22T00:58:41Z")
I like my own company. I like other people’s company. I’m ambicomfortable. I chose… _counting_ … I guess that was answer #6. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/4 "2010-08-22T01:06:28Z")
I think it’s telling that there have been 61 votes and only one response (before mine). ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/5 "2010-08-22T01:55:59Z")
It’s hard to believe I’m one of the more social people in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/6 "2010-08-22T02:14:57Z")
Heavens to Mergatroid, I chose #2! It was a difficult choice between #2 and #3 but, ultimately, I have to admit that I find most people annoying in person. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/7 "2010-08-22T02:15:13Z")
I went with the 4th choice. Other people CAN be fun and interesting, but mostly just for short periods of time. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/8 "2010-08-22T02:56:35Z")
#3 was closest. I don’t mind other people, sometimes. I’d mostly rather be by myself. Oddly, most people don’t get that because when I do get social, I get really social so that’s the side they see. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/9 "2010-08-22T03:11:28Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > It’s hard to believe I’m one of the more social people in this thread. That was my thought, too. I’m only a #6 but that’s at the lower end of the curve. Golly! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/10 "2010-08-22T03:17:14Z")
I think the curve is right about where it should be for this crowd - if we liked people more, we’d be out with them. If we liked people less, we wouldn’t be socializing with them on a message board. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/11 "2010-08-22T03:18:06Z")
Two days of intense interaction with people, one day completely alone to process and recover. And a few quiet hours in the evening to read. Most people see me as very social and outgoing. I guess I am. But I didn’t get that way until I was in my thirties, and I made a conscious choice to become more of a people person. I still think of myself as introverted and needing a lot of time alone, but almost no one who knows me would describe me that way. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/12 "2010-08-22T03:44:37Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I think the curve is right about where it should be for this crowd - if we liked people more, we’d be out with them. If we liked people less, we wouldn’t be socializing with them on a message board. 🙂 I don’t know. Last week I was hanging out with 200 people and draining Pittsburgh of tequila. This week I’m home with the dogs. I’m happy either way. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/13 "2010-08-22T03:44:58Z")
I sometimes prefer to be by myself, (my wife doesn’t count. I could be with her all day) but if I need to be sociable and charming I can turn it on in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/14 "2010-08-22T10:51:55Z")
I’m with the majority, who are alone a lot, but do enjoy company, but I could have easily went up a notch. Of course, that’s the simple version. I actually prefer to have people with me, but not so I can interact with them, necessarily. I just don’t want to be left alone and have something bad happen that I can’t handle. I prefer to have people at least be available. Also, I do get lonely from time to time, even without it being an anxiety thing. It’s usually an oddly sad feeling. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/15 "2010-08-22T10:58:36Z")
I am antisocial but I do enjoy people’s company for periods of time and there are very few people in the world that a truly dislike. I voted #4. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/16 "2010-08-22T12:22:59Z")
Generally indifferent. I can be social, but would just as soon not bother. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/17 "2010-08-22T12:50:17Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > (my wife doesn’t count. I could be with her all day) . I was wondering about this after I voted. In my mind, “alone” means “in the house with my husband, but not actively spending time together”. I think that for some people that kind of time would count as “being around other people”. I also think I would probably need/want more social interaction in my life if I weren’t married: the low hum of his presence (even now, when he’s still in bed and I am piddling around the house) gives me the social contact I need without the pressure and expectations and pants-wearing that I tend to find burdensome. ETA: If spouses count as “other people”, I’m suddenly a 10, because I’d always rather him be around than not, even if I wouldn’t always want to be talking with him. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/18 "2010-08-22T12:50:51Z")
I don’t mind hanging out with people, but trying to socialize with people I don’t particularly like is really draining (like company dinners at my last job - more exhausting than an actual work day). I love hanging out with people I get along with. I do need alone time every now and then, but I think my love for good company and my love for solitude are about equally matched. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/19 "2010-08-22T20:45:00Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > > [@RandMcnally](#): > > > > (my wife doesn’t count. I could be with her all day) . > > I was wondering about this after I voted. In my mind, “alone” means “in the house with my husband, but not actively spending time together”. I think that for some people that kind of time would count as “being around other people”. I also think I would probably need/want more social interaction in my life if I weren’t married: the low hum of his presence (even now, when he’s still in bed and I am piddling around the house) gives me the social contact I need without the pressure and expectations and pants-wearing that I tend to find burdensome. > > ETA: If spouses count as “other people”, I’m suddenly a 10, because I’d always rather him be around than not, even if I wouldn’t always want to be talking with him. I was trying not to count spouse or SO as “other people”. So being alone in the house with your SO would be the same as being alone, for the purposes of this poll. Thanks Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920/20 "2010-08-23T00:11:47Z")
I’m the only person in my category. (Category 8, counting from the top). Huh. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rate-yourself-on-the-sociability-scale-not-about-sex-or-romance/550920.md?page=2)