# What is your "Core Value Energy?" (Taylor Protocols) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009 "2015-05-28T03:18:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/1 "2015-05-28T03:18:35Z")
[Link to 10 minute assessment from here.](http://www.taylorprotocols.com/) Green button on right. I took it and it determined that I’m an Innovator-Banker. The summary below seems to fit my self image, but I’m getting overtones of astrology with it. Generic enough statements that anyone could see themselves in it. So I thought I’d share so we could compare notes. Please post your results back here so that others can see if your personalized results fit them. Or everyone. > [@](#): > > 61% of your core value energy comes from Wisdom and Knowledge. > > Projammer, the CVI assessment found you are an INNOVATOR-BANKER. > > What does this mean? This means your primary core value is Innovator – An Innovator’s core value energy is Wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to see the way things are, and discern what to do about it. You accurately assess situations and provide solutions. Your secondary core value is Banker – A Banker’s core value energy is Knowledge. Knowledge is knowing the facts through research, measurement, proof and records. You are driven to understand the “what”, “how” and “why” of things. What do you think? Fitting anyone else? Does anyone have any experience with this system? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/2 "2015-05-28T03:35:54Z")
61% of your core value energy comes from Love and Wisdom. Inner Stickler, the CVI assessment found you are a MERCHANT-INNOVATOR. What does this mean? This means your primary core value is Merchant – A Merchant’s core value energy is Love. Love in this sense is working toward an inspired vision of what can be, by nurturing the core values in one’s self and in others. You thrive at building relationships and providing an inspired vision for those around you. Your secondary core value is Innovator – An Innovator’s core value energy is Wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to see the way things are, and discern what to do about it. You accurately assess situations and provide solutions. Lame team building exercise-type bullshit. Like Myers Briggs, the enneagram and so many other personality tests it doesn’t tell you who you are but the kind of person you want to be. It doesn’t even ask questions with a veneer of subterfuge, you just pick the words you like. Also, it asks for an email but it doesn’t verify it so feel free to use whatever you want if you’re taking the test. I used [buttfart@buttfartman.com](mailto:buttfart@buttfartman.com) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/3 "2015-05-28T03:41:17Z")
Okay, so I went to the website and clicked the link. Some impressions: There is no fucking way to spend 5 seconds or less on each box of 4 words unless you just read the words and merrily check boxes. Reading their definitions made each box take more than 5 seconds. Like a lot of “personality tests” this one seemed fairly easy to manipulate the results through canny choices. I also was branded an Innovator-Banker, but I was disappointed that the explanation of what that meant was so brief and feeble. At least after I took that Myers-Briggs test I had a couple of paragraphs to read. Oh, and no, I had never seen or heard of this Core Value Energy test before. It did make me think, tho, that I _really_ need to spend some time coming up with my own stupid test so I can sell my services to corporate morons who think these things are cool. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/4 "2015-05-28T03:52:17Z")
Myers-Briggs. That’s what I was trying to think of for comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/5 "2015-05-28T03:58:09Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Myers-Briggs. That’s what I was trying to think of for comparison. Yeah, that’s exactly what came to mind reading the OP. Myers-Briggs, with a lot of redefinitions thrown in, and choosing words that will any and everybody Feel Good (someone switch on the rainbow lights please). ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/6 "2015-05-28T04:16:47Z")
How reliable is Myers-Briggs? Just one of the more recent corporate woos? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/7 "2015-05-28T04:36:00Z")
Not really reliable at all. Anything self-reported is already starting behind the eightball. It’s no great shakes in retestability; people will get wildly different results with only a few weeks between testings, the personality traits graded are not demonstrated to be definitive traits of the personalities and there’s no evidence that the 16 types are all-encompassing. It’s useful as an amusing party game or as a schtick for a office teambuilding consultant and that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/8 "2015-05-28T04:54:12Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > How reliable is Myers-Briggs? Just one of the more recent corporate woos? It’s pretty reliable for obtaining lots of money from the gullible. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/9 "2015-05-28T16:45:07Z")
Yet another INNOVATOR-BANKER. I was left with the impression that I could take the test again five minutes later with the same choices and get a different answer but I don’t have the patience to test my hypothesis. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/10 "2015-05-28T19:46:26Z")
I’m a DESTROYER-ABOMINATION. But I didn’t actually click the link. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/11 "2015-05-28T20:11:36Z")
CYNICAL-ASSHOLE? What the hell? Eerily accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/12 "2015-05-28T21:25:00Z")
Another Banker/Innovator here. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-core-value-energy-taylor-protocols/721009/13 "2015-05-28T22:46:02Z")
“Me, the CVI assessment found you are a BANKER-INNOVATOR.” Either the link-clicking, survey-taking Dope residents trend to a very specific type (not a long shot, actually) or the dohickey is broke, or there’s only two or three basic options, all gussied up to make it seem like there are lots of varieties. What I want to see happen is how they explain why the same person can get vastly different results on different days and in different surroundings, like Myers-Briggs tried to do.