Back in October, I wrote about Signal Patterns launching a facebook app to match personality traits to voting behavior. Today, they’ve announced the official launch of their two first web apps: Personality Patterns and Music Patterns. From their press release:
The applications are now available on SignalPatterns.com, a first-of-its-kind website where people use professional psychology tools, developed by leading PhD researchers and scientists, to discover psychological insights, connect to other like-minded individuals, and for content and music discovery.
The Signal Patterns applications offer people unprecedented insight to how psychological traits influence their behavior, emotions, relationships and content choices. This is the first time professional level grade tools have been incorporated into publicly available online social applications. In addition, the Music Patterns application offers personalized music discovery and automatically creates customized playlists based on a person’s "music personality."
So, I took the personality patterns test, which looks a lot like this;
After a long personality test, a registration prompt came up, though I was already logged in. There was no option to log in, so I had to try to register again. When I did that, it said my email address was already on file, and I had to login again. When I logged in, I found I’d completely wasted my time, as my account page said I’d never taken the personality test. Boo.
Perhaps this is another one of the tests. Maybe they thought it would be fun to piss someone off and see if their answers are different after logging them out after taking the whole test. That would actually be pretty funny.
So, since I’ve come this far, I took the test again. All 40 questions.
Here’s what I got:
Hey, maybe it was a test to find out if I’m "flappable."
So, what do you do with it?
Well, you can:
1. See how your friends compare to you by having your facebook, imeem, last.fm, flickr and myspace friends sign up and take the quiz.
2. Find people like you that have already become members on SignalPatterns.
3. Show your patterns- You can get embed code for a badge to put on your blog or social network profile.
I’m not sure I fully "get" Signal Patterns. I know they’re saying that they’re passionate about helping people know more about themselves, but I’m just not sure there’s anything left to do after getting questionnaire results. It’s like taking a strengthsfinder quiz and finding out what kind of work you should do, but instead, you just find out some personality traits.
If someone were to walk up to me and let me know that I’m a calm and creative person, I guess I’d thank them, but I don’t know if there’s any way to apply that information toward anything.
