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Old 02-09-2009, 07:52 PM   #1
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Want To Know What Your Values Are?


You want to know what's truly most important to you in everyday life?

This is a neat little online "test". Well, little...no. I will give you a hint or two
about what to do so you don't drive yourself crazy like I did.

There is a list of values in step 1. There are 400 values listed. Some of the
words I've never heard of. What you want to do in this first step is very
important, but very easy. There are simple check boxes next to the values.
Only select ones that really hit home to you, like health, success, love, etc.
(if these hit home with you that is) Just quickly go through the list, don't
dwell on the words.

You only want about 10 or 15. Don't worry if you select more because step 2
gives you the option of weeding out similar values.

Now what happens in step 3 is where you may go bonkers if you have too
many selected. Don't say I didn't warn you to select only 10 or 15. Step 3
you have "x or y" questions. For example, what's more important to you,
health or love.

I picked 24 values and there were 276 "x or y" questions and you get kind of
weary of this after 50 or so.

10 values selected you "vote" 45 times. 20 values....190 times.

Step 4 tells you what % of your answers are and it gives you what you have
said is most important to you.

Mine turned up health. I personally feel that without health, you can have
nothing else.

Try it out, you never know what you'll find out about yourself. Let me know
what came up for you as most important.

Values Test

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Old 02-10-2009, 02:03 AM   #2
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I just gotta take a break...the first time I ended up with 1545!!! so I started all over to get a smaller amount and got 2,346!!! questions to go through!! --well I'm gonna finish this if it takes all Night....It better be worth it!!! If it ends up with some BS about "Your Nice" I'm gonna KILL somebody!!!!
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I wonder what it says about me when HEALTH is the ONLY thing I have in common with the Top 10 Values?! an my #1 ain't nowhere to be found on the list!
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Old 02-10-2009, 09:08 AM   #4
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I wonder what it says about me when HEALTH is the ONLY thing I have in common with the Top 10 Values?! an my #1 ain't nowhere to be found on the list!
Correctness? ...not on the l;ist, so, you're off the charts. Good man.
I'll be back later with my results.
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Old 02-10-2009, 11:03 AM   #6
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Correctness! Dang it! Now every time the old lady says "You just have to be right, don't you?!" this is gonna haunt me!

Whats funny is that my top 5 where nearly a tie with "Correctness" beating the other 4 by only (1) vote! (2-5 were a tie)

In my mind I was like: "Growth not as important look at Enron! Love doesn't matter if it turns out not to be real! health who cares! I rather live a short exciting life!" Order Pisha! I'd rather be FREE!" My crazy ass even punched a hole into LOYALTY! thinking I wouldn't want to get screwed over by someone who was just being loyal so I picked Justice, or "Correctness"!

I didn't give each question too much thought, I just reacted, and now I feel like a DORK! What happened to cool values like my Idol Conan!

What is best in LIFE! (<-----This is what I was Going for!)
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Old 03-04-2009, 01:06 AM   #7
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Results of your ranking:
Based on your previous voting, here is the list of your values ranked by importance.

1. Correctness (14 votes)
2. Truth (12 votes)
3. Honesty (11 votes)
4. Trustworthiness (11 votes)
5. Simplicity (11 votes)
6. Reason (11 votes)
7. Impartiality (10 votes)
8. Fairness (10 votes)
9. Freedom (9 votes)
10. Consistency (9 votes)
11. Justice (9 votes)
12. Credibility (4 votes)
13. Effectiveness (4 votes)
14. Originality (4 votes)
15. Respect (4 votes)
16. Resolve (2 votes)
17. Education (1 votes)
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Old 03-04-2009, 01:12 AM   #8
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Hey Simplejack I think you might have influenced my test here! I was thinking "correctness" thanks to you and just clicked it every time it came up!


I must be more of a weenie than you are! LOL!
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