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Big Five Movie Star Test

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Your friend is the most like:

David Letterman

David Letterman
"Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beating it to death."

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Compared to the general population, your friend is:

  • High on Openness
  • High on Conscientiousness
  • High on Extroversion
  • Average on Agreeableness
  • Below average on Neuroticism

According to scientific data compiled by the Ph.D.s Dana R. Carney, John T. Jost, Samuel D. Gosling, and Jeff Porter, your friend's scores indicate that he or she is:

  • Eccentric, sensitive, and individualistic.
  • Open, tolerant, and flexible.
  • Creative, imaginative, and curious.
  • Complex, nuanced, and open-minded.
  • Someone with a strong desire for novelty and diversity.
  • Likely to use fewer pauses in their speech than the average person.
  • Definite, persistent, and tenacious.
  • Reliable, responsible, orderly, and organized.
  • Someone who doesn't give up easily.
  • Likely to maintain more seconds of eye contact in a conversation than the average person.
  • Likely to use fewer hand movements and gesticulations in a conversation than the average person.
  • Expressive.
  • Active, assertive, energetic.
  • Carefree, unconstricted, and untroubled.

According to Geoffrey Miller, professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, these slogans are likely to describe your friend's personality and outlook on life:

  • "Talk nerdy to me."
  • "A PBS mind in a Fox News world."
  • "Don't say ironic when you mean coincidental."
  • "If it fits on a bumper sticker, it's not philosophy."
  • "Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should."
  • "The harder I work, the luckier I get."
  • "A goal is a dream with a deadline."
  • "Today is the tomorrow that you forgot to plan for yesterday."
  • "Adrenaline is my drug of choice."
  • "My cult following is now accepting applications."
  • "If at first you don't succeed, redefine success."
  • "Not all who wander are lost."
  • "Smile and let it go."
  • "It's not life's job to make you happy; it's your job to make life happy."

According to a study done by the Ph.D.s Dana R. Carney, John T. Jost, Samuel D. Gosling, and Jeff Potter, your friend's scores indicate that he or she is:

  • Amazingly, their personality is simply too smooth and well-rounded for this study to be able to say anything about them.

According to peer-reviewed studies from Texas AM University (US), Pepperdine University (US), Cambridge University (UK), and Sejong University (Korea), your friend's scores indicate that he or she is:

  • More likely than the average person to want their political representatives to negotiate with the representatives of other parties in order to arrive at a workable compromise.
  • More likely than the average person to have a critical view of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq.
  • Likely to be more knowledgeable than the average person about political issues.
  • More likely than the average person to care about the ambience of a hotel where they are staying, and not just its quality and service.
  • More likely than the average person to buy something unexpected and fun that they stumbled across while shopping.
  • More planful, organized, and goal-directed than the average person.
  • More in favor of using military action to solve foreign policy disputes than the average person.
  • Less likely than the average person to cheat on their homework and exams.
  • Less likely than the average person to treat themselves to a little extra luxurious something when shopping.
  • More energetic and quicker to act than the average person.
  • Someone who reads more newspapers and who follows the news more closely than the average person.
  • More likely than the average person to enlist their friends and acquaintances to get behind the political issues they support.
  • Less concerned than the average person with how they are perceived in the eyes of others.
  • Less likely than the average person to have a favorable view of labor unions.
  • Less alert to threats in their environment than the average person, trusting in their ability to take it as it comes.
  • Likely to perform better under pressure than the average person. (We'll just call them Rambo.)

According to a scientific study done by the Ph.D.s Gokul Chittaranjan, Jan Blom, and Daniel Gatica-Perez, your friend's scores indicate that if he or she own a smartphone he or she is:

  • Likely to use longer words, and more long words, in their text messages than the average person.
  • Likely to spend less time texting than the average person.
  • Likely to receive more calls on their phone than the average person.
  • More likely to use internet apps on their smartphone than the average person.
  • More likely to use productivity apps like (MS Office) on their smartphone than the average person.
  • Less likely to use entertainment apps (like games, audio, and video) on their smartphone than the average person.
  • Likely to receive more text messages on their phone than the average person.

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