Many of us enjoy testing our own mental agility or analysing our own personality. Most of us have spent hours struggling with that final clue in a cryptic crossword, pondering a sudoku puzzle or marshalling our knowledge before a quiz night. And how many of us feel a warm glow of satisfaction when a self-assessment questionnaire in a magazine confirms that we are clever, amusing or attractive? Certainly we are often drawn to completing questionnaires and quizzes that tell us more about our personalities if that knowledge is for ourselves. What we don’t feel so comfortable with is being judged on our results by others.
If we are asked to complete ...
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