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Chapter 15
Simplicity and Complexity in Personality
Table 15.7
Answered True by High Scorers on complexity:
1. The unfinished and the imperfect often have greater appeal for me than the completed and the polished.
2. I could cut my moorings ... quit my home, my parents, and my friends ... without suffering great regrets.
3. Politically I am probably something of a radical.
4. I think I take primarily an aesthetic view of experience.
5. I would enjoy the experience of living and working in a foreign country.
6. Many of my friends would probably be considered unconventional by other people.
7. Some of my friends think that my ideas are impractical, if not a bit wild.
8. I enjoy discarding the old and accepting the new.
9. When someone talks against certain groups or nationalities, I always speak up against such talk, even though it makes me unpopular
Answered True by Low Scorers on complexity
1. I don't like modern art.
2. Disobedience to the government is never justified.
3. Perfect balance is the essence of all good composition.
4. Straightforward reasoning appeals to me more than metaphors and the search for analogies.
5. It is a pretty callous person who does not feel love and gratitude toward his parents.
6. Things seem simpler as you learn more about them.
7. I much prefer symmetry to asymmetry.
8. Kindness and generosity are the most important qualities for a wife to have.
9. When a person has a problem or worry, it is best for him not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.
10. It is the duty of a citizen to support his country, right or wrong.
11. Barring emergencies, I have a pretty good idea what I'll be doing for the next ten years.
12. I prefer team games to games in which one individual competes against another.
13. An invention which takes jobs away from people should be suppressed until new work can be found for them.
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William Schaeffer
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