Janus the Fox Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 An interesting take on an online quiz. There's up to 50 or so questions measuring masculinity and femininity separately rather than against each other. The questions are on an agreement scale and are quite stereotypical. The scores are weighted to the nearest 100. Something to perhaps look into with this theory. https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/OSRI/?fbclid=IwAR3MM18-znuVVX6D7A2j2BIP3AiBevM2S71WuiakcGBgNdvRpTqf5d-bvEw My own results plus image https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/OSRI/results.php?d=Tnpn-09U.2Mc Spoiler Link to post Share on other sites
Rynn Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 That was an interesting quiz, though, as the quiz itself says too, I wouldn't trust it to determine anything at all. Here are my results: Spoiler It's honestly not even that far off. Link to post Share on other sites
Starbogen Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Did it twice.. first time I got Masculinity 104/ Femininity 94 and now I got Masculinity 100/ Femininity 99 because I answered a couple more questions as neutral. It was an odd bunch of questions though.. Link to post Share on other sites
MarRister Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Masculinity 101 Femininity 93 🤷♀️ Link to post Share on other sites
RoseGoesToYale Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I am going skating soon, and I did take it, and I will sociologically decimate this thing thoroughly when I return! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Masculinity - 78 Femininity - 106 Quite a few of the questions didn't seem clearly feminine or masculine. Link to post Share on other sites
RoseGoesToYale Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Back and mostly in one piece. The test questions are understandably stereotypical (and some just strange...), but they box femininity and masculinity stereotypes into two distinct categories: femininity as "creative" and masculinity as "destructive" (or survivalist). In all seriousness, if somebody got an exceedingly masculine score on this, if the questions are any indication, they should turn themselves into the police. I got questions about guns, obsession with war, and propensity to set dangerous chemicals on fire (the latter is not stereotypically masculine behavior... that is antisocial arsonist behavior!) A more complete test would include questions about "creative masculinity" and "destructive femininity". An example for creative masculinity might be "I would enjoy leading a scout troop". An example for destructive femininity might be "I would to get cosmetic surgery done." Now, if the questions were randomized from a pool, it's possible I got a particularly bad lot of questions. I would've easily gotten a more androgynous score had I been given more varied questions. That said, here: Masculinity: 97 Femininity: 122 Link to post Share on other sites
Kimmie. Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Interesting These are the results from the Open Sex-Role Inventory. The OSRI measures two scales. Scores are adjusted so the average is 100. Masculinity 83 Femininity 106 Sandra Bem's theory was that both masculinity and femininity were good and the ideal was high levels of both, which she called androgyny. Your scores are graphed below according to her typology. Link to post Share on other sites
Custard Cream Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Hmmm... thanks that helped. #genderfluidproblems Link to post Share on other sites
Rynn Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 7 hours ago, RoseGoesToYale said: and propensity to set dangerous chemicals on fire but... setting stuff on fire is fun though? You just have to do it safely. Don't you want to test and see what it does if you set it on fire? I answered yes to that one for sure Also, why do you think cosmetic surgery is destructive? You could say it's creative as well, as you are trying to create a look you like. Maybe destructive femininity would be more like gossiping or other forms of social destructive behavior. Anyways I do agree that the questions were horribly stereotyped, and I wouldn't trust the test results at all for that reason. But since it's a test for femininity/masculinity, that's kind of a given. Though I do think it's funny that within this thread the results seem to match people's genders the majority of the time haha. Link to post Share on other sites
Acing It Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 5 hours ago, CBC said: Also lol, I love this question. I didn't get that question at all! I see it as just a bit of fun, but RoseGoesToYale is right of course (love your avatar). Mine was (very close to that of the OP) Masculinity 74 Femininity 97 https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/OSRI/results.php?d=TnpR-09ULWMc Link to post Share on other sites
Bloc Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I don't remember the exact wording, but it was something like "did you consider extreme body modification?" I've answered yes as I'm considering medical transition. Does this score as masculine in this test? This would be ironic as I would be femizing my body. Link to post Share on other sites
anisotrophic Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I’m guessing there’s a correlation between “horoscopes are fun” and doing this quiz because that’s how accurate I expect it is 😄 Link to post Share on other sites
RoseGoesToYale Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 5 hours ago, Laurann said: but... setting stuff on fire is fun though? You just have to do it safely. Don't you want to test and see what it does if you set it on fire? Haha, not disputing that. I guess I just got the image of that one psycho kid you always see in movies who pours gasoline on trees and tires and stuff and sets it all on fire just 'cause and winds up committing murder or something later on. Or Sid from Toy Story. Though my friends and I liked burning christmas lights in campfires as kids because pretty colors. Maybe I should've answered neutral to that one? 😅 5 hours ago, Laurann said: Also, why do you think cosmetic surgery is destructive? I think for two reasons, first being that a lot of women do it because they feel defective or not pretty enough and want to change some part of their body because it doesn't measure up to a certain beauty standard. The other is that it surgically cuts away or alters parts of the body, which can sometimes go wrong and leave people disfigured, or there can be health complications from improper healing or bad surgical materials (see silicone gel breast implants). Link to post Share on other sites
Rynn Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 @RoseGoesToYale Yeah that's fair (What do Christmas lights do when you set them on fire?) Link to post Share on other sites
RoseGoesToYale Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 6 minutes ago, Laurann said: (What do Christmas lights do when you set them on fire?) The metals in them make the flames turn all sorts of colors (especially green bc copper wiring). Stay far away from that smoke, though. Link to post Share on other sites
Gloomy Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Wow, I got right smack in the middle. Link to post Share on other sites
anisotrophic Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 CDs and lightbulbs in microwaves... Link to post Share on other sites
Janus the Fox Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 Yeah not entirely sure but the graph ‘feels’ rather accurate despite the odd questions. That’s perhaps the point as that theory is put squarely in a social construct. Link to post Share on other sites
Acing It Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I tried another one which is more detailed. Seems to confirm the OPs but in more detail, so there may be something to it at least. https://surveydata.online/gdia Link to post Share on other sites
Andrea KF Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I'm pretty much 50/50 masculine/feminine according to the easy, OP quiz. According to the detailed one, I'm 2/3 feminine and 1/3 masculine. Link to post Share on other sites
Karst Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I got more "feminine" scores than I expected to on both tests. It's probably because I don't like conflict and violence. Link to post Share on other sites
timewarp Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 100 feminine, 90 masculine, which apparently puts me half-way between undifferentiated and feminine. To be honest I found those questions really strange and not overly meaningful. For a moment I was excited about the question if I like gnus (of course I do!!), but then I discovered I had misread and it said "guns". Link to post Share on other sites
Prufrock, but like, worse Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 "I hit trees with sticks." I thought this was a gender test, not an age test. Link to post Share on other sites
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