2012-04-04, 06:56 AM
FrozNlite Wrote:No worries! As much as I enjoy the concept and feel the quizzes work well with me, I totally understand their limitations after reading the comments here and getting a more diverse perspective. You're all not the first people to dislike them too, by the way - I had an old manager/friend take it, who liked it, but also felt limited with many of the questions.
It's a hard concept to quiz on, though. I mean, how else to discover your rank of all five languages? For example, if given five objective choices per question, one each pertaining to a language, might people only end up with one language? At the very least the numbers would be more heavily skewed towards one or two, which, while that being the focus of the exercise, I feel would be the opposite end of this in terms of appropriate results.
On that selfsame site, they have "the languages of apology", whose assessment questions have five answers.
Another way to do it is to rate various actions of one's spouse on a scale, instead of against one another.
e.g.
On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 = I hate it, 10 = I love it), how would you rate your spouse's behavior in these situations:
1. Washes my car
2. Takes a phone call while we're having dinner
3. Kisses me on the way out the door
4. Tells me I look good
5. Creates handmade gifts for me
etc... (notice that it could be good or bad things)
Also, almost none of us got 0 in any language. That means that even the one we least respond to, triumphed over something else at least once. People are complicated, and almost everyone responds to all five languages to one extent or another.