US 5,702,253 AGranted

Personality testing apparatus and method

OwnerNathan K. Bryce, Russell R. Kestersoninventors

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Abstract

The invention is a process and apparatus for determining a person's basic personality type. The apparatus includes a card deck having forty different testing cards with each card featuring a written description of a personality characteristic, an associated picture and one of four different color codes associated with a particular type of personality having that characteristic. Five pile labeling cards are also provided. The pile labeling cards are used to define separate pile areas into which the testing cards may be sorted based upon the degree to which the person agrees with the characteristic described on the testing card. A point value is given to each testing card depending on which of the piles it is placed in. The point values of the sorted testing cards are then added together relative to their color codes to determine the user's primary personality type.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus for personality testing, said apparatus comprising:

a card deck having a plurality of testing cards, each of said cards having a top face upon which is located a written statement of a personality characteristic and wherein each card also has a bottom surface having an identifier that identifies the card as being from one of four different color groups, said top and bottom surfaces being opposed to each other such that a person being tested cannot see the color identifier when viewing the top surface thereby avoiding any prejudicial effect;
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a plurality of labeling cards, wherein each of said labeling cards is used to label an area upon which said testing cards may be placed and wherein each labeling card includes a first indicia that describes a degree of strength of agreement a user may have with the written statements provided on the testing cards, and wherein all of the labeling cards have different first indicia, said labeling cards also having a second indicia that describes a numerical point value that should be given to any of said testing cards that are placed into an area associated with said labeling card and wherein all of said labeling cards have different second indicia such that after a numerical value is given to each card the value of cards of the same color can be added and compared to the numerical total of other color groups.

A method for testing and determining a person's basic personality type, said method comprising:

(a) a testing person taking a first card from a specially-designed deck and then reading a written statement located on a front face of said card to a person being tested, wherein said statement describes a characteristic associated with one of four basic personality types, and wherein said card also includes a color indicator associated with the basic personality type associated with the card's written statement;
(b) the testing person receiving an answer to the question from the person being tested, the person being tested answering according to (deciding) the degree to which the written statement describes the (user) person being tested;
(c) the testing person placing the first card onto one of a plurality of piles with each pile being associated with a different degree of agreement and a different point value;
(d) repeating the above-described procedure with every card in the deck;
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(e) the testing person evaluating the (user's) personality type by tabulating the total points for each basic personality type as determined by the color indicator of each card and the card's point value based upon which of said piles it is located in and wherein the basic personality type having the greatest number of points is considered to be the (user's) primary personality type of the person being tested.

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