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Can you read people at a glance?
By 'glance', I mean after a few minutes of conversation or observation of their action in a social setting. By 'read' I mean having a rough idea of their subjective flavor of being.
This might include things like:
Their manner of interacting with strangers, the way they interact with music or arts, the sorts of emotions they experience most often, the caution they take in matters, the role they take in groups, their technical finesse, their delight in nature, their routiness/spontaneity, their political compassion, their degree of self-interest, their perversions, their sorts of fears, how they handle emergencies, how they pick out a wardrobe, basically the manner in which they tick which drives how they go about or feel about anything.
I do not mean reading them objectively, as Sherlock Holmes might, as to their career or income or other things given away by physical details.
By reading well (for this survey) one might miss a person's objective taste for polka music or aversion to roller-coasters,and still claim to read them well, but being surprised by their yelling at homeless people or organizing a charity event probably indicates not reading them well subjectively. | Total Votes | % of Voters | Female Votes | Male Votes | % of Female Votes | % of Male Votes | Average Age | Answer | | 6 | 13.6% | 3 | 3 | 17.6% | 20.0% | 40.1 | I don't attempt to second guess what they are about. {why not?} | | 12 | 27.3% | 7 | 5 | 41.2% | 33.3% | 40.6 | I only have a rough intuition a to whether I like or trust the person or not. | | 6 | 13.6% | 2 | 4 | 11.8% | 26.7% | 40.0 | I think I can, but then they end up surprising me. | | 6 | 13.6% | 3 | 3 | 17.6% | 20.0% | 37.2 | It can take years before I can predict a person. | | 5 | 11.4% | 4 | 1 | 23.5% | 6.7% | 35.2 | I can read them somewhat, but I'm often learning new things about them which change the range of what might expect from them. | | 7 | 15.9% | 3 | 4 | 17.6% | 26.7% | 45.8 | I read people quite well. Little if anything about their behavior ever surprises me or contradicts my expectations of them once I've really met them. | | 4 | 9.1% | 2 | 2 | 11.8% | 13.3% | 50.4 | I get their temperament right away, but their underlying themes take much more time to unearth. | | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | I have some completely different angle of estimating people or experience in doing so not mentioned here. |
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| Rating | Total | Female | Male | Average Age |
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| Good | 10 | 5 | 5 | 44.7 |
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| Bad | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
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| No Opinion | 30 | 19 | 11 | 38.5 |
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| | Type | Number | | Abstainers | 12 | | Male | 15 | | Female | 17 |
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| User | Vote | Comment |
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Strider   | reasonable | | posted 10-Jul-2008 11:38pm |
| Melf  | reasonable | | posted 10-Jul-2008 1:45pm |
| | Galomorro | reasonable | | posted 10-Jul-2008 11:33am |
| Crayons  | reasonable | | posted 10-Jul-2008 11:21am |
| Matty   | reasonable | | posted 10-Jul-2008 8:07am |
but too many options. I think leaving this more open-ended would make this a "better" survey. However, I do like it as it stands. |
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