How much do you agree with this statement?

Strongly disagree. My naps don't end as naps, but as me falling asleep and sleeping for 2 to 3 hours, waking up extremely jittery, and not being able to sleep that nigth.

100% strongly agree with this and yes I love to doze off and take a nice long nap and dream of something

Strongly disagree. Can't do this.

Sometimes I wish I could, the only time I do is if I'm not feeling good.

Disagree. I always wake up feeling groggy and worse than I felt before

Strongly agree.

Slightly. It is more like "I love to take naps during the day, but not every day, randonmly."

Strongly agree. I love taking naps in the middle of the day.

I dislike taking naps in the middle of the day, but often have done. I was working mixed shifts before I came back to uni and sometimes that messed my cleep patterns up enough that I needed to top-up once I got home (e.g. I would get home from work at 10pm, and need to leave again before 7am, but after that shift I would get home at about 3pm and have a nap). I also used to take naps when I was at uni first time around because I was keeping crazy hours, and not getting very much sleep at night.

I rarely nap unless I have a splitting headache.

Strongly agree. I'm all for a nap, any time of day.

This question is based on one I found on a pre-emplyment questionairre. I thought "WTF?" and made a survey.

if only it were that simple

I strongly agree but unfortunately do not have much opportunity to do so.

> This question is based on one I found on a pre-emplyment questionairre.
> I thought "WTF?" and made a survey.

Some of the questions on those questionaires are so stupid, I'v seen questions like "have you ever taken something from your place of employment," like a thief would say "oh yes, thats why I want to work here, you have a lot of nice stuff"

Some of the questions are way out there. "Did you ever have any friends your parents didn't like?"

What's that got to do with anything?

> Some of the questions are way out there. "Did you ever have any friends
> your parents didn't like?"
>
> What's that got to do with anything?

They are out there! I know it supposed to be some sort of psychological profile thing, but a dishonest person isn't going to answer truthfully anyway, they are going to put what they think the employer wants to hear. Waste of time and paper.

Actually, those are your classic control questions. The idea is that 80% of people would or more would answer it a certain way. If you answer differently on a significant number of them, that would in theory raise flags that you are trying to purposely game to system. So if you ever are in a situation where you are trying to game the system, be sure to answer yes to "have you ever taken something from your place of employment" so that you won't look like someone who is trying to game the system.

I think the way its supposed to work is that they keep some running total of how you answer certain questions to get measure certain variables. For instance, if they're trying to scan for narcissism, they might ask you on question 19 if you'd make a good leader, strongly agree, slightly agree, etc. and then question 53 might be do people like you a lot. If you answer y out of x of these questions a certain way, it will raise a red flag. And they most likely scan for about 4 to 6 different variables, and I guess some questions might influence more than one variable while another might not influence any (just filler to take up space).

And off course the questions are all scattered so that you don't know which question measures what, if anything. In the end, its probably just a pass/fail test (sometimes a take a follow up test -- in other words borderline fail) and they'd just throw out your results once you pass.

And I am willing to bet you that companies outsource their testing to someone else just like everything else is outsourced, probably some "psychological testing corps". So my theory is that they deliberately make weird questions just so that it looks more sciency, sort of like water bottles have pictures of glaciers on them so that companies buys their tests. It would also explain why these tests are so similar no matter what company you try to work for, because the same few companies that make these tests are used by like everyone else.

What happens if a person is very honest, like a test might be trying to measure, but are very different than most people? They might appear dishonest.

A person who doesn't drive has never broken any traffic laws.
Some people really have never stolen anything (even a pen) from a former employer.
Some people really never had any friends their parents didn't like.

See how a person who might represent some statistical anomoly might "raise red flags"?

I hate naps, so I strongly disagree. I generally hate being asleep.

FoxTurtle loves taking naps in the middle of the day, so...

I always take a 30 minute nap during my lunch hour.

Strongly agree

Strongly disagree. If I take a nap I am usually very sluggish for the rest of the day. I'm better off pushing to stay awake.