Surveys/Polls/Quizzes

For this post, I chose to take a quiz that I've actually (somewhat embarrassingly) taken before. The quiz was on Which Character from The Office Are You on Buzzfeed. Obviously this is not the most in depth quiz but I actually think that the answer that I got was generally similar to my personality and representative of me. I got Darryl Philbin as my result and although at first I was a little surprised, after reading the quick description as to the characteristics of a “Darryl” I actually thought it was a very accurate result.

I am ambitous and hardworking but I definitely like to mess around, have fun and laugh as well. Clearly the description is very vaugue and could apply to a wide range of people but that is simply the nature of this type of quiz.

While it is hard to directly compare the results of my friends on this quiz because there were at least 9 options for every questions (resulting in an infinite amount of permutations of possible answer) I did find the results to be quite representative of my friends. For example, my friend who is actually really smart and wants to be successful but hides those facts by joking around all the time in order to appear cool got Jim (what I just wrote is essentially a tailor made description of Jim as well as my friend).

There were particular answers to some questions that I could tell were obvious proxies for a certain character. For example, there was a question that asked about your dream job and one of the answers was “Sports Agent” which is obviously Jim because he actually does something similar to being a sports agent in the last season of the show. Due to this I tried my best to avoid being swayed by these types of answers and answered as accurately as possible.

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