bem personality inventory

[rite_of_inversion]

http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/bsri.html

I found an online adaption of the Bem personality inventory that does not require pencil and paper to score.

I scored around 60% on the male aspects, at about 69% of the female aspects, and about 63% of the androgynous aspects.

Anyway, if you feel like taking it and posting your results...

[rejennyrated]

Ok I'll play - but just for a bit of fun. 

You do realise though that all these tests are based on someones rather stereotypical view of what constitutes normal masculine and feminine behaviours?

That said I am actually quite impressed with the result predominantly feminine with a strong androgynous undertone and some masculine traits actually does sound pretty like me! I was pretty darned honest too. Here is the score:

You scored 32.5 out of 100 masculine points, 90 out of 100 feminine points, and 67.5 out of 100 androgynous (neutral) points.

[Asfsd4214]

73.333 Masculine
70 Feminine
68.333 Androgynous

[kelly_aus]

Did it just for laughs..

You scored 43.333 out of 100 masculine points, 82.5 out of 100 feminine points, and 70.833 out of 100 androgynous (neutral) points.

[Lepidoptera]

You scored 72.5 out of 100 masculine points, 70.833 out of 100 feminine points, and 55.833 out of 100 androgynous (neutral) points.

I think it's silly that it measures you on things like how much you love babies and how truthful you are, but interesting results nonetheless.

[LordKAT]

You scored 83.333 out of 100 masculine points, 33.333 out of 100 feminine points, and 58.333 out of 100 androgynous (neutral) points.

OK

[Cameron James]

You scored 88.333 out of 100 masculine points, 51.667 out of 100 feminine points, and 63.333 out of 100 androgynous (neutral) points.

Not bad - I feel like I'm a little less feminine than it says, but otherwise it actually sounds a great deal like me.

[Hurtfulsplash]

My results:
Masculine 69
Feminine 25
Androgynous 44

[Janet_Girl]

Just for giggles.

You scored 50.833 out of 100 masculine points, 75 out of 100 feminine points, and 68.333 out of 100 androgynous (neutral) points.

[kyril]

Masculine 78.333, feminine 62.5, neutral 55.

I think it says more about how I tend to answer personality test questions than anything else (I very rarely mark "always" or "never" for anything, and I tend to think I express most traits to some degree most of the time. And yes, I believe I can have a very strong personality and be very forceful while also being soft-spoken, thank you very much.)

[Dymara]

Masculine 78.333, feminine 62.5, neutral 55.

I think it says more about how I tend to answer personality test questions than anything else (I very rarely mark "always" or "never" for anything, and I tend to think I express most traits to some degree most of the time. And yes, I believe I can have a very strong personality and be very forceful while also being soft-spoken, thank you very much.)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what the third score is for. It's interesting that so many people get scores above 50% on that section... I wonder what that says about the traits they put in there, or how we're disposed to answer tests?
Anyway, on that note, I got 41% of the masculine points, 78% of the feminine points, and 63% of the control points.

[Rock_chick]

Just for giggles.

You scored 33.333 out of 100 masculine points, 87.5 out of 100 feminine points, and 70.833 out of 100 androgynous (neutral) points.

[FairyGirl]

This is silly lol

Each trait is assigned to only one of 3 categories, either Masculine, Feminine, or Androgynous. The 7 available responses for each trait range from 0 (Never) to 100 (Always). Each intermediate response is given a strictly linear value of position  * (100/6):

Never = 0 * (100/6) = 0
Rarely = 1 * (100/6) = 16.6667
Neutral1 = 2 * (100/6) = 33.3333
Neutral2 = 3 * (100/6) = 50
Neutral3 = 5 * (100/6) = 66.6667
Often = 5 * (100/6) = 83.3333
Always = 6 * (100/6) = 100

The result is a simple average of the number of responses per any given category.

The 60 traits are divided into 20 Male, 20 Female, and 20 Androgynous. These values are assigned as follows: Starting with #1 'self reliant' = Masculine,  in numerical sequence they follow the pattern Male-Female-Androgynous all the way through to #60 = Androgynous.

01. M   21. A   41. F
02. F   22. M   42. A
03. A   23. F   43. M
04. M   24. A   44. F
05. F   25. M   45. A
06. A   26. F   46. M
07. M   27. A   47. F
08. F   28. M   48. A
09. A   29. F   49. M
10. M   30. A   50. F
11. F   31. M   51. A
12. A   32. F   52. M
13. M   33. A   53. F
14. F   34. M   54. A
15. A   35. F   55. M
16. M   36. A   56. F
17. F   37. M   57. A
18. A   38. F   68. M
19. M   39. A   69. F
20. F   40. M   60. A

And yes, being analytical is assigned as a "Male" trait. Shows how much they know.

[rite_of_inversion]

True that the test is very stereotyping...maybe that's what the psych textbooks meant when they said that people who are a bit androgynous in tendency tend to do better in life than people who are very rigidly gender-typical male or gender-typical female.   When I took those classes, I was pretty sure I was a cisgendered female, so I didn't think to question the attribution of personality tendencies to gender...and now I feel like having a facepalm moment that I just swallowed that bit of orthodoxy.

If you view personality traits as having a gender attribution-which does, now that I think about it, just seem like a bit of a silly unconscious bias on the part of the psychologists and sociologists themselves-then those that have the widest menu of possible behaviors are naturally going to be best suited to adapt to any given situation, right?

Oooh...I think I ought to start emailing my old professor and discussing this stuff...he's actually been to international sexuality and gender conferences, so he'd find my thoughts and adventures in gender quite interesting, methinks...

Things that look very rational from the perspective of the cisgendered, when you put on the special x-ray specs of a TG-spectrum person,  they are revealed as an unconscious bias.

[ArleneMcCarthy]

My Score:
59.649 masculine
90 Feminine
55.833 Neutral 

[K8]

52.5 masculine
70 feminine
52.5 androgynous

This surprised me a little.  I often score about in the middle for everything on many of these tests - whatever that means.

- Kate

[Eva Marie]

You scored 45.833 out of 100 masculine points, 65.833 out of 100 feminine points, and 57.5 out of 100 androgynous (neutral) points.

About what i expected.

[Ayaname]

you scored 47.5 out of 100 masculine points, 74.561 out of 100 feminine points, and 63.333 out of 100 androgynous (neutral) points.

...meh

[LilDoberman]

Fun, although random.  I think mine's fairly close.

64 masculine
47 feminine
54 androgynous

[Bombi]

I did it twice over the course of 2 days, the average was
M 65
F 67
A 75

Is ther another page that gives some insight what these numbers mean?