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Ah, Internet quizzes: How would we waste time without you? There’s yet another one of those “What job should you actually have?” quizzes circulating Facebook at the moment, so of course I had to check it out.

Apps like buzzfeed quizzes

Created by a site called Bitecharge, who specialize in “[delivering fun and positive things to your social feed,” this one is worded a tiny bit differently than the usual suspects; instead of telling you what you should be doing, this one wants to know whether it can guess your job based off of your answers.

This, in conjunction with that Myers-Briggs “What job is best for your personality?” chart we looked at recently, got me thinking: How accurate are these quizzes, anyway?

I’m pretty sure we all try to rig our results by occasionally picking answers we think will go with the option we’d like to end up with; this is why I think self-reporting can only be relied on so much in personality-based studies.

But even adjusting for that, are they at all useful?

My working theory about why we take them is as follo