Browsing the web can lead adolescents to find thousands of personality inventories on various sites. Many of these sites can be used for the purpose of understanding one’s personality. However, some defer from this purpose such as BuzzFeed quizzes. This can be seen in the personality inventory, “Which Gilmore Girls Character Are You”, that aims for fans of this hit television show to determine what characters they are similar to. The creators asked eight biased questions with answers that are specific to certain characters. Overall, compared to other personality inventories invented by psychological scholars and professionals this inventory fails to truly measure one’s personality (King, 2014). Although, this personality inventory is depicted as reliable, there are several aspects of this quiz which outweigh the good. BuzzFeed quizzes are predominantly known for being entertaining and fun - many adolescents enjoy sharing the results they receive on social networking sites such as Facebook. This is evident on the personality …show more content…
Furthermore, each question is followed by an image of a scene from the television show, which influences the answers of the test taker (King, 2014). This is an example of test-taker bias. As fans of this show, also know what types of answers will help them get their favourite character. This personality inventory also takes a nomothetic trait approach – which involves large groups of individuals in order to make generalizations about personality (Krause, et al., 2017) In this quiz, individuals are asked general questions about what individuals would do based on the answers of characters in the television show. For example, one question asked is “pick a place to hangout” (King, 2017) with eight answers –