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1 in 10 people have such unusual personality trait combinations that researchers call them ‘mutants’ | ||
These major outliers break all the standard models. | ||
By Evan Porter | ||
There are a lot of personality tests out there, and we humans are endlessly fascinated by them. There are the ones popular in pop-psychology like Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram. There are highly clinical and academic models like the HEXACO and the MMPI. | ||
One of the most widely used and respected personality tests in academic and scientific circles is the Big Five, or OCEAN model. It scores people based on five traits—Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. It doesn’t group people into concrete buckets with snappy names, like “The Innovator,” but your collective scores in the five areas it measured come together to tell a story about you. | ||
But some people’s results don’t fit neatly into a story. It’s rare, but fewer than 10% of people have extremely unusual results that don’t fit within the usual personality maps. | ||
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Dallas IMAX projectionist explains what makes the 70mm ‘Odyssey’ so special. People are riveted. | ||
Nearly 30 million people have watched the passionate, 5-minute spiel he shares before showing the film. | ||
By Annie Reneau | ||
How a movie gets presented in 70mm IMAX may seem like niche film nerd information, but a Cinemark Dallas assistant manager has sucked people far and wide in with his explanation of how it works. | ||
Brandon Valdez, Cinemark assistant manager and IMAX 70mm projectionist, stands in the middle of the theater before a showing of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and begins chatting with the audience. After asking who had and hadn’t seen a 70mm film before and giving newcomers a round of applause, he launches into a 5-minute spiel about what makes a 70mm film so special. Watch: | ||
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How do you feel about IMAX?
Last Week’s Results
Friday, we shared a story featuring a fun personality quiz that determines “how you love” based on your animal archetype.
We asked Upworthy readers: Which animal best matches how you show up for the people you love?
Lion: I take charge and solve the problem (14.5%)
Otter: I bring the fun and lift the mood (10.5%)
Beaver: I notice the details and make a plan (22.8%)
Golden retriever: I listen, support, and keep the peace (52.2%)
Looks like we’re a bunch of cuddly Goldies in these parts.
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Gen Xers and Boomers share ‘grimy’ parts of the 70s they were happy to leave behind | ||
Such a good reminder of the progress we’ve made in the past 50 years. | ||
By Annie Reneau | ||
When people talk about the world older generations grew up in, it’s often looked at through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia. Life was simpler back then. We didn’t have all the trappings of technology or the burdens of busy modern life. Sure, we had to do more things manually, but the world was safer and cleaner and generally better back then, right? | ||
Not so fast. As some of the younger generations have noticed, the 1970s is often spoken about with nostalgic fondness but portrayed differently in entertainment. That observation led someone to ask Gen Xers and Boomers, “Were the 1970s really as grimy and gloomy and sleazy as the movies make it look?” Surprisingly, folks who lived through the ’70s took off their rose-colored glasses to remind us all of how far we’ve actually come in the past 50 years. | ||
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