khall: Fascinating

Khall (

khall) wrote,
@ 2008-02-12 02:54:00

Current mood:

stressed

Fascinating
What's your VALS type?

Innovator/experiencer

K.

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redhotlips
2008-02-12 12:49 pm UTC (link)

Innovator/Achiever

Your primary VALS type is Innovator, and your secondary type is Achiever.

The primary VALS type represents your dominant approach to life. The secondary classification represents a particular emphasis you give to your dominant approach.

Innovators are successful, sophisticated, take-charge people with high self-esteem. Because they have such abundant resources, they exhibit all three primary motivations in varying degrees. They are change leaders and are the most receptive to new ideas and technologies. Innovators are very active consumers, and their purchases reflect cultivated tastes for upscale, niche products and services.

Image is important to Innovators, not as evidence of status or power but as an expression of their taste, independence, and personality. Innovators are among the established and emerging leaders in business and government, yet they continue to seek challenges. Their lives are characterized by variety. Their possessions and recreation reflect a cultivated taste for the finer things in life.

Motivated by the desire for achievement, Achievers have goal-oriented lifestyles and a deep commitment to career and family. Their social lives reflect this focus and are structured around family, their place of worship, and work. Achievers live conventional lives, are politically conservative, and respect authority and the status quo. They value consensus, predictability, and stability over risk, intimacy, and self-discovery.

With many wants and needs, Achievers are active in the consumer marketplace. Image is important to Achievers; they favor established, prestige products and services that demonstrate success to their peers. Because of their busy lives, they are often interested in a variety of time-saving devices.

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	tigana 2008-02-12 12:55 pm UTC (link)
	Maker/Achiever I guess I'd come in handy if ever there was an apocalypse and we were reduced to trying to live off the land.. or whatever's left of it. (Reply to this)

	dearmoi 2008-02-12 01:51 pm UTC (link)
	Achiever/Innovator. shrug (Reply to this)

	lumpyone 2008-02-12 02:13 pm UTC (link)
	Thinker/Innovator I'm always skeptical of such surveys but this one I found pretty good as far as giving an general idea of the type of person. Its general, yes, but as an overall view of humanity and the "types" of humans we are, it seemed better than most. (Reply to this)(Thread)

khall
2008-02-12 06:33 pm UTC (link)

Well, VALS is a system used by advertisers to target their products. They break consumers into these demographics and then there's whole courses at Marketing schools to tell you how to target specific sub-groups effectively. The whole advertising industry uses the VALS test, I agree with you and probably the reason it is so 'on the spot' is it wasn't developed by a sociology department or something, it was developed by the raw forces of capitalism trying to make a buck (or 12 billion).;)

K.

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	oxfoxieroxiexo 2008-02-12 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	Strivers/Achievers (Reply to this)(Thread)

	khall 2008-02-12 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	Long time no see. hug K. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	wikiness 2008-02-12 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	Innovator/Achiever Rubs your back (Reply to this)(Thread)

	khall 2008-02-12 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	That fits you.:) K. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wikiness 2008-02-12 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	The comments about having a deep commitment to family and work ring true, that's for sure. I don't think I'm really that picky of a consumer though. Rubs your feet (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mme_shahrizai 2008-02-12 07:13 pm UTC (link)
	Innovator/Achiever. Cool. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mme_shahrizai 2008-02-12 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	Though I admit the bit about living a conventional lifestyle and being politically conservative makes me laugh... I'm motivated by achievement, all right, but convention and conservatism don't have anything to do with that, for me. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	goldenmaia 2008-02-13 02:05 am UTC (link)
	Thinker/Innovator (Reply to this)(Thread)

	khall 2008-02-13 02:14 am UTC (link)
	You so cute.;) K. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goldenmaia 2008-02-13 02:44 am UTC (link)
	I am thinking and innovating right now ;) Ways to blow your mind. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	khall 2008-02-13 07:05 am UTC (link)
	No way! You can not do that! smooch K. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	belled_kitten 2008-02-13 07:39 am UTC (link)
	Experiencer/Striver. Experiencer sounds right, but striver.. I dunno. I don't like shopping! Weeeird. :) (Reply to this)

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