My dad just got excited about this site too, last week... I detect a meme.

Ha, I took the brief version a while back, which categorizes the same strengths into always, usually, half the time, occasionally and rarely. Curiosity and love of learning were 'always' and prudence was my only 'rarely'. If we were cats we would be dead...

Mine:
1 Curiosity and interest in the world
2 Creativity, ingenuity, and originality
3 Love of learning
4 Judgment, critical thinking, and open-mindedness
5 Self-control and self-regulation
...
22 Gratitude
23 Spirituality, sense of purpose, and faith
24 Modesty and humility

That sounds about right.

Incidentally, I read one of Seligman's works the other year, something on optimism and pessimism. Very similar kind of stuff... nothing groundbreaking, but interesting.

1 Modesty and humility
2 Appreciation of beauty and excellence
3 Humor and playfulness
4 Love of learning
5 Fairness, equity, and justice
...
22. Social intelligence
23. Bravery and valor
24. Spirituality, sense of purpose, and faith

I didn't know I was so socially inept and such a coward. Nor did I realize I was so modest.

I'm doing the long version now.

I think the same 24 strengths are in the same order on every page, anyone else notice that?

Yeah, they ask the same questions over and over again.

It definitely measures how you see yourself rather than who you actually are.

1. Love of learning
2. Curiosity and interest in the world
3. Appreciation of beauty and excellence
4. Zest, enthusiasm, and energy
5. Bravery and valor
...
22. Caution, prudence, and discretion
23. Modesty and humility
24. Spirituality, sense of purpose, and faith

Hm, I'd guess that most people see themselves more accurately than not, especially for the more broad things like this...

I'm curious as to how all this is culturally mediated. For instance, maybe Asians are brought up having different standards of what level of group behaviour/social intelligence is acceptable... and thus their self-assessment on this and related measures skews very differently from non-Asians.

That site captures some of those things, right? I need to go poke around...

That's an interesting point. And since this is self reported, we're also answering relative to our culture/subculture. For example, if my culture is cautious, but I'm less cautious than the norm, I'd rate myself less cautious even if I'd be considered more cautious with a different cultural norm.

Right, that's exactly what I was trying to say... I think you succeeded in stating it much more succinctly!

Unfortunately that site doesn't seem to have any of the aggregate data available... you can't slice and dice the answers by different age groups, etc - only the researchers get to do that that!

1. Gratitude
2. Appreciation of beauty and excellence
3. Love of learning
4. Judgment, critical thinking, and open-mindedness
5. Self-control and self-regulation

22. Capacity to love and be loved
23. Zest, enthusiasm, and energy
24. Spirituality, sense of purpose, and faith

Can't say that I disagree with any of that, although I wonder how the results would change depending upon mood

I like how Tim's #1 == Mikhail's #24