Lipson Shiu Test

The Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type Test

Introduction

There are a number of well-known systems for classifying people's personalities according to various measures such as introversion-extroversion, and organisations often use these schemes to categorise their staff. Unfortunately, such methods do not capture a number of the most important aspects of an individual within an organisation; any corporate employee knows that whether someone is (for example) extroverted or introverted is much less critical than (say) how important they are.

An Alternative

The Lipson-Shiu test (devised by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu) attempts to remedy this and other oversights by classifying along four alternative axes:

Intelligent-Stupid
Lawful-Chaotic
Important-Unimportant
Good-Evil

It is important to note that none of these terms should be construed as a negative value judgement. For example, a "Stupid" person should not be able to deduce that they are less capable than an intelligent person and an "Unimportant" person shouldn't be told that their existence is irrelevant to those in charge. And certainly no-one could doubt the value of "Evil" employees to a large corporation or expect all their staff to be "Lawful"!

The Test

To assess your L-S type, the following diagnostic test has been devised:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/LipsonShiu.html

Once you have taken the test, you can score your answers and compare your results with each of the sixteen personality archetypes:

	IG	IE	UG	UE
IL	ILIG Archangel	ILIE Grand Vizier	ILUG Mensch	ILUE Gremlin
IC	ICIG Entrepreneur	ICIE Torturer	ICUG Inventor	ICUE Mad Scientist / Hacker
SL	SLIG Figurehead	SLIE Pointy head	SLUG Board Monitor	SLUE Traffic Warden
SC	SCIG Celebrity	SCIE Natural Disaster	SCUG Apologiser	SCUE Jinx

Warning

A word of warning: the test was compiled by ICUEs, and Colin Wright is an ILIE, so if you don't like the results, don't expect sympathy.

The Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type Test

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