Profiling Ed Balls’ personality through his pig doodle
Posted on June 6, 2011There’s a simple personality profiling test called the Pig Test. You draw a doodle of a pig, and the way you do so is used to give a sketch outline of your personality type. (If you want to take the test yourself, please draw a pig now, because the details in the rest of this post will otherwise influence your results). It’s not perfect, but it’s an amusing little way to give a broadbrush insight into what you or your friends are like.
How convenient, then, that the Ed Balls Files released by the Telegraph this week feature a doodle of a pig drawn by Ed Balls himself:
So according to the rules of the Pig Test, what does it tell us about Ed Balls’ personality?
First, the doodle is located at the top of the page, which apparently should mean “you are perceived as a positive
and optimistic person by others.” (I did say it wasn’t perfect).
Next, we look at the direction the pig is facing – Ed’s piggywig is looking out of the page directly at us, indicating “you are a direct person; [you] neither fear nor avoid discussion and enjoy “stirring the pot” to promote change.”
The doodle also has more detail than you would normally expect in a picture of a cartoon pig, which means “you see yourself as analytical and cautious. Others must work hard to earn your trust and to keep it.”
The fact the pig has two rather than four legs indicates a sense of insecurity, that “you are living through a period of major change in your life”.
The pig’s ears aren’t unusually large or unusually small, so far as I can see that means Ed is a fairly good listener.
Finally, and most tellingly, there’s the tail. According to the rules of the Pig Test, “the longer the pig’s tail that you have drawn (including loops) the more satisfied you are with the quality of your personal relationships”.
It speaks for itself that Ed Balls’ pig has no tail at all.
Tags: Daily Telegraph, Ed Balls, Labour, Labour Leadership, New Labour, Parliament, Pig doodle, Politics, Westminster
Categories: Politics
From a pig, you expect a grunt
13.06.2011 08:52
I thought that it implies he likes to have sex with pigs. (Apologies to Yvette)
13.06.2011 09:31
Four legs good, two legs better.
13.06.2011 10:15
All bollocks of course, as are most of these analytical “techniques”. I have OCPD, hate dealing with people and avoid social situations, and am going through a rankerous divorce. The pig I have just drawn is near the top of the page, has a long tail, four legs and faces outwards…..
And you don’t need quackery such as this to know what kind of tosser Balls is. ;o)
13.06.2011 10:23
That’s not a pig, it’s Yvette
13.06.2011 11:22
I think it means he is looking forward to some “pig on a stick” with Gordon and Yvette.
13.06.2011 21:05
Interesting. When I had my farm many years ago I had a pig who could draw pictures of Ed Balls. It did this by first eating copious amounts of food and then squeezing large balls of excrement out of its arsehole. I must say they were amazingly lifelike. One time it took a dump that looked remarkably like Damian McBride so we had it shot and ate it. The pig that is.
14.06.2011 01:34