first poach, then yvonne, so i thought i'd get in on the j/nohari windows too. so with minyin's help, we got started:

bona
mala

how difficult it is to have to pick just six items, because i have got at least 15 defining flaws that are on that chart and many more not on it.

also it's a fine mathematical model and a fairly interesting psychometric tool, but it is of course flawed, since the adjectives come from a pre-chosen list, and of course word tests like these do not take into account semantic range, nor the changing connotations of words since the fifties, when the model was first designed. (idealistic, for instance, has contracted in part the meaning of naive. and why not simply put all the qualities, positive and negative, into one grid?) i'm especially skeptical about the nohari window, since the antonymns arbitrarily defines the previous terms. take inattentive. i, for instance, have got the attention span of a mosquito. everyone knows that i am flighty, scatterbrained, distracted and vague. but i'm highly attentive to people. the participant then ends up passing over the word altogether. and inattentive has a much smaller semantic range than attentive does. and yet the adjective as used in the nohari window is meant to be an antonym to "tense," a dubious enough word in itself.