What’s Your Beethoven Number?
Psychologists have innumerable tests available to try and quantify personality and predict people will interact with each other.
What do musicians have? Some people have studied the correlation between instrument type and personality and of course there are hundreds of jokes but there must be another way to get a read on someone in 2 seconds or less.
As such, Miss Mussel would like to propose a new system:
Your Beethoven Number
You simply rate the Beethoven symphonies in order of preference Simple as that.
For example, Miss Mussel’s number is 7 5 3 8 4 6 2 1 9.
There is still major data gathering and crunching to do before a full on Myers-Briggs-style analysis is available, a task probably best left to an eager beaver PhD student somewhere. At the moment then, all we have to work with is a nine digit number.
What’s your Beethoven number?
Do you know of anyone else who has the same one? If so, does it surprise you?
