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I might do the paid version and see if there are more music choices. While I agree with many of the criticisms here, I still found it fun and at least mildly educational.
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I don't think the test is accurate.
Me neither. It´s clickbait, like so many other "personality tests" out there.
I can say it's not pure clickbait, as the link was sent to me by Dr. Sean Olive, one of the lead acoustic researchers at Harman (which also happens to be the biggest acoustics research facility in the world). Sean took the more thorough test - I might do the same.
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The problem is that there were built in genre biases.
I hate heavy metal, so the test told me I did not like "agressive" music. However, I would have gotten a different result if they had included Pharoah Sanders or late-era Coltrane.
Similarly, I apparently do not like "mellow" music, because I don't like smooth jazz or maudlin pop ballads. However, if they would have included bossa, or Bill Evans playing a standard, I would have liked "mellow" music.
Agree. But did you find it generally accurate? I did, while at the same time realizing that some of the generic samples biased my choices (like the Vivaldi example I shared earlier).
I do have a distaste for "mellow music" as a category. But as the overall results showed, I have a low tolerance for unsophisticated music but a high enjoyment of sophisticated. One can infer easily that I might like sophisticated yet mellow music (like your Bill Evans example).
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So, I did this (rather quickly)... I got this...
Musical Preferences
Mellow | Average (25 to 75th Percentile)
Unpretentious | Average (25 to 75th Percentile)
Sophisticated | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
Intense | Low (9 to 24th percentile)
Contemporary | High (76 to 91st Percentile)
I find interesting that "intense" scored very low, as there is quite a bit of music I enjoy I consider "intense" (like Mahler, Penderecki, etc...), but I suppose because I reacted negatively to the many brickwalled metal examples, they were considered "intense" here. :-)
Though not sure what this is now supposed to tell me.
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I don't think it's supposed to tell you anything; it's a basic test with flaws I and others have noted. I found it interesting, but I enjoy taking these kinds of tests. I've taken all kinds of different personality tests and found their results pretty accurate. I went through a custody evaluation years ago where part of the process was doing full psych evals plus IQ and personality tests. Maybe the reason I like them is because I did well and everything worked out strongly in my favor 
I think the testers here are between a rock and a hard place to a degree, since as I and others have pointed out, it's hard to create music samples that cover all conceivable bases. I also thought it would be interesting to have people take the test here, since we are all definite outliers in our musical tastes. Film music spans so many genres and styles; I thought that fact might really confound this testing methodology. And it seems that my hypothesis was correct. As I noted early on, I had to keep in mind that the Vivaldi-esque sample was a stand-in for baroque music, not for Vivaldi himself. And of course the categories are too broad - as some have pointed out, what they are classifying as "intense" music is represented by heavy metal, while most of us might represent intense music with a Jerry Goldsmith action cue. And one can hate heavy metal but love "The Swarm," lol.
I think this test would generally work for the rest of the population, though, since it represents more accurately the "types" of music they listen to. The music of the people of the land. The common clay of the new West.
You know… morons.
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Yeah, I enjoy these tests too. I did not mean my question disparagingly, but I genuinely wonder about, ok, what is that now telling me. :-)
I seem to have the exact same results as Ray Worley... :-)
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