Are you alpha, beta or alta/bepha?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
moshquerade

moshquerade

No Lifer
Nov 1, 2001
61,504
12
56
Are you an alpha, beta male or somewhere in between?

Alphas are generally the very masculine, overly confident guys.

Betas are generally more self-conscious 'nice guys'.

I did make up some names for you in betweeners: Alta or Bepha

Which are you?
 
FelixDeCat

FelixDeCat

Lifer
Aug 4, 2000
31,144
2,746
126
It Texas, Skaggs merged with Alpha Beta back in the early 80s when I was a contractor working at the store (I was about 14). They changed the name back and forth. One day they settled on Skaggs Alpha Beta but it eventually became Albertsons and the rest is history.
 
T

TheVrolok

Lifer
Dec 11, 2000
24,254
4,092
136
I look like an alpha .. I'm most publicly alpha, but in private and with closer friends I'd say I'm mostly beta. Fairly silly question as it's an extreme generalization but oh well. :)
 
Fenixgoon

Fenixgoon

Lifer
Jun 30, 2003
33,443
13,062
136
awww i wanted to be gamma so i can have all the carbon dissolved and be metastable upon quenching :heart:
 
Zenmervolt

Zenmervolt

Elite member
Oct 22, 2000
24,514
44
91
"Alphas have to think things through, betas and gammas have too much to do."

Wait, wrong alpha and beta scale. ;)

ZV
 
Demon-Xanth

Demon-Xanth

Lifer
Feb 15, 2000
20,551
2
81
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
I look like an alpha .. I'm most publicly alpha, but in private and with closer friends I'd say I'm mostly beta. Fairly silly question as it's an extreme generalization but oh well. :)
Click to expand...

I'm similar in that respect. Everyone seems to want me to be a leader and such, but I don't want to be one.
 
HardcoreRobot

HardcoreRobot

Lifer
Nov 7, 2000
16,403
3
81
beta in public/around strangers (stay quiet, observe, etc.)
more alpha in private/around friends but not overly so (at least i dont think so)
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
63,170
19,507
136
I'm standing in the Alpha Beta parking lot.

Must be somewhere in between. Generally a nice guy, but I have no problem being an asshole when necessary.
 
destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
28,799
359
126
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'm standing in the Alpha Beta parking lot.

Must be somewhere in between. Generally a nice guy, but I have no problem being an asshole when necessary.
Click to expand...

:D :thumbsup:

I'm definitely a Bepha. On the outside, especially in public, I don't let myself stand out as an overly confident person, and at times I really am not confident at all. But when it comes down to a close group, I'm more inclined to remove any artificial reservations and will be overly confident, sometimes to a fault if I bite off more than I can chew, whatever the situation is. Doesn't happen often. :p

But mostly, I've been faulted with being "too nice", and a girl has told me that before (and I can say with assurance it wasn't just some bullshit excuse. she was, well, different...). God damn women, what the hell do they want, to be beaten if they don't get the guy a sammich after sex? :laugh: I mean seriously, get to know me and you'll find out I'd kill (or die trying) to protect someone I care about. I just like treating people nice and with respect until they make me decide doing so is a waste of my time and effort.
 
C

Crono

Lifer
Aug 8, 2001
23,720
1,503
136
Alpha/Beta is suited well for animals, but few people are truly alphas or betas. Human hierarchies are rarely so neat as those in the animal kingdom. Unless you are talking about within a certain family, organization, or group, and not just generally. Even then, the interplay of power between people is a range between alpha and beta, not just the four options you gave.

If I had to choose, I would say I am a Bepha. I am confident when I need to be, about the things I need to be, but otherwise I prefer to be in the background, so to speak. I don't have a great desire to be dominant.
 
Demon-Xanth

Demon-Xanth

Lifer
Feb 15, 2000
20,551
2
81
Originally posted by: destrekor
I mean seriously, get to know me and you'll find out I'd kill (or die trying) to protect someone I care about. I just like treating people nice and with respect until they make me decide doing so is a waste of my time and effort.
Click to expand...

I don't really think that's an alpha trait, as betas are known to be rather aggressive when the alpha is threatened too.
 
Y

yowolabi

Diamond Member
Jun 29, 2001
4,183
2
81
Alpha. I'm soft spoken and haven't raised my voice in years. I never get angry and am in control of my emotions at all times. I realize that some of the traits seem more like Beta traits until the whole picture comes out. You can be alpha and subtle, it just takes more patience.

I have complete confidence in my abilities, and anyone who talks to me for any length realizes it. For example, I started a new job recently along with 3 other people who have the same position. They're all bright guys who I respect. However, by the end of the first week of training, they would ask me first when they had questions. Not just questions about information that was given to us, but procedural questions about what and how they should do something that was never explained, knowing I had the exact training that they did. I answer all of their questions with confidence, and they almost always took my advice. I can promise you that after i've been here a month, people who've been here far longer will be asking me questions. That type of thing happens everywhere in my life, and i'm used to both the expectations and the responsibility.

I seem to project some sort of aura that I know what i'm doing, probably because I always believe that's so, and can back it up when challenged. On the flip side, I've never felt the need to ask my peers for advice, anywhere. Maybe i'm arrogant, but i've never felt that anyone around was more competent than me. I think deeply about the best course of action, take it, and never look back.

Whenever i'm in a group, no matter how large, we end up operating on my schedule. Many times, the people around me don't know that I was the one that decided, and that's okay. I don't care about the credit, I simply want things to progress in my preferred way. I don't consciously manipulate people, though it may sound like that. It's just that after i've decided what I want I set about making it happen. If i'm in a group, they end up coming along for the ride. One way or another, people around me seem to end up conforming to my desires.
 
Atomic Playboy

Atomic Playboy

Lifer
Feb 6, 2007
16,432
1
81
I'm more of an Alta-Vista. I'll help you in your soul-searching, but not all that well, and ultimately, you'll wish you had just Googled it.
 
jman19

jman19

Lifer
Nov 3, 2000
11,225
664
126
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
"Alphas have to think things through, betas and gammas have too much to do."

Wait, wrong alpha and beta scale. ;)

ZV
Click to expand...

Nice reference :)
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
80,287
17,082
136
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Are you an alpha, beta male or somewhere in between?

Alphas are generally the very masculine, overly confident guys.

Betas are generally more self-conscious 'nice guys'.

I did make up some names for you in betweeners: Alta or Bepha

Which are you?
Click to expand...
So you've dried up your local dating pool and are looking for husbands on Anandtech?

 
T

TruePaige

Diamond Member
Oct 22, 2006
9,874
2
0
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom