But I hate syntax! I find it incredibly boring. I wish modern academic linguistics wasn't so obsessed with syntax. I like sound change and inflectional morphology and detecting inherited relationships between languages, and lexicostatistics, and things like that.

I agree, though, that there may be a mismatch between this quiz's idea of "linguistic" and academic linguistics. I suspect some of the questions I gave negative responses to would have contributed to me not coming out as a "linguistic thinker", for personal social reasons rather than anything to do with my analytical approach to things. For example, the question about whether you like to tell stories in groups, or something like that - I gave a very low response to that one, because I'm just too shy to want extended conversational turns in groups.