I don't think people can accurately describe their accent firsthand. Vis-a-vis... the evaluation labeled me with a mid-western accent & I've never been mistaken for being from Midwest America. I can adjust my accent somewhat to fake that I'm from the Midwest.. but that's what it is.. a fakeout, not my natural accent. Funny stuff. My NJ accent is pretty mild I think, and I can catch myself, randomly and accidently falling into a more exaggerated NJ accent... but my NJ accent is probably more apparent than a ghostly Midwestern accent... I mean.... I've only been to the Midwest like 3 times in the whole of my life. But, I guess the reason for my mild NJ accent is because of the influence of television and film that contributes to my speaking and generally, not spending much time around people originally from this area. When I read publicly, I accidently say a word here or there in a Boston accent with British syllable separation and/or long vowel for where in American a short vowel is typically used, and short vowel for where a long vowel is typically used, and stress breakdown different then typical American stress usage. For some reason. Yeh man. Linguistics rock!