# Do any dopers know their Meyers-Briggs personality type? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431 "2003-12-28T18:23:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/41 "2003-12-29T06:38:18Z")
I had the test done professionally once, but I escaped the asylum before I could find out what the result was. ---
**Author:** ![StanDup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@StanDup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StanDup)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/42 "2003-12-29T06:58:57Z")
INFJ ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/43 "2003-12-29T07:03:00Z")
INFJ ---
**Author:** ![TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFunkySpaceCowboy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/44 "2003-12-29T07:14:03Z")
ENTP here. ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/45 "2003-12-29T07:19:28Z")
Did a little count of the results of this poll: **INFJ** is the winner with 6 people, followed closely by **INTP** and **INTJ** with 5 each. **ENFJ** takes the third spot with 4 people. **ENFP, ENTJ,** and **ISTP** all have 2 apiece. **ESFJ** and **INFP** have only 1 person. This gives us: INFJ: 6 INTP: 5 INTJ: 5 ENFJ: 4 ENFP: 2 ENTJ: 2 ISTP: 2 ESFJ: 1 INFP: 1 ENTP: 1 The SDMB seems to have an unusually high number of introverts, considering they’re supposed to be only about 10% of the population, but this isn’t a scientific poll or anything and the number of respondents is very small. We have 10 of the 16 possible types represented so far, with the introverts outnumbering the extroverts by a good bit. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/46 "2003-12-29T07:20:19Z")
\*did some SDMB [searching](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=1081512&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending) \* [ul](16 Sep 1999)[Myers-Briggs Type](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13045&highlight=meyersbriggs) (4 Aug 2001)[Kiersey Tempermant Types](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80508&highlight=meyersbriggs) (20 Nov 2001)[Does Myers-Briggs testing have any value?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100112&highlight=meyersbriggs) (31 Mar 2002) [Are you an introvert or extrovert?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=106883&highlight=meyersbriggs) (8 Jul 2003) [Whats your Personality type?](http://http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=196007&highlight=meyersbriggs) [/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/47 "2003-12-29T07:30:42Z")
I was tested professionally (my boss at the time knew someone who just got trained in administering the MBPI, so I got it for free). I came out as an ENFJ, which is The Pedogogue, or Teacher on some sites. I am a teacher, so I find it interesting that I would have this type, which I do think fits me. What I find even more curious is that only 2-3% of the population supposedly has this personality, so there are plenty of teachers out there who are not, according to the MBPI, teacher types. Makes sense, though, considering what I’ve seen… ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/48 "2003-12-29T07:31:21Z")
I don’t trust those things. I’ve taken lots of tests and they always trying to tell me I’m paranoid or schizotypal or have ADD and not a good mate or am not good at calculus, and I’m like, whatever dude. You don’t need that stuff in real life. Actually, I can’t shake the feeling that if the results of the Meyer-Briggs weren’t presented in a touchy-feely “It’s not wrong to be introverted”, I believe more people would contest the results. Always listed under one of the qualities are far more good points of being that way than bad, so in that way I think it’s a lot like astrology and that crap. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/49 "2003-12-29T07:36:31Z")
ENFP ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/50 "2003-12-29T08:27:08Z")
INTP / J – right on the line between P and J. ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/51 "2003-12-29T08:45:16Z")
INFJ ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/52 "2003-12-29T12:03:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TroubleAgain \* > \*\*INFP \*\* Me too - and the description was scarily accurate (apparently only one per cent of the population are INFP). I hope no prospective employer ever makes me do this test - otherwise they’d never hire me…) 🙂 Oh well - at least I have integrity! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/53 "2003-12-29T12:11:30Z")
ISTJ Over the years though, my I has become less strong. It’s still there, but I’ve become somewhat more extroverted. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/54 "2003-12-29T12:13:34Z")
**YoudNeverGuess** I am taking a Eurail vacation starting Jan 10 and I will be passing through Dublin =) ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/55 "2003-12-29T13:11:10Z")
SfTJ Me, George Washington, and Bill Clinton ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/56 "2003-12-29T13:12:25Z")
What the hell kind of typo is that? ESFJ ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/57 "2003-12-29T13:31:29Z")
Let me quote myself from a previous thread (how’s THAT for ego): > [@](#): > > From me: > > In truth, I’d have more confidence in it if it didn’t always sound like a fortune teller trying to get you to believe. > > Just once, couldn’t it say, “Your personality type is XXXX. You’re screwed. No one except a psychopath is going to like you. Kill yourself now and save us the trouble.” > > Instead it’s all “Your strengths are this…You like this…People who share this personality type won 15 Nobel Prizes and got laid a lot.” > > Give me a break. > > And…for the record…over the last 20 years (I first took it in high school) > > ENTJ > INFP > ENTP > INTP > > You tell me what the hell that means. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/58 "2003-12-29T16:43:12Z")
Another INTP here. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/59 "2003-12-29T16:55:46Z")
That’s an interesting observation about Dopers being introverted, not supported by my own observations, but that may have to do with the Dopers I’ve met, who seem to be extroverts. Maybe that’s because the introverted Dopers don’t come out to Dopefests, et. al. (?) ---
**Author:** ![Psalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Psalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psalex)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/60 "2003-12-29T22:35:33Z")
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