# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/61 "2003-12-29T23:33:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by YoudNeverGuess \* > \*\*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! \*\* INFP Well, that’s three of us (here, at least). I get this no matter which test I take, so I guess it must fit me pretty well. Me, you **YNG** , **TroubleAgain** , Shakespeare, Mary Mother of God, Mia Farrow and Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes (according to one of the flakier sites). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/62 "2003-12-30T03:55:43Z")
> [@](#): > > 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.” Well, there are other tests for that. That’s not what the MBTI intends to characterize. For your purposes (more or less), you’d want an MMPI or an MCMI. The MBTI is not intended as a measure of pathology. It’s intended as a strength-based characterization of style preferences. It may seem obvious that if you endorse “feeling” items you’ll come up “F.” But many people are quite oblivious to their preferences and presentation of self, so the MBTI can be a great tool for resolving workplace or interpersonal conflict. I didn’t post my type earlier. I am an ENFJ. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/63 "2003-12-30T06:49:07Z")
Actually, **Jonothan Chance** , this book I was reading last night, _People Types and Tiger Stripes_, does actually go over the negative aspects of each type and where they are likely to run into potholes. I also learned that it is not supposed to be a personality type but rather a psychological type (my mistake 😛 ), and it stressed that personality traits are a lot different than the personality ‘types’ that Jung came up with. Good stuff, to be honest 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![\_ceQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b9bd4f/32.png) [@\_ceQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_ceQueen)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/64 "2003-12-30T06:52:28Z")
ENTP. We rawk. ---
**Author:** ![Cek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Cek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cek)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/65 "2003-12-30T08:10:10Z")
One more ENTP! ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/66 "2003-12-30T14:51:58Z")
ISTJ here. **Lsura** , we may be the only ones!!! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/67 "2003-12-30T16:39:44Z")
ISTJ- they got me nailed pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431/68 "2003-12-30T23:36:30Z")
**Desert Wife** and I took the Keirsey sorter test years back. I was INFP, she ESTJ – total opposites. We loved each other anyway. Perhaps it was her strengths butressing my weaknesses and vice versa. DD [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-dopers-know-their-meyers-briggs-personality-type/221431.md?page=3)