I Pit My Personality Type

INTJ

“Bent on deconstructing and rebuilding every system or idea you come into contact with”

“Forming a lasting, committed relationship will be the hardest endeavor of your life.”

Anyone else find their personality type both accurate and annoying?

Yes?

Only about 4% of males are INTJ and about 3% of women. But that’s over the whole USA. A poll at SDMB found that 32% of Dopers are INTJ. :smack:
And the real number is probably even higher since one of the INTJ traits is not believing in Myers-Briggs, often comparing it to astrology(*).

I’m INTP (borderline J) which is the 2nd largest SDMB group.

(* - The disdain for Myers-Briggs baffles me. The test asks questions which paraphrased are “Are you introverted?” and then, at the end tells you you’re “I.” How is that like astrology? :smack: )

Relevant read from a psychiatrist on Myers-Briggs: On Types of Typologies | Slate Star Codex

Pit yourself, asshole. Just because you are an INTJ doesn’t mean that you are particularly good at it------from an INTJ who has been in a relationship for 21 years, and IIRC, you make it as hard as possible for me to maintain that relationship

I don’t have much opinion on M-B but that’s pretty much exactly like astrology.

Uhhhh … this claim is so wrong, so utterly nonsensical, that I’m going to assume you had some mental lapse.

Take a deep breath; reread the statement you’re responding to with the realization that “I” stands for “Introverted”; think for a few seconds; and try again.

Dude, astrology is all about asking people questions about their preconceived personality traits and then informing them that the answer is the one the already wanted. The birth date stuff and astronomy-ish parts are just figleafs.

Wrong again, dude. Astrology is all about remembering your birthday and looking it up in your newspaper’s Horoscope column.

Mine is oversimplification? Maybe, but not nearly as much as yours.

I don’t have an accurate personality type, and I still find my personality to be annoying.

That’s why I don’t pay attention to either.

The thing about the MB test is that on any given day your answer may be slightly different. And, depending upon the occasion you may also choose to do something different from what you had to pick as a multiple choice answer.

Placing people into pidgeon holes and labeling them is ridiculous. We’re all much more complex than that.

Sometimes I choose to be extroverted; sometimes I choose to be introverted.

Sometimes I feel like a nut; sometimes I don’t.

I, personally, give no creedence to those types of tests.

How about INFJ?!

Fucking F. :frowning:

I’ll just leave this here.

Seems we’re all in agreement.

Just what I was going to link to. The test is a big load of crap.

You should consult a professional for a second opinion.
Might I suggest here or here?

As an INTP who has known you for years, I have always found that to be an accurate assessment of you. At best.

That was great, and so are a bunch of his other videos I just watched.

And yet you end up with some really weird results, like certain traits being drastically overrepresented in certain social groups. Less Wrong members are seven times more likely than background to be INTJ, which makes sense when you consider what “INTJ” actually means - Introversion, Intuition, Thinking, Judgment - and realize that that’s basically rationalists (and high-functioning autists, and there is a lot of overlap) in a nutshell. It’s not exactly scientific, it’s not guaranteed to be the same from test to test, it doesn’t tell you anything you weren’t already prepared to tell it up front, but the categories legitimately are useful to some degree.

I don’t know what mine is, but I definitely find yours annoying.:slight_smile: