# I Pit My Personality Type **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 14, 2017, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-personality-type/798790 "2017-10-14T06:53:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-personality-type/798790/41 "2017-10-18T00:58:20Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I like to say “The Sorting Hat put me in the local tavern”… but “put me in INFP” would work, too. Note that INFPs are common. Losers. INTP is where it’s at! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-personality-type/798790/42 "2017-10-18T01:47:41Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > But I still don’t think there’s much point in taking a test. Just look at [the lis](http://www.personalitypage.com/high-level.html)t, and pick the one(s) that fit. It can help you put into words things about yourself. Or not, but it can still be fun. See, when I read those descriptions, I feel like I can fit into almost any category. I typically score E/I N T/F P. So let’s take the opposite: I/E S T/F J. I’ll just do two: ISTJ and ESFJ. ISTJ: “Serious and quiet, interested in security and peaceful living. Extremely thorough, responsible, and dependable. Well-developed powers of concentration. Usually interested in supporting and promoting traditions and establishments. Well-organized and hard working, they work steadily towards identified goals. They can usually accomplish any task once they have set their mind to it.” I think if someone heard that description of me, they would agree with it. Maybe not so much the “well-organized” part, but in a professional setting, I do seem well-organized. ESFJ: “Warm-hearted, popular, and conscientious. Tend to put the needs of others over their own needs. Feel strong sense of responsibility and duty. Value traditions and security. Interested in serving others. Need positive reinforcement to feel good about themselves. Well-developed sense of space and function.” That sounds reasonably like a description of me, too. I mean, there are a couple of types that really don’t fit me (ENTJ and ENFJ, for example) but the majority of the descriptions sound reasonably like some aspect of my personality. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-personality-type/798790/43 "2017-10-19T03:52:55Z")
Interesting test I suppose. ENFJ here, at least for today. Why so many I types here? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-personality-type/798790/44 "2017-10-19T05:54:22Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > See, when I read those descriptions, I feel like I can fit into almost any category. I typically score E/I N T/F P. So let’s take the opposite: I/E S T/F J. I’ll just do two: ISTJ and ESFJ. > > ISTJ: “Serious and quiet, interested in security and peaceful living. Extremely thorough, responsible, and dependable. Well-developed powers of concentration. Usually interested in supporting and promoting traditions and establishments. Well-organized and hard working, they work steadily towards identified goals. They can usually accomplish any task once they have set their mind to it.” > > I think if someone heard that description of me, they would agree with it. Maybe not so much the “well-organized” part, but in a professional setting, I do seem well-organized. > > ESFJ: “Warm-hearted, popular, and conscientious. Tend to put the needs of others over their own needs. Feel strong sense of responsibility and duty. Value traditions and security. Interested in serving others. Need positive reinforcement to feel good about themselves. Well-developed sense of space and function.” > > That sounds reasonably like a description of me, too. > > I mean, there are a couple of types that really don’t fit me (ENTJ and ENFJ, for example) but the majority of the descriptions sound reasonably like some aspect of my personality. I find that many had things that were somewhat like me, but only those two fit more than they don’t. And a lot of times, the thing that was somewhat like me were also represented in those two types. I approached it in a Venn diagram sort of way, knocking out things that weren’t like me at all. I also treated statement about what people think of me in terms of “people who really know who I am.” But, hey. If you find it doesn’t work for you, fine. I don’t really consider it anything serious. As I said, I didn’t even remember what I’d gotten before. I do think it’s interesting in that there are people who would genuinely think that something describes them, while I find that way of thinking completely bizarre. Some of those things it says just sound to me like “Yeah, that’s the way it is.” So other people probably feel the same way about the stuff I think is ridiculous. What I’d be most interested in is a huge set of short descriptions that people could pick from and put together just a description of who they are. If a description is missing, someone adds it. Not for scientific purposes or anything, but just to help realize how we are coming from different points of view. And to perhaps ask about why they came to this point of view (if they even know). Heck, maybe those could also be voted on, to see if people who have a certain point of view agree that this is the reason. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-personality-type/798790/45 "2017-10-19T07:56:31Z")
OK. That INTJ thing almost sounds cool to me, but I can see how it gets annoying. Just be less judgmental, I guess. I don’t actually generally remember which M-B type I (supposedly) am; I can’t keep all the alphabet soup names straight. I think I’m “the Logician” (INTP) [because the illustration on this page looks familiar.](https://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality) LOL. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-personality-type/798790/46 "2017-10-19T20:32:29Z")
A repeat from a prior M-B thread, with minor edits: > [@](#): > > This reminds me of the joke about the M-B facilitator who got kicked out of her own class. She had been hired to give an employee workshop by a company owner who had been talked into sponsoring the program, but wasn’t completely sold on it. > > During the workshop he peppered her with questions, asking over and over again how this could possibly benefit his company. So she decided to use him as an example. He was heavily J, and liked quick decisions. She came close to convincing him as she talked about the need to get enough information to base a good decision on. Other people might have the opposite problem, she said, and needed his motivation to stop saddling up and ride. His need was to know that he might come to a decision too soon, and to develop enough awareness to ensure that would not happen. > > She almost had him convinced until she said: “Your problem is that you have too much J-ness and not enough P-ness.” ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-personality-type/798790/47 "2017-10-20T13:29:16Z")
I think it’s all bullshit. So pit that. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-personality-type/798790/48 "2017-10-20T13:44:00Z")
Meyers-Briggs is just like horoscopes except that you get to choose your own sign. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-personality-type/798790.md?page=2)