# Keirsey Temperment Sorter **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646 "2000-09-18T20:04:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Needs2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Needs2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Needs2know)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/1 "2000-09-18T20:04:38Z")
Anyone taken the Keirsey Temperment Test? I did a long time ago and had forgotten what it said about me. Today while looking around at some sites about ADHD I ran across a site that had links to some different theories about the “disorder”. The idea being that it is not a disorder at all, simply a difference in temperment. The site linked you over to the Keirsey Temperment Sorter II. Low and behold! I’m a ENFP. (Which turned out to be an ADD “temperment”. Big suprise!) I fall under the additional category of Advocate/Champion which supposedly makes up only about 3% of the general population. Lucky me! No wonder my mother who is a ISTJ finds me strange. Her “type” makes up at least 40 to 45% of the population. This site if fun if you’d like to give it a try. [http://keirsey.com/personality](http://keirsey.com/personality) Needs2know ---
**Author:** ![Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/2 "2000-09-18T20:17:02Z")
Your link didn’t work for me, but I think I took the test. I can’t tell you off the top of my head what I was, but Naepoloeon was in my group. ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/3 "2000-09-18T20:19:10Z")
Needs2Know - I’m an ENFP/Advocate/Champion too. I wonder who the other 7 of us are! ---
**Author:** ![ignatiusjreilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@ignatiusjreilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatiusjreilly)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/4 "2000-09-18T20:29:12Z")
ISTJ - I am an inspector-guardian ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/5 "2000-09-18T20:34:21Z")
I’m an Idealest-healer, which is less than 1% of the population. Healer Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in striving for their ends, and informative and introverted in their interpersonal relations. Healer present a seemingly tranquil, and noticiably pleasant face to the world, and though to all appearances they might seem reserved, and even shy, on the inside they are anything but reserved, having a capacity for caring not always found in other types. They care deeply-indeed, passionately-about a few special persons or a favorite cause, and their fervent aim is to bring peace and integrity to their loved ones and the world. Healers have a profound sense of idealism derived from a strong personal morality, and they conceive of the world as an ethical, honorable place. Indeed, to understand iNFps, we must understand their idealism as almost boundless and selfless, inspiring them to make extraordinary sacrifices for someone or something they believe in. The iNFp is the Prince or Princess of fairytale, the Kings Champion or Defender of the Faith, like Sir Galahad or Joan of Arc. Healers are found in only 1 percent of the general population, although, at times, their idealism leaves them feeling even more isolated from the rest of humanity. Healers seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect, perhaps because they are likely to have a sense of inner division threaded through their lives, which comes from their often unhappy childhood. Healers live a fantasy-filled childhood, which, unfortunately, is discouraged or even punished by many parents. In a practical-minded family, required by their parents to be sociable and industrious in concrete ways, and also given down-to-earth siblings who conform to these parental expectations, iNFps come to see themselves as ugly ducklings. Other types usually shrug off parental expectations that do not fit them, but not the iNFps. Wishing to please their parents and siblings, but not knowing quite how to do it, they try to hide their differences, believing they are bad to be so fanciful, so unlike their more solid brothers and sisters. They wonder, some of them for the rest of their lives, whether they are OK. They are quite OK, just different from the rest of their family-swans reared in a family of ducks. Even so, to realize and really believe this is not easy for them. Deeply committed to the positive and the good, yet taught to believe there is evil in them, iNFps can come to develop a certain fascination with the problem of good and evil, sacred and profane. Tutors are drawn toward purity, but can become engrossed with the profane, continuously on the lookout for the wickedness that lurks within them. Then, when iNFps believe thay have yielded to an impure temptation, they may be given to acts of self-sacrifice in atonement. Others seldom detect this inner turmoil, however, for the struggle between good and evil is within the iNFp, who does not feel compelled to make the issue public. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/6 "2000-09-18T20:56:31Z")
ESTJ - Guardian Supervisor. I’m impressed. It summed me up pretty well. Normally I don’t trust these online tests, but I can’t argue with this one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/7 "2000-09-18T21:26:47Z")
Have taken it several times- and have tested as an ISTJ, inspector guardian each time. Umm… did I mention I’m a corporate auditor 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/8 "2000-09-18T21:43:08Z")
I haven’t taken the test in a long time, but I have taken it three times, and I always come up with Idealist/Healer. Odieman, you are not alone! I wonder how many of us there are on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/9 "2000-09-18T21:47:49Z")
Your Temperament is: Idealist Your Character Style is: Healer (iNFp) See Odieman’s post for an explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/10 "2000-09-18T22:01:55Z")
I’ve forgotten what I was when I took this years ago, but when I tried the link I got this: Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /personality/ on this server. So…my personality doesn’t exist on that server. More’s the pity. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/11 "2000-09-18T22:11:13Z")
INFP, every time I have taken the test. “I”, which I was told means introvert, is farthest from the middle for my profile. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/12 "2000-09-18T22:21:00Z")
However, if this is the same as the Meyers/Briggs Personality Indicator, I am an I **N** FP. There was a one point difference between Introvert/Extrovert, Thinking/Feeling and Judging/Percieving. On the other hand, I scored the highest possible score on Intuitive. In other words, I could care less if you talk to me, because there’s a chance I’ll approach you anyway, I solve problems using my emotions and my intellect, I take in all information and then make a judgement based on that information, but do not tell me that my gut feeling is wrong. Bad things will happen. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/13 "2000-09-18T22:26:51Z")
I looked for a [link](http://www.keirsey.com/) and I found this. There is an abbreviated version of that test here. -----🙂 —////\\ ---
**Author:** ![Angie\_Gailbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@Angie\_Gailbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angie_Gailbird)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/14 "2000-09-18T22:34:58Z")
A direct link to the test is [here](http://www.keirsey.com/cgi-bin/newkts.cgi). Count me in as another INFP. ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/15 "2000-09-18T22:44:04Z")
I’ve done it before - I’m a mastermind (iNTj). Last time I did the test it said that these were about 1% of the population…working in the computer industry, I passed the url around, due to the types attracted to computing, we got about 50% of these… ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/16 "2000-09-18T22:45:48Z")
It is not kind for INFPs to show up their mothers. But that is a better link, I think. -----😛 —////\\ ---
**Author:** ![JTR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@JTR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JTR)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/17 "2000-09-18T22:53:18Z")
One more INFP here. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is pretty much the same as the Myers-Briggs Personality Type system. Keirsey has been upgrading and updating the Personality Type system, including renaming the types (such as “Idealist-Healers,” and “Guardian-Supervisors”). And he has done a lot of interesting work and made the descriptions of the different personality types a lot more in-depth and meaningful than they were in the Myers-Briggs system. But ultimately his system is based on exactly the same 16 personality types that Myers-Briggs uses. ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/18 "2000-09-18T23:03:30Z")
As a Rational Architect (INTP), I’d just like to say - could we please clean this place up a little and wouldn’t that chair look better over there? ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/19 "2000-09-18T23:05:15Z")
Although I had previously understood INFPs to be a rare type, there are **lots** of us here at this thread (all three of my daughters are INFP also). I wonder if this is coincidence, or something about this message board is attractive to us, or some other interesting thing links us. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646/20 "2000-09-18T23:14:31Z")
The site says I’m an ENFP, but I’m exactly in the middle on the E/I scale. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keirsey-temperment-sorter/33646.md?page=2)