Meyers Briggs is good for getting you to think about yourself, your interests, and how you interact with the world in a way that you probably would not have had the framework to do so if you had not taken the test.
It could be useful to discuss with colleagues what your scores were (while they share theirs) and why you think that they are that way. It could lead to some feedback that you could use to make you better at your job.
I wouldn’t take the letter designations too seriously.
I’m an ENFP - and very strong on all of those other than the N. We did this test at work - it was helpful for me, because everyone else I worked with (and for) were very strong Ts, which had led to some… tension’s not the right word, but sort of… because of the very different way we approached our work. For us it was an non-confrontational way to explore the differences between the people in that small team - we did it as part of a suite of these types of tests - and I found it both interesting and accurate.
(For those saying it’s no better than star signs, I’d disagree - star signs, there’s enough in the profiles that you could fit easily into any of them; there were lots and lots of MBTI profiles that were very clearly not me, and, while I didn’t always like everything in the ENFP profile, I recognised it all to vary degrees in myself. The write-ups online don’t always reflect those clear distinctions though.)
I like the whole idea. I keep testing at INTP but my T-F value has been close to mid-axis in the past, though firmly P more recently.
It makes sense to me that personality has measurable tendencies and like many I find these profiles fit the way people seem to me. I think there’s objective reason to appreciate any test that reproduces results and groups people much better than randomly.
The Basadur Creativity Profile is another, more specifically aimed at how technical people work, and I’ve taken it multiple times over the years. It reproduces my two dimensional profile to within about 3% of the axis space each way. There’s also a web site full of these things that includes what I think of as a liberal-conservative profile that I quite enjoyed; if I remember where it was I’ll post, but Scientific American led me there a year or two ago.
We’ve had this thread before, and I’ve always been the only ISFP who reports. My S value is low, but my P-ness is huge. Seriously, though, I’m Mr. Perceiver.
Like Dio, though, I wonder at my ability to answer honestly, without being tinged by my own self-image, now that I know where the test is going.
I’m surprised by all the introverts. Perhaps they’re only outgoing when they can be anonymous? I scored ESTJ this time, but I think that retirement has a lot to do with this. Not being in the workplace changes how you view things.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not.
There seem to be a lot of Jays in this forum.
I was introduced to the MBTI in the Eighties through my job. It was only in the last ten years that I’ve had time to study it in any depth and I find it fascinating.
I’d go so far as to say that the understanding I gained through it has halped me a great deal in my relationships with others, how they act and think.
There are a couple of pretty good forum sites. One is “Typology.”
It’s the S/N skew which is the real surprise. Yeah, a bunch of introverts go hang out anonymously on some message board-big whoop. But what dissuades all the S’s (IS’s) from coming here? It’s running 61-6 N-S right now; I’m guessing that N covaries with both I and J.
INFJ. The label is accurate to extend that I loath crowds, prefer to talk to people one on one, tends to let my emotions rule my head and is always planning. Whether all the funny things they say about INFJ is true or not…I have no clue.
I think it’s only good for measuring people who has extreme personality; most people are likely to be 50% introvered, extroved, thinking/feeling and etc (that’s my own WAG). Also, we are our own best deciever at times.
Those tests doesn’t help to measure intensity; I reckon that I hate deadlines, but perhaps compare to the rest of the world, I only hate it just a bit, while to someone he loath it.
That said, I think people are more complicated than 16 typs. It’s a good guideline, but I wouldn’t make any bets using it (“Ooh I sure John is going to do this and that because he’s an INFJ!!!”)
I first took this test when I was 16, and I was a pretty solid INFJ. I thought I might have changed over time to an INTJ or ISTJ, because I tend to take a much more critical/empirical approach to my work than I used to, but nope – still an INFJ. The description is ridiculously accurate.
I guess no matter what I can’t stop all those feeeeeeeelings.
My husband is ESTJ. Opposites attract I suppose.
I am not surprised in the least to find most people here are INTJs.
The dimensions of the MBTI actually correlate pretty well with four of the big five personality traits. What’s interesting about that is that there’s some recent research suggesting that some of the big five traits match up pretty well with brain structures. Since that’s a press release for a new study, it’s hard to say exactly how well it’ll hold up, but it’s definitely a plausible story.
I bump into sensors around here. Maybe they aren’t as apt to find credence in the MBTI and so they don"t respond to the thread?
I have done it a few times and come out an XXXX. Because I argue with the people who conduct all these forms of BS, I am now excused from attending the sessions at work. As a government employee I suggested that the media may be interested in investigating the amount of money pissed away on pointless, scientifically invalidated feel good exercises. That was enough to have me excused.
Last time my work mates did the MBTI I printed out certificates with their Fairy Names for each of them. Crap like: Your Meyer Briggs Fairy is called Columbine Goblindancer. She is a bringer of riches and wealth. She lives in mushroom fields and quiet meadows. She is only seen when the bees swarm and the crickets chirrup. She wears lilac and purple like columbine flowers. She has gentle green wings like a butterfly.
Meyer-Briggs was soon forgotten.
Last time I actually took an assessment test (and it was Keirsey, not M-B, so I don’t know how they’re different, if at all) I scored as INFP/J. I seem to score higher or lower on P or J depending on my mood; they’re close enough together that I can get either/or.
It’s been a couple years since I actually took the test, though, and since then I’ve been making myself do networking events and other social things that don’t come naturally to me. I fake it very well, during the event – that is, I can usually avoid letting myself hide in a dark corner, and once I start interacting with people I generally really enjoy it – but I still need at least a day or two to fully recover from the exhaustion I get from doing so. So on that point, I don’t know if I’m actually moving more towards the extroverted side of the scale, or if I just fake it really really well. I tend to think of the introversion as the core personality trait, and the extroversion as entirely learned behavior, in any case.
Didn’t vote cuz I couldn’t select both INFP and INFJ. 
Missed the edit:
I do think the personality assessments can be useful. Just generally not in the way that corporate America (or most people, really) actually use them.
I read somewhere that very few women have my “profile” (ESTJ).
I absolutely agree with this. People are incredibly complex. But I find the MBTI quite predictive of the ‘big picture’ of how something thinks, and relates to the world and other people.
I often think people take type descriptions too literally or make them unrealistically absolute. There’s a lot more to me than my stereotypical INTJ traits (of which I have many), for sure. But as an example: this article which I found recently was written about someone exactly like me. Even down the the specific behaviors of the children used as examples. It’s a bit creepy. It also validates me a bit - I had a really tough and abusive relationship with my mom as a child, and she blames me for all of it. We just have totally incompatible personalities. Every natural tendency I have, well illustrated by that article, enrages or alienates her.
Oh, god yes. I’m an INFJ, but the point still stands. My mother and I couldn’t have been more different, and it drove her absolutely insane.
She speaks with genuine bittnerness about being encouraged, as a child, to see shapes in the clouds:
Look, OlivesMom, it’s a badger!
What?
A badger.
That’s a not a badger, it’s a cloud.
It’s a cloud that looks like a badger. Can’t you see the badger shape in the cloud?
No, I see a cloud.
Years pass. cue birth of olives
Look, Mom, a badger!
IT’S NOT A BADGER IT’S A CLOUD!!!
I wonder what it would be like to live in the clouds?
THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE! WHY DO YOU CARE?
I wrote a story about living in the clouds with badgers!
WHAT A WASTE OF TIME
Ah, memories.
Sounds like me (INFP) and my (adoptive) dad (ESTJ). Similar flights of fancy on my part simply left him bemused, at best (note my very first memory was in fact my seeing a tiger in a sunset). We simply didn’t see eye-to-eye on many different issues-I realized fairly early on in my life, actually, just how different we were.