# What is your Myers-Briggs personality type?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 7, 2009, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618 "2009-08-07T11:53:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/21 "2009-08-07T15:16:25Z")
ENTJ, but like this:
```auto
i-----------|x-------------e
n-------x---|--------------s
f-----------|--------x-----t
p-----------|---------x----j
```
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### Author:  [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/22 "2009-08-07T15:22:26Z")
> [@Gam\_Zeh\_Yaavor](#):
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> Either Dopers and crazy racists have something in common, or INTJs just tend to generally be drawn to posting on message boards. I hope it’s the latter.
It’s the latter, for the most part. It’s that preference for asynchronous communication, as referenced in the link I posted.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/23 "2009-08-07T15:25:12Z")
Mine’s IHNIWYAATA:
**I** **H** ave **N** o **I** dea **W** hat **Y** ou **A** ll **A** re **T** alking **A** bout
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### Author:  [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/24 "2009-08-07T15:28:02Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#):
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> As for the folks who are poo-pooing this … no, it’s not a perfect system. It does, however, offer some insights, especially about other people when you learn about their type in conjunction with learning about your type.
Just to be clear, I am not poo-pooing the system so much as the exercise we had to endure at work. There was a lot of noise made in the beginning about accommodating peoples’ differences, but at the end of the day, it is still an extrovert’s world and nothing really changed.
Just like your link says, I loathe being lied to or manipulated.
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### Author:  [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/25 "2009-08-07T15:29:13Z")
ESTP, apparently. With both S and T being expressed by 1 percent, so it’s a razor-thin line there.
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### Author:  [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/26 "2009-08-07T15:58:06Z")
> [@Maeglin](#):
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> but at the end of the day, it is still an extrovert’s world and nothing really changed.
Ain’t that the truth. heh
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### Author:  [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/27 "2009-08-07T15:58:42Z")
INTP, but very close to the line on both E/I and on T/F.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/28 "2009-08-07T16:24:43Z")
According to feeling types I’m “dismissive,” “arrogant,” “overly critical of others,” and “lack empathy,” so I’m the perfect INTJ.
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### Author:  [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/29 "2009-08-07T16:26:19Z")
> [@TroubleAgain](#):
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> INFP
> Like this:
> I-----------X|-------------E
> N–X--------|-------------S
> FX----------|-------------T
> PX----------|-------------J
That’s almost me exactly! I’ve even tested as an E once or twice.
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### Author:  [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/30 "2009-08-07T16:29:06Z")
I’m an ENFJ, and I think it’s me and one other guy on here and that’s it.
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### Author:  [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/31 "2009-08-07T16:29:50Z")
Mine usually come out as INTJ or ENTJ, or in other words, I am a [Mastermind](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(Role_Variant)) [Fieldmarshal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldmarshal_(Role_Variant)).
I don’t take it particularly seriously.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/32 "2009-08-07T16:34:27Z")
> [@TroubleAgain](#):
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> INFP
> Like this:
> I-----------X|-------------E
> N–X--------|-------------S
> FX----------|-------------T
> PX----------|-------------J
This diagrams my own configuration very closely.
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### Author:  [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/33 "2009-08-07T16:35:55Z")
ISTJ - Serious, quiet, earn success by concentration and thoroughness. Practical, orderly, matter of fact, logical, realistic and dependable. See to it that everything is well organized. Take responsibility. Make up their own minds as to what should be accomplished and work toward it steadily, regardless of protests or distractions. And yep, I have Aspergers too.
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### Author:  [@RedBloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedBloom)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/34 "2009-08-07T16:42:55Z")
INFJ here!
It’s frightening how accurate the description are…
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### Author:  [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/35 "2009-08-07T16:45:22Z")
ENTJ, but the “E” only had a strength of 1. Ask me tomorrow and I could be an INTJ.
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### Author:  [@Polly\_Glot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polly_Glot)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/36 "2009-08-07T17:53:03Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#):
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> INTJ. I flip-flop between J and P, but lately have been J. The theory is that the older you get, the more “you” you are. INTJ is one of the rarest types, and the two or three least common types for women.
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> As for the folks who are poo-pooing this … no, it’s not a perfect system. It does, however, offer some insights, especially about other people when you learn about their type in conjunction with learning about your type. I had done the MB before, but several years ago also did it at work with my dept. During the group debriefing, there were tons of a-ha moments. The other INTJ and I finally got the boss to understand why the idea of working lunches was so very distasteful to us. It wasn’t about us being unreasonably protective of non-work time, but just the fact that we needed a **solitary** **break** **in** **the** **middle** **of** **the** **day** **to** **recharge**. Even helping people understand the difference between I and E can go a long way towards smoothing relationships. I’m not sitting quietly in another room because I hate you, I’m sitting quietly in another room because I need some time without external stimulation.
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> This is the best description of an INTJ I’ve seen – slightly tongue in cheek, but oh so true. 😃
> [http://intjcentral.com/manual4](http://intjcentral.com/manual4)
YES. YES. YES. This. I test INTJ, and desperately need that middle of the day recharge. The unwritten rule always seems to be, sit around and shoot the shit with colleagues during lunch instead, but isn’t that what we sit around at our desks all day long doing anyway? Gah!
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### Author:  [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/37 "2009-08-07T18:17:11Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#):
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> Ain’t that the truth. heh
“You mean you don’t find brainstorming and alignment meetings invigorating and refreshing?”
I even forwarded the Jonathan Rausch article about introversion to some people I work with for shiggles.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/38 "2009-08-07T18:37:13Z")
I think the last time I took one of the internetty versions of this, I came out as ENTP.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/39 "2009-08-07T18:38:31Z")
According to the linked quiz, I’m an INTP with a 12% T.
To answer **corkboard’s** question I don’t really follow it, but I’m aware of my designation in the system. I’m also a Capricorn (I don’t follow that either), a scanner (rather than a delver), a Relator (rather than a Director, Socializer, or Thinker), and an RIA (Reality - Information - Art, from the Strong Interest Inventory).
What can I say. When I see a personality sorting system, I like to fiddle with it and see where it slots me.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/40 "2009-08-07T19:07:21Z")
Hrm, either I misremembered the previous result or it changed. Taking the test linked above, I’m considered an **ENTJ**. (Strength of the preferences: E 44%, N 50%, T 1%, J 33%).
Hahaha, from one of the explanation sites linked above:
> [@](#):
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> [ENTJs] often challenge people’s statements and behaviors, expecting that others will defend them and that, as a result, mutual learning will take place. ENTJ s admire and seek out people who are knowledgeable and who stand up to them, say what they think and argue persuasively.
Not that these things are necessarily 100% accurate, but boy have I been running into problems because of \*\*that \*\*lately.
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