# 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:  [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/41 "2009-08-07T19:22:50Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> Hrm, either I misremembered the previous result or it changed.
FYI the quickie online tests usually give the same \*general \*result as the full test, but don’t be surprised if there are differences.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/42 "2009-08-07T19:34:02Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#):
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> FYI the quickie online tests usually give the same \*general \*result as the full test, but don’t be surprised if there are differences.
The previous one was also specified as having been an internetty one.
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/43 "2009-08-07T19:38:45Z")
ENTJ, last I took one of those.
Mostly it seems like a cruel joke.
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### Author:  [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/44 "2009-08-07T19:42:27Z")
Those who read science fiction may be interested in Michael Flynn’s novel, _The Wreck of the River of Stars_. He used the Myers-Briggs personality types to create 16 disparate characters and threw them together as the crew and passengers of an obsolete interplanetary spaceship. The captain, the one man who understands them all, dies in the first chapter and a tragedy unfolds because of the misunderstandings that develop among the rest. It’s a character study with a hard sci-fi setting. It gets mixed reviews, but I really liked it.
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### Author:  [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/45 "2009-08-07T19:44:18Z")
I took this for work a long time ago and got ENTP, but N was the only really “strong” characteristic. I took the linked one just now, and got INFJ. Again, I, F, and J by a hair. N by leaps and bounds.
Apparently, other than being fairly intuitive, I’m no one in particular.
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### Author:  [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/46 "2009-08-07T20:25:40Z")
ISTJ, with my foot down on the “J”-gas pedal.
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### Author:  [@Elyanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elyanna)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/47 "2009-08-07T20:57:36Z")
INFP. I & N are strong, F & P are weak.
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### Author:  [@Unix\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unix_Geek)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/48 "2009-08-07T21:10:25Z")
ENTP with the N (Intuitive) begin 100
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### Author:  [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/49 "2009-08-07T21:34:11Z")
I’m an INTP, and in fact I run one of the more popular INTP groups on Yahoo:
[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/intp-type/](http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/intp-type/)
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/50 "2009-08-07T22:15:38Z")
> [@Polly\_Glot](#):
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> 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!
One of the advantages of having a big campus at work in the middle of nowhere is that a lot of people take walks during their 15 minute breaks. I do, twice a day, more often than not by myself. It’s nice for us introverts, especially those of us doing extroverted things all day, like supervising or training people. Is there any where you could walk to on your breaks? You could claim that you need the exercise.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/51 "2009-08-07T22:25:23Z")
> [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](#):
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> ISTJ, with my foot down on the “J”-gas pedal.
Careful. You can find yourself jumping to conclusions if you have too much J-ness and not enough P-ness.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/52 "2009-08-07T22:56:01Z")
intj
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### Author:  [@Other\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Other_Dreams)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/53 "2009-08-07T23:33:25Z")
I am INTJ with the J at a measly 12%.
I don’t really care. I’m a mastermind independent of some stupid test. 😉
~S.P.I.~
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/54 "2009-08-07T23:42:07Z")
There was another thread about this recently. I may be the Dope’s only ISFP.
My I and F scores are high, my S quality is middling, and my P-ness is huge.
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### Author:  [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/55 "2009-08-07T23:58:33Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> Careful. You can find yourself jumping to conclusions if you have too much J-ness and not enough P-ness.
If you know your conclusions are right, you can jump all over them regularly.
And I reckon I do.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/56 "2009-08-08T00:04:22Z")
Was about to yell “brains!”, but anyway, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=411764&highlight=myers+briggs) [are](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=503738) the older threads in question. INFP here, for those keeping score.
Edit: **KneadToKnow** beat me to one of the old threads.
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### Author:  [@SmashTheState](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmashTheState)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/57 "2009-08-08T00:09:37Z")
Yeah, I should have realized that the jumping-to-conclusions judgmentalism on SD would translate into INTJ – and why as an INTP I often find the atmosphere here stifling. Do other INTPs have the same problem around here that I do? And given that on IRC I discovered we were, to a one, exclusively INTP, would one of the SD INTJs venturing into our channel find it as frustrating there as I do here?
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/58 "2009-08-08T00:39:27Z")
Wow. INTJ, sometimes INXJ (neatly balanced on the T/F line.)
I can’t believe there are so many of us here, we are incredibly rare. (INXJ is _the_ rarest, go figure!) No wonder I like the Dope so much!
P.S. I think I just figured out that Sheldon from BBT is an INTJ with an off-the-charts-strong T.
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### Author:  [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/59 "2009-08-08T00:47:41Z")
I am ENTP
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/60 "2009-08-08T01:04:34Z")
> [@tom tildrum](#):
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> and my p-ness is huge.
_groan_
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