# 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:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/61 "2009-08-08T01:13:31Z")
INTP
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/62 "2009-08-08T01:26:20Z")
INTP has always been scary accurate for me for anyone that reads the description and knows me well down to the career choice level.
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### Author:  [@Polly\_Glot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polly_Glot)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/63 "2009-08-08T01:53:56Z")
> [@elfkin477](#):
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> 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.
Those big campus walking breaks sound wonderful, and I could definitely use the exercise. However, as a newly-minted high school teacher who will be expected to take my 30-min lunch with the rest of the staff, I will just have to settle for a two-minute potty/brain break once a day… twice tops. 😉
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### Author:  [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/64 "2009-08-08T01:55:45Z")
> [@RedBloom](#):
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> INFJ here!
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> It’s frightening how accurate the description are…
Me too! Especially the intuitive thing. People are always saying “What made you think of that?”, or "how did you know?’
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/65 "2009-08-08T02:10:32Z")
ISTJ/INTJ
The S-N axis is pretty much smack dab in the middle. Very strongly I and T. Less strongly J, but still definitely on that side.
It think that the Myers-Briggs system can provide some insights, but is not complete or definitive, and that the personality type descriptions are little more than horoscopes.
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### Author:  [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/66 "2009-08-08T02:10:41Z")
> [@SmashTheState](#):
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> 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?
Care to elaborate? You find that you clash with INTJs because you like to keep your options open, while they prefer to settle matters? I thought that the J doesnt translate to “judgementalism” only that J’s rely more heavily on their Thinking or Feeling while Ps rely more on their Intuition or Sensing.
Also: I retook the test and I have shifted to INTP (67-32-62-11) since the last time I took the test.
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### Author:  [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/67 "2009-08-08T02:15:47Z")
I am an ENTJ
> [@](#):
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> You are:
> moderately expressed extravert
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> moderately expressed intuitive personality
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> very expressed thinking personality
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> distinctively expressed judging personality
Me? Judging? Nah . . .
[http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=5&c=fieldmarshal](http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=5&c=fieldmarshal)
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### Author:  [@SmashTheState](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmashTheState)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/68 "2009-08-08T02:24:05Z")
> [@Red\_Skeezix](#):
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> Care to elaborate? You find that you clash with INTJs because you like to keep your options open, while they prefer to settle matters? I thought that the J doesnt translate to “judgementalism” only that J’s rely more heavily on their Thinking or Feeling while Ps rely more on their Intuition or Sensing.
I see he J/P split as the difference between rationalism and empiricism. A lot of folks around here style themselves scientists, but they’re not, really. They don’t understand the underlying philosophy of empiricism on which science is supposed to be based. I often get the feeling that they give lip service to empiricism, but deep down they “know” that what they believe is true – when, of course, empiricism cannot, by definition, make truth claims (with truth being a metaphysical quality).
I’m a radical empiricist in the same sense as Berkeley. I believe that what I experience is real – my experience being the only thing I have, and thus I must accept as real in order for knowledge itself to exist. This I got from Kant. But I also perceive that “matter” is a myth, internally inconsistent and aesthetically unappealing. This I get from Berkeley. I think it’s this willingness to simply accept my perceptions and examine the overarching systems rather than inscribe a set of concrete truisms on stone tablets which makes the INTJs on SD hyperventilate when I venture an answer over in GQ. They see my empirical P as “granola-eating New Age woo” while I see their rationalist J as “dogmatic and blinkered materialism.”
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### Author:  [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/69 "2009-08-08T07:41:07Z")
When I was younger I was INTJ, but I’ve slightly crossed over to the P side recently. In the last few years I’ve tried to become more flexible in the way I do things without requiring full decisions before I begin work.
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### Author:  [@Other\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Other_Dreams)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/70 "2009-08-08T07:42:23Z")
> [@SmashTheState](#):
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> I see he J/P split as the difference between rationalism and empiricism. A lot of folks around here style themselves scientists, but they’re not, really. They don’t understand the underlying philosophy of empiricism on which science is supposed to be based. I often get the feeling that they give lip service to empiricism, but deep down they “know” that what they believe is true – when, of course, empiricism cannot, by definition, make truth claims (with truth being a metaphysical quality).
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> I’m a radical empiricist in the same sense as Berkeley. I believe that what I experience is real – my experience being the only thing I have, and thus I must accept as real in order for knowledge itself to exist. This I got from Kant. But I also perceive that “matter” is a myth, internally inconsistent and aesthetically unappealing. This I get from Berkeley. I think it’s this willingness to simply accept my perceptions and examine the overarching systems rather than inscribe a set of concrete truisms on stone tablets which makes the INTJs on SD hyperventilate when I venture an answer over in GQ. They see my empirical P as “granola-eating New Age woo” while I see their rationalist J as “dogmatic and blinkered materialism.”
I fall under “INTJ”, but I have nothing against your answers. Personality tests are essentially semi-accurate generalizations and should not be used to explain the behavior of another person _absolutely_. Give some insight as to the inner workings of the person? Sure!
Let’s not turn this thread into a debate of personalities (and what we do and do not do). 🙂
Simply Human,
~S.P.I.~
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### Author:  [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/71 "2009-08-08T07:46:06Z")
We knew you’d say that!
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### Author:  [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/72 "2009-08-08T08:25:18Z")
I came out INTJ but I really think something’s wrong with that test.
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### Author:  [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/73 "2009-08-08T13:45:51Z")
INTP here, too.
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/74 "2009-08-08T17:11:36Z")
INTJ, whatever that all means.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/75 "2009-08-08T19:25:17Z")
> [@SmashTheState](#):
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> 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?
INFP, if that’s close enough, and yes I do tend to avoid the more “stifling” threads here.
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### Author:  [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/76 "2009-08-08T20:33:04Z")
ISTP.
And the only one so far.
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### Author:  [@Baby\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baby_Driver)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/77 "2009-08-09T00:34:38Z")
ENFP
N is very strong & F is pretty strong as well. E & P are moderate.
I find myself getting annoyed in the company of other ENFPs. I think it’s because my “NF” traits dominate my extroversion and other ENFPs can be a bit grating.
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### Author:  [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/78 "2009-08-09T03:26:21Z")
I’m an ENTP. The E is the weakest preference for me, but it’s not exactly borderline either. As for the others, let’s just say I don’t’ half-ass them.
I’m the perfect specimen of a severe NT. It drives my follow-all-the-rules SJ wife crazy.
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### Author:  [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/79 "2009-08-09T04:41:34Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#):
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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)
Oh my god. I need to send that to all of my friends and family members immediately.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/505618/80 "2009-08-09T05:29:28Z")
I just took it again for the umpteenth time-- still as INFP as ever-- but this time it came out configured this way:
```auto
I------x---|----------E
N-------x--|----------S
F----x-----|----------T
P---x------|----------J
```
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