# What is your Myers Briggs personality type?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 23, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492 "2017-08-23T23:29:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/21 "2017-08-24T09:38:03Z")
My Myers Briggs is capricorn.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/22 "2017-08-24T13:17:03Z")
That gives you an **I** , an\*\* N\*\* and a **P**. Are you sure you aren’t a fapricorn or a tapricorn?
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### Author:  [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/23 "2017-08-24T13:21:20Z")
As part of a team-building day our company’s staff took an informal Myers Briggs type test. The four main divisions were (basically) empathetic, task-oriented, action-oriented, and analytical.
IMO it divided up the room pretty accurately. The company was mostly a counselling service, and the counselors were clustered together in the Empathy group, the executives were Analyticals, the counselling supervisors had a mix of Empathy and Task characteristics, and there was just a tiny handfull of fun-loving Action people.
I had the strongest Analytical score in the room, and am generally skeptical of pop psychology, but it was a fun experience and, I feel, a useful one.
If someone had a reason to try a mess with the results (e.g. when taking an employment test) then the quiz would probably be pointless.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/24 "2017-08-24T13:56:39Z")
INFP
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### Author:  [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/25 "2017-08-24T14:02:14Z")
Had to do it for one job. Didn’t think much of the training as tne HR “MBTI expert” took me aside and asked if I was SURE I was an introvert, because I spoke up a lot during the discussions (the group was people I’d worked with for five years). So in addition to sitting through the complete claptrap all day, I had to explain what “introvert” means to the “expert”. (It doesn’t mean you’re shy, it means that being in large groups exhausts you and you recharge by being alone.)
Anyway, I’ve taken it many times. Since hitting adulthood, my “type” flips between INTJ and INTP, both supposedly rare types. I’m pretty equal on the Judging/Perceiving axis.
Also, it’s basically pseudoscientific claptrap based on a faulty interpretation of Jungian archetypes, but at least “I’m an INTJ” sounds a \*bit \*smarter than “I’m Sagittarius with moon in Scorpio and Gemini rising.”
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/26 "2017-08-24T14:31:55Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#):
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> [Paging Adam Conover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NQqSnkI32A)
Everyone quoting their M-B tag as if it means anything should be made to watch this.
But then again, I’m a Virgo.
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### Author:  [@The\_Dope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dope)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/27 "2017-08-24T14:44:37Z")
intj i think, i took an online quiz a long time ago
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/28 "2017-08-24T15:03:27Z")
ISTJ
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/29 "2017-08-24T15:22:01Z")
INTP.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/30 "2017-08-24T15:55:02Z")
> [@jtur88](#):
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> The index is self-declared. Most people choose the attributes they wish they had, not the ones they have, so the index mostly reflects characteristics that are considered favorable
But the characteristics you consider favorable will vary according to your personality. 😛
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### Author:  [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/31 "2017-08-24T16:37:45Z")
ISTJ here.
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/32 "2017-08-24T18:43:48Z")
> [@jtur88](#):
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> The index is self-declared. Most people choose the attributes they wish they had, not the ones they have, so the index mostly reflects characteristics that are considered favorable
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> Suppose a simple test, one question: Are you wiser than most people? Would the results be 50% Yes and 50% No, to reflect the actual demographic? Or any other question. Are you a better driver than average? Do you have better taste in music than average? Do you watch mostly good TV shows? Is your baby cuter than most? Does your pet annoy other people?
Don’t most people score as S rather than N, though? Reading the descriptions, it seems to me that the N traits describe, essentially, people who are smarter – intellectual curiosity, comfort with abstract ideas, the ability to spot connections and patterns. (Of course, it may well be true that these traits aren’t actually valued in society. Sigh.)
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/33 "2017-08-24T19:08:59Z")
We did this once at work, many years ago. About what you would expect for a bunch of software engineers, we were all INTP. The guys, that is. The one woman in our group was the exact opposite.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/34 "2017-08-24T19:49:38Z")
Iirc, intp
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/35 "2017-08-24T22:20:23Z")
Lawful Evil.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/36 "2017-08-24T22:21:54Z")
Yes, I vary between INTJ and INTP.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/37 "2017-08-24T22:39:25Z")
Took it again last night. As of 9pm CDT I was INTP, which is my usual. However, as an INTP, I made every attempt to play fair because I was genuinely interested in the results, and analyzing them. Which I haven’t done because I got bored.
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### Author:  [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/38 "2017-08-25T00:16:31Z")
I’m an INTJ. [INTJs are one of the rarest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ) of the 16 psychological types and account for approximately 2% of the population. Women of this personality type are especially rare, forming just 0.8% of the population.
I wonder what percentage of Dopers are INTJs.
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/39 "2017-08-25T00:46:44Z")
Today: ISTJ. Last year: INTJ. Several years ago (and close now) ESTJ. So this proves I’m extremely various? (Not gaming the thing; I don’t know how to do that, really.)
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/40 "2017-08-25T00:48:33Z")
What I wonder about is how INTPs and INTJs deal with being the smartest kids in the room, at least according to Myers and Briggs. As a telemarketer I’ve given up and let the morons run things.
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