# 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:** 5
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/41 "2017-08-25T02:23:38Z")
> [@friedo](#):
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> So do horoscopes [describe **dropzone** perfectly]. Meyers-Briggs is about equally as useful.
The [article on MBTI in Skeptic’s Dictionary](http://skepdic.com/myersb.html) agrees. This article cites the [Forer effect](http://skepdic.com/forer.html), which holds that vague and generic profiles like horoscopes or the 16 MBTI profiles could be seen as reasonably fitting just about anybody.
> [@stillownedbysetters](#):
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> Give me the test and I will get you whatever result you are looking for. After years in HR interpreting these tests and matching them to positions/attributes, I can hack the hell out of the thing.
@ **stillownedbysetters** , do you think there is any validity to these tests?
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/42 "2017-08-25T02:31:06Z")
I vary among: ENTP, INTP, ENFP, and INFP, depending on when I take the test. I also think the test is pretty much useless, as I found reading through all the descriptions that I would agree that pretty much all of them, and they describe my personality in one way or another.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/43 "2017-08-25T02:39:42Z")
Looks like today I am an INFP, with the I and E component split 52-48, so almost dead down the middle. Thinking vs Feeling is a much harder split than usual, though, firmly in the F category with a 65%.
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### Author:  [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/44 "2017-08-25T02:41:37Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> The [article on MBTI in Skeptic’s Dictionary](http://skepdic.com/myersb.html) agrees. This article cites the [Forer effect](http://skepdic.com/forer.html), which holds that vague and generic profiles like horoscopes or the 16 MBTI profiles could be seen as reasonably fitting just about anybody.
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> @ **stillownedbysetters** , do you think there is any validity to these tests?
Yes, I do, but mostly for fresh employees - kids out of college, women returning to the workforce, etc. Once you have mastered the culture of the modern corporate world, it is far too easy to work the test to put yourself in the best light according to the position you hope to attain.
I have taken the test honestly, and with as little bias as possible, and found it to be pretty accurate when describing whom I am overall. At least according to how others who know me well describe me. But it has become so well known and been around so long that it has little validity to anyone but the greenest of the workforce.
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### Author:  [@spjork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spjork)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-personality-type/794492/45 "2017-08-25T14:43:55Z")
> [@kayT](#):
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> 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.)
My understanding is that it really does vary depending on the actual test you’re taking.
Based on the assumption that you took the exact same test each time, I would say you’re an outlier that has borderline characteristics.
I am well aware that the test is considered to have as much merit as horoscopes and concede that it is not very scientific but I feel it does come in handy in separating major personality paradigms.
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