# What is your Myers-Briggs type?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 27, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165 "2009-01-27T01:31:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/1 "2009-01-27T01:31:21Z")
Followup from [GQ thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=502833&page=2).
You may also indicate if you are a hybrid/on the borderline for one of the axes.
INFP here.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/2 "2009-01-27T01:33:20Z")
We did this one years ago. Mine is INTP which was one of the most common ones on the SDMB. “IN” types were vastly overrepresented.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/3 "2009-01-27T01:36:54Z")
INTJ
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### Author:  [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/4 "2009-01-27T01:39:09Z")
I tend to run INTJ at work and INFJ in my personal life.
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/5 "2009-01-27T01:40:04Z")
ENTJ. I wonder how many Es there are on here.
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### Author:  [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/6 "2009-01-27T01:42:33Z")
Most times I’ve taken it I’ve been INFJ but the last time I was INTJ. The consistent characters were strongly represented.
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### Author:  [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/7 "2009-01-27T01:44:51Z")
I believe I was INTJ.
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### Author:  [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/8 "2009-01-27T02:15:34Z")
ESTJ although I’m borderline on P/J. I don’t remember what the letters mean any more I’ll have to look that up again.
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### Author:  [@Cider\_Depot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cider_Depot)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/9 "2009-01-27T02:20:34Z")
ENTP
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/10 "2009-01-27T02:30:20Z")
INTJ
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/11 "2009-01-27T02:50:45Z")
ISFJ.
I occasionally score as ISTJ and it’s usually very close between F and T.
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/12 "2009-01-27T02:51:03Z")
INTJ
ETA: odd that so many INTJs are represented; they are supposed to be only something like 2% of the population.
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### Author:  [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/13 "2009-01-27T02:53:10Z")
ENTP
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### Author:  [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/14 "2009-01-27T02:59:50Z")
ISTP here…over represented among pilots and engineers, of which I am both.
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### Author:  [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/15 "2009-01-27T03:01:31Z")
Am I the only ENFJ?
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### Author:  [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/16 "2009-01-27T03:11:47Z")
ENTP
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### Author:  [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/17 "2009-01-27T03:18:30Z")
INTJ
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/18 "2009-01-27T03:22:16Z")
Part of the OP of this polling thread should be some way to determine the answer, or even an explanation of what a “Myers-Briggs” type indicator is. I’d never heard of it.
I Googled lightly and found [http://www.myersbriggs.org](http://www.myersbriggs.org), which while giving a high level description of how there are several dimensions resulting in a 16-box grid/chart of personality types that suggest different ways of processing information(?), there is no simple way to “take” this test. Meaning, a free online test that takes a short amount of time. It’s an administered test by a trained professional and which costs at least $50 or so. And these professionals are trained to do the test in an “ethical” way – which is rather ominous. What, in the “wrong hands” the test results could be harmful?
Why would I want to spend the time and money do this? What exactly is finding out my M-B type supposed to help me determine?
Or is it me this test is meant to enlighten at all? Is this some kind of evaluation that some schools, companies or agencies are requiring people to undergo as a prerequisite for employment or placement?
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/19 "2009-01-27T03:35:41Z")
OK, I found a [free online multiple-choice test](http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp) to give a Jung/Myers-Briggs evaluation, at a site called [humanmetrics.com](http://humanmetrics.com).
My result: INTJ, 44/50/12/67, though I found several of the questions rather vague. For example, being “comfortable in a crowd” is ambiguous. I’m quite comfortable in a public crowd, such as a thronged street, and can hit it off quite well with random strangers in such a context. But in a “crowd” such as a large wedding party where I don’t know hardly anyone else, but many people do? That’s totally different.
FWIW it rates my best options for a career as “computer programming” and “management”, both of which describe my career history to a T. Also up there is “Natural Science”, which I have a hobbyist/layman’s interest in (my bookshelf has all the works of Stephen J. Gould, Oliver Sacks, Stephen Pinker, etc.). So I’d say there’s something reflecting the truth in the test in my particular example, though exactly how or why is obviously open for question.
I still wonder though – for those of you who knew this right off the bat, how did you get introduced to this concept?
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/20 "2009-01-27T03:39:34Z")
> [@Queen\_Bruin](#):
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> INTJ
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> ETA: odd that so many INTJs are represented; they are supposed to be only something like 2% of the population.
Well, if the idea that dopers are smarter than the average bears is true, there _ought_ to be a fair number of INTJ and ENTJ folks on the boards.
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