# 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:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/61 "2009-01-27T15:44:27Z")
How amusing that the most common type, ISFJ (which is mine) is not well-represented here. Then again, I always thought I was a bit of an oddity in Doperland. š
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### Author:  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/62 "2009-01-27T16:06:29Z")
ENTP here. Whatās interesting is that ENTPās are about the hardest group to market to, as we are highly resistant and skeptical when weāre being subjected to advertising.
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### Author:  [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/63 "2009-01-27T16:17:46Z")
INFP
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/64 "2009-01-27T16:19:01Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#):
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> Am I the only ENFJ?
You are not alone!
However, I have the feeling if I took the test again tomorrow, Iād be something else.
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### Author:  [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/65 "2009-01-27T16:23:44Z")
Itās been awhile since Iāve taken one of these tests, but every time I do my results are predictably INFP.
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### Author:  [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/66 "2009-01-27T16:40:48Z")
ENFP - so far, I seem to be the only one on hereā¦
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### Author:  [@Gam\_Zeh\_Yaavor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gam_Zeh_Yaavor)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/67 "2009-01-27T17:01:12Z")
Hereās another in the INTJ crew.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/68 "2009-01-27T17:09:46Z")
Iām an āEā, but donāt know where my old test score is located, so canāt fill in the blanks.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/69 "2009-01-27T17:21:26Z")
INT(f)P. Sometimes the T/F score is nearly split. Heavy on the obliviousness. Ask anyone.
Gatopescado - the 9 is an enneagram, right?
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### Author:  [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/70 "2009-01-27T17:36:19Z")
I can never remember the letters that go with it but I was a āProtector Guardianā type when I last took a test for it.
[Wiki Article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_(role_variant)) for it. IIRC, and combining with the Wiki article, itās the far-side of the ISFJ type.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/71 "2009-01-27T17:40:57Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#):
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> ISTJ.
I was just a few points away from being that. Instead Iām an ESTJ.
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/72 "2009-01-27T17:48:27Z")
ESTJ tied with ESTP. Supervisor/Promoter.
How can I find out which Type is what % of the population?š
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### Author:  [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/73 "2009-01-27T17:51:58Z")
> [@DrDeth](#):
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> ESTJ tied with ESTP. Supervisor/Promoter.
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> How can I find out which Type is what % of the population?š
Thereās a table halfway down [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator).
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### Author:  [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/74 "2009-01-27T17:58:55Z")
I mentioned in the other thread that Iād done some short version of the test as a class exercise in grad school, mostly just so weād be familiar with these kinds of tests once we were out in the professional world.
I came out INTJ, with the āIā being moderately expressed. In other words, Iām fairly extroverted for an introvert. š
I just did the free online test linked to earlier in the thread and came out INTJ again, all traits moderately expressed.
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### Author:  [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/75 "2009-01-27T18:01:39Z")
ENTJ both times I took it.
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### Author:  [@Theodore\_Striker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theodore_Striker)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/76 "2009-01-27T18:04:39Z")
INFP as well. just taken this morning as I realized that I do not like what I am doing for a living because I do not feel engaged at all.
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### Author:  [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/77 "2009-01-27T18:07:51Z")
Do a lot of people actually pay to take the M-B test? I had it administered to me as part of a couple of interviews, but have never paid for it.
Edited to add: If you have paid for it, do you find the information useful, and what do you do with that information?
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/78 "2009-01-27T18:16:12Z")
I got INFJ. I wondered about this because I am not an introvert really. Well, I definitely have a complex inner life, but no one would ever describe me as āquietā. But the descriptions of the ENFJ doesnāt sound like me at ALL.
So I donāt know. Other than the āintrovertā bit, the INFJ is very close to my personality.
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These descriptions of the personality types are kind of like horoscopes, arenāt they? Itās easy to see oneās self in all of them.
So I wonāt put too much faith in the test. It told me I am an INFJ - read into that what you will.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/79 "2009-01-27T18:16:32Z")
ESTP, though it would probably vary if I took it tomorrow or had taken it yesterday or interpreted the questions differently.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/80 "2009-01-27T18:32:30Z")
> [@Kyla](#):
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> I got INFJ. I wondered about this because I am not an introvert really. Well, I definitely have a complex inner life, but no one would ever describe me as āquietā. But the descriptions of the ENFJ doesnāt sound like me at ALL.
I hear you - although I am an ENTJ, and I am VERY comfortable with public speaking and perform/sing in front of crowds regularly, I measured practically in the middle of E and I - just a point or two over into Extrovert. When I spoke with an MB expert along the way, one of them asked me what I did with my downtime - did I seek to be alone, or did I seek to be with others? I _totally_ crave alone time - which that person saw as ārecharges batteries aloneā and definitely leaning more towards introvert. To get all Freudian about it, the logical follow-up observation (as posited by this expert) is that I have adopted extroverted tendencies both because I am comfortable doing so (that balanced I and E) and so I can use those tendencies ādefensivelyā (i.e., reach out to someone to control the situation before they do the same to youā¦so the best defense is a solid offense, if you will). So I come across as far more E than I really amā¦
Bottom line - yeah, this stuff is horoscope-y and you can bend it to meet any hypothesis you want it to. Having said that, this basic model has worked for me as I have tried to figure my way through some tough inter-personal situations, so I have stuck with it for a whileā¦š
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