# 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:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/101 "2009-01-28T18:31:40Z")
ISFP. And seemingly the Dope’s only one.
As I recall, my S factor is slight, my I and my F are relatively strong, and my P-ness is huge.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/102 "2009-01-29T01:08:35Z")
:smack: :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/103 "2009-01-29T01:09:06Z")
Multiple iterations of Meyers-Briggs sessions have yielded vastly different results for me, so I just go with IHOP.
The I is the only thing I’m sure of, and I really do like pancakes.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/104 "2009-01-29T01:16:26Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#):
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> Do (some) employers require M-B tests? I can understand using it for security clearances or something, but for some cubicle McJob, I don’t see the point. \*\*I don’t think that anybody, including employers, has any right to know what M-B type I am. \*\*, I know I revealed my “type” here, but like I said before, it would be different if I took it today. I don’t ever answer that stuff completely honestly, because it’s obvious to me what they’re looking for, and I pick the “best” answer. I usually don’t have any strong feeling one way or another about the questions, anyway. I believe most of them depend upon the situation.
(bolding mine)
I completely agree. All they need to know is that I can - and do - perform the duties of the job.
And where to send my paycheck.
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### Author:  [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/105 "2009-01-29T05:37:39Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#):
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> Do (some) employers require M-B tests? I can understand using it for security clearances or something, but for some cubicle McJob, I don’t see the point. I don’t think that anybody, including employers, has any right to know what M-B type I am. Yeah, I know I revealed my “type” here, but like I said before, it would be different if I took it today. I don’t ever answer that stuff completely honestly, because it’s obvious to me what they’re looking for, and I pick the “best” answer. I usually don’t have any strong feeling one way or another about the questions, anyway. I believe most of them depend upon the situation.
I’ve heard that in many cases, the tests are just ways that they can randomly throw extra applicants out (when they meet all the criteria, but there aren’t enough positions) without being accused of racist, sexist, etc. discrimination. No cite.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
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### Author:  [@Carson\_O\_Genic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carson_O_Genic)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/106 "2009-01-29T10:52:58Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> ISFP. And seemingly the Dope’s only one.
```
'Scuse me, that's my toe you're stepping on. Good thing the P-ness is over my shoulder.
```
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### Author:  [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/107 "2009-01-29T12:42:14Z")
ENTP strong in every one (I’m always on the extremes of whatever I test for - same with things like learning styles, team roles etc etc)
Seems like there’s a handful of us here ::: waves:::
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### Author:  [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/108 "2009-01-29T14:34:04Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> 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.
Mine’s INTP as well.
According to [this site](http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=5&c=architect), we’re in good company.
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### Author:  [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/109 "2009-01-29T18:02:16Z")
ESFJ
slightly expressed extravert
distinctively expressed sensing personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality
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### Author:  [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/110 "2009-01-29T18:06:04Z")
ENT J/P
I have taken it every 5 years or so, and took the Level II about 3 years ago. Half of the time the test has been administrered by trained professionals.
I have also made habit of plotting all of my coworkers when they take it, just to get a feel for styles. While it is a bit of junk science, it can help to understand team dynamics.
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### Author:  [@jormundgondir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jormundgondir)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/111 "2009-01-29T20:31:23Z")
> [@Jennyrosity](#):
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> ENFP - so far, I seem to be the only one on here…
Me too! Although you wouldn’t guess it from my post count…
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### Author:  [@ladysorrowfree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladysorrowfree)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/112 "2009-01-29T20:55:08Z")
INTJ.
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### Author:  [@ladysorrowfree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladysorrowfree)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/113 "2009-01-29T21:32:51Z")
> [@XJETGIRLX](#):
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> Arrgh! Yes! This is why the part of my job I love the most is process reengineering. I get to walk around and ask people, “But WHY have you always done it that way? And why should you continue?”
INTJ here. I have a project going at work right now that has sucked away most of my time and all of my interest from my ‘regular’ activities, and it’s…guess what…process re-engineering.
“Because we’ve ALWAYS done it that way” just does not compute for me.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/114 "2009-01-30T02:25:02Z")
Okay, with **Avarie537** ’s post we now have at least one of each of the 16 types of those who have chimed in so far, so I’ll put up a quick-and-dirty tally. While it challenged my interpretation skills a bit, I decided to count those whom I judged as “borderline” people (who felt split between two types) as “1/2’s” in the tally, one 1/2 for each.
ESTJ 2
ESTP 2
ESFP 2
ESFJ 1
ENTJ 6.5
ENTP 7.5
ENFP 2
ENFJ 2
ISTJ 4.5
ISTP 1
ISFP 1
ISFJ 2
INTJ 23
INTP 6
INFP 12.5
INFJ 7
Breakdown by the 8 basic classifications:
E 25
I 57
S 15.5
N 66.5
T 52.5
F 29.5
J 48
P 34
My biggest surprise is how much the INTJ’s outweighed the INTP’s: if any conclusion can be drawn from this admittedly flawed and limited sample I wonder what it is about the Dope which draws the former so much more than the latter (heck there are more ENTP’s than INTP’s…). Consider also that the INFP/INFJ split went the other way.
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### Author:  [@BumBoat\_Magdalena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BumBoat_Magdalena)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/115 "2009-01-30T02:57:21Z")
I am an INTP. Nice link **Walker in Eternity**. That personality type may be rare in the population, rarer among women, but I think I can say with near certainty I’m the only INTP preschool teacher.
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### Author:  [@Elyanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elyanna)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/116 "2009-01-30T03:09:10Z")
Using Wikipedia’s [percentages](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator) and your numbers:
ESTJ U.S.: 8.7% SDMB: 2.4%
ESTP U.S.: 4.3% SDMB: 2.4%
ESFP U.S.: 8.5% SDMB: 2.4%
ESFJ U.S.: 12.3% SDMB: 1.2%
ENTJ U.S.: 1.8% SDMB: 7.9%
ENTP U.S.: 3.2% SDMB: 9.1%
ENFP U.S.: 8.1% SDMB: 2.4%
ENFJ U.S.: 2.4% SDMB: 2.4%
ISTJ U.S.: 11.6% SDMB: 5.4%
ISTP U.S.: 5.4% SDMB: 1.2%
ISFP U.S.: 8.8% SDMB: 1.2%
ISFJ U.S.: 13.8% SDMB: 2.4%
INTJ U.S.: 2.1% SDMB: 28.0%
INTP U.S.: 3.3% SDMB: 7.3%
INFP U.S.: 4.3% SDMB: 15.2%
INFJ U.S.: 1.5% SDMB: 8.5%
The INFP/INFJ split probably went the way it did because there’s more INFPs than INFJs in the general population. Also, I think INFPs like the Myers-Briggs. An INFP made it.
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### Author:  [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/117 "2009-01-30T15:33:39Z")
Usually an INFJ
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/118 "2009-01-30T17:58:00Z")
> [@BumBoat\_Magdalena](#):
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> I am an INTP. Nice link **Walker in Eternity**. That personality type may be rare in the population, rarer among women, but I think I can say with near certainty I’m the only INTP preschool teacher.
Sooo. What kind of experiments are you running on your little charges?
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### Author:  [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/119 "2009-01-30T18:42:19Z")
> [@sovtawen](#):
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> I am an INFJ.
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> We’re only 1.5% of the population. I feel so alone… ☹
Don’t feel too alone. I’m INFJ too 🙂
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### Author:  [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/120 "2009-01-30T18:45:13Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#):
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> ENTP here. What’s interesting is that ENTP’s are about the hardest group to market to, as we are highly resistant and skeptical when we’re being subjected to advertising.
Haha - absolutely. My husband is ENTP and you’ve just described him in a nutshell.
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