I’ll be surprised if there’s more than a few of us here.
As a side note, I find most of the actual test questions to be annoying, and I feel that is actually easier to type yourself by finding a good thorough description of the types, and narrowing down from there. Especially since it’s easy to get a letter or two off from the test.
I got introduced to Myers-Briggs by my mom (INFJ). I probably wouldn’t have gotten interested in it otherwise.
Hey, that’s not fair. Those types are not inherently more intelligent than other types.
Back in the 1990s, I worked for a guy who was getting his PhD in business. He asked me to take the Meyers Briggs test as administered by a trained professional (yes, such things exist). He was interested in seeing the results and getting my input on how accurate and relevant it was. I took it and was an ENFJ. I’ve since retaken it online and it came out the same.
I once had many of my friends take one of the online tests, and they were overrepresented in the idealist (NF) and Guardian (SJ) types, with Rationals (NT) giving an okay showing and Artisans (SP) hardly showing up at all. Guess that’s what happens when a group self-selects.
*High-fives **John DiFool *and Elyanna INFP here as well. We’re supposed to be rarest type of all, something like 2% of the US population or some such? I wonder if it’s different globally.
Sure, next you’ll say that the common wisdom that sociopaths are most often INTJ isn’t right either:p
The idea that NTs are more intelligent comes from a mostly useless book called Do What You Are by Paul Tieger & Barbra Barron-Tieger. It’s a lot less insightful than the authors pat themselves on the back for.
I come up INTP pretty consistently, though. This description struck me as pretty accurate, especially about such things as “a haunting sense of impending failure”, second-guessing oneself, overlooking details, and loving word games, that I’m pretty sure aren’t covered explicitly in the questionnaires.
I will admit that I routinely get sucked into personality quizzes, but I usually need to read about all of the possible results. I’m sure at some point last summer I read through all of the introverted types, just to see if they sounded more accurate. They didn’t.
All fair questions. See the other thread I linked to in the OP for the relevant discussion of the system’s merits-in short I think it is reasonably valid within the rather narrow confines it patrols. And yes thank you for the link to the test.
INTJ or, rarely, INTP. I’m not as authoritarian as I’d need to be to be a strong J, probably.
I’m not as introverted as most descriptions, either. I’ve given speeches in front of a few hundred people without much stress. I don’t seek out attention, but I deal with being the center of attention pretty well when it happens. I have no problem dealing with big parties, being social with people I don’t know, or the other things introverts have trouble with, it’s just that I’d prefer to have smaller groups of people to be with.
My feeling is that you don’t actually get to know anything about someone in a large group, other than how they react around crowds. More intimate gatherings are much more conducive to actual communication and perception. I sometimes feel alienated in crowds since you don’t get that kind of connection.
During my high school years I would definitely be considered more extreme on all four counts (except maybe F/T where I’ve probably shaded a bit more towards F since then). I was very shy and reserved (loner), constantly created whole worlds in my head to the exclusion of almost all else, and was as hopelessly disorganized, scatterbrained, and unfocused as you could possibly be (a la my bedroom, schoolwork, whatever). Since then I’ve significantly honed my E, S, and J functions (am much more outgoing, assertive, and engaging, tho my loner streak is still strong; can look more objectively at things without imagining them to be something else-including (especially, rather) other people; and can force myself to be tidy and efficient when the situation calls for it (tho my bedroom still looks like a nuke went off in there, and I still have my “blonde” moments).
Portrait of the Inspector (ISTJ)
The one word that best describes Inspectors is superdependable. Whether at home or at work, Inspectors are extraordinarily persevering and dutiful, particularly when it comes to keeping an eye on the people and products they are responsible for. In their quiet way, Inspectors see to it that rules are followed, laws are respected, and standards are upheld.
