# What personality type are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536 "2004-12-07T14:06:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/81 "2004-12-09T06:43:17Z")
I was cheesed off because I just missed out on being an idealist - which is how I fancy myself - and doubly cheesed off because I ended up as a counsellor. Like Job, the thing I feared most has been visited upon me. I am damned to endless sessions sitting in a circle holding a coffee cup, nodding at people I think are nutcases and interjecting the occasional inane backchannelled “Mmm” and “Yeah”. Next thing I’ll be asking people to “verbalise” and to “get in touch with their feelings”, and telling them that I feel their pain. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/82 "2004-12-09T06:57:43Z")
That’s okay…you can start a t.v. show and a magazine (called “ **r** ”?), make a billion dollars, help lots of people have better lives, and occasionally give everyone in your audience lots of gifts. It’d be a great life all in all. Here’s how: > **[Oprah.com](https://www.oprah.com/index.html)** > > The place for everything in Oprah's world. Get health, beauty, recipes, money, decorating and relationship advice to live your best life on Oprah.com. The Oprah Show, O magazine, Oprah Radio, Angel Network, Harpo Films and Oprah's Book Club. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/83 "2004-12-09T07:14:47Z")
Now, now, **Starvers** , that was a bit below the belt. I have watched very little Oprah (and intend to keep it that way) but my wife rather enjoys it. However, I should add, as a pragmatic Chinese person - the trouble, not me - she hasn’t lost her stunned-ness at how and _why_ people will “open up” and tell the most nutty stories on TV. _Oprah_ surely represents the lowest common denominator in mainstream instant, addictive vicarious gratification. As for Dr Phil, well I find him rather humorous. But, is he just more subtly clever than Oprah - the slow slurring southern speech, the self-depreciating humour, the studied lack of defensiveness - or is he actually a good bloke? Does _he_ really help people? Can a TV doctor be any more efficacious than a TV evangelist, or does the medium allow of only one answer to that question? Right - I need a lie-down after that portentous crap! ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/84 "2004-12-09T07:16:38Z")
I meant to congratulate you on being an Innovator. It didn’t go unnoticed. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/85 "2004-12-09T08:03:08Z")
I scored somewhere between “Fools, I’ll Destroy them All!” and “Quiet, Kind of a Loner.” By that I mean “strategist.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/86 "2004-12-09T08:17:56Z")
resolver ---
**Author:** ![fervour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fervour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fervour)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/87 "2004-12-09T20:00:09Z")
mastermind. I wish I had something cute to say. . . . ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/88 "2004-12-09T20:18:13Z")
This is indeed testing for the dichotomous scales found on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (see my Wikipedia article [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/MBTI)). ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/89 "2004-12-09T20:32:54Z")
I think these things are ridiculous, but then this thing told me I am a Mastermind. This is the smartest quiz ever. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/90 "2004-12-09T20:36:37Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I think these things are ridiculous, but then this thing told me I am a > Mastermind. > > This is the smartest quiz ever. You think ‘they’ are ridiculous, but then again, what exactly do you know about ‘them’ ? Hearsay? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/91 "2004-12-09T21:04:17Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Now, now, **Starvers** , that was a bit below the belt. Not at all, **roger**. I just thought that this might be a way you could employ your counsellorial talents in a rewarding way. 😉 > [@roger thornhill](#): > > I have watched very little Oprah (and intend to keep it that way) but my wife rather enjoys it. However, I should add, as a pragmatic Chinese person - the trouble, not me - she hasn’t lost her stunned-ness at how and _why_ people will “open up” and tell the most nutty stories on TV. _Oprah_ surely represents the lowest common denominator in mainstream instant, addictive vicarious gratification. Well, not to be an Oprah apologist or anything, but she’s quite a bit above the Jerry Springer type of show. I really do think she helps people and her shows aren’t nearly as salacious as the others. If I remember correctly she made a conscious decision some years ago to take her show in a more substantive and less sensational direction. > [@roger thornhill](#): > > As for Dr Phil, well I find him rather humorous. But, is he just more subtly clever than Oprah - the slow slurring southern speech, the self-depreciating humour, the studied lack of defensiveness - or is he actually a good bloke? Does _he_ really help people? I think he does just what he says: getting people to thinking about their situation in the correct light and how to take the proper steps to better their situation. As for the rest, he’s quite a sharpie. I think everything he thinks, says and/or does is for a specific reason. I think he’s essentially a good “bloke,” but I also think it would be hard to stay on his good side. I wouldn’t be comfortable around him on a social basis. > [@roger thornhill](#): > > Right - I need a lie-down after that portentous crap! Not a bit of it, old chum. I always enjoy your take on things. 🙂 And thanks for the congratulations on my rating as an Innovator. It was surprising how closely that test described me. ---
**Author:** ![jastu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jastu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jastu)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/92 "2004-12-10T02:00:39Z")
Ah just noticed this thread. Another Realist here, no surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Crescent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Crescent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescent)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/93 "2004-12-10T02:21:01Z")
Yet another Mastermind. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SamIAm336](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SamIAm336](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamIAm336)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/94 "2004-12-10T02:34:19Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I scored somewhere between “Fools, I’ll Destroy them All!” and “Quiet, Kind of a Loner.” > > By that I mean “strategist.” 😃 Oh My! This is me too! Little do they know…oops somebody noticed me, time to hide under my rock ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/95 "2004-12-10T02:46:52Z")
Supervisor. Now dammit, everybody back to work. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/96 "2004-12-10T03:01:04Z")
Big Thinker. Stupid name. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/97 "2004-12-10T10:59:55Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > Leaders are often so ambitious in their careers that they sacrifice their personal life in the process > Just for comparison, here are my results from a[Jung](http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp) test: > > [. I have just taken the Jung test you cited and my results are as follows: INTJ Introverted 44 Intuitive 67 Thinking 33 Judging 1 Apparently I am a moderately expressed introvert distinctively expressed intuitive personality moderately expressed thinking personality slightly expressed judging personality I will have to compare these results with my original test which gave me a personality type of mastermind. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/98 "2004-12-10T16:01:10Z")
“mastermind” is INTJ as well. If you are taking a “Jung” test, you may find it interesting to learn that he did not believe they were traits that could be “moderately expressed”, but rather just a preferred order of doing things in your psyche (types). The whole point in figuring out your type is to figure out this order. To be honest, Jung had nothing to do with this whole type movement. He just talked to his patients until he knew their order. Here is your order for INTJ: **First: Introverted Intuition:** “_Looks to what will be and what the deep significance of something is. This process often tunes in to aspects of universal human experience and archetypal symbols._” **Second: Extraverted Thinking:** “_Extraverted Feeling is concerned with the likes and dislikes of others and what is socially appropriate. It organizes the external world according to interpersonal relationships._” **Third: Extraverted Feeling:** \* \* Extraverted Feeling is concerned with the likes and dislikes of others and what is socially appropriate. It organizes the external world according to interpersonal relationships.\* **Fourth: Extraverted Sensing:** _Extraverted Sensing is perceiving information from the five senses and being drawn to focus on the moment and the experience of the here and now._ Also interesting is that Jung did not have a J/P dichotomy, nor did he use the acronyms, so this test is full of shit! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ninetypercent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9de0a6/32.png) [@ninetypercent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninetypercent)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/99 "2004-12-10T20:02:52Z")
I’m a “INFP”, apparently. > [@](#): > > ``` > * distinctively expressed introvert > * very expressed intuitive personality > * slightly expressed feeling personality > * slightly expressed perceiving personality > > ``` Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-personality-type-are-you/278536/100 "2004-12-10T22:15:08Z")
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