Whats your Personality type?

I’m INTP.

Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
89 33 22 11

very expressed introvert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed thinking personality

slightly expressed perceiving personality

**ISTJ
Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging **

Strength of the preferences %
22 22 56 22

**slightly expressed introvert

slightly expressed sensing personality

moderately expressed thinking personality

slightly expressed judging personality**

Like jinwicked, mariemarie, and Trigonal Planar, I am INTJ.

The part that puzzles me the most is the emphasis on “Thinking” as opposed to “Feeling.” I’ve always considered myself to be intensely driven by emotions. A year or so ago I took a test to determine right brain/left brain functioning. I was exactly in the middle. So maybe that gives some credence to that “T.”

I am not at all surprised at the “Judging.” I’ll bet y’all aren’t either. :smiley:

ISTJ
Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging

Strength of the preferences %
22 22 11 1

slightly expressed introvert
slightly expressed sensing personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality

In other words…

ISFJ

Pants… sorry about that…

ISFJ - 67%, 1%, 11%, 11%


The primary desire of the Protector Guardian [ISFJ] is to be of service to others, but here “service” means not so much furnishing others with the necessities of life (the Provider’s concern), as guarding others against life’s pitfalls and perils, that is, seeing to their safety and security. There is a large proportion of Protectors in the population, perhaps as much as ten percent. And a good thing, because they are steadfast in their protecting, and seem fulfilled in the degree they can insure the safekeeping of those in their family, their circle of friends, or their place of business.

Protectors find great satisfaction in assisting the downtrodden and can deal with disability and neediness in others better than any other type. They go about their task of caretaking modestly, unassumingly, and because of this their efforts are not sometimes fully appreciated. They are not as outgoing and talkative as the Providers [ESFJs], except with close friends and relatives. With these they can chat tirelessly about the ups and downs in their lives, moving (like all the Guardians) from topic to topic as they talk over their everyday concerns. However, their shyness with strangers is often misjudged as stiffness, even coldness, when in truth these Protectors are warm-hearted and sympathetic, giving happily of themselves to those in need.

Their quietness ought really to be seen as an expression, not of coldness, but of their sincerity and seriousness of purpose. Like all the Guardians, ISFJs have a highly developed puritan work ethic, which tells them that work is good, and that play must be earned-if indulged in at all. The least hedonic of all types, Protectors are willing to work long, long hours doing all the thankless jobs the other types seem content to ignore. Thoroughness and frugality are also virtues for Protectors. When they undertake a task, they will complete it if at all humanly possible; and they know the value of material resources and abhor the squandering or misuse of these resources. Protectors are quite content to work alone; indeed, they may experience some discomfort when placed in positions of authority, and may try to do everything themselves rather than insist that others do their jobs.

With their extraordinary commitment to security, and with their unusual talent for executing routines, Protectors do well in many careers that have to do with conservation: curators, private secretaries, librarians, middle-managers, police officers, and especially general medical practitioners. To be sure, the hospital is a natural haven for them; it is home to the family doctor, preserver of life and limb, and to the registered nurse, or licensed practical nurse, truly the angels of mercy. The insurance industry is also a good fit for ISFJs. To save, to put something aside against an unpredictable future, to prepare for emergencies—these are important actions to Protectors, who as insurance agents want to see their clients in good hands, sheltered and protected.

Wow, I don’t think I have, in my entire life, seen so many other INFJs (counselor/idealist) in one place (although I can quite understand why)! Nice to meet you whiterabbit, cadolphin, ladybug, calliope & Suse!

I’ve taken the test many times throughout the years, and it’s been fairly consistent. I think the summary of INFJs fits me to a tee, although do have a learned pattern of INTJ behavior, mostly as a defense mechanism.

INFP.

I’ve also taken the test a couple of times over many years, and it’s been very consistent.

Another INFJ here. It said that was supposed to be rare, about 1% of the population. Has this place become a kind of INFJ gathering place?

Very cool. Thanks for the link. :slight_smile:

According to INTP.org, citing Keirsey and Bates, the approximate percentages for the personality types is as follows:

      ISTJ - 6%     ISFJ - 6%     INFJ - 1%     INTJ - 1%
      ISTP - 5%     ISFP - 5%     INFP - 1%     INTP - 1%
      ESTP - 13%    ESFP - 13%    ENFP - 5%     ENTP - 5%
      ESTJ - 13%    ESFJ - 13%    ENFJ - 5%     ENTJ - 5%

ESTPs, ESTJs, ESFPs, and ESFJs are the most common, and all are extroverts, which seems to jive with the 75% rate of extroverts in the general population. The rarest are INFJs, INFPs, INTJs, and INTPs with 1% each. The middle range numbers are a mix of introverts and extroverts.

I’m an IN_P – I’m even on the T/F scale.

I have a couple of problems with these kinds of tests . For example, take my T/F equilibrium – if I had answered one more question in the “F” direction, it would have given me a result of INFP. But there would be a big difference in the display of my personality and the personality of someone who answered all of the T/F questions in the “F” direction, because I’ve got a strong “T” leaning that’s not accounted for in the results.

So not only are the results fuzzy, but the thinking is fuzzy too – the test is saying you can either be a T or an F. But I don’t think in life, people’s personalities are that clear cut.

I prefer the NEO Personality Inventory, which looks at 5 different aspects of a personality and ranks you on a scale of below average, average, and above average. (This makes sense to me, and follows from the idea that personality traits are normally distributed. Most people aren’t extreme extroverts or introverts, for example, but they fall in the middle.) This test is also used heavily in clinical settings and has the psychometric data to support its usefulness and reliability in measuring personality traits.

INFP–
67 11 11 22

distinctively expressed introvert

slightly expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed feeling personality

slightly expressed perceiving personality

I have in the past tested as INTP, as well as INFP, given that, I’d say it’s pretty accurate.

INTJ

Welcome another INTJ: ArtyDooDoo!! :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

You name reminds me of a friend of mine (who is an engineer). When asked if he does any artwork, he says “Yeah, I make art, Hell, I [poop] art!!!” So when he says “I’m going to go make art”, you know where he’s going.

A word of caution: The online test is not the Myers-Brigg, just a shortened imitation. It may give similar results in many cases, but it’s not the official test.

We have so many Introverts on this message board! We should form a SDMB Introvert club! We could all get together after work and on weekends and for lunch 2-3 times a week! go shopping together! go to the gym together! form a softball/bowling/volleyball league! and a book discussion group! Gosh! Isn’t that a great idea? Er, then again, maybe not.

I came in as an ENTP… except when pregnant… then I was an ENTJ. For work, I had to take Myers Briggs 4 times!!!

The profiling book “The Workplace Profiles” excerpted from “Type Talk At Work” by Otto Kroeger with Janet M. Thuesen said if you are male, ENTPs go all the way up the ladder. Sucess is almost handed to them by nature. It said, if you are female… so sorry, you are doomed. And I quote page 364 after it extols the non-virtues of ENTP females, “…Whatever, it’s certainly not feminine.”

Thank you. Thank you very much.

INTP - Architect (close).

The description is frighteningly accurate.

We had to take this test for a “bonding” meeting at work, and they put us at different tables depending on our results. In one session, the four of us extreme introverts were grouped together. Great idea, guys. :stuck_out_tongue: You could see everyone else in the room talking and joking with each other, and the four of us just kind of stared awkwardly at each other across the table. Good thing I and one other coworker are good at faking extroversion, or we would have probably sat there like lumps.

INTP

That description seems to fit pretty well.

Another INFJ (counselor/idealist) checking in. Perhaps we’re not really that rare :slight_smile:

I’ve taken these types of tests a number of times over the last few years, and I always come up ENFP or ENFJ, with slightly expressed extroversion.

Today I came up ENFJ:

http://keirsey.com/personality/nfej.html

Here’s ENFP:

http://keirsey.com/personality/nfep.html
I feel that a lot of the traits described do apply to me, however that could easily be because the evaluation is largely positive. It’s a lot easier to accept a profile when it doesn’t point out too many of a persons flaws.