ENTP
Don’t feel all that extrovert though…
I didn’t take the test on the link, cause I already know from prior testing that I’m an ISTJ.
Another “INTJ” checkin’ in…in Houston… hey Jin_Wicked, you wouldn’t happen to be a Virgo would you?
I’m INTP, close to ISTP, but very definitely “I”.
Another ENTJ Fieldmarshal here!
INTP.
Consistent result, taking the test (for work) several times over the span of about 15 years.
Another INTJ checking in. I’ve encountered this test many times, and I’ve always scored INTJ. I especially liked the “sarcastic wit with a poker face” description in Priam’s links. Apparently, I do that so well people miss the sarcasm and think I’m absolutely serious.
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 17 44 11
My scores look kind of wishy washy.
INTP
I=67
N=56
T=78
P=22
I’ve taken a number of different tests, and it is very consistent. I once had doubts, but found a detailed description of the type on INTP.org … it was so weird … like reading my biography.
And, incidentally, I am an architect … the more literal meaning of Keirsey’s description. I discovered my type while in architorture … excuse me … architecture school.
As for accuracy, I will say this – the description of an INTP fit me so closely that by the time I finished reading my eyes were as wide as saucers. It was scary, almost like the maker of the test knew me and knew my habits, and wrote the INTP profile with me in mind.
I’m oblivious to the outside world and prefer living in my head, I have a laid back personality, I love languages and chess. I’m not a natural leader and avoid leadership roles, I’m temperamental and bounce from interest to interest. I have a small group of friends I’m comfortable with, and am very introverted around anyone else. I’m very loyal and loving to those I’m close to, but have difficulty expressing my feelings or understanding the feelings of others. All these and many more are characteristic of an INTP and the profile fits me to a T. YMMV.
INFP/ISFP it seems, depending on my mood or something.
Introverted 100%
Intuitive 11%(Sensory 1%)
Feeling 22%
Perceiving 33%
Pretty much take INFP and add in
from ISFP and you’ve pretty much got me.
Heh. Just found an amusing website that describes the personality types thusly:
Me, peritrochoid, TVeblen, c_carol, universe.zip, CloudCar, Enginerd, Fuji Kitakyusho, Carcosa, and Mudshark are INTP nerds: “What? you mean people actually talk to each other using mouths and ears instead of keyboards???”
White Rabbit, cadolphin, ladybug, Calliope, Suse, XJETGIRLX, Ice Wolf, tarssk, auliya, TvGuy, and lilbtagna comprise our sizable INFJ community of messiahs: “Characterized by the burning desire to change the world, which desperately needs everyone to be NF.”
Priam, Rabid Squirrel, and Stephi are INFP fanatics: “Always searching for an Answer with a capital A. Unlike the INFJ, they are usually openminded enough to realize the current one isn’t good enough after a few years.”
Rico seems to be our only ESTJ stuffed shirt: “No imagination, no flexibility, no common sense, no capacity for tolerance of others with different priorities.”
Roadwalker, Lsura, Delly, green_bladder, and Michael Ellis are ISTJ bean counters: “Like the ESTJ but with less vision.”
NoClueBoy, Kricket, summerbreeze and Nvme77 are ENFP muckrakers: “Creator of hype, distortion, and the perversion of media of information to be wallows of mindless emotionalism.”
Heh heh heh.
Well I have seen one solid critique of the MBTI in this thread…
It really only works for those who solidly fall into at least most of the categories. Its not very good for those who tend to fall somewhere between, say, E and I, and would probably decrease even more significantly if you balance out in two or three of the categories.
I don’t buy the argument linked to about it being vague. As others have pointed out, some analyses can be almost spookily precise about specific flaws and attitudes. One cannot take the description of an ESTJ and expect it to work for a person who tests INFP. While the summaries you sometimes find are vague due to space, even those could not apply to diametric personality type opposites.
Anyone else find it interesting that the most represented types in this thread are among the rarest? INTP, INFJ, INFP are, by most accounts, around 1-2% of the population.
I also remembered another test that appears to have been a graduate research project.
http://www.ling.rochester.edu/~duniho/ddli/
If memory serves me correctly, it has about 120 questions and you weight your answers further by giving a strength of each preference on a scale from 1-7. Seems more accurate. Not surprisingly, mine didn’t change.
Hi all! I decided it’s time to stop lurking…
I took an in-class assessment about 1 and 3/4 years ago, got ESTJ, and I took the online one just now and got INTJ. I’m almost positive that I really am more Introverted - but I can fake being extroverted pretty decently, and I don’t think I’d realized that yet the first time I took the test (hey, give me a break, I was 15! :smack: ). I don’t know about the change from Sensate to Intuitive, though it’s something I want to look into more.
Does anyone know if there a true “conversion” from the Myers-Briggs personality types to the Keirsey or Hippocrates temperaments? I would much appreciate any recommendations for more info (or any sources for a free temperament test - I think I am a melancholic but, quite typically, I want documentation!)
Thanks!
Whew, first posts are stressful!
Welcome to the ISTP!
I’m an SDMB. (56, 1, 11, 44)
No, wait…
So, I’m guessing the four of us in one place at the same time would be quite something!
Any of you folks going to be around Iowa soon? I don’t get out much so for right now you would have to come to me. But hey, I’ll warn BeagleDave and the resident Mod Squad across the river and we could run amuck in the Quad Cities for a while!
Yes, I’ve often found it’s easy to fake extraversion for short periods. I too have seen some variations in the Sensing v. Intuitive preference in a few people, but I have no explanation. There is plenty of research in this area, you should have no trouble finding information.
IIRC, the Keirsey test is based on the MBTI, but I understand that a person can score quite differently between the two. Never taken the MBTI myself, but you might check with the psychology department of your nearest college or university to see if they administer personality tests.
Welcome to the boards!
I’m an INFP.
I don’t recall the percentages (I didn’t take the Myers-Briggs online), but I’m a major introvert.
