Maybe I’m getting my facts in a knot (I just started really looking at the different assessments this afternoon,) but doesn’t the Kiersey take Hippocrates’ temperament theory and then create four distinctions in each temperament from there?
Or does the Kiersey system take the MBTI and assign a name to each one, then slap Hippocrates’ temperament labels onto groups of four names?
Perhaps I should look this up instead of asking, but I figure someone else has got to be interested, and I’m hoping that once we establish the basic facts about each we could talk about some differences between what each assesses and their validity (not to hijack, wow, that’d be bad, a hijack on my second post! I’m happy to start a new thread if need be). I’ve just gotten really interested in the four-temperament theory in the past day or so, and from the little bit I’ve read about the MBTI I think it (the temperament theory, rather than the 16-personality) may be more precise and reliable. Dissenting opinions, anyone?
And don’t worry, I’m not lazy and just trying to get someone to do my work for me, I plan on looking it up too!
To clarify a question from the last post, is there any real equal ground between assessments that use a 16-personality and those that use 4-temperament? As in, would an INTJ always be a melancholic (at least in theory)?
Oh, and peritrochoid - I’m leaving for college in about a month, and I’ll be a psych major. So I’m sure I’ll come along all this in a class soon enough, I’m just a little overeager! Thanks for your response!
No, I’m not a Virgo. I don’t believe in those kinds of things having any merit what-so-ever. I’m a Pisces, though anything anyone’s ever told me about how I’m “supposed” to be because of it has been painfully inaccurate. As a matter of fact, I usually force people to guess my sign – especially so-called astrologers – and they always guess Pisces as one of the last, if not the last, options.
That being said, I am a very, very strong iNTj, and I know this to be accurate for me because I’ve read the other profiles and none of them come close to describing me so well. I have made a deliberate effort to develop feeling & empathy with other people, though, in the last couple of years. So the description might be a bit more limited than I actually am, but I don’t consider it to be inaccurate because I conciously altered my personality in spite of it.
And you will discover that the Myers Briggs type personality inventories are by the far the least valid and reliable of all personality tests
But enjoy anyway, and prepare yourself for the statistics.
Why bother to mention judging at all if it’s so low?
In reading the High-Level Description of the Sixteen Personality Types, I’m starting to wonder if this is like a horoscope, where there’s something for everyone in every description. The INFJ details seemed accurate in some ways, way off in others where INFP seemed more realistic.
Man, it changes every time I do this thing. My tendencies are always so weak - I mean, 1% sensing? What’s that?
I think I prefer that ‘which level of Hell are you going to’ test, in the ‘kill the president’ thread. I am firmly, and happily, going to the second level of Hell. Woo!
