INTP-A. Very strong on all the measures but the Assertive. And yeah, if you read the descriptions, especially the “strengths and weaknesses,” it captures me extremely well.
I found M-B to accurately assess my personality and as my personality has changed, so has my M-B. It always seems to fit me to a tee. That being said, there’s nothing magic about asking a series of questions designed to find out what kind of person you are and getting results that, surprise!tell you what kind of person you are.
My objection is, “so what?” The primary use of this test is in the workplace. I can’t hire based on a Meyer’s Briggs, its impractical to build teams based on it, and frankly, leading people differently allegedly based on M-B might get me accused of favoritism. A manager deals with the hand he or she is given personnel wise and while personalities do play some role in getting things done, I can’t lead based on personality
Yup. I took the test here.
ENTJ. I’ve been tested several times. Always the same. A hard over kick ass ENTJ.
One book told me that ENTJ men end up as generals, leaders of industry, and politicians. ENTJ women are the rarest of types and frequently end up as lonely bitter old maids.
Wince
It’s a logical fallacy: appeal to tradition. The fact that an idea is old (or even “very old”) is not in itself justification for its validity.
Your posts in defense of MTBIs also relies heavily on what is known as misleading vividness, also known as the the anecdotal fallacy.
INFP. Through and through.
I’ve never quite understood the fuss about these types of tests, towards either extreme. They MUST be dismissed, or they give you DEEP insights. Meh.
They basically encourage you to: a) be self-aware about how your present yourself; and b) consider how others seem to receive info and connect on topics when you interact with them. Seems like a good general approach, and if the categories give you a quick rule of thumb you can use, then good. Beyond that, I don’t pay attention to them.
ENTJ here.
I’ve done it three times over the last couple of days. The first two I came out as INTP. The third time I thought I’d try and answer more honestly so I toned down my responses and went neutral on a couple and I think I even reversed my position on a couple of questions but it still came out INTP - if anything, even more strongly. So INTP it is, it looks like.
I don’t agree with everything in the summary though. I’m not all that introverted. I can be the life and soul if I’m in the right mood and I’ve had a couple of drinks.
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Intj fwiw
INFP and pretty far from center on all axes.
The most useful thing about this test and others like it is to introduce a person to the concept that there are other valid ways of seeing, interpreting, and interacting with the world.
Young and/or immature people think that their way is the only right way to be. For example, if I love to go to parties, work with my hands, or engage in active sports, then I’m likely to draw the conclusion that people who would rather stay in on a Saturday night, hate tools and getting their hands dirty, and always want to get out of Phys Ed, are wrong, dumb, or broken in some way.
But when you learn that some people really do find their interior world more compelling than the physical world, or that some people learn better when their bodies are engaged (like writing, drawing, or even walking), it’s a real eye-opener.
“How can you sit around all day with your nose in a book?”
“We just got to the party–and you already want to leave?”
“How did you know what that guy was going to say before he said it?”
“How can you possibly NOT like to read?”
Other people’s points of view are valid–who knew? I thought they were all just WRONG. 
INFP here, supposedly the rarest type among males. Also have a hard time finding mates. Perhaps we once roamed the earth in great numbers but are now dying out. Seriously, I’m skeptical of attempts to quantify something like personality traits. The test can probably provide insights, but I don’t see it doing more.
It is great that you learned how to use Wikipedia to look up logical fallacies but, unfortunately, you still need to learn to apply them correctly. Neither of those apply to what I said. Giving my own results and outcomes does not somehow invalidate anything I said and certainly doesn’t make my overall points a logical fallacy. That was simply one piece of data with an open invitation for others to share theirs (contrary to popular belief, some ‘anecdotes’ really do equal a data point or datum if you are a hopeless hardass if it is reported properly; an organized accumulation of that same data can be a published study).
There is no ‘Appeal to Tradition’ either. The point was that the Meyers-Briggs has been found useful and survived extreme scrutiny since 1943. The current version of the test isn’t the same one in the original form but the overall idea had enough validity to merit its use with updates to this day. The same cannot be said for many other psychological tests which came into vogue and faded away much faster than the Meyers-Briggs. Again, I never said it was a perfect test but it isn’t a bad one either. It meets all of the standards of any scientific test.
I can give you the shortest psychometrics class in the history of the world along with my own criticisms of the test itself but, in general, I believe it is a valid but very general tool. However, I am not sure that snarky critics of all psychological tests are open minded and knowledgeable enough to even begin to truly understand it.
But there do exist rigorous defenses of tradition. It’s not inherently a logical fallacy. For example, a substantial amount of psychological categorizations have been proven to lack predictive power and have fallen by the wayside. The fact that Myers-Briggs has such staying power is like a backwards example of survivorship bias and does in fact imply that it is more useful than the average psychometric concept.
And for what it’s worth, Shagnasty is the one who is bringing up statistical evidence, which does in fact support his case. This board seems to have a profound ignorance of the fundamentals of statistics and psychometrics. I mean, if someone claimed that there was no evidence of climate change or that the pyramids were built by water jets, they would be subject to extensive critiques by multiple posters. But people on this board regularly claim that IQ tests measure nothing more than the ability to take IQ tests or that Myers-Briggs is worthless. That’s factually false.
I can’t remember my letters but mostly it boiled down to an introverted extrovert. Relates well to others…except now I just mostly stay pissed.
Strangers talk to me. People ask my opinion and follow my lead and I don’t know why.
I usually have a good sense of humor. I think I need a break.
I’m very tired.
My emphasis.
Don’t minimize this. It is a lot. Insights don’t come as readily to others as they do to us INFPs. For an SJ to find out that some people can live with mystery and not be driven nuts can be a big revelation. It can lead them to get off their kid’s or spouse’s back and stop trying to fix them. To learn that other people are not like you, but that they are okay the way they are is one of the building blocks of maturity.
I don’t see the Myers-Briggs as an attempt to quantify anyway.
ISTJ. Whether the test is useful for everyone or not doesn’t matter to me. Instead, I read it as a way to identify some of my default reactions and work against those when necessary. I lead a 16 person department, all of whom work in different ways. Paying attention to how and why I react to things helps me do my work better and helps the department work better.
Better, not perfectly. 
I think this is smart. One thing I think is valuable about them is to go find the list of strengths and weaknesses for my type and read through the strengths. If I think that I’m really well represented by those strengths, I bet I’m well represented by the weaknesses, too. Even if I can’t or don’t want to see it. I think we all have a tendency to look at the good stuff and think “I’m awesome!” and then act like the bad stuff doesn’t apply.
(For me, the INTP strengths and weaknesses are too manifest for me to try to deny them. Whatever the predictive value of the test, its descriptive value of my personality is really high.)
ENFP-T here today. And that is where I’ve always fallen when I’ve taken this test in the past. I’m satisfied that it captures me quite well. I’m extroverted, social, creative, I do poorly when micro-managed, am easily bored, and thrive on new challenges. I’m not totally crazy about living alone, but I’m easily capable of doing so.
I agree totally with those of you who say this is more or less meaningless in the workplace. The sole exception might be if you were being chosen to make up part of a team that would be forced to be in close proximity for a long period of time (as an example, a team of astronauts going on a long voyage) where you would need a balanced mix of compatible personality types.