# What's your temperment? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741 "2000-10-28T15:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/41 "2000-10-29T05:05:29Z")
Another troublesome tribble checking in. Maybe that explains why I’m so damned conciliatory and always looking for common ground. I thought it was because I’ve always been surrounded by fighting people and yelling gives me a bellyache. ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/42 "2000-10-29T08:55:43Z")
I redid the test and looked up the words I didnt know instead of just clicking on one of the options 😉 I am an **Idealist/teacher** now The Idealist sounds pretty much like me - but the teacher thing… _puhleaz_!!! I read through the other idealists and I think the **Champions** seem pretty much like me. Molly Brown is so cool… I d love to really be in her category… ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/43 "2000-10-29T09:28:37Z")
Rationalist FieldMarshall. Most of the descriptions fit fairly well. I have always thought as myself as more of an idealist and many tests I have taken have placed me in the category of teacher or counsellor. Maybe I am changing as I approach middle age? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/44 "2000-10-29T09:55:53Z")
For me it’s Rational : NT, Mastermind : INTJ. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/45 "2000-10-29T10:10:53Z")
Rational/Architect : INTP ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/46 "2000-10-29T11:55:16Z")
Didn’t do it this time (the test) but I’m always an ENTP. I think the descriptor is something like “innovator.” ---
**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/47 "2000-10-29T13:17:49Z")
Rational NT ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/48 "2000-10-29T22:13:53Z")
Funny, I always come up Mean Motor-Scooter/Bad Go-Getter. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/49 "2000-10-29T22:48:25Z")
Psychology. What else? ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/50 "2000-10-29T23:55:30Z")
Another INFP Idealist/Healer checkin’ in… I score the same every time I take this test. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/51 "2000-10-30T01:22:18Z")
INFP like so many others here, the interesting thing is that I see a lot of the same people scoring the same as me on all the various personality tests. ---
**Author:** ![el\_mono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea666f/32.png) [@el\_mono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/el_mono)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/52 "2000-10-30T01:22:47Z")
eNFp, Idealist/Champion. I too have taken the Keirsey Temperment as well as the Myers-Briggs several times over a span of years and always come out with the same type. What’s it all about, Alfie? I dunno, but in many ways the profile fits me to a T. Anybody else out there ever attended a Bell Leadership Course? ---
**Author:** ![messiah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@messiah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/messiah)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/53 "2000-10-30T05:37:45Z")
97 degrees F (perfect for ovulation apparently) ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/54 "2000-10-30T22:33:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Odieman \* > \*\*INFP like so many others here, the interesting thing is that I see a lot of the same people scoring the same as me on all the various personality tests. \*\* I wonder if people with our temperament type are more _likely_ than others to find personality tests _interesting_. Hmmmm… that may explain all the iNFp posters. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PolarField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@PolarField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PolarField)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/55 "2000-10-30T23:47:42Z")
I’m another Idealist/Healer… Anybody else feel that they’re screwed up? That it takes an effort to be in the same reality that everybody else seems to naturally plod along in, unquestioningly? I was surprised at how dead on that test was. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741/56 "2000-10-31T00:19:10Z")
Another (eNFp) Idealist/Champion. What career does that suggest? I’m afraid to ask . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-temperment/38741.md?page=2)