# Your personality? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2000, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087 "2000-01-21T06:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/1 "2000-01-21T06:38:00Z")
In one of my many I-don’t-want-to-study-so-I’m-going-to surf-the-net experiences I happened to come across this site… [http://www.keirsey.com/cgi-bin/keirsey/newkts.cgi](http://www.keirsey.com/cgi-bin/keirsey/newkts.cgi) Now I know that it’s not exactly an accurate picture of your personality. The actual MBTI test is several hundred questions long and is scored by someone with a degree, and this one is 70 questions long and has a pretty simple scoring device. On the other hand for all practical intents and purposes it seems to work pretty well-ie I took it and my “type” seems to fit me pretty well(INTJ). I’ve also heard theories about which types tend to used UBB’s, and I’m curious, what are you? ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/2 "2000-01-21T06:48:00Z")
Your Temperament is Rational : NT Your variant temperament is Mastermind : INTJ Attentve:10 Expressive: o Introspective: 7 Observant: 3 Tender: 2 Tough: 7 Probing: 3 Scheduled: 7 This puts me in the same category as Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ayn Rand. Interesting… * * * An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/3 "2000-01-21T07:08:00Z")
Your Temperament is Artisan : SP Your variant temperament is Performer : ESFP Attentive - 3 Expressive - 7 Introspective - 5 Observant - 5 Tender - 8 Tough - 2 Probing - 8 Scheduled - 2 * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/4 "2000-01-21T07:14:00Z")
My temperament is **Artisan : SP** My variant temperament is **Composer :ISFP** Attentive- 10 Expressive- 0 Introspective- 4 Observant- 5 Tender- 8 Tough- 2 Probing- 7 Scheduled- 3 I guess that makes me an old softie! 🙂 * * * The most rewarding part was when I got my money! -Dr. Nick Riviera ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/5 "2000-01-21T07:21:00Z")
Your Temperament is Guardian : SJ Your variant temperament is Protector : ISFJ Attentive - 6 Expressive - 4 Introspective - 4 Observant - 6 Tender - 7 Tough - 3 Probing - 2 Scheduled - 8 * * * “You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!” - Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/6 "2000-01-21T07:34:00Z")
::sighs:: I did this on a whim, rather than be sensible and go to bed the way I should have 2 hours ago. Didn’t write down the sectional scores, but still came out exactly the same as the MBTI the last 3 times I took it (in the past 10 years): INTP. Same old, same old. Maybe I’ll try this again tomorrow when I’m less exhausted. At least this version had spiffy graphics. The most notable was that I’m about as expressive as a soap dish. Maybe tomorrow I’ll improve, Veb ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/7 "2000-01-21T08:12:00Z")
Temperment - Rational: NT Variant Temperment - INTP I+4, N+12, T+12, P+10 ## Have taken the 72 question version of this test a couple of times in the last eight years, always come out INTP, though sometimes less strongly than others. \>\>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.\<\< —The dragon observes ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/8 "2000-01-21T08:20:00Z")
As with **TVeblen** , I probably should have waited until after I got some sleep instead fo just clicking on the link at a whim. I’ll probably take it again later in a few weeks to see if it changes. Temperment: **Rational:NT** Variant Temperment: **Architech:INTP** Attentive: 6 Expressive: 4 Introspective: 7 Observant: 2 Tender: 4 Tough: 5 Probing: 9 Scheduled: 0 (subject to change when I wake up) ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/9 "2000-01-21T08:21:00Z")
Not applicable to me. I don’t have a personality. * * * When the pin is pulled, Mr.Grenade is no longer our friend. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/10 "2000-01-21T09:42:00Z")
Guardian - SJ Supervisor - ESTJ E+0,S+2,T+2,J+8 A/E = 5/5 I/O = 4/5 T/T = 4/5 P/s = 3/7 Something like 46% of the folks who took the net test were Guardians and most of those were Supervisors. So, I guess I’m the common denominator * * * “I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/11 "2000-01-21T12:20:00Z")
Your Temperament is Guardian : SJ Your variant temperament is Inspector : ISTJ Attentive - 9 Expressive - 1 Introspective - 3 Observant - 7 Tender - 4 Tough - 6 Probing - 5 Scheduled - 5 ---
**Author:** ![fuzzy-wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b38774/32.png) [@fuzzy-wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy-wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/12 "2000-01-21T12:45:00Z")
Temp. Artisan SP Variant: Performer ESFP Attentive - 3 Expressive - 9 Introspective - 5 Observant - 7 Tender - 10 Tough - 2 Probing - 8 Schedule - 5 We are close aren’t we Sue? lol * * * “Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/13 "2000-01-21T13:19:00Z")
Morning Fuzz… wow and they usually say opposites attract. * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/14 "2000-01-21T13:47:00Z")
As usual, I’m an ENFP. Idealist: NF Champion: ENFP E+10 N+8 F+11 P+20 Attentive: 0 Expressive: 10 Introspective: 7 Observant: 3 Tender: 8 Tough: 2 Probing: 10 Scheduled: 0 So, if you want a shoulder to cry on, or someone to get really excited about your idea, or someone who is happier being spontaneous and carefree, I’m your gal. * * * The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarous tribe now stacking wood at her nubile feet, when the strong, clear voice of the poetic and heroic Handsomas roared, “Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you’ll feel my steel through your last meal.” ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/15 "2000-01-21T13:48:00Z")
Hey Grace, I’m an Inspector Guardian (or a Guardian Inspector) too! Where’s my halo and magnifying glass? * * * “…send lawyers, guns, and money…” ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/16 "2000-01-21T13:59:00Z")
Your Temperament is Guardian : SJ Your variant temperament is **Provider : ESFJ** Attentive: 1 Expressive: 9 Introspective: 2 Observant: 7 Tender: 6 Tough: 4 Probing: 4 Scheduling: 6 ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/17 "2000-01-21T15:14:00Z")
Temperament = Idealist: NF Variant Temperament = Champion: ENFP Attentive 1 Expressive 9 Introspective 7 Observant 3 Tender 9 Tough 1 Probing 9 Scheduled 1 ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/18 "2000-01-21T15:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Your Temperament is Guardian : SJ > Your variant temperament is Supervisor : ESTJ Attentive: 2 Expressive: 8 Introspective: 4 Observant: 6 Tender: 2 Tough: 8 Probing: 4 Scheduled: 6 > [@](#): > > GUARDIAN SJs, being CONCRETE in communicating and COOPERATIVE in implementing goals, can become highly skilled in LOGISTICS. Thus their most practiced and developed intelligent operations are often supervising and inspecting (SJT adminstering), or supplying and protecting (SJF conserving). And they would if they could be magistrates watching over these forms of social facilitation. They are proud of themselves in the degree they are reliable in action, respect themselves in the degree they do good deeds, and feel confident of themselves in the degree they are respectable. In search of security as they are the “Security Seeking Personality” – trusting in legitimacy and hungering for membership. They are usually stoical about the present, pessimistic about the future, fatalistic about the past, and their preferred time and place is the past and the gateway. Educationally they go for commerce, avocationally for regulations, and vocationally for materiel work. They tend to be enculturating as parents, helpmates as spouses, and conformity oriented as children. There are even more Guardians than Artisans around, at least 40% and as many as 45% of the population. > > The Guardians called Supervisors are not only concrete in speech and cooperative in reaching their goals, but they are also directive and expressive in their social address-very directive and very expressive. Supervisors do not hesitate even for an instant to express their opinion of someone’s performance, nor do they withhold their demand for improvement. > > Supervisors see themselves as responsible for seeing to it that those in their charge do as they should. They feel proud of their responsibility and of their efforts in making others responsible. Representing from ten to twelve percent of the general population, eStJs can be counted on to do their duty no matter how difficult it may be, or what sacrifices it demands. And they can be tough-minded about others’ derelictions of duty. Supervisors naturally gravitate to the role of supervisor in their relations with others, and feel especially responsible for making sure that people behave in keeping with agreed upon procedures and standards of conduct-or else face the consequences. Like a seasoned, stalwart umpire, they will set their jaw and point out mistakes and transgressions to anyone who steps out of line; they feel obligated to do so, and they’re sometimes surprised when the culprit does not seem grateful for their reprimand. > > Supervisors are gregarious and civic-minded, and are usually pillars of their community. They are generous with their time and energy, and very often belong to a variety of service clubs, lodges, and associations, supporting them through steady attendance, but also taking a vocal leadership role. Indeed, membership groups of all kinds attract ESTJs like magnets, perhaps because membership satisfies in some degree their need to maintain the stability of social institutions. Like all the SJs, ESTJs worry a good deal about society falling apart, morality decaying, standards being undermined, traditions being lost, and they do all they can to preserve and to extend the institutions that embody social order. Supervisors are so in tune with the established, time-honored institutions and ways of behaving within those institutions, that they have a hard time understanding those who might wish to abandon or radically change them. * * * “Buffalo Bills? Oh, yeah. The guys that always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.” --WallyM7 ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/19 "2000-01-21T15:53:00Z")
Your Temperament is Guardian : SJ Your variant temperament is Supervisor : ESTJ Attentive 2 Expressive 8 Introspective 2 Observant 7 Tender 5 Tough 5 Probing 3 Scheduled 6 Well, I disagree somewhat with these results, especially the “attentive” part. People who know me well, I think, feel I’m better at that than the test gives me credit for. * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/20 "2000-01-21T15:57:00Z")
Your Temperament is Guardian : SJ Your variant temperament is Protector : ISFJ Attentive 9 Expressive 1 Introspective 4 Observant 6 Tender 7 Tough 2 Probing 4 Scheduled 5 I’m in the same category as Jimmy Stewart and Mother Teresa. Who knew? I hope that wonderful woman isn’t rolling in her grave with me in the same category. trisha [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087.md?page=2)