# Your personality?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/21 "2000-01-21T16:01:00Z")

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Welcome fellow **ESTJers**

I have done this tet probably 10 times since I was in high school 6 years ago, and every time I take it, I am an ESTJ. I think that might be accurate.

Your Temperament is Guardian : SJ  
Your variant temperament is Supervisor : ESTJ  
Attentive - 3  
Expressive - 7

Introspective - 2  
Observant - 8

Tender - 3  
Tough - 7

Probing - 2  
Scheduled - 8

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**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/22 "2000-01-21T16:07:00Z")

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ISTJ.

I+10 S+14 T+12 J+8

Attentive 10, Expressive 0  
Introspective 1, Observant 9  
Tender 2, Tough 8  
Probing 3, Scheduled 7

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**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/23 "2000-01-21T16:20:00Z")

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Yay! I have the same personality as Neuro!! (my new hero) Of course, give me 24 hours and I’ll be somebody else…

Your Temperament is Rational : NT  
Your variant temperament is Mastermind : INTJ  
Attentive 10  
Expressive 0

Introspective 6  
Observant 4

Tender 4  
Tough 6

Probing 5  
Scheduled 5

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**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/24 "2000-01-21T16:55:00Z")

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I have the personality type that doesn’t believe in personality tests.

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**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/25 "2000-01-21T17:16:00Z")

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Ol’ Flyp’s an Idealist Champion. Between phouka, techchick and I, we’re blowing the curve on this one-supposed to be only 3% of the population.

ENFP  
E/A 4/6  
I/O 6/3  
T/T 6/4  
P/S 6/4

> [@](#):
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> The Champion Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in accomplishing their aims, and informative and  
> extraverted when relating with others. For Champions, nothing occurs which does not have some deep ethical significance, and  
> this, coupled with their uncanny sense of the motivations of others, gives them a talent for seeing life as an exciting drama,  
> pregnant with possibilities for both good and evil. This type is found in only about 3 percent of the general population, but they  
> have great influence because of their extraordinary impact on others. Champions are inclined to go everywhere and look into  
> everything that has to do with the advance of good and the retreat of evil in the world. They can’t bear to miss out on what is  
> going on around them; they must experience, first hand, all the significant social events that affect our lives. And then they are  
> eager to relate the stories they’ve uncovered, hoping to disclose the “truth” of people and issues, and to advocate causes. This  
> strong drive to unveil current events can make them tireless in conversing with others, like fountains that bubble and splash,  
> spilling over their own words to get it all out.
> 
> Champions consider intense emotional experiences as being vital to a full life, although they can never quite shake the feeling  
> that a part of themselves is split off, uninvolved in the experience. Thus, while they strive for emotional congruency, they often  
> see themselves in some danger of losing touch with their real feelings, which eNFps possess in a wide range and variety. In the  
> same vein, eNFps strive toward a kind of spontaneous personal authenticity, and this intention always to “be themselves” is  
> usually communicated nonverbally to others, who find it quite attractive. All too often, however, eNFps fall short in their efforts  
> to be authentic, and they tend to heap coals of fire on themselves, berating themselves for the slightest self-conscious  
> role-playing.

Not bad.

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He weathered a firestorm of agony and did not break.  
And while Yori raged against his unbending  
courage, we took Kyuden Hiruma back.  
His loss is great, but so is the gift his suffering brought.  
-_Yakamo’s Funeral_

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**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/26 "2000-01-21T20:10:00Z")

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Another Rational:NT INTJ here…

So ladies…looks like the three of us are gonna have to run this board!

🙂

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-Frankie  
Lack of charisma can be fatal

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**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/27 "2000-01-21T20:19:00Z")

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Well, ok, Frankie, you can be my hero, too.

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**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/28 "2000-01-21T20:21:00Z")

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A tip of my white stetson to ya.

## “WEll its my pleasure miss”

-Frankie  
Lack of charisma can be fatal

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**Author:** ![inertia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/29 "2000-01-21T20:44:00Z")

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Your temperament is Artisan: SP  
Your variant temperament is Promoter : ESTP

Details of questionaire:  
E+4 S+4 T+12 P+4

Attentive: 3  
Expressive: 7

Introspective: 4  
Observant: 6

Tender: 2  
Tough: 8

Probing: 6  
Scheduled: 4

## Papa a.k.a. Ernest Hemingway

Everything looks better in black and white – Paul Simon

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**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/30 "2000-01-21T21:10:00Z")

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Your Temperament is Idealist : NF  
Your variant temperament is Healer : INFP

Attentive: 8  
Expressive: 2

Introspective: 7  
Observant: 3

Tender: 7  
Tough: 3

Probing: 6  
Scheduled: 4

“The iNFp is the Prince or Princess of fairytale, the King’s Champion or Defender of the Faith, like Sir Galahad or Joan of Arc. Healers are found in only 1 percent of the  
general population, although, at times, their idealism leaves them feeling even more isolated from the rest of humanity.”

Kewl.

‘Sir John Corrado, Defender of the Truth, Knight of SDMB Table, Lord Protector of the Cyber-Realm.’ Snicker.

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JMCJ

_Curmudgeon Of The Day_ Winner, 1/19/00  
As Selected by RTFirefly

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**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/31 "2000-01-21T21:36:00Z")

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I’m still ENFP

This has come up enough times that I decided to put a page up of scores. Those who have posted are already there, others can email me their scores at [dopes@fathom.org](mailto:dopes@fathom.org)

[Scores](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/personality.html)

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Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions)  
“Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat  
O p a l C a t  
[www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com)

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**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/32 "2000-01-21T21:51:00Z")

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Neuro- The question is, of course, are you an Evil Mastermind?

If so, I’ll try to start up a collection to get you a swivel chair and a white long-haired Persian cat…

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JMCJ

_Curmudgeon Of The Day_ Winner, 1/19/00  
As Selected by RTFirefly

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**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/33 "2000-01-21T22:16:00Z")

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Your Temperament is Rational : NT  
Your variant temperament is Architect : INTP

Attentve: 8  
Expressive: 2

Introspective: 8  
Observant: 1

Tender: 3  
Tough: 7

Probing: 7  
Scheduled: 2

That puts me in a class with Einstein and Marie Curie. I can live with that.

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/34 "2000-01-21T22:52:00Z")

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Don’t know if I like the answer or not…but…

Attentive 7 / Expressive 3  
Introspective 7 / Observant 2  
Tender 7 / Tough 3  
Probing 2 / Scheduled 8

Hmm. Is that good or bad?

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I never touched him, ref, honest!

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**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/35 "2000-01-21T23:09:00Z")

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Mattk, what was your code though? (ENFP, INTJ, etc)

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Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions)  
“Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat  
O p a l C a t  
[www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com)

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/36 "2000-01-21T23:19:00Z")

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Bugger. I can’t remember. Let me try it again.

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I never touched him, ref, honest!

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/37 "2000-01-21T23:25:00Z")

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Okay, Opalcat. I did it again and got pretty much the same answer.

Attentive 7 / Expressive 3  
Introspective 6 / Observant 3  
Tender 7 / Tough 2  
Probing 2 / Scheduled 8

Temperament - Idealist (NF)  
Variant - Counselor (INFJ)

Others - Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi

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I never touched him, ref, honest!

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**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/38 "2000-01-22T00:12:00Z")

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Your Temperament is Idealist : NF  
Your variant temperament is Teacher : ENFJ

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…in a state so nonintuitive it can only be called weird…

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/39 "2000-01-22T00:14:00Z")

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INTP

Except I seem to fit the profile of an ENTP better.

Except that I really am an I.

I’m so confused.

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**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personality/13087/40 "2000-01-22T00:29:00Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> Originally posted by Bluepony:  
> \*\*Hey Grace, I’m an Inspector Guardian (or a Guardian Inspector) too! Where’s my halo and magnifying glass?
> 
> \*\*

Yea!!! I’m not the only one Inspector Gadget, uh I mean Guardian. I can’t provide you with a magnifying lense but I can give you a stack of those Inspected by #9 stickers.

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“Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.”

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