Author Topic: Personality Type - Myers-Briggs (Read 8765 times)

Lady Door · « **on:** August 13, 2009, 05:44:44 PM »

I've always had a "thing" for personality tests and quizzes. My first livejournal had, in addition to pages of emo teenage whinging, hundreds of little quiz result widgets. If I were a book, I'd be Hamlet. My element is Water. I'd be the Bubonic Plague. Etc.

Eventually I came around to legitimately taking a personality sorter, and I found myself at the college career center taking the Myers-Briggs Personality Sorter. The test itself was suspiciously straight-forward and a little too much on the black-and-white/yes-or-no side of things, but reading the interpretations has been utterly fascinating. With most of these things, you can find pieces of yourself in just about every description. With this one, though... there's a definite sense of being more some than the others.

I don't know of any particularly good online tests for you to take if you don't already know this, but I do know the results are pretty consistent so long as the test maker used questions as close to the original (which you usually have to pay to take) as possible. My results, at least, have shown very little variance.

So....

I'm INFP, weak on the F.

What're y'all?

ETA: The Personality Page has some of my favorite interpretations.

superaielman · « **Reply #1 on:** August 13, 2009, 05:57:19 PM »

ISTJ, strong on S, weak on J.

Grefter · « **Reply #2 on:** August 13, 2009, 05:58:02 PM »

Meyers-Briggs is one of the fairly classic tools to use. It is deceptively indepth and generally pretty accurate. The simplicity of the questions is part of what makes it great, easy to apply, easy to interpret and easy to respond to makes for a great tool. Stuff on a sliding scale and whatnot can be more powerful but also makes it easier and trends more towards people just fucking with it and wasting everyone's time.

If you want a crazy huge personality test look up something like the MMPI, in its original form it is a bit dated, but professionally it gets updated to keep relevance.

Can't remember my exact grading, but it wasn't that shocking. Some massively huge score on the introverted and whatnot.

Ranmilia · « **Reply #3 on:** August 13, 2009, 05:58:43 PM »

This is a pretty good test. Took it in classes a while ago. Strongly INTP.

Anecdotal evidence supports that the majority of people on the internet tend towards INTP or within one degree of it.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #4 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:00:15 PM »

We took these every couple years starting in like, 4th grade and ending in high school. INTP here, usually. Though I got INTJ once in middle school.

Bardiche · « **Reply #5 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:06:39 PM »

ENFP here-o, though it's been a while since I particularly took it.

Strago · « **Reply #6 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:10:05 PM »

Seconding Gref's statements on the test. My family's always been big on it. I haven't taken it in a while, but when I did (in high school?) I was pretty solidly INFP. If anything's changed since then, I'd say it's probably the I weakening (to the point of becoming an E, possibly, but I'm not sure), and maybe the P as well.

superaielman · « **Reply #7 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:12:54 PM »

Yeah, I/E's the one that's shifted more towards E for me over the years. Never scored N once on one of these tests on the other hand, or even particularly close.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

I blame the DL for the shift to E mostly.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #8 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:14:13 PM »

I can't seem to find any notes from the past times I've taken these things on the intertubes, but I'm pretty sure (especially after refreshing myself on the descriptions) that I've scored both INFP and INTP with regularity.

Tonfa · « **Reply #9 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:28:17 PM »

Super's test gives me INFP which is no shock. 10-30 on each.

VySaika · « **Reply #10 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:28:23 PM »

I know I've taken this thing before, but hell if I can remember what I scored at all.

Shale · « **Reply #11 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:30:15 PM »

ISTJ, although it's probably been ten years since I took that test.

Bardiche · « **Reply #12 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:35:44 PM »

Got ENFJ on Super's page test, though the J is a... 1%. Apparently.

I guess I haven't changed all that much.

Sierra · « **Reply #13 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:36:07 PM »

Just took the test Super linked to. INTJ. Big surprise, I'm sure. Maxed I (I'm assuming numbers don't go above 100), N/J barely exist, T is in the middle range.

Yoshiken · « **Reply #14 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:41:40 PM »

Man, that quiz Super linked to has a stupid amount of repeat questions.
Anyways. ISTP with the highest one being the I at 44. P was 22, others were 38. So I'm... sort of a few things, but nothing in particular really. Greeeaat.

Out of curiosity, what do each of the letters mean?

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #15 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:42:04 PM »

I just threw out the stuff I had when I last did this test, go figure. I was either INTP or INTJ, no longer recall. Pretty weak on all except the N, IIRC.

Bardiche · « **Reply #16 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:45:00 PM »

I = Introverted
S = Sensing
T = Thinking
P = Perceiving

E = Extraverted
N = Intuitive
F = Feeling
J = Judging

Yakumo · « **Reply #17 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:55:29 PM »

Super's version gave me an INTJ with 100/12/50/56. <_<

Laggy · « **Reply #18 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:57:30 PM »

INTJ, absurdly weak on all of them though. I think it was like 28/1/30/1? Yeah.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #19 on:** August 13, 2009, 07:01:57 PM »

INTJ here.

I: 100%
N: 12%
T: 75%
J: 56%

EDIT: Rather -eerily- accurate, truth be told.

EDIT2: Took the test again with more analysis (instead of going by gut in a few questions I waffled before) and got a slight change in results. Guess where, win nothing.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #20 on:** August 13, 2009, 07:15:36 PM »

So after 8 or so years of life, I am a much more balanced person. I scored ISTJ

I- 33%
S- 1%
T- 33%
J- 25%

VySaika · « **Reply #21 on:** August 13, 2009, 07:23:55 PM »

Just took that, scored ENTJ

Extraverted 22
Intuitive 62
Thinking 12
Judging 33

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #22 on:** August 13, 2009, 07:24:30 PM »

*takes super's test*
Hm. INTJ, 64/38/1/22. Result honestly doesn't feel all that close, I think I waffled over the J-biased questions. Worth noting that reading INFJ, INTP, and INFP, those all rang much more true.

Taishyr · « **Reply #23 on:** August 13, 2009, 07:29:15 PM »

last few times i took it, i got INxx; I 90%, N 50%, the other two at like 1% each time. So.

Bobbin Cranbud · « **Reply #24 on:** August 13, 2009, 07:36:37 PM »

ENTJ, 1/25/25/44.

I can definitely see this. If anything, the numbers seem a bit low.

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