Myers-Briggs Personality Test, now with a poll!

[Cato the Elder]

So, ladies and gentlemen, the Myers-Briggs personality test. A test made by the psychologists Myers and Briggs (hence the name) who were so immensely arrogant that they thought they would be able to divide humanity into 16 distinct personality types, who can each be categorised by 4 into 4 groups which form the base of our human society. As discussions, both here on CFCOT and elsewhere, have been made regarding whether this is actually feasible and if it how realiable it is, the Myers-Briggs test is not without its controversy. However, it's very interesting nonetheless, I personally have had many conversations with people of all walks of life regarding this test.

So, here's the link, hope all of you enjoy, and for those who know their result, from this test or from previous ones, please vote in the poll!

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

I'm an ENFP, by the way. (though until very recently an INFP)

 

[Kenjister]

I've always found this test quite interesting. Whenever I take these tests, the following descriptions of the personality type always match me to the word. I suppose it's accuracy in regards to me is in part due to me usually getting "strongly expressed _______" in the categories. Career matches based on the test always seem to be what I was thinking about earlier as well. Scary actually.

 

[Bill3000]

I've always been an INTP.

 

[Integral]

Scored INTJ.

 

[Whomp]

From the last time I took it. I'm a little more J now than then but the EST are as strong as ever.

ESTP - "Promotor". Action! When present, things begin to happen. Fiercely competitive. Entrepreneur. Often uses shock effect to get attention. Negotiator par excellence. 4.3% of total population.
Extroverted (E) 87.5% Introverted (I) 12.5%
Sensing (S) 87.5% Intuitive (N) 12.5%
Thinking (T) 66.67% Feeling (F) 33.33%
Perceiving (P) 58.33% Judging (J) 41.67%

 

[Fifty]

Whenever I do it it says I'm an "SPIG" . . .

 

[JollyRoger]

I'm a JERK

 

[MagisterCultuum]

According to your link:

INTP
Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:

* very expressed introvert
* distinctively expressed intuitive personality
* slightly expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed perceiving personality

Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
100 75 12 22


The MyType Facebook Application currently says:
Introverted 85%
Intuitive 73%
Thinking 37%
Perceiving 32%

However, I have gotten INFP a couple times on it in the past



The Facebook My Personality Application says estimates INTP, and for the Five Factors test says:
Openness
79%
Conscientiousness
48%
Extraversion
29%
Agreeableness
63%
Neuroticism
46%

 

[mythmonster2]

When I first took this test about a year ago, I was INTP. Then I moved to ENTP about half a year later. Now I'm INFP.

You are:
* moderately expressed introvert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed feeling personality
* very expressed perceiving personality
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
33 25 38 100

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

INTJ (56,50,38,78).
# moderately expressed introvert
# moderately expressed intuitive personality
# moderately expressed thinking personality
# very expressed judging personality

 

[Zelig]

ESFJ (1,1,12,1)

You are:
slightly expressed extravert
slightly expressed sensing personality
slightly expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality

 

[holy king]

ESTJ 11, 1, 1, 11

# slightly expressed extravert
# slightly expressed sensing personality
# slightly expressed thinking personality
# slightly expressed judging personality


about 2/3 of the myers profile are right.

 

[emzie]

INTJ

# very expressed introvert
# slightly expressed intuitive personality
# moderately expressed thinking personality
# slightly expressed judging personality

aka, cold distant and heartless. Destined to disappoint all whom I love -- which is few given my introverted ways -- when I'm unable to show compassion when doing so would be a show of weakness.

 

[mech654]

ISTJ

very expressed introvert
moderately expressed sensing personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality

I remember doing it once at school, I think it was last year and I pretty sure I got the same result.

 

[Cato the Elder]

ESTJ 11, 1, 1, 11

# slightly expressed extravert
# slightly expressed sensing personality
# slightly expressed thinking personality
# slightly expressed judging personality


about 2/3 of the myers profile are right.

3/4 is what I read, but regardless, there is some margin of error. Especially in ones like yours, you're not explicitely expressed in any of the four regions.

 

[MobBoss]

ESTJ - Guardian.

You are:
slightly expressed extravert
moderately expressed sensing personality
distinctively expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality

 

[JohnRM]

You are: ESFJ

* moderately expressed extravert (56%)
* slightly expressed sensing personality (1%)
* slightly expressed feeling personality (12%)
* very expressed judging personality (89%)

Famous ESFJ types; Bill Clinton, Cindy Crawford, Frank Sinatra, Martha Stewart

Extroverted (E) 62.5% Introverted (I) 37.5%
Sensing (S) 70.83% Intuitive (N) 29.17%
Thinking (T) 66.67% Feeling (F) 33.33%
Judging (J) 66.67% Perceiving (P) 33.33%


ESTJ - "Administrator". Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of total population

 

[Cato the Elder]

By the way, in regards to most of you, do you believe that what the Myers-Briggs personality description is applicable to your personality?

In my case, both INFP and ENFP things are applicable to my general way of handling. The NFP part is definitely strong in my case (especially the "N", scored 100% there) and the "I" and "E" depends on my mood of the moment. I've been progressively moving into an E direction over the past few years though.

 

[JohnRM]

I can't say whether or not it is accurate.

 

[Miles Teg]

The Skeptic Dictionary on Myers-Briggs

As noted above, the Myers-BriggsTM instrument generates sixteen distinct personality profiles based on which side of the four scales one tends toward. Technically, the instrument is not supposed to be used to spew out personality profiles and pigeonhole people, but the temptation to do so seems irresistible. Providing personality tests and profiles has become a kind of entertainment on the Internet. There is also a pernicious side to these profiles: they can lead to discrimination and poor career counseling. Employers may hire, fire, or assign personnel by personality type, despite the fact that the MBTI® is not even reliable at identifying one’s type. Several studies have shown that when retested, even after intervals as short as five weeks, as many as 50 percent will be classified into a different type. There is scant support for the belief that the MBTI® would justify such job discrimination or would be a reliable aid to someone seeking career guidance (Pittenger 1993).

Here are some excerpts from Myers-BriggsTM profiles. Note how parts of each profile could fit most people.

1. Serious, quiet, earn success by concentration and thoroughness. Practical, orderly, matter-of-fact, logical, realistic and dependable. See to it that everything is well organized. Take responsibility. Make up their own minds as to what should be accomplished and work toward it steadily, regardless of protests or distractions.

2. Usually have original minds and great drive for their own ideas and purposes. In fields that appeal to them, they have a fine power to organize a job and carry it through with or without help. Skeptical, critical, independent, determined, sometimes stubborn. Must learn to yield less important points in order to win the most important.

The first profile is of an ISTJ (introversion, sensation, thinking, judgment), a.k.a. “The Trustee.” The second is of INTJ (introversion, intuition, thinking judgment), a.k.a. “The Scientist.” The profiles read like something from Omar the astrologer and seem to exemplify the Forer effect.