Meyers-Briggs typology?

[easjer]

Anyone been tested for this and know their type or frequency of types? Just wondering how accurate you found the testing.

I generally test as an INFJ, which is not frequent. There was a lot that sounded like me. Just wondered what others thought.

I mean, it's vague because you are talking about 16 archetypes, so in that sense it is sort of like astrology.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

gotta link?

[GiG's Doctor]

Fill me in on what your talking about please.

[2centsworth]

Anyone been tested for this and know their type or frequency of types? Just wondering how accurate you found the testing.

I generally test as an INFJ, which is not frequent. There was a lot that sounded like me. Just wondered what others thought.

I mean, it's vague because you are talking about 16 archetypes, so in that sense it is sort of like astrology.
infj=wierdo.

[GiG's Doctor]

I'm confused.

[Kori Ellis]

It's a personality test.

You can take a sample here.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

[Cant_Be_Faded]

is it related to scientology

[Kori Ellis]

I don't think so.

I don't know much about it.

Here's a breakdown of what your results mean. I'm ESTJ.

http://typelogic.com/

[GiG's Doctor]

Istp.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

intj

[GiG's Doctor]

Pb&j

[easjer]

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

[Slomo]

eNTp

[easjer]

Myers Briggs typology is based on Jung's personality archetypes. It has nothin to do with scientology. It's a psychology study. They take the four Jungian archetypes and have assigned characteristics. You will be either an Introvert or Extrovert, Sensing or iNtuitive, Feeling or Thinking, Judging or Perceiving.

Based on that, there are sixteen individual personality types that you can fall into. Myers and Briggs and subsequent students have tracked the frequency with which these personality types occur in the population.

It's a really neat study.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Myers Briggs typology is based on Jung's personality archetypes. It has nothin to do with scientology. It's a psychology study. They take the four Jungian archetypes and have assigned characteristics. You will be either an Introvert or Extrovert, Sensing or iNtuitive, Feeling or Thinking, Judging or Perceiving.

Based on that, there are sixteen individual personality types that you can fall into. Myers and Briggs and subsequent students have tracked the frequency with which these personality types occur in the population.

It's a really neat study.


where do we find the frequency? i was looking for that but can't find it

[2centsworth]

intj
= pathological liar.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

= pathological liar.


If I agree with you then we come to a paradox.

[easjer]

Do a search for your type. There is a site that lists the types and frequencies and has a good breakdown on the personality traits but I don't remember it. If you google your type (just the letters), it'll come up near the top.

I've tested as an INTJ before. That F/T difference is usually only a 1% point either way.

Slomo is my direct opposite. Heh.

[Kori Ellis]

Here's the frequency in one study:

ISFJ (11.9%)
INFP (11.4%)
ENFP (11.3%)
ISTJ (8.8%)
ESFJ (8.6%)
ESTJ (7.1%)
ISFP (5.9%)
INFJ (5.9%)
ESFP (5.4%)
ENFJ (4.3%)
INTP (4.0%)
ENTP (3.6%)
ISTP (3.1%)
INTJ (2.9%)
ESTP (2.8%)
ENTJ (2.2%)

[Kori Ellis]

Here's another:

ESTJ - 13%
ESTP - 13%
ESFJ - 13%
ESFP - 13%
ENTJ - 5%
ENTP - 5%
ENFJ - 5%
ENFP - 5%
ISTJ - 6%
ISTP - 5%
ISFJ - 6%
ISFP - 5%
INTJ - 1%
INTP - 1%
INFJ - 1%
INFP - 1%

[Trainwreck2100]

I'm more familiar with the Riggs and Murtaugh test.

[travis2]

Istj

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

[Cant_Be_Faded]

It seems I am a rare breed.

Easjer, i just read somethin saying intj's like philosophy and science and shit...didnt you say once you were into philosophy?

their explanations seem somewhat accurate but still kinda generic

[2centsworth]

If I agree with you then we come to a paradox.:lol

[Cant_Be_Faded]

:lol


There was this Cretan named Epimenides who once said "all cretans are liars" hahaha
thats the first thing i thought of when you said that

[tlongII]

Just a bunch of psychological bullshit.

[Trainwreck2100]

Infp (this makes me a saint)

[easjer]

CBF - Yeah, I like philosophy all right. It's not something I've studied extensively though. The Honors College at UH (where I did my undergrad) gives a really good overview of philosophy (sort of a study of the history of philosophy), and I took a couple of classes in that direction, but they were more geared towards hermenuetics and historiography than actual philosophy. I've read Plato's Republic, of course, and some Neitzche and Heidegger. I'd like to read Kierkegaard, but I've been putting it off because I have a really hard time reading academc works for some reason. I can breeze through a 500 page novel in an afternoon, but it takes me three days to read The Prince. Sigh. It's frustrating because I lose my place or I read the words but they don't make sense. It's like reading in another language sometimes, and I feel so stupid when I do that.

Anyway, I like anything related to the human condition - philosophy, psychology, history and religion are my favorites, sociology and anthropology less interesting to me.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

^^well if you can read a 500 page novel in one afternoon you're not that dumb
I wish I could do that shit! I'm a slowpoke

philosophy rules btw, but ancient appeals to me more, haven't read much at all of modern

[midgetonadonkey]

Your Type is
INTP
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
67 38 88 33

[easjer]

The Presocratics were fun, and it's really fascinating how much math and philosophy were linked for such a long time. Heraclitus is a fun one, with all the aphorisms. I swear all of our students know his saying "You never step into the same river twice."

But honestly, the thing that helped me the most with philosophy was "Pooh and The Philosophers - how all of western philosophy was a prelude to Winnie the Pooh." It actually really helped me get the various schools of philosophy down, especially the section on Pre-Socratics, where the author dissects one of my favorite Winnie The Pooh stories about Eeyore and his birthday to explain how the shape of the world influenced the philosophy.

:blushes:

Really intellectual there, right? Working in academia always makes you feel dumb.

[hicksi]

I'm more familiar with the Riggs and Murtaugh test.
I'm too old for this shit.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

The Presocratics were fun, and it's really fascinating how much math and philosophy were linked for such a long time. Heraclitus is a fun one, with all the aphorisms. I swear all of our students know his saying "You never step into the same river twice."

But honestly, the thing that helped me the most with philosophy was "Pooh and The Philosophers - how all of western philosophy was a prelude to Winnie the Pooh." It actually really helped me get the various schools of philosophy down, especially the section on Pre-Socratics, where the author dissects one of my favorite Winnie The Pooh stories about Eeyore and his birthday to explain how the shape of the world influenced the philosophy.

:blushes:

Really intellectual there, right? Working in academia always makes you feel dumb.


Heraclitus was the shit! Heraclitus and Parmenides pretty much sum up every thing I want to know haha
like yin and yang

[easjer]

Sadly, I recognize the name, but do not recall reading Parmenides.

[SpursWoman]

Istj


ISTJ's type description by J. Butt was so *me* it was creepy. :wow :lol

[easjer]

Interesting. Mine seemed pretty dead on too, except for a couple that talk about loving humanity and working to right injustices. That's not me so much - I think people need to take responsibility for their own situations so I'm not much on helping hands.

[desflood]

Also istj. Compared to Jesus' disciple Thomas (yes, the doubter).

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Sadly, I recognize the name, but do not recall reading Parmenides.

I like to think of him as the opposite of Heraclitus...heraclitus taught flux, alot of everything working in motion to form a whole, everything is never the same
P taught nothing changes, there is no everythign, etc

[iminlakerland]

ENFJ

You are:
moderately expressed extrovert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

moderately expressed feeling personality

moderately expressed judging personality

[ShoogarBear]

ENTJ

FieldMarshal

Famous ENTJs:
U.S. Presidents:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard M. Nixon

Benny Goodman, "Big Band" leader
General Norman Schwarzkopf
Harrison Ford
Steve Martin
Whoopi Goldberg
Sigourney Weaver
Margaret Thatcher
Al Gore (U.S Vice President, 1993-2001)
Lamar Alexander (former governor, US Secretary of Education)
Les Aspen, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Candace Bergen (Murphy Brown)
Dave Letterman
Newt Gingrich
Patrick Stewart (STNG: Jean Luc Picard)
Robert James Waller (author: The Bridges of Madison County)
Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask)
Steve Jobs
Penn Jillette
Fictional ENTJs:

Geordi LaForge (STNG)

[easjer]

INFJ (Counselor Idealist, according to Kiersey temprament sorter) - my type:
The Counselor Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and directive and introverted in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.

Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known a Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.

Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.

[spurschick]

I am also an INFJ

Famous INFJs:

Nathan, prophet of Israel
Aristophanes
Chaucer
Goethe
Robert Burns, Scottish poet

U.S. Presidents:
Martin Van Buren
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fanny Crosby, (blind) hymnist
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Fred McMurray (My Three Sons)
Shirley Temple Black, child actor, ambassador
Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, martyr
James Reston, newspaper reporter
Shirley McClain (Sweet Charity, ...)
Piers Anthony, author ("Xanth" series)
Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie)
Tom Selleck
John Katz, critic, author
Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary)
U. S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL)
Billy Crystal
Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury)
Nelson Mandela
Mel Gibson
Carrie Fisher
Nicole Kidman
Jamie Foxx
Sela Ward
Mark Harmon
Gary Dourdan
Marg Helgaberger
Evangeline Lilly
Tori May

[RashoFan]

A company I had worked for about 9 years ago, spent big bucks on these tests...I "tested" and the results were INFP. Me an I...nfp. Everyone pretty much knows I am an extrovert, someone suggested that I was a "closet" Introvert. Now that I have changed careers, I should see what I am now....other than a weirdo :lol

[JoeChalupa]

We did that at work a few times.

I was STFU.

[spurraider21]

saw a classmate post about this on facebook, and had never heard of it till now...

short 10-12 minute questionnaire here: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

labeled me as something called ISTP

https://i.gyazo.com/6154954d53b5abc885ce6c764f7507cc.png

https://i.gyazo.com/cd538fef1cbdf0bc1d3b9cbfab433af3.png

[Wild Cobra]

intj

Same here.

[Wild Cobra]

Pb&j

Now I'm hungry for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

[baseline bum]

Fuck, I saw this thread and thought it was about topology.

[Cry Havoc]

M-B has been largely debunked in Psychology. It's slightly (and I mean slightly) more valuable than a horoscope.

People use these tests to define themselves and it's terrible. They have been shown to have very poor reproducible values -- people who don't remember their responses usually end up with something moderately different than their last test, meaning it's less a personality test and more of a "how are you feeling today?" test. It's the computer version of a mood ring. :lol Also, self-reporting is notoriously nebulous by nature, as Dr. House says, "People lie."

[SpursforSix]

M-B has been largely debunked in Psychology. It's slightly (and I mean slightly) more valuable than a horoscope.

People use these tests to define themselves and it's terrible. They have been shown to have very poor reproducible values -- people who don't remember their responses usually end up with something moderately different than their last test, meaning it's less a personality test and more of a "how are you feeling today?" test. It's the computer version of a mood ring. :lol Also, self-reporting is notoriously nebulous by nature, as Dr. House says, "People lie."

Mmmm. I don't think so. My result said I am Supergenius Pussymagnet.

[Aztecfan03]

saw a classmate post about this on facebook, and had never heard of it till now...

short 10-12 minute questionnaire here: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

labeled me as something called ISTP

https://i.gyazo.com/6154954d53b5abc885ce6c764f7507cc.png

https://i.gyazo.com/cd538fef1cbdf0bc1d3b9cbfab433af3.png

On This one I got ISFP but I get ISTP a lot. I am very strongly on the I and S sides of the scale and I am close to midway between T and F.

[RGMCSE]

saw a classmate post about this on facebook, and had never heard of it till now...

short 10-12 minute questionnaire here: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

labeled me as something called ISTP

https://i.gyazo.com/6154954d53b5abc885ce6c764f7507cc.png

https://i.gyazo.com/cd538fef1cbdf0bc1d3b9cbfab433af3.png

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Damn!:lol

[DeadlyDynasty]

Executive (ESTJ-A)...

63% Extraverted
60% Observant
80% Thinking
59% Judging :lol
76% Assertive

[spurraider21]

judging isn't a negative trait like being "judgmental"

probably is more or less in line with a conservative point of view though, at least in social issues