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Saw this up on Digg and thought it would be a hoot for Gaffers to take the test and post their results:

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

My profile suggests that I am an INTJ:

To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know.

INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type: INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake.

...

Famous INTJs:

Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers)
Susan B. Anthony
Arthur Ashe, tennis champion
Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
William J. Bennett, "drug czar"
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Ironsides)
Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane) (Fletch)
Phil Donahue
Michael Dukakis, governor of Mass., 1988 U.S. Dem. pres. candidate
Greg Gumbel, television sportscaster
Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader
Veronica Hamel (Hill Street Blues)
Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote)
Orel Leonard Hershiser, IV
Peter Jennings
Charles Everett Koop
Ivan Lendl
C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Joan Lunden
Edwin Moses, U.S. olympian (hurdles)
Martina Navratilova
Charles Rangel, U. S. Representative, D-N.Y.
Pernell Roberts (Bonanza)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California
Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh), mystery writer (Brat Farrar)
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
General Colin Powell, US Secretary of State
Lance Armstrong
Richard Gere (Pretty Woman)
Katie Couric

U.S. Presidents:
Chester A. Arthur
Calvin Coolidge
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
James K. Polk
Woodrow Wilson
Fictional:

Cassius (Julius Caesar)
Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
Gandalf the Grey (J. R. R. Tolkein's Middle Earth books)
Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' nemesis
Ensign Ro (Star Trek--the Next Generation)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)
George Smiley, John le Carre's master spy
Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs)
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http://typelogic.com/intj.html
 
INFJ

wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INFJ


"INFJ (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging) is one of the sixteen personality types from personality type systems based on C.G. Jung, of which the best-known are the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI),[1] Keirsey Temperament Sorter and Socionics.

Referring to Keirsey, INFJs belong to the temperament[2] of the idealists

A few famous people displaying an INFJ personality type:

* Aristophanes
* Nelson Mandela
* Goethe
* Fyodor Dostoevsky
* Martin Luther King Jr.
* Jesus
* Tom Selleck
* Shirley Temple Black
* Billy Crystal
* Ralph Fiennes
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Nicole Kidman
* Jamie Foxx
* Mahatma Gandhi
* Audrey Hepburn
* Lieutenant Worf (Star Trek: TNG)"
 
INTJ as well.

slightly expressed introvert
distinctively expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
moderately expressed judging personality
 
ISTP

* very expressed introvert
* slightly expressed sensing personality
* slightly expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed perceiving personality
 
I did this about two years back. I'm an INTJ as well. My scores for I and J were very much to the middle whereas my score for N and T were very extreme.

EDIT: I just did this again at the site PD posted and I am still an INTJ but it seems I have become quite a bit more introverted.

* moderatelly expressed introvert
* very expressed intuitive personality
* very expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality
 
For added fun, here are a range of profile descriptions from various sites, I'll just connect to ENFP because that's what I am. Sometimes I might appear as an INFP, but it's just because of skills my life forced me to learn (and certainy my religion has shaped a lot of character and inner practices in me):

http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html - This site is fun and actually has different pages with recommendations for different aspects of life depending on your type. I think it's solid info, but stuff I figured out about myself a long time ago.

http://typelogic.com/enfp.html
http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/enfp.htm
http://keirsey.com/personality/nfep.html
http://keirsey.com/pygmalion/advocates.html
http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/mb-types/enfp.htm

I think it's really pretty cool. I guess not everyone fits into a type so well, but descriptions of ENFP are so accurate to my natural tendencies. Obviously through life I've been learning to manage my weaknesses to where things are nearly second nature, but really if I were to just go with the flow of my initial feelings and impulses about things that's how it'd come out.
 
Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 25 50 78

INTJ type description by D.Keirsey
INTJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss


Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
slightly expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
very expressed judging personality
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ENTJ here. Field Marshall.

"Field Marshall". The basic driving force and need is to lead. Tend to seek a position of responsibility and enjoys being an executive. 5% of the total population.
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Interestingly, in our management team, the rest of the guys are ENTJs too. Genetic diversity FTL!
 
Your Type is INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
100 25 62 22

You are:
* very expressed introvert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* distinctively expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality
 
Your Type is
INFJ
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
56 25 25 1

INFJ type description by D.Keirsey
INFJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss


Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:

* moderately expressed introvert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed feeling personality
* slightly expressed judging personality

Note: The description of the INFJ Type is spot on in regards to how I am on an introverted level and how I react to social situations. This test I was also as honest as I could be. Accurate results.

INFJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss said:
INFJs may fantasize about getting revenge on those who victimize the defenseless. The concept of 'poetic justice' is appealing to the INFJ.
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:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

That is soooo me. I tend to do that all the time, mainly while listening to music.
 
What's with the parade of INTJs? (I usually get that too. INFP once.) It's supposedly one of the less common types. The nerd factor, I guess?

A better question is how much validity, if any, does the Myers-Briggs possess? It's always struck me as a bit too simple and pop psychology to put much faith in, but it sure is enjoyable to read those flattering type descriptions and go, "Yep. Yep. That's me. That too. Yep." I wonder if it's partially a case of the "fortune cookie" effect (not sure of the real name), where a lot of the descriptions are so vague and positive-sounding that we tend to ascribe those qualities to ourselves regardless of actual reality. Then again, the ones I get do seem to fit pretty well, even when my BS filter's up.

Thoughts?
 
What's with the parade of INTJs? (I usually get that too. INFP once.) It's supposedly one of the less common types. The nerd factor, I guess?
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We do have a lot of IN*J's. The "I" factor is fairly obvious when it comes to attraction to the internet, however (while it may not be as apparent) the N is also big when it comes to text communication (which draws T's) as well as finding a place within a large community that doesn't physically interact. The J personality type is more drawn to lifestyles and jobs that more commonly involve computers.

A better question is how much validity, if any, does the Myers-Briggs possess? It's always struck me as a bit too simple and pop psychology to put much faith in, but it sure is enjoyable to read those flattering type descriptions and go, "Yep. Yep. That's me. That too. Yep." I wonder if it's partially a case of the "fortune cookie" effect (not sure of the real name), where a lot of the descriptions are so vague and positive-sounding that we tend to ascribe those qualities to ourselves regardless of actual reality. Then again, the ones I get do seem to fit pretty well, even when my BS filter's up.
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Nah, if you really understand the concepts (actually read the books by those who developed the systems) it's well-founded and pretty accurate. It's true that whenever there are "profiles" there is a danger of oversimplifying and accepting half-true things, but if you read profiles not matching a person it is extremely apparent.

The thing to understand about it is that it is a classification of function, it is your natural inclinations in the reception, processing and action of life. People very commonly learn things about themselves and actively work on their weak areas, and sometimes they are put in circumstances where certain aspects of themselves are never given chance to flourish.

Because of this there may be a fair range of actual life result within a single type, and a person may occasionally even seem to share a couple traits with a type that is not their own, but with observance among a variety of situations a type can still easily be figured. There can be common forms and qualities in types, but the science of it isn't in the form and qualities, it's in the nature and function which leads to them.
 
BenT said:
What's with the parade of INTJs? (I usually get that too. INFP once.) It's supposedly one of the less common types. The nerd factor, I guess?

A better question is how much validity, if any, does the Myers-Briggs possess? It's always struck me as a bit too simple and pop psychology to put much faith in, but it sure is enjoyable to read those flattering type descriptions and go, "Yep. Yep. That's me. That too. Yep." I wonder if it's partially a case of the "fortune cookie" effect (not sure of the real name), where a lot of the descriptions are so vague and positive-sounding that we tend to ascribe those qualities to ourselves regardless of actual reality. Then again, the ones I get do seem to fit pretty well, even when my BS filter's up.

Thoughts?
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(I'm an INTJ)

I feel similar to you, and I think that the results given by these tests are way too broad to learn anything from. I look at the description of INTJ, and yup, that's pretty much me. I didn't learn anything. I'd be absolutely shocked if a test such as this were used for anything but internet pop psychology in this day and age.

Another fault of this test is that it is easily manipulated. You can look at the given answers and figure out what trait the question is measuring. In its BEST questions, you cannot do this. I would be absolutely shocked if a more unpredictable test had not been developed. Yes, I was honest on this, but if I wanted any given outcome, it would've been extremely easy to get.
 
I'm an INFP, though not very strong on any of the dimensions. I love Jung, there's not a lot of science behind him, but his stuff just feels right sometimes.

Famous INFPs:
Homer
Virgil
Mary, mother of Jesus
St. John, the beloved disciple
St. Luke; physician, disciple, author
William Shakespeare, bard of Avon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Evangeline)
A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)
Helen Keller, deaf and blind author
Carl Rogers, reflective psychologist, counselor
Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
Dick Clark (American Bandstand)
Donna Reed, actor (It's a Wonderful Life)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis
Neil Diamond, vocalist
Tom Brokaw, news anchor
James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small)
Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
James Taylor, vocalist
Julia Roberts, actor (Conspiracy Theory, Pretty Woman)
Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap)
Terri Gross (PBS's "Fresh Air")
Amy Tan (author of The Joy-Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife)
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Lisa Kudrow ("Phoebe" of Friends)
Fred Savage ("The Wonder Years")


Fictional INFPs:
Anne (Anne of Green Gables)
Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
Deanna Troi (Star Trek - The Next Generation)
Wesley Crusher (Star Trek - The Next Generation)
Doctor Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space 9)
Bastian (The Neverending Story)
E.T.: the ExtraTerrestrial
Doug Funny, Doug cartoons
Tommy, Rug Rats cartoons
Rocko, Rocko's Modern Life cartoons
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This is all company I don't mind keeping. Well, except Wesley.
 
Well ->

INTJ

Introverted : 89
Intuitive : 25
Thinking : 12
Judging : 11

I always though I was definitely not "intuitive"...But it's definitely possible that I have never really grasped the real definition of the intuitiveness at all...
I'm just going to read the profile further.
 
First ISTJ in the thread?

Introverted: 56
Sensing: 25
Thinking: 12
Judging: 11

You are:

* moderately expressed introvert
* moderately expressed sensing personality
* slightly expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality
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EDIT: I just read the full description for ISTJ and I'm not sure I agree with the result. I don't think it describes me very well at all.
 
Yet another INTJ

Introverted: 100
Intuitive: 38
Thinking: 38
Judging: 33

You are:

* very expressed introvert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed thinking personality
* moderately expressed judging personality

Think I prefer the The Brutally Honest Personality Test's definition of the type :p
Crackpot - INTJ
 
First ISFP

Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
11 25 12 11

Famous ISFPs:

Marie Antoinette
Auguste Rodin

U.S. Presidents
Ulysses S. Grant
Millard Fillmore, "The American Louis Philippe"
Warren G. Harding

Fred Astaire
Marilyn Monroe
Liberace
Elizabeth Taylor
Yogi Berra, professional baseball player ("It's deja vu all over again.")
Dan Rather
Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senator
Ervin "Magic" Johnson, NBA basketball star
Patrick Duffey
Dan Quayle, U.S. Vice President, 1988-1992
Paul McCartney
Christopher Reeve
Michael Jackson
Kevin Costner
Greg Louganis, U.S. Olympic gold medalist
Brooke Shields
Britney Spears
John Travolta
Ashton Kutcher
Donald Trump
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Ended up answering yes to most of those questions, that usually never happens with these things.

You are:

* slightly expressed extrovert
* very expressed intuitive personality
* slightly expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality


eNTj

ENTJs have a natural tendency to marshall and direct. This may be expressed with the charm and finesse of a world leader or with the insensitivity of a cult leader. The ENTJ requires little encouragement to make a plan. One ENTJ put it this way... "I make these little plans that really don't have any importance to anyone else, and then feel compelled to carry them out." While "compelled" may not describe ENTJs as a group, nevertheless the bent to plan creatively and to make those plans reality is a common theme for NJ types.

ENTJs are often "larger than life" in describing their projects or proposals. This ability may be expressed as salesmanship, story-telling facility or stand-up comedy. In combination with the natural propensity for filibuster, our hero can make it very difficult for the customer to decline.

TRADEMARK: -- "I'm really sorry you have to die." (I realize this is an overstatement. However, most Fs and other gentle souls usually chuckle knowingly at this description.)

ENTJs are decisive. They see what needs to be done, and frequently assign roles to their fellows. Few other types can equal their ability to remain resolute in conflict, sending the valiant (and often leading the charge) into the mouth of hell. When challenged, the ENTJ may by reflex become argumentative. Alternatively (s)he may unleash an icy gaze that serves notice: the ENTJ is not one to be trifled with.


Apparently I'm supposed to be some kind of dick:lol .

Although, I'm in great company:

amous 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

Ballin'
 
Your Type is
ENFP

Extroverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
56 38 50 22


Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:

* moderately expressed extrovert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed feeling personality
* slightly expressed perceiving personality

Scumbag- ENFP
I have a feeling you're not going to like this much. Do I care? No. How do I know? It's because you hate criticism. You love to be loved and you'll do anything to be accepted.

Unfortunately for you, I can see right through your insincere compliments and over-the-top greetings. No matter what you do, I'll always hate you for what you are. An arrogant, unstable, overly enthusiastic scumbag.

I bet you're pretty proud of your accomplishments, huh? You seem to achieve at whatever you put your little mind too. Trust me. Nobody likes the person who is good at everything. NOBODY LIKES YOU.

This might also have something to do with the fact that you're a cheating machine. You're just not the type of person to make long-term commitments. You enjoy seeing "what could be", rather than being satisfied with "what is." This, of course, means you often leave others in the dust while you seek out another lover.

Well, at least you're not the one left in the dust.

Unfortunately, when you're the one lying in the gutter with a bloody knife in your back, you might think differently.
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Hah.. so true, Its uncanny.
 
White Man said:
(I'm an INTJ)

I feel similar to you, and I think that the results given by these tests are way too broad to learn anything from. I look at the description of INTJ, and yup, that's pretty much me. I didn't learn anything. I'd be absolutely shocked if a test such as this were used for anything but internet pop psychology in this day and age.

Another fault of this test is that it is easily manipulated. You can look at the given answers and figure out what trait the question is measuring. In its BEST questions, you cannot do this. I would be absolutely shocked if a more unpredictable test had not been developed. Yes, I was honest on this, but if I wanted any given outcome, it would've been extremely easy to get.
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Well, if you're trying to "cheat" by answering the questions falsely then no test can ever truly "stop" you.

HOWEVER, I have taken the real test before and the questions are indeed a lot less obvious. And the results I got from that particular test are very similar to those I got from the test at the URL the OP posted.
 
Chittagong said:
18 introverts
6 extroverts

posting at a gaming discussion board
on the internet
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Introversion and extroversion doesn't really mean what you're suggestion it is. It's an issue of how you filter external stimuli, whether or not you remove yourself from the scenario
 
Famous ENFJs:

David, King of Israel
U.S. Presidents:
Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan

William Cullen Bryant, poet
Abraham Maslow, psychologist and proponent of self-actualization
Ross Perot
Sean Connery
Elizabeth Dole
Francois Mitterand
Dick Van Dyke
Andy Griffith
James Garner
William Aramony, former president of United Way
Gene Hackman (Superman, Antz)
Dennis Hopper (Speed)
Brenda Vaccaro
Craig T. Nelson (Coach)
Diane Sawyer (Good Morning America)
Randy Quaid (Bye Bye, Love; Independence Day)
Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive)
Kirstie Alley ("Cheers," Look Who's Talking movies)
Michael Jordan, NBA basketball player
Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Oprah Winfrey
Bob Saget America's Funniest Home Videos, Full House
Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("Seinfeld")
Ben Stiller (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Peyton Manning, Indianapolis Colts quarterback
Matthew McConaughey (The Wedding Planner)
Pete Sampras, Tennis Champion
Lauren Graham ("Gilmore Girls")
Ben Affleck (The Sum Of All Fears)
John Cusack (High Fidelity)
 
Your Type is
ENTJ
Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
22 88 38 1

You are:
slightly expressed extrovert
very expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality
 
Your Type is INTP

Introverted 100
Intuitive 62
Thinking 50
Perceiving 22

Famous INTPs:

Socrates
Rene Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Sir Isaac Newton
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
William Harvey
C. G. Jung
William James
Albert Einstein
Bob Newhart




Interestingly extroverts outnumber introverts by a rate of 2 to 1 in the US, the converse (and then some) seems to be true here.
 
intp (architect rational)

einstein, baby. and i got an "architect" grade in big brain academy too (:
 
ISTP

# moderately expressed introvert
# slightly expressed sensing personality
# moderately expressed thinking personality
# moderately expressed perceiving personality
 
demon said:
So what are these non-official MB tests based on?
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They're based on the official ones, just with reworded questions. The real one is a little less obvious, yes, but most psychological tests charitably assume the responders will answer honestly. Though we have our little tricks for catching fibbers too.
 
Your Type is
ISTJ

Famous ISTJs:

Thomas (Christ's disciple)

U.S. Presidents:
George Washington
Andrew Johnson
Benjamin Harrison
Herbert Hoover
George H. W. Bush

Paul Coverdale (U.S. Senator, R-GA)
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (U.S. Olympic athlete)
Evander Holyfield, heavyweight boxing champion
Fictional ISTJs:

Joe Friday
Mr. Martin (hero of James Thurber's Sitting in the Catbird Seat)
Eeyore (Winnie the Pooh)
Fred Mertz (I Love Lucy)
Puddleglum, the marshwiggle (Chronicles of Narnia) Cliff (Cheers)
 
ENTJ

Extroverted- 22
Intuitive- 62
Thinking- 50
Judging- 1 :lol

Actually I'm suprised how accurate this is. Especially my trademark.:D

"I'm sorry but you have to die."
 
INTJ
Introverted 67
Intuitive 25
Thinking 50
Judging 1

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
* distinctively expressed introvert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality
 
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