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Myers-Briggs - What is Your Personality Type?

What is your MBTI personality type?

  • Extraversion

    Votes: 19 18.3%

  • Intraversion

    Votes: 73 70.2%

  • Sensing

    Votes: 12 11.5%

  • iNtuition

    Votes: 74 71.2%

  • Thinking

    Votes: 78 75.0%

  • Feeling

    Votes: 21 20.2%

  • Judging

    Votes: 57 54.8%

  • Perceiving

    Votes: 32 30.8%
  • Total voters
    104
Papa

Papa

Banned
Thought this might be a fun little follow up to the Empathy Quotient Thread.

Diversity is Our Strength^TM, or so they tell us. This is typically taken to mean superficial attributes like race, sex, and sexual orientation, but these immutable characteristics tell you nothing about what a person may think or how they may behave in a particular situation. Diversity of thought is the form of diversity we should really be working towards, and personality tests are one metric that we can use to estimate this.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one such personality test that is commonly used in corporate training and for shits and gigs on the internet. It's not the only one, but it's the one we're going to use here. Others like the Big 5 Personality Test are also well-regarded, so maybe we can have that as a follow-up thread in future.

The general format of the MBTI is that there are four competing categories which define your overall personality. These are:

1. Extraversion vs. Intraversion
2. Sensing vs. Intuition
3. Thinking vs. Feeling
4. Judging vs. Perceiving

The way the MBTI test works is you answer a series of questions that rank you in each category and your overall personality type is then the combination of the first letter of each category type you scored highest in. For example, someone who scored highest in Intraversion, Sensing, Feeling and Perceiving would be an ISFP type. There are then a whole bunch of general strengths/weaknesses/advice associated with each type. Yes, it sounds a bit horoscopey, though there is some science to it so it's a little more credible than determining your mood based on the alignment of the stars. Provided below is an overview of all of the personality types as well as an example of the results for my personality type: ENTJ aka The Commander.

Please take the test yourself here: https://www.personalityperfect.com/test/free-personality-test/ and then post your results (warning: it requires your email to receive the results, but you can easily unsubscribe). Thanks to Ailynn Ailynn for linking to this site. Once you have posted your results, please also respond to the poll so that we can measure how diverse our personalities are on NeoNeoGAF. I was unable to create a poll for all 16 personality types as the poll size limit is 10, but I think we can get a decent appreciation for our personality diversity with the provided poll format.

Disclaimer: I'm just a humble engineer, so if we have any psych majors here, feel free to correct me on any of this.


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haxan7

haxan7

Banned
INTJ but one of the tests showed me almost equal split between Feeling and Thinking, so INTJ/INFJ, with slight thinking dominance
 
Sqorin Hammerfarf

Sqorin Hammerfarf

Banned
What's interesting about the Myers-Briggs test is that it isn't really that special. The people who created it weren't psychologists. They just took a particular piece of writing by Carl Jung and made a test out of it where the majority of the questions are really simple binary choices like "Are you extroverted or introverted?" asked a dozen different ways. Almost by coincidence, these 16 (2^4) types fit into four major categories that happen to coincide with various other four-type temperament models. I can't remember them all right now, but you've got stuff like phlegmatic (which is a cool word), melancholic, choleric, whatever the last one is. Then you've got earth, wind, water, and fire. Always four there are.

What's even more interesting is that these four types tend to repeat over and over again in popular culture. For instance, the four main characters of Wizard of Oz. The four main characters of Seinfeld. Star Trek. Star Wars. The pattern keeps showing up. There's some hidden cultural truth to the four archetypes. Some secret that our subconscious knows but which we really haven't ever codified outside of stuff like Myers-Briggs.

Now, the 16 individual types is a bit too specific, and I'm not sure there's a huge difference between the four in each category. But I always thought it was cool how frequently the four archetypes turn up, going all the way back to ancient Greece. Not sure how useful your temperament is in real life. I guess it allows you to accept that people are different - they need and want different things, and value success in different things, and by applying your needs to someone else, you could potentially be harming them. That's a pretty good lesson, I guess, and one every parent desperately needs to learn. But other than that, it just gives us more labels to stereotype each other.
 
AV

AV

We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
INTJ, I think we're actually the most common type - that might be because we're dweebs who take this kind of test for fun.
 
llien

llien

Member
From a while ago, needed it at work:

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There are way too many commanders.
 
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Catphish

Catphish

Member
matt404au said:
Thought this might be a fun little follow up to the Empathy Quotient Thread.

Diversity is Our Strength^TM, or so they tell us. This is typically taken to mean superficial attributes like race, sex, and sexual orientation, but these immutable characteristics tell you nothing about what a person may think or how they may behave in a particular situation. Diversity of thought is the form of diversity we should really be working towards, and personality tests are one metric that we can use to estimate this.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one such personality test that is commonly used in corporate training and for shits and gigs on the internet. It's not the only one, but it's the one we're going to use here. Others like the Big 5 Personality Test are also well-regarded, so maybe we can have that as a follow-up thread in future.

The general format of the MBTI is that there are four competing categories which define your overall personality. These are:

1. Extraversion vs. Intraversion
2. Sensing vs. Intuition
3. Thinking vs. Feeling
4. Judging vs. Perceiving

The way the MBTI test works is you answer a series of questions that rank you in each category and your overall personality type is then the combination of the first letter of each category type you scored highest in. For example, someone who scored highest in Intraversion, Sensing, Feeling and Perceiving would be an ISFP type. There are then a whole bunch of general strengths/weaknesses/advice associated with each type. Yes, it sounds a bit horoscopey, though there is some science to it so it's a little more credible than determining your mood based on the alignment of the stars. Provided below is an overview of all of the personality types as well as an example of the results for my personality type: ENTJ aka The Commander.

Please take the test yourself here: https://www.personalityperfect.com/test/free-personality-test/ and then post your results (warning: it requires your email to receive the results, but you can easily unsubscribe). Thanks to Ailynn Ailynn for linking to this site. Once you have posted your results, please also respond to the poll so that we can measure how diverse our personalities are on NeoNeoGAF. I was unable to create a poll for all 16 personality types as the poll size limit is 10, but I think we can get a decent appreciation for our personality diversity with the provided poll format.

Disclaimer: I'm just a humble engineer, so if we have any psych majors here, feel free to correct me on any of this.


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I was an ENTJ when I took the test in high school, then an INFP coming out of community college a few years later. I took it again a couple of *decades* later, and I was something else.. I'll try again later today and see what I've become now.
 
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Wings 嫩翼翻せ

Wings 嫩翼翻せ

so it's not nice
Papa Papa guess after all, we're one in the same.

Sometimes I'm INTJ; I was back in high school when I took this test. Guess I'm out of my shell.

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Cybrwzrd

Cybrwzrd

Banned
I am an INTJ, (but I have came out as an INTP before as well) done this test many time before in the past. I am going to go out on a limb here, but I guarantee that there are more of us here than you normally will meet in real life, because INTJ/INTPs tend to flock to internet discussion forums cause we don't want to actually deal with "real" people.
 
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Typhares

Typhares

Member
Cybrwzrd said:
I am an INTJ, (but I have came out as an INTP before as well) done this test many time before in the past. I am going to go out on a limb here, but I guarantee that there are more of us here than you normally will meet in rare life, because INTJ/INTPs tend to flock to internet discussion forums cause we don't want to actually deal with "real" people.
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INTJ, can confirm :p
 
V

Vicetrailia

Banned
Ugh dude, diversity of thought = innovation from dissimilar teams / positive friction from varying approaches. Tunnel vision leaves gaps, and discourage groupthink every step of the way.

There's inherent and acquired diversity, but you go after them together because it makes you more dimensional. It's not science, but there's research stuff that I can get into another time.

I got ENTP this time.
 
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Kadayi

Kadayi

Banned
The one I took a while back was this one: -

https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

And I was INTJ one that: -

https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality

They actually do something slightly different and add in a 5th category of Assertive Versus Turbulent: -

https://www.16personalities.com/articles/identity-assertive-vs-turbulent

I actually bought the report on that one and frankly it was so spookily on point that it out and out made me question the nature of my reality (an admittedly healthy pursuit in my view). The hilarious thing was it came as a PDF and that blew as far as reading on the phone, so I emailed them and said what about a MOBI or epub version so I could peruse it on the Kindle and they were like 'why did we not think of this as an option?' and sent me one. Guess they have no INTJ on staff to think outside the box for them. :unsure:

I think overall that the MB system is pretty cool, and certainly insightful., but at the same time I'm always a little wary of confirmation bias and more pertinently the idea that personality is fixed rather than malleable. Albeit I joke about INTJ 4 LIFE earlier in the thread and it's cool to see a fair few other INTJs in the thread (represent), I'm not necessarily comfortable with the notion that we are entirely codified.

As an aside has anyone yet tried out https://www.understandmyself.com ? Which is tied in with Jordan Peterson?
 
nocsi

nocsi

Member
So Myers-Briggs is a representative of your cognitive stack. It shouldn't be possible for people in this thread to switch between INTJ/INTP or INTJ/ENTJ. There's can be a gradient but there would have to be some drastic mental changes for a shift of just a letter.

Anyways, I had to undergo this for government stuff back in the day, the psychologist classified me as a hard INTJ-A.
 
Sqorin Hammerfarf

Sqorin Hammerfarf

Banned
nocsi said:
So Myers-Briggs is a representative of your cognitive stack. It shouldn't be possible for people in this thread to switch between INTJ/INTP or INTJ/ENTJ. There's can be a gradient but there would have to be some drastic mental changes for a shift of just a letter.
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It's been a while since I took a philosophy class, but I think Jung wrote that people have four man functions of consciousness - which I think are intuition/sensing (N/S) and thinking/feeling (T/F) - with one of them dominant at any one time. These four are then modified through a lens of extroversion or introversion (E/I). I'm not sure if he wrote anything about judgment/perception (J/P) and I think that might be something Myers-Briggs added. Anyway, my point is that, at least as far as Jung was concerned, these were not immutable personality traits, but something which could change with perspective and priority.

I, personally, don't think people change that much (despite my previous comment, I'm not a nurturalist). An introverted person may be able to play at extroversion, but they'll never call it home, for example. It may be the fact that the test itself is not very accurate in the cases where people are forced to act in a way that is counter to their nature. If you are an introvert who has extrovert job functions, it is possible that you have developed coping mechanisms that all you to behave and feel comfort in (specific) extrovert activities. In these cases, the test is going to be skewered somewhat when it asks specifically about those kinds of activities.

More than that, society tends to greatly punish certain social behaviors, and I think that people that are hard to one side... maybe introverted, abstract/intuitive, thinking... are forced into certain societal roles that don't fit their personality. Since most people are not abstract, for example, these people may have developed a communicative coping mechanism of using concrete examples to express themselves after years of people not being able to follow their ideas. It might be that these sorts of tests are MORE capable of drawing out these "undesireable" personality traits because they focus on the internal mindset. So you might never realize someone is an INTJ in real life, but because of these tests, that hidden internal mindset is identified.

But, if the personality quiz focuses on the external, it might have skewed results. For instance, the difference between "I feel most comfortable in a group of strangers" versus "I can engage easily with a group of strangers". This could potentially lead to two different tests coming out to two different outcomes.

My final theory is that people with an enlarged prostate tend to have a hard P. Little dad joke there for you.
 
LegendOfKage

LegendOfKage

Member
synchronicity said:
I'm INFJ

The rarest in the world. :p
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Same here. I've learned to get over the initial shock of conflict with people by sympathizing about what in their life is making them that way. It helps a lot, especially for people who seem miserable. I already know I'm happier than them, so why be angry and resentful toward them. Plus, they're just making their own lives more difficult.

It's a real kick having this personality with regard to the "with us or against us" going on in politics these days, isn't it?
 
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Papa

Papa

Banned
I’m not surprised by the skew towards I, T and J types, but the complete lack of S types is very interesting. At the time I am writing this, it’s 24 N vs. 0 S. I wonder what implications this has for discussion.
 
Kadayi

Kadayi

Banned
nocsi said:
So Myers-Briggs is a representative of your cognitive stack. It shouldn't be possible for people in this thread to switch between INTJ/INTP or INTJ/ENTJ. There's can be a gradient but there would have to be some drastic mental changes for a shift of just a letter.

Anyways, I had to undergo this for government stuff back in the day, the psychologist classified me as a hard INTJ-A.
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The 16 personalities test I took (mentioned in a previous post) kind of measures everything on a scale so it's very much a case of things not always being exact and mayhap the day and general mood/attitude at the time having some degree of impact in terms of your responses. that's not to say that you're likely to see dramatic shifts, but it could be the case that if you test on a different day then your results might vary by the few points necessary to shift a position. Which is again why I'm inclined to take things with a hefty pinch of salt, even though for the most part I conform to the INTJ model.
 
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off duty ninja

off duty ninja

Member
Ailynn said:
Thanks for making this topic, M Matt !



Mine is INFP - The Idealist

On another free test site, mine is called The Mediator...and this link blew me away by how accurate it is with my life.

I've also heard that INFP is sometimes referred to as The Healer. I don't know if I live up to that title, but it does show my best intentions. :)

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I'm an INFP too! Seems strange for someone with so little empathy...

25 :messenger_crying:
 
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