Category: Let's talk
Does anyone else know there MBTI letters and numbers or for other personality tests. What are they? It would be interesting to discover what types of MBTIs make up the forum posters.
If you do not know, and desire to find out, here is the MBTI personality test.
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
I am an INFJ personality. I took the test a long time ago, when I was around 18, and then again several times between then and somewhat recently, out of curiosity, and that's what the result always has been on mine.
I am an INFJ personality. I took the test a long time ago, for a class activity, when I was 15 or 16, and then again several times between then and somewhat recently, out of curiosity, and that's what the result always has been on mine.
I was INFJ a year ago, but now, after just taking it, I am an INFP.
Hmm I have never taken this, though took some personality tests when younger.
People are amazingly neuroplastic and sometimes these things can put one into too tight a categorical box. I scored very low on decisiveness, for instance. However, that was at 29 years old, with a lot of factors in life I had not yet resolved. I don't think I would show up a total flip, but I do think life plus experience plus getting some things sorted out can certainly change how someone would show up on a test. I'll check this one unless it's so long it's ridiculous.
OK I took it over coffee break.
Here is what I got, though I don't fully agree:
ENTJ
Extravert(22%) iNtuitive(38%) Thinking(25%) Judging(11%)
My intuitive outranked my thinking by quite a bit.
Anyway, unlike other tests, they only do things in binary: yes / no. I really didn't know how to answer some of the questions, would have been able to on a scale.
Had they set it up so you answered 0 through 5 or something, hell, even 1 through 3, that would have been better than this binary yes / no situation for everything, in my opinion.
Guess I'll take the test.
Leo, your thinking is more than 25%, IMO.
I consistently score INTJ.
I like to meet friends sometimes, when I'm going through a more extroverted phase. But I'm very bad about disappearing into my own world and not keeping in touch for long periods of time. A few people understand this. We might not talk for months or a year or whatever, but we just pick up where we left off.
Thanks Voyager. Yes, I am more often than not on the fringes of things. I'm not a true introvert, and not upset by crowds like the Wife's family is. But don't need to be at the center either.
I just think those questions are somewhat vague and can't be answered in a binary fashion. I've never cracked a book on psychology, except for the Seven Sins of Memory, and part of the Mindfulness Solution -- a book I still hav suspicions about.
Anyway maybe some resident shrink on the boards can explain more to the point what this test actually is supposed to mean.
Here's mine, but I agree with Leo. Some of these are really hard to simply answer yes or no to.
Your Type
ISFP
Introvert(44%) Sensing(12%) Feeling(38%) Perceiving(22%)
• You have moderate preference of Introversion over Extraversion (44%)
• You have slight preference of Sensing over Intuition (12%)
• You have moderate preference of Feeling over Thinking (38%)
• You have slight preference of Perceiving over Judging (22%)
I have consistently been scored as an INFJ for the past 5 or so years. I first took the test when I was about 20 and scored as an ISTJ, but I think I changed as I got older.
I am also an Indigo, which many INFJs are, and I found that a much more accurate description of myself than even the INFJ type.
Well, I took the test, 'cause I like that sort of thing (It's kind of like visiting the Delphic oracle).
Anyway, I'm an I n f j.
Bob
ISTJ for me, with sensing and thinking being 50% and the other two scores in the 20s.
Many INFJs, interesting indeed. I don't think it is everything either however, it does rather telling in some small aspects, and is a fascinating reading of tendencies and basic personality.
I have always been consistent on my INTJ scores my percentages usually do not vary drastically, I first completed this when I was 16 or 17. I have the same tendencies as you do, voyager. I am well practiced in slipping away. moreover, don't ask me to start a conversation, I am a terrible conversation starter.! hahaha! and, spotlights well...., don't do well in those either, including public performances.
here, If it fascinates anyone. The rest of the scores I think matches the brigs-Meyers well.
Introvert(78%) iNtuitive(38%) Thinking(88%) Judging(33%) My big five scores are: Extraversion 1.7, Conscientiousness 2.8, Neuroticism 1.6, Agreeableness 1.9, and Openness 4.7. My Catell score is warmth 0.6, reasoning 3.2, emotional stability 3.4, dominant 3, liveliness 0.2, rule consciousness 1.4, social boldness 1.3, sensitivity 2.2, vigilant 2.7, abstractedness 3.1, privateness 3.4, apprehension 1, opened to change 3.8, self-reliance 4, perfectionism 2.6, and tension 1.9, my dictionary based isms are traditional oriented religiousness 2.6, unmitigated self-interest 2.1, communal rationalism 3.6 subjective spirituality 2.5, and egalitarianism 2.3.
Now As I said, I have no psychology background though I am trying to learn some of this.
But Rachel, pardon me for saying this. You're not very old yet. I think people can change quite a bit over the decades. I was more sanguine, if you will, when I was younger. Never the most outgoing but not quiet and reserved either. However, now I do experience times where I can get chared by just sitting in a bar having some beers and "bird-watching" the crowd. Entertained by the antics of the hipsters, or just seeing who comes and who goes. I picked that up when I used to travel a lot on business and would spend a lot of time in hotel business centers - before there was wi fi in the rooms.
I dunno, I have read a couple articles on neuroplasticity and that stuff seems to make sense to me. I only had a couple of years, in the mid 20s, where I was particularly subject to black-and-white thinking.
In what ways do you think people are likely to change, Leo? That tendency I described in my last post has been about the same for me for a very long time. I can think of several aspects of me that have hardly changed at all, and some that have changed drastically. For example, I used to think I was terrible at math. In college I learned this was not true.
I think fundamentally we have some core characteristics. But even tastes change, your approach to life changes, the way in which you handle situations can change. All we are in terms of human software is pretty subject to change: all one needs is new information and a perceived benefit, or a circumstance that changes their outlook, and yes, changes can happen like that. I can tell you with a clear conscience that there are lots of ways I'm different from a couple decades ago in my 20s.
Yes, I agree absolutely with you leo, we are only dealing with the core tendencies here.
I took this test just a month ago in high school, and I was ISTP, which is extremely rare for women, but I took the complete test that Rachel posted, and now I'm an INTP, which is more accurate of who I am.
So, my results didn't change much, but I believe I have my true personality type now.
No, I lied, I'm truly an ISTP. INTP doesn't fit me at all.
INFP here. I forget the numbers, and they're in the closet, on a laptop that won't boot. Seriously, I'll have to remove and replace both the main and CMOS batteries because of some damned BIOS bug.
But yeah. Took it in 2013. Out of curiosity, I checked my zodiac sign a few months later. Cancer. Made me super-sad until I googled it and figured out what it actually meant, couldn't agree more. Also, this matches up with me almost perfectly. I know, Wikipedia, but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healer_%28role_variant%29
I took it over a year ago or more, INFJ was my result.
I got INTJ, with an introvertion score of 89 %. :) Nothing changes then; when I first went to secondary school, our drama teacher asked one girl to put everyone in the class in a line from the most introverted to the most extraverted, and she put me as the most introverted of the introverts. She was probably right. :D
The site said I share my personality type with Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie, a pioneer of aviation, and a couple of other high achievers. :) ... It also said Hilary Clinton. I'm not sure that's so good - I mean, to marry Bill would seem to show a lack of taste, ... although given how far it got her up the political ladder, maybe it was a smart move. :)
I, Too, thought there should have been other options, not just yes or no. I thought there should have been 'sometimes' and 'somewhat' options, since really, the answer to several of them could differ depending on the circumstance. I mean, for instance, 'Do you feel at ease in a crowd': You might feel fully at ease in a crowd at a concert, but right out of your comfort zone in a crowd at a station when you're trying to navigate your way through them to catch a train! The questions could have been more precisely worded.
I also didn't understand just what the inventor of the questions was trying to get at with a few of them. Examples of the kinds of situations they were thinking of would have helped.
There were a couple of other ways I thought the test's accuracy might be limited. But still, for all that, interestingly, there were definite accuracies in my personality description.
I took the test several years ago, so I will retake it again sence I don't remember all the results. I am sure I am introverted though.
I've tested as ISTJ and ISFJ. The judgmental introvert is correct; LOL. Former US presidents, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter are two of my soul mates. I suppose I can appear secretive and paranoid, like Tricky Dick, but also a lefti pacifist, like Jimmy. Yah, I can deal with that.
I test as an ESFJ but my S verses N are right on the boarder. Based on the descriptions though, I think the ESFJ is accurate. My F and T are pretty close as well.
I test as an INTJ, but I'm fairly close to INTP I think.
Lots of people seem to have variability on at least one axis. Is personality really so fluid, or is the measuring instrument a little wonky? LOL.
It's more that this particular test scores each area on a sliding scale. I believe that a score of 1% means you're just barely over the halfway point, while a score of 49% or 50% would mean you're an extreme case. So, people who go back and forth a bit, or people who deal with specific things better than others, may wobble a little. It may be possible to test a certain way (say 8% introvert), but you might also test 4% extroverted instead.
It also depends upon honesty. Some people, when doing these tests, answer with what they wish they did, rather than what they actually do. It's easy to breeze through the sixty-odd question test in under five minutes, but if you do that, you might not score yourself accurately.
Also, as Leo pointed out, yes-no is not entirely sufficient; even a sliding scale of 1-5 or even 1-3 would have been a slightly better way to determine test validity. An answer of 3 would mean "always or nearly always", an answer of 2 would mean "sometimes or a fair portion of the time", while an answer of 1 would mean "never, rarely or rather infrequently". Even that would be better than straight yes-no.
I think this is a shortened version of the test as well. It seems like I remember it being about 110 or 115 questions when I took it as a teen.
And than, there's the MMPI, a test with 500 questions, whos answers are on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being rarely or never, 5 being always. The result is a very long, detailed profile, though who can sey how much more accurate, even with the extra apparent precision.
Good God! If I had to take a 500 question test, I'd lose my shit completely by about question 278. lol I guess my profile would show some serious ADD issues. lol