What's your MBTI personality type?

[JamesGold]

Test (http://similarminds.com/jung.html)

I've been conducting this poll on various forums throughout the internet. It's interesting to see which types are overrepresented on which forums.

[JuniperWoolf]

We've got one of these threads already, I can't find it though. Also, I like this (http://www.careertest.net/cgi-bin/q.pl) test version better.

[Maximilianus]

I got an INFP type on both tests, which I guess explains much of the fly within the soup :rolleyes: and I suppose that if I ever want to play an electric guitar on stage, I will have to work harder on a few aspects... just wonder how http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif

[jajdude]

I've done these a few times before.

INFP

[wonderer]

INTP ever since the world began. :)

[kiki1982]

Yes, there is already such a thread... Anyway, I took the test again to see that it was accurate the first time... It was again INTJ... I seem to remember there was quite a number of INTJs on this forum actually...

Just akes me more confident that the rest of the world is wrong :)

[YesNo]

Yes, there is already such a thread... Anyway, I took the test again to see that it was accurate the first time... It was again INTJ... I seem to remember there was quite a number of INTJs on this forum actually...

Just akes me more confident that the rest of the world is wrong :)
With 12 votes in, it looks like I'm the only "extrovert" (unless the "E" stands for something else).

It makes me wonder if I missed the party over the weekend.

[Delta40]

ENFP. I like how 25 questions are asked again 25 times in reverse.

[JuniperWoolf]

Yeah, that's how psychology questionnaires work. They're head-bashingly boring.

[Shalot]

I got INFP - I got that years ago and then it changed from INFP to INFJ.

Now I'm back to INFP apparently.

Personally, I think this test is silly. It may not really measure anything. In a work place situation, managers use it for team building purposes. They can ues this test as a tool to acheive some end, but I don't think it helps anyone on an individual level.

Also, does anyone know anything about the person or people who developed this test? What are his/her credentials? I did a few myers briggs google searches trying to find something about it, but I didn't find much other than those types of websites that just asserted that yes, this test is reliable.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

With 12 votes in, it looks like I'm the only "extrovert" . Not anymore... :D

I have done this on numerous occasions, and I keep balancing between ENTJ and ENFJ. I end up in ENFJ more often, but this time I got ENTJ. I think both results describe me reasonably well.

/Claes

[TurquoiseSunset]

I'm an INTJ. I've done many similar tests and it's almost always INTJ and occasionally ISTJ. I definitely identify with the INTJ profile and cognitive functions.

The other thread (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55102).

[Pensive]

ENTP
"Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population."

I wonder which other lit-netters got this!

[JuniperWoolf]

Also, does anyone know anything about the person or people who developed this test? What are his/her credentials? I did a few myers briggs google searches trying to find something about it, but I didn't find much other than those types of websites that just asserted that yes, this test is reliable.

It's actually a lot more complicated than you'd think. Science psychologists have been trying to figure out ways to quantify personality for almost a hundred years (here (http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologystudyguides/a/personalitysg_2.htm)'s a little timeline). "Personality" is one of the core things that you can study in the field of psychology - it's like if you were to study biology, you could be an entomologist and study bugs, you could be a virologist and study viruses, ect. ect. ect... all under the umbrella-term "biologist." If you were to study psychology, you could study development, disorders, ect. ect. ect... all under the umbrella-term "psychologist." Personality has always been one of the big areas for study. There are dozens of courses dedicated to just personality at my school.

The way the tests were developed is kind of interesting (if you're into boring things like math and statistics). They asked a whole bunch of people (thousands and thousands of college students) a ****-ton of questions and they saw which responses tended to go with each other. For example, if almost everyone who is saying "yes" on question 13 also said "no" on question 129, then you can put questions 13 and 129 together in one catagory (and the opposite, everyone who said "no" to question 13 also said "yes" to question 129). This group of questions that are answered in the same way by a great many people become a catagory. Terms like "extrovert/extrovert" and "thinking/feeling" are just the names that are used to describe the clumps of answers that usually go together. The names don't mean anything on their own, they're based on someone's opinion of what the answers to the questions that clump together mean about the indevidual's personality. So the questions aren't just random or made up without any basis, the method for developing the questions used in MBTI tests was actually pretty complicated and it's been honed and scrutinized for decades. As of today, long and boring questionnaires are our best indicator of personality (they've fared way better than the Rorschach test).

You could google personality psychology, you'd get a ton. Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_psychology)'s a great big wiki article.