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to be a Myers-Briggs evangelist?

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summerbreezer · 01/08/2013 20:08

Just done the test here:

www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

And read about my personality type:

www.personalitypage.com/

I am completely blown away by the accuracy of it. It explains why I get on with some people, and why I conflict with others.

Anyone else done this?

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unlucky83 · 02/08/2013 13:36

Ok -had time to do this now - INFP...
But for all (surprise surprise) 'slight preferences' (11% or less) ....v tempted to go back and do it again - putting different answers to the questions I found difficult to answer (wanted to put 'sometimes' /it depends) ... and see what happens to my 'score' ...
Or wondering if the gender (and age) thing means that test is weighted in one direction - hence all the 'IN's here..(assuming the majority here are women?)
Would do it again and pretend to be a man -but know my answers probably wouldn't be exactly the same...Smile
(Now telling myself to just let it go...Grin)

Pigglesworth · 02/08/2013 13:39

I'm an INTJ; so is my partner. We like the Myer-Briggs test as it's quite liberating/validating to read a description of yourself and know there are others like you and read about your strengths and weaknesses. Especially when you can sometimes feel frustrated with what you perceive as your weaknesses (e.g., wanting to be more social but then becoming very drained and needing too much of a break if you overdo it! Or becoming excessively frustrated if you perceive that something/someone is unjust/unreasonable).

Neither of us takes it seriously and we're both psychologists so recognise that the test is not really empirically supported the way many other personality tests are. But that doesn't take away from the fact that it is still, on a personal level, my favourite personality test in terms of how much its results appeal to me and resonate with me. :)

Pigsmummy · 02/08/2013 14:34

I used ti use MB for recruitment, Very good but was expensive at the time.

PomBearArmy · 02/08/2013 14:42

Also INTJ. I suppose extroverts do their MN-ing face to face!

MrsTerryPratchett · 02/08/2013 14:48

ENFP here but everything except E is not strong. And, TBH I could have answered the other way on a lot of the questions. Except Extroversion. Doesn't help that I have a Psychology degree so I know what they are asking.

So many of these questions, the answer would really be, "depends on the context" or "different at work or home".

SalvatoreGirl · 02/08/2013 14:54

Did this many years ago during some work training, I'm ISTJ and the personality description is me to a T .

WineNot · 02/08/2013 14:54

So many of these questions, the answer would really be, "depends on the context" or "different at work or home".

That's why I like the '4 open ended questions' one I did rather than the version with a gazillion questions with only A or B answers... I found the same as you with that one.

For example by nature I'm a strong 'F', but at work (when sometimes I have to be task focused rather than people focused), I've learned to be more 'T' - but it's not my natural personality and is something I have to concentrate on to do.

Pigsmummy · 02/08/2013 15:01

Efsj here, in the olden days before tinterweb we used to buy this in paper form and had a marking sheet, we used it for interviews but didn't take it too seriously. We had several question forms for multiple interviews.

Hooya · 02/08/2013 15:01

Ooh I like MBTI, and I think it has its place in understanding preferences and influencing styles.

I'm ENTJ and some parts of it are comically accurate - when I first did a workshop on it I sent the result to my mum and partner and they were both amused by its accuracy. It's a useful reminder to me of the flipside of my more positive aspects and what I need to 'watch out for' both at work and at home / socially.

I also find people enjoy training in it and feel more 'invested in' than sending them on a normal influencing or communicating course.

Thatballwasin · 02/08/2013 15:12

I found I was too lacking in self awareness to answer quite a few of the questions in an accurate way - I couldn't think of a situation that applied to some of the generalisations so I don't know if I was providing misleading input. I wonder what that makes me...

Snoopingforsoup · 02/08/2013 17:18

I was ENTJ last time I did it for work. I'm prolly not now though.

It was accurate back in 2006 and explained why I couldn't get on with a couple of people in my team.

Useful!

MelanieCheeks · 02/08/2013 18:47

thatball it probably means you might find it useful to become more self-aware.

I was an ENTJ waaaaay back when I first took it, and an INTJ more recently. I still find that a useful check - I mentally note whether I'm coming across as too logical and lacking in empathy, I force myself to phone people rather than just email, I have a sort of script for starting phone calls with some acceptable small talk, and I nudge myself to ask after new babies/ sick grandmothers/ recent holidays. I also pause and check that people have understood what I'm proposing - to me the obvious logical answer doesn't need any "selling", when in reality it is useful when people look at the other aspects.

yournotfat · 02/08/2013 18:54

I'm an INFJ. It describes me to a T.

CoTananat · 02/08/2013 20:04

I always get INTJ. It seems like most everyone on the internet is INTJ. And of course it's extremely flattering, the description.

Seems improbable to me.

Solari · 02/08/2013 20:51

Another INFJ here. I wonder if MN is INFJ-central, or if we're one of the personality types most likely to actually do this test and then post about it.

SelectAUserName · 02/08/2013 21:01

ISFP, just to be different.

Cristiane · 02/08/2013 21:13

ENTP here and I'm stunned by the description as it seems accurate. I am now going to have to analyse the other types and see if it is like horoscopes and each type suits everything!

summerbreezer · 02/08/2013 23:19

Cristiane, I am an ENTP too! I am also a lawyer, as per the description.

CoTananat, the descriptions are not entirely positive. The "relationships" bit has a list of strengths and a list of weaknesses for every type.

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Standingonlego · 03/08/2013 00:48

ENTP here too..procrastinating on MN instead of going to bed...It has always made sense to me and quite accurate (the bad as well as the positive) Blush

LongTailedTit · 03/08/2013 01:28

See, I came out as ISTP - really not me at all, and the suggested jobs are waaaaay off my interests and abilities!
Might redo it and see if it comes out different 2nd time around.

LongTailedTit · 03/08/2013 01:40

Nope, still ISTP! Confused

CoTananat · 03/08/2013 07:23

Well everything has costs and benefits. But even then, the costs identified to INTJ (that other people may not always like you) seem to be a risk everyone runs in life, but one located in other people, so it's not really a day to day concern, even.

(I think it would be much worse to not like yourself, as you are with yourself all the time, while other people are transient.)

Also, I mean, all these descriptions say things like "good at anything that interests them" etc, but we all know that lots of people at work don't really do much work, and are bad at what they do do. So where's the personality type for incompetent, lazy and cruel? Or more commonly: indifferent, inefficient, and insecure?

It just doesn't match up with my working experience. Where's the personality type for that person who sees imagined slights everywhere and spends every meeting making trivial complaints about being overlooked? Or the person that constantly misses deadlines and loses emails and always goes off work with "stress" every time they are meant to be completing a project? Or the person that says yes to everything and gets on every code push and is always on the verge of completing their Grand Design that somehow never materialises? Or the one that thinks the answer to every problem is another meeting, survey, policy document, but never, ever any action?

I have had a lot of really great colleagues, from whom I have learnt a great deal and whom I admire, particularly those with very different gifts to my own. But there are also all those other people.

Now, I mostly don't mind them, don't get me wrong! So long as I am not hindered too badly in my own work I don't much care how the extras conduct themselves. But it's just weird that they don't seem to be acknowledged here. It makes me doubt the system, tbh.

noblegiraffe · 03/08/2013 07:57

The blurby bit wasn't so accurate for me, but in suggested jobs it had computer programmer and teacher of natural sciences. I've been a computer programmer and am currently a maths teacher, with a secret hankering to be a science teacher.

So horoscopey or not, that bit definitely seemed to work.

Hissy · 03/08/2013 09:30

InFJ.

I wasn't when I did this before, but life's battered the hell out of shaped me since then, so I dare say it's an accurate représentation of who I am atm.

I'm certainly happier in myself generally!

candycoatedwaterdrops · 03/08/2013 09:44

I was sceptical but did it anyway. It gave my top choice of career as social worker - I'm just about to enter my final year in BA social work. My second choice was early years education - I worked in that for 4 years prior to starting my degree. My third choice was psychotherapist which is something I'd like to do in the future.

INFJ

Introvert(11%) iNtuitive(38%) Feeling(38%) Judging(44%)
?You have slight preference of Introversion over Extraversion (11%)
?You have moderate preference of Intuition over Sensing (38%)
?You have moderate preference of Feeling over Thinking (38%)
?You have moderate preference of Judging over Perceiving (44%)