To ask what Myers Briggs type you are?

[NorthernLurker]

Did this on a course today. I am ISFJ and I was totally freaked out by the profile. It isn't sort of like me. It IS me. It's like somebody sat on my shoulder for a year and then described me. Anybody else had this?

Came across this a while ago and it made me laugh. The definition of hell for each MB personality type.

ESTP

yes, it's me. they are freaky

I just did it. Wildly wrong!

Possibly because I don't believe it, so there was no confirmation bias happening?

Another INFJ here

and, I'm not sure I could 'break in' to them but the list of career suggestions for my type sound massively more appealing to me than the career suggestions for most of the other types. ENFP career suggestions sound good too mind you, campaigner, I could see that. But it was startling to me to read the career suggestions for my type. I wish I'd known about MBPT decades ago, it would have given me the confidence to do what genuinely suited me, not to try and push water uphill doing something that in theory sounded more practical.

Agree. I've never met an INFJ in real life.

I think there's an explanation why we're over represented on Mumsnet - I'm not sure why though.

Another INFJ here! My DP is too but stalks motorsports forums rather than MN

ENTJ

Like Stalin, and thatcher

INFJ, the Counselor (also Enneagram Five if anyone does that ).

BertrandRussell you're wrong if you think it's confirmation bias that makes me identify with ENFJ. It just simply describes my strengths and weaknesses and my approaches and reactions very well.

Just did it & apparently I'm a ENTP, some things very accurate but not ready any of the other descriptions so who knows.

ESxx's are surely too busy experiencing RL to bother coming OL to discuss it?

I'm another INTJ. Though I go through phases of writing MBTI off and refusing to acknowledge a type. But I've come back to it again recently.

I don't think the evidence is conclusive one way or another on the ultimate reliability etc.. This FT article gives a useful overview of personality typing and the workplace, for those interested.

Yes I think I've heard that INFJs love internet fora!

Have you seen this

so funny!

I've done the official paid for MBTI test and I come out as ENFP. My husband and my closest friends come out as ENFP too and my parents are the complete opposite (ISTJ) which explains a lot!
I'm active on the ENFP Facebook group where I have made many new friends and learned a great deal about cognitive functions.

INTJ. Did it many years apart on three separate occasions and I was the same each time.

Oh, and I'm 99% N (Intuition) over S (Sensing) which is really helped me to understand why I struggle to get along with Sensors!

I'm an ENTJ. By all accounts we're a hair's breadth away from full psycopathy if you read some of the ENTJ-hatin' forums that I've seen!!

It is scarily accurate although I've just had a Colours one done (it's based on MB in any case) but it wasn't quite so accurate in a couple of areas.

It's useful - if you have the fullest assessment done it tells you how your responses change under stress for example which is quite useful, and it's good to see what other people are especially at work as it helps you with how to interact/present information. Also helps you as a team (there's 8 in our team and 6 are logical process driven and two complete outliers in the warm and fuzzy creative categories!) - we we've planned around that in a recent away day to make sure that we utilise the skills of our two outliers to balance us, and we also looked at the types in terms of how we would make the work we're doing, meaningful to all the key types.

Useful, intriguing. I find it really interesting I've got to say.

INTP – You are eternally condemned to researching an extremely vapid topic using wildly inaccurate methods, mostly involving interviewing people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

INTP – Smokes too much weed and wanders off from the party, accidentally ending up in the next town over.

So funny

INTP apparently

Same here, Catra. In the past I have hovered near the boundaries of some of the other pairings, but I am so overwhelmingly N. There is definitely a big chunk of the population whose outlook I just don't get. interestingly all my friends whose results I have seen are the same - whatever their other letters they are all extreme Ns.

Fantasy INFJ meet up (obviously no one would organise this)

1. Lots of people want to go but mysteriously drop out on the night - plenty of explanation but it really boils down to fuck no, not today

1. Others turn up really early , parked in random car parks near the venue on their phones - some will miss the event due to watching TV/films on their phones while eating crisps. Others won't get out their car as they're not sure (many reasons)

1. Of those that make it they will be early, find the others, talk incessantly for 5 hours, make emotional connections they remember for life. They will go home weirdly wired and spaced out emotionally and take two days of not talking to people to recover.

Everyone will have an emotional hangover or convoluted thought process about the event whether they went or not.

am I wrong? And what did I miss?

ESTJ reporting to get you all in shape here. Executive

Kinda scary how accurate it is.

I'm enfj or enfp depending on how I'm feeling when I answer the questions

I'm an ARSE.

It's the only descriptor that reflects poorly on the person taking the test.

It's a very rare Myers-Briggs type.