To ask if you’ve done the Myers-Briggs test?

[Wherediditgo]

And what did you think of the outcome?
I completed one a while ago - I am an INFP and found it was scarily accurate.

Just interested to hear others’ thoughts and tell me, how does your mind work?

There was a fascinating thread on here recently about people who don’t really have an inner-monologue and the discussion about the differences in how we think was really enlightening. Would love to know how people with different personality types interpret the world around them.

I'm INTP and am every time I take it. I'm pretty extreme on all my scales so very introverted, very intuitive thinker and very spontaneous. I think if you're more in the middle then it probably rings less true.

Various people say it's been debunked as pseudoscience but I'm really into Jung and his personality types theories.

@MoiraQueen

Not Myers-Briggs, but years ago I did a different test, can't for the life of me think what it was called, but my MiL also took the same test through work. She was a Starter-finisher and I was a plant, the characteristics for both of us were scarily accurate.

I'm a plant on this one too and a terrible completer finisher.

That link test is absolutely spot on for me.

I get different results each time, especially because many of the questions are very generic and the answer to some of them sometimes depends on how I am feeling... i.e. "after a hard week at work I need something social"... it depends, sometimes after a hard week at work I just want to go home and be alone, other times I am really in the mood for something social. "I make new friends often"... it also depends, there are years in which I feel quite content with the friends I have and years like the last one in which I really missed having a group of friends, so I made a conscious effort of meeting people so yes, when I put my mind to it I make friends often. So many of the questions don't have a clear answer, some could go from one extreme to the other depending on my mood/life situation.

@Bitheby
Just Googled and it's the Belbin Team Inventory and yes, I'm a terrible completer-finisher too.

I've just done the MB test and got INFP-T, and that's fairly accurate.

@Chanjer

Campaigner ENFP/T or ENFP/A but the description sounds way more annoying than I (hope) I am

I am ENFP too and proud of it!

And I think it’s accurate and insightful.

Infj! Scarily accurate!

My best friend is a intj and sums her up perfectly too!

It always annoyed me that employers would do this before an away day or team building and for the day and maybe two weeks afterwards everyone was hugely accepting and appreciative of each other's differences. Then bam back to normal and if you're not the dominant team personality type you're back to being judged as lacking for it. Or is that just the places I've worked...?

@MoiraQueen

It’s the Belbin test I think?

I also did it through work and I was a plant.

I think you have to pay for this one however.

@Wearywithteens

Yeah... the nazis famously liked filing complex human psychology into neat little narrow categories too. Glad so many of you think it’s so helpful.

Godwin's Law strikes again.

It's bollocks.

NB: I'm an academic psychologist.

@AutoIncorrect

ISFJ-T; Defender

I did this a couple of years ago and am ISFJ-A. I don’t know what any of it stands for, but there don’t seem to be many other S’s on here. Need to go and google.

INFP...quite a few of us despite it saying that we are rare :o

@ThatOtherPoster

I get a different result every time.

Same. I object to the notion that it is somehow so accurate that people can make business decisions based on it, as has become all too common. It ends up being so sold to people that they end up with a cole reading like a horoscope, and they bend their expectations to fit.

cold reading

INFP here, we seem to love it.

I manage an ENTJ (who terrifies me 😂) and an ESFJ. My manager is ESTP and awesome.

I found MBTI a bit rigid and got into the Enneagram which has more spiritual basis and growth. I'm type 6w7.

@AnnaMagnani

Yes, it's bullshit.

Done it several times, got different answers each time. Each one was 'scarily accurate'. It's like a fucking horoscope.

Based on no proven research at all.

However it's a nice exercise to show how groups of people are diverse and think differently. That's it.

This. I did it several times as part of a professional masters, overseen by a supposed accredited expert.

She really did not like the fact that I kept getting different answers, and told me I must be “a sociopath who can change who she is depending on how she wants to be perceived”. A) that isn’t what a sociopath is, and B) don’t blame me because your shitty test is broken.

Questions were all stuff like “do you like to read a book or go to a party?” Yes, I do like both of those things. It isn’t exactly insightful.

I would agree that it does demonstrate the persona you are attempting to portray to the world, but so would asking you to describe yourself in three words. It makes no allowances for the fact people may not be good judges of their own character - if I’ve decided I’m an extrovert, I can easily answer questions in such a way to make myself come out as one. Even if nobody else would agree.

Another INFP here and it's very accurate as far as I'm concerned.

However, I'm nervous about the fact that it gets used in workplace scenarios. I can't help feeling a lot of messy assumptions and judgements could get made off the back of it, possibly even to the point of discrimination.

It’s nonsense. There’s no credible evidence base for it. If you’re going to do it treat it as fun.

Stick to the big 5 (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Openness). That’s about as good as it gets if you want an evidence based test to know what you’re really like. (MB is based on some elements of the 5 so there will be some overlap).

My employer won’t put more than one ENTJ on a team but they tend to be the leads. I’m the ENTJ of ours, and group lead meetings are very... robust. There is one introvert who looks like he needs a holiday every time.

It's bad science. Don't get sucked in

I got INFP and read somewhere that it stands for I Never Finish Projects so in that case it's true! Some questions I would have answered differently when I was younger so would have got a different result I presume.