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.

Incidentally I just did the Enneagram and got 98% type 5. 'Type 5 is described as The Investigator. Fives seek understanding and knowledge, and are more comfortable with data than people.' Which is pretty much INTJ.

I do not understand all these ‘scarily accurate’ posts.

You just answered a load of questions telling a computer program what you think you are like, and it summarises them into a paragraph and tells you what you think you are like.

Of course it is accurate. What are you expecting to happen?

Another fan of the insights four colours. Life changing and helps me understand how to interact with others better as well as understanding myself. Emotional Intelligence for sure

I completed it but it didn't really resonate with me. I found TMSDI much better.

It's pretty concerning that people are being asked to do bullshit tests like this at work.

It's all nonsense, and has been shown to have strong day-to-day variance based on mood, how closely someone reads the questions etc.

And as for it being "scarily accurate", of course it is. It takes what a person has self-reported and regurgitates it back in complementary language. Any idiot could do it.

@LibertyMole

I do not understand all these ‘scarily accurate’ posts.

You just answered a load of questions telling a computer program what you think you are like, and it summarises them into a paragraph and tells you what you think you are like.

Of course it is accurate. What are you expecting to happen?

This, all day long.

The Insights model changed my life in terms of understanding other people.

I have seen it turn around awful, disfunctional workplace relationships at really senior levels.

@SchnitzelVonCrummsTum

It's bollocks.

NB: I'm an academic psychologist.

Agree and me too

It's unreliable (you can get different results each time you take it), it doesn't capture the important trait of neuroticism and no research study worth its salt would ever touch it.

@LookingGlassMilk

I've done a few tests in the past and sometimes it comes up INTJ and other times INFJ. The I, N and J are very strong but the F and the T seem to be split almost 50/50.

I just did the test in the link and it has come up INFJ.

I'm exactly the same!

It is pseudoscience, absolute nonsense, no accredited psychologist would use it. Good for fun of Facebook I suppose.

@sergeilavrov

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.

What kind of batshit crazy is this?

"Sorry Susan, you are the most qualified person to work on project X but we can't use you because of your nonsense personality test result"?

Jesus wept.

@LibertyMole

I do not understand all these ‘scarily accurate’ posts.

You just answered a load of questions telling a computer program what you think you are like, and it summarises them into a paragraph and tells you what you think you are like.

Of course it is accurate. What are you expecting to happen?

I answered the questions to indicate I believed I was shy and introverted and the results show I am! How did the test know? Spooky!

My employer did that exactly to shape the team, only I think it was called facet-five. Total pseudoscientific bollocks, of course.

Surely even those who think it is accurate, realise the issue with assuming your personality is consistent in different situations, with different people and at different times?

I'm a completely different person to who I was as a child. I'm a completely different person with my best friend vs an acquaintance. I'm a completely different person giving a presentation vs mentoring a junior colleague. I'm amazed that people are so happy to be told their personality is fixed and without any nuance and to be condemned to these boxes that essentially act as self fulfilling prophecies where you will end up behaving as you've been told you do. Of course companies love it - they want to put everyone in neat categories and keep them in their place. I read a statistic that you have a 50% chance of getting a different result every time you take the test, so what the hell can it actually tell you about anything?

@Tippexy

I am an INFP and found it was scarily accurate.

Well of course it will be accurate because the results regurgitate what you have told it about how you perceive yourself.

Ha I was trying to think of a way to say this.

Oops cross post with others

We had one of these at a teambuilding course and it descended into a slanging match between the I's and the E's at one point ...

I hate these personality tests. I have ASD and ADHD and have enough problems feeling like an outsider without these things putting me in a different box to everyone else.

We did the DOPE bird test in a mandatory managerial training course. I was the only "owl" and had to sit at a table by myself at one point where I got bombarded by questions by the others. They also asked the trainer whether owls were often in managerial roles, to which he replied no.

I mean I feel like a freak at the best of times.

Given I could answer differently depending how I feel on any day, I take results for any of these tests with a pinch of salt.

INTP-T for me. Logician. Rare for women apparently but I know others with a similar result

I am also an INFP - it is accurate in many ways but I am quite a spiky INFP and not at all like the floaty avatar they give you .

The Gretchen Rubin four tendencies thing is also weirdly uncanny. I am a questioner with strong meanings towards rebel (more likely to question and then rebel, rather than question and then uphold), which probably accounts for the spikiness!

quiz.gretchenrubin.com/

@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.

Yes its never had credibility or any actual science behind it, it was a made up test at the time and there is no need to disprove it as its never been proven. It feels "scarily accurate" because it repeats back to you exactly what you have told it.

The fact that people commonly get varied results in different work and social situations should be sufficient to ignore it and take it no more seriously than the zodiac.

@someonelockthefridgealready

We had one of these at a teambuilding course and it descended into a slanging match between the I's and the E's at one point ...

I hate these personality tests. I have ASD and ADHD and have enough problems feeling like an outsider without these things putting me in a different box to everyone else.

We did the DOPE bird test in a mandatory managerial training course. I was the only "owl" and had to sit at a table by myself at one point where I got bombarded by questions by the others. They also asked the trainer whether owls were often in managerial roles, to which he replied no.

I mean I feel like a freak at the best of times.

This genuinely deserves complaint to the British psychological society (assuming they were actually trained at somepoint to administer the tests). What awful awful training!

[quote littlepeas]The Gretchen Rubin four tendencies thing is also weirdly uncanny. I am a questioner with strong meanings towards rebel (more likely to question and then rebel, rather than question and then uphold), which probably accounts for the spikiness!

quiz.gretchenrubin.com/[/quote]
Yeah, strange that a website trying to flog a whole heap of books, courses and video materials can reguritate the answers to a few questions in a flattering and insightful way, isn't it?

It's incorrect to say it's only as accurate as astrology because the results are based n your answers to the questions, therefore it's as accurate as your answers are.