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.

Unscientific nonsense.

I think it’s a very outdated mean to ascertain personality traits.

Take the introverted/extroverted part. I like to work on my own best, I don’t like to invite people to my home, I feel out of place in big groups of people. I don’t like approaching people I don’t know. But I also don’t like being on my own too long, I love to go out with 1 or 2 friends and have many. I love talking and feel totally comfortable expressing myself. I am in my element in interviews. My friends/colleagues see me as very extroverted but I feel more introverted.

My OH loves to go to new people, feels totally at ease in a big group of people, loves to have many people around, hates solitude, but hates talking about his feelings and keeps everything for himself.

As a whole, I find myself about halfway in almost all traits because I am overall very adaptable and will respond very differently depending on the situation, circumstances and stimulus. This is the same for many people and this tests doesn’t represent our personality well at all.

Clearly I've answered something wrongly s it's given me ISFP-T Adventurer. No way am I any kind of adventurer!

I do agree that I'm 93% introverted though 😂

INTJ here too, very accurate and enlightening too.

Wow I just did it and my result is exactly my personality. Thanks for sharing this op was really interesting.

@Alwaysconfuddled

ISTP-A / ISTP-T and I’d agree with it, it is scarily accurate

I got that too. Fairly accurate.

@CakesOfVersailles

It's pseudo-scientific - only do it for fun.

I am amazed any workplaces use it or take it seriously. Also it profiles you based on how you describe yourself - so of course most people find it very accurate! It's like filling in a form with your home address and then being surprised that it correctly tells you what village you live in.

And some seem to make management decisions about employees based on it!

@SoupDragon I got Adventurer too, which is a load of balls!! 'Scarily accurate', huh...

I think my Personality type could definitely change from day to day

We did it at a team building event. Nearly all the other women had answered in a way that gave them the type that is meant to be people centred sensitive souls. Their behaviour suggested otherwise.

Computer: do you like the color blue?

Testee: yes I do.

Computer: You are the sort of person that likes the color blue.

Testee: wow amazing, so accurate!

@KeflavikAirport

Computer: do you like the color blue?

Testee: yes I do.

Computer: You are the sort of person that likes the color blue.

Testee: wow amazing, so accurate!

Exactly this 😂

The Barnum effect, sure, but when I read the INTJ description it does sound a lot like me, and reading the others, they sound very little like me! Whether or not its bullshit depends on what you want to use it for. If it's just a fun way of thinking about your strengths and weaknesses and how you like to deal with things, then where's the harm?

I take the point about me telling the Meyers-Briggs algorithm who I am and then the algorithm spitting it back at me, but it was still immensely useful to me. For instance some manager at work suggesting that I take charge of X project which would involve persuading lots of people to slightly change their behaviour in pursuit of a goal that I can already see is pointless and probably unachievable and the only real outcome is that I will have pissed off loads of people. If I say that I'm not suited to this and don't want to do it, the manager will say it will develop my skills and we all have to do things we don't want to do. However if I say according to Meyer-Briggs I am the polar opposite of the type of person who should be in charge of a project like this then the manager will most likely push off and find someone else because they won't believe what I say about myself but will believe what a computer programme says.

IME the type of people who think that Meyer-Briggs is a load of tosh are less likely to be pushing stupid, pointless and poorly thought-through projects and more likely to listen to what I say about my own abilities.

It's accurate because you empahsise the statements that you like and lessen those that don't. You also do that with the questions, you second guess them.

Read just the outcomes... notice anything?

www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/the-16-mbti-types.htm

Basically it's as accurate as the PPT (Pig Personality Test) aka the Myers Pig Personality Assessment

www.whiteman.af.mil/Portals/53/documents/AFD-130408-056.pdf

We used to use it a lot in my previous workplace. I am a trained practitioner. Hello to my fellow ENFPs.

Loads of psychological scales are done by self report though. The screening questionnaires I had to take to get an autism assessment are the same. Quite often the questions are situation and mood dependent but you're expected to be able to say how much like the statement you are at all times ever; there's even some overlap in the questions on introversion with Myers Briggs. Also the autism quotient is heavily biased towards males but that's for another thread.

The trouble with anything that monetises itself and then refuses to allow external people in to do peer reviewed research, is that they create suspicion. Same with another condition that I have that the NHS doesn't recognise because a private company has labelled and licenced it. I know I have the problem though.

For those saying that there's no science behind it, it's based on Jung Psychological Types theories. Jung's work is often impenetrable and this is one of those areas but it doesn't mean that this came out of nowhere because it didn't.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Types

@bitheby

For those saying that there's no science behind it, it's based on Jung Psychological Types theories. Jung's work is often impenetrable and this is one of those areas but it doesn't mean that this came out of nowhere because it didn't.

There's science behind all psychology - it is all observed, hypothetical and often open to all sorts of questioning.

The personality types are based on self reports and observation, a coding of those data.

I say there is no 'science' behind Myers Briggs becasue it has been bastardised, misused, commercialised for decades. As a psychology lecturer I spent many hours discussing all sorts of psych measures, it is imperative that all psych students understand what it is they are actually looking at!

I read 'Please understand me' which takes the different Myers Briggs and narrates a bit about each type - categorising them as 4 overall types each with 4 sub-types. My DH and I found the info about our sub-types very accurate, to the extent that the 'typical job' mentioned for each of our type is in fact the job we each do! I gave the book to 3 of my best friends and found that they were all the same sub-type as me (I didn't tell them in advance what I am) - we represent about 5% of the population so it's funny that we've found each other and are attracted to each other.

I've done it a few times, always get ESTJ.

I've just watched this documentary. The gist being these types of test are sexist, racist, classist and ableist, with their roots in some very outdated thinking. Isobel Myers Briggs was an author on the side and wrote the most appallingly racist novel.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/mar/03/they-become-dangerous-tools-the-dark-side-of-personality-tests

ISTJ here

ISFJ-T

@ThatOtherPoster

I get a different result every time.

I think that's normal. It can only be a snapshot of how you were feeling when you completed the test and it's normal for feelings to change from day to day and week to week and year to year just as normal for personalities to alter and develop with time and experience.

I’m usually INFJ or ENFP.