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.

@Confusedandshaken I have heard other people say that, and can believe it. But if I am an ISTJ one day and an ENFP the next, it isn’t really revealing any deep truths, is it? Certainly none you would want your managers to base your future employment on.

INFP

I’m a INFJ-T and I’ve done the same test more than once and I get the same results everytime.

INTP but shading towards J

INFJ

Very accurate

Defender
Personality
ISFJ-A / ISFJ-T

ENTP. It's a useful way to kick off a discussion about different views of the world and different ways of working. I used it quite a lot as a Manager.

I get the same result every time but if you think about it as 4 scales you can be either end of each scale or you can be more or less in the middle. If you are a middle person on one or more scales then on different days you could get different results.

It's only meant to indicate a preference for thinking style. It doesn't mean that you can't do anything other than your one category. But when the chips are down and you're under pressure you'll likely retreat into your comfort zone.

I am obsessed with Jung I admit but the original theory was far more complex with introverted and extroverted functions working in parallel so double the 16 categories that Myers Briggs came up with.

He was also pretty racist. Lots of people were at the time.

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar

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.

Truly the most INTJ observation and use of Meyers Briggs. (Me - female stats and Data analyst INTJ, enneagram 5, Owl with ASD and ADHD)

It’s worth remembering that INTJs hang out online. So despite being the only female one out of 50ish in my previous job (not data) online forums are often full of INTJs.

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@Jaxhog

ENTP. It's a useful way to kick off a discussion about different views of the world and different ways of working. I used it quite a lot as a Manager.

Do you ask what your staff's starsign is and base decisions on that too?

Can't believe some people actually take this pseudoscience nonsense seriously enough to use it in the workplace. I'd laugh in the face of any manager asking me to do a personality test.

INFJ here. The I & J being the strongest bits.

Have also done Emergenetics through work. Found that to be a pile of rubbish.

ENFP and don't I know it!

INTP-T. Can't say it seems more than about 50% accurate tbh.

I've taken it a few times and get a different result each time. Only one of the four is always the same (I). For the others it depends what mood I'm in and whether I'm in work or home mode. Where the tests show scores I'm usually close to the dividing line on the other 3 traits.

From what I have read about the test, I think it is pretty unreliable and without any solid foundation. Someone I work with is a huge believer in it and they get frustrated when .I can't tell them my "type".

I've done it umpteen times. Extremely high iNtution and Feeling every time. Always borderline on Introvert/Extrovert and Perceiving/Judging.
So INFJ/INFP/ENFJ/ENFP - I recognise aspects of all of these types depending what mood I'm in that day.

I just did it and it couldn't be less me. I must be some kind of liar!

@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.

Except Jung’s theories are little more than untestable observations - he even said that himself. There is no evidence that 3 of the 4 personality dimensions exist in nature (extroversion/introversion is hardwired and in pretty much every psy test). The MBTI is as scientific as ‘What Harry Potter Character Are You?’ In Take a Break. I’m also an academic psychologist. Freud and Jung have their place in psychology - in the history chapters of the introductory text books. .

I'm ENTJ. You're the same as my husband OP.
Yes I found it very accurate at the time. I would like to redo it though as I think some elements of my personality have shifted a little since having children

You tell it what you're like, and it just regurgitates it back at you. It's hardly surprising it's reasonably accurate, but I don't see how it actually reveals anything much. If you can answer the questions you already know what you're like.

I am an INFP and found it was scarily accurate.

Funny that, given that you input all the answers yourself

Myers Briggs wasn’t one man. For a Jung expert I’m a bit surprised you think that given it’s already been said several times on this very thread.

I’ll trust one of these tests when one of the categories is «lairy gobshite» and not before.

FWiw Wikipedia really lays into it: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers–Briggs_Type_Indicator

I got ENFP-T and it sounds pretty accurate