Is ILX run by NFs?

Boxcubed is your real first name 'Nurse' or something?

you know, i love yer song "novocaine for the soul," E ... ahem, Ned.

I still consider astrology "valid," as did, heh Mr. Jung hisself

'"Clever" is the word that perhaps describes ENTPs best... ENTPs are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick, and generally love to argue--both for its own sake, and to show off their often-impressive skills. They tend to have a perverse sense of humor as well, and enjoy playing devil's advocate. They sometimes confuse, even inadvertently hurt, those who don't understand or accept the concept of argument as a sport... ENTPs tend to be oblivious of the rest of humanity, except as an audience -- good, bad, or potential.'

That's a troll's charter, not a personality analysis! Frighteningly accurate, and somewhat chastening.

I: 44
N: 33
F: 11
P: 33

On the corollary my love life is *DOOMED* as I have the apparent tendency to strain my relationships by reading too much into my loved ones' behavior, by over-interpreting the hidden meanings in their words, and by overstating my own romantic views as apocalyptic revelations. Me? Hmm...

i'm the only s so far!

the description is quite good i reckon, even if it does say i'm a brainless 'hipster':

Extraverted Sensing
ISFPs keep a finger on the pulse of here and now. They are more adept at doing than considering, at acting than reflecting, at tasting than wondering. As do most SPs, ISFPs keenly sense color, sound, texture, and movement. It is not unusual for ISFPs to excel in sensory, motor, or kinesthetic abilities.
ISFPs cherish their impulses. Some of the most beautiful, graceful, and artistic performances are the result of this drive for physical, sensate expression.

The S.U.Z.Y'S TRADEMARK: -- "I'm really sorry you have to die."

When challenged, the S.U.Z.Y. may by reflex become argumentative. Alternatively (s)he may unleash an icy gaze that serves notice: the S.U.Z.Y. is not one to be trifled with.'

You wanna play hardball, bucko?

that describes afflicted Aquarians too! sorry, i should write a book or something, but i can't afford coffee right now

Until the fascination stops, and they go on to the Next Novelty. The coldness the ex-Novelty can feel is indescribable, from an afflicted Aquarian who has decided that you are not as interesting as his or her latest find/study. They may just as well forget about you, and many do, based on how abstract and aloof and absent-minded they are!! (Triple A syndrome). The amount of genuine emotional involvement that the afflicted Aquarian experiences outside of family is usually nil - you (especially if you are a fire or water sign) are lying there, crushed on the floor, tears streaming, wondering what is wrong with you, whereas the Aquarian's classic response is "oh dear, you're being so very unreasonable," or "you are so melodramatic." Typically, Aquarians have many friends but prefer not one-on-one close/deep emotional intimacy, but impersonal interaction with as many people that they can meet. That's just the way they're built, but that doesn't excuse them from reprehensible conduct in relationships, and hypocrisy in terms of living up to some grand societal Ideal, whilst ignoring the Person right in front of you (whom you are causing suffering towards). They don't view all of this as a fault, though; emotions are pesty little things which drag us down (even though when they do get emotional they go nuts), intellectual pursuits are far more preferable. You don't Change the World through emotions, that would be quite "impractical." Aquarians with healthy charts, however, can be very loyal and steadfast friends, but still need an amount of space which might seem inordinate to other, more emotional signs.

It was funny, but I used to talk to this Aquarian kid online as we shared an interest in the Tarot. He would IM me eveyday, he was wild. Then all of a sudden, the contact on his end stopped. When I would try to talk to him, he was pretty aloof. Having enough Gemini in me myself, I gathered that he just got bored, and didn't take it personally. Air signs are like children, really, in their need for stimulation...they're guilty and innocent at the same time

and hey, it's not wrong to be posty around here, despite how ilx is slowly creeping towards AIM-land, right?

I'm not able to read long posts unless I'm at home and have time to concentrate. During the day I can just dip in and out. ILE can be stimulating if there is involved discussion just as it can be when people are shooting from the cuff.

I can't believe that Mark posted Paradise Lost: Book 1. Was he illustrating a point that he was having particular trouble explaining in his own words?!

" the Person right in front of you" - was meant to say, the Person right in front of THEM.

You'll have to ask Mark that ?

JBR - give me the degrees, since that is using the Tropical (western) Zodiac!! What DEGREE is your sun in Sag, moon in Aries, and especially, Asc in Cancer ?? Actually you could give me all of the degrees, just cut-paste all of the numbers, and maybe sometime I can email you a less automated, more uh, personal and peronally specific reading. That stuff is vry general too, in Western terms.

I love how the pedantic-ness of my post has increased inconceivably over the last 3 days

House positions (Placidus)
Ascendant Cancer 03°54'33
2nd House Cancer 23°39'00
3rd House Leo 14°48'19
Imum Coeli Virgo 10°53'52
5th House Libra 15°19'43
6th House Scorpio 26°26'12
Descendant Capricorn 03°54'33
8th House Capricorn 23°39'00
9th House Aquarius 14°48'19
Medium Coeli Pisces 10°53'52
11th House Aries 15°19'43
12th House Taurus 26°26'12

Major aspects
Sun Trine Moon 2°52
Sun Conjunction Mars 1°44
Sun Trine Saturn 7°59
Sun Conjunction Neptune 4°37
Sun Sextile Pluto 4°41
Moon Trine Mars 1°08
Moon Trine Neptune 7°29
Moon Opposition Pluto 7°33
Moon Square Ascendant 2°07
Mercury Quincunx Jupiter 2°37
Mercury Trine Saturn 4°58
Venus Trine Jupiter 4°37
Venus Quincunx Saturn 2°57
Saturn Trine Neptune 3°22
Saturn Sextile Pluto 3°18
Uranus Trine Ascendant 5°28
Neptune Sextile Pluto 0°04

how many NFs are herre then? i think we do run things, as opposed to those...something Thinkers - what's the opposite of iNtuitives?

Check. We do it to ourselves, you know, and that's what really hurts...

Sometimes, shock value overrides everything - these are the most obnoxious sorts (think Johnny Rotten).

Think Momus.

And as far as people go, they seem to vieew them more as either scientific experiments (playing tricks/games on you to guage your emotional reactions), or novelties, upon whom they lavish extensive attention and study.

The cat I just pinned to the ironing board (to see how it would react) seems to agree. Don't you, Candy?

They may just as well forget about you, and many do, based on how abstract and aloof and absent-minded they are!!

Oh shit, did I leave that cat pinned to the ironing board? Oh well, never mind.

The Aquarian's classic response is "oh dear, you're being so very unreasonable," or "you are so melodramatic."

For heaven's sake, Candy, stop meowing, I'm trying to make a phonecall!

They don't view all of this as a fault, though; emotions are pesty little things which drag us down (even though when they do get emotional they go nuts), intellectual pursuits are far more preferable.

You're trying to make me feel guilty by being dead, aren't you, you pathetic animal? It's what Lacan called 'the sublimated wish cycle'. Oh my god, I'm sorry! KILL ME! KILL ME NOW!

Air signs are like children, really, in their need for stimulation...they're guilty and innocent at the same time

Look, mommy, a new pussy! Looks like Candy, mommy! Here, pussy, pussy!

Strength of the preferences %
22 56 22 33

I found most of the questions really hard to answer though, far more so than in other personality questions. On another day I might come out totally different, I think. Though the N for inituitive (?) seems strong enough.

They should make all these questions as perjorative as possible: "you are a fucking slob" "you'll piss and moan about anything" "your insistence on rules would make a blackshirt cream his jodhpurs"

Nicole, the quietly commanding pragmatist.

She just lets me do the dirty work. I think I was ENTP, which means I actually talk a bit more I suppose (as in real life, opposed to all you shy people ;-)).

I normally think I'm very extroverted, but my family doesn't. The other day I was explaining to my sister how off my mom was by saying I was introverted, and she started laughing hysterically. "Oh, Sarah! You are too introverted!"
grrr.

Now I'm wondering whether (i) the test is baloney or (ii) I didn't take long enough to consider my answers. I've changed so much over the years personality-wise that my answers a few years back would have been different. I don't know - remind me to do the test again in a couple of months' time.

Introverted 67%
Intuitive 56%
Thinking 22 %
Judging 1%
Strength of the preferences %

You are:
distinctively expressed introvert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed thinking personality

slightly expressed judging personality

(I hope)

44 17 67 22

Strength of the preferences %
33 56 11 1

Qualitative analysis of your type formula
 You are:

* moderately expressed introvert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* slightly expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality

INTP (by a hair: 33 50 1 33)

Famous INTPs:
Socrates
Rene Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Sir Isaac Newton
C. G. Jung, (Freudian defector, author of Psychological Types, etc.)
Albert Einstein
Rick Moranis

Apparently that means I can't read.

All hail multiples of 11!

And my god, it's the most accurate description of my personality and my problems that I've read in a long time. (or maybe that's just Astrology syndrome that you want it to be correct.) I need to think about this a lot more, as this contradicts a lot of things I've been *trying* to be for a long time.

A major concern for INTPs is the haunting sense of impending failure. They spend considerable time second-guessing themselves.

And we're annoying to others because we are ENDLESSLY rambling on about fine sensitive details which bother the less concise. Hah! It's not my fault I make long posts about nothing, it's just my personality.

i'm ISFP! 56 11 44 78

"having not only a natural grace of movement, but also an innate sense what fits and what doesn't fit in artistic compositions"

ha!

INTPs are relatively easy-going and amenable to most anything until their principles are violated, about which they may become outspoken and inflexible. They prefer to return, however, to a reserved albeit benign ambiance, not wishing to make spectacles of themselves.

which goes with this:

As the engineering capabilities the INTPs increase so does their desire to let others know about whatever has come of their engineering efforts. So they tend to take up an informative role in their social exchanges. On the other hand they have less and less desire, if they ever had any, to direct the activities of others. Only when forced to by circumstance do they allow themselves to take charge of activities, and they exit the role as soon as they can without injuring the enterprise.

Which becomes particularly funny, because I hate being made to lead or take charge or anything like that UNLESS SOMETHING IS NOT DONE BLOODY RIGHT IN WHICH CASE I HAVE TO DO IT MYSELF!!! Grrrrr.

The description for ENTP, the second one at least, is extremely accurate. I often suspect though that these tests always make the description one which is flattering so you think "ah yes that's me". Perhaps alternatively they tailor it to be flattering to the personality in question, in which case I guess it's much of a muchness.

The second portrait really was good though.

Oh wow, I haven't taken a Myers-Briggs test since back in Intro to Sociology class in 1998! I took the test again and I think I got what I got last time -- ISFJ. So essentially I'm like Luna, except more introverted. Hah! I knew there was a reason I connect with you, girl! ;)

The varied descriptions of this personality type are dead on, IMHO. The following, taken from the latter link, is especially dead-on:

One ISFJ trait that is easily misunderstood by those who haven't known them long is that they are often unable to either hide or articulate any distress they may be feeling. For instance, an ISFJ child may be reproved for "sulking," the actual cause of which is a combination of physical illness plus misguided "good manners." An adult ISFJ may drive a (later ashamed) friend or SO into a fit of temper over the ISFJ's unexplained moodiness, only afterwards to explain about a death in the family they "didn't want to burden anyone with."

*laughs* This is SO shamefully true.

It's not as if human personality is a static factor, but western psych never seems to acknowledge this

I've just taken the test for the fourth or fifth time, with the same darn results: I am an INFJ.
Introvert - 22%
iNtuitive - 22%
Feeling - 22%
Judging - 56%

And I represent about 2% of the population as a Counselor Idealist who is both rare AND frequently misunderstood. Woo-hoo! Now I can be as batty as I like and just refer people to the test results *grin*

I retook the test too. Apparently, since May I've turned from thinking to feeling. Maybe it's because right now I'm in love, whereas in May I wasn't.

33 56 33 78

im not sure what this means, its probably just hogwash

A major concern for INTPs is the haunting sense of impending failure. They spend considerable time second-guessing themselves. The open-endedness (from Perceiving) conjoined with the need for competence (NT) is expressed in a sense that one's conclusion may well be met by an equally plausible alternative solution, and that, after all, one may very well have overlooked some critical bit of data. An INTP arguing a point may very well be trying to convince himself as much as his opposition. In this way INTPs are markedly different from INTJs, who are much more confident in their competence and willing to act on their convictions.

"Their quietness ought really to be seen as an expression, not of coldness, but of their sincerity and seriousness of purpose. Like all the Guardians, Protectors have a highly developed puritan work ethic, which tells them that work is good, and that play must be earned-if indulged in at all. The least hedonic of all types, Protectors are willing to work long, long hours doing all the thankless jobs the other types seem content to ignore."

"Thus, while Performers are usually extreme [yeah, see, I wouldn't say "extreme" here] in their expressiveness and sociability ... they are not comfortable telling others what to do, preferring to offer information rather than to issue orders."

this time, i am an INFP (belle and sebastian fan), and the strengths are like 22/86/56/44. man, i guess ive gotten a little judgier and a LOT feelier.

"So abstract they become meaningless" = "Do you value justice over mercy?" = "Would you like a P or a J at the end of yours?"

The web tells me that Filburt from Rocco's Modern Life is also an INTP.

Loads of these questions bring out in me the logical positivist (the question is too abstract as to have any meaning - e.g. "66. You think that everything in the world is relative") or the Dice Man (may as well guess, as the answer would depend on unknown circumstances -e.g. "68. The process of searching for a solution is more important to you than the solution itself").

68. The process of searching for a solution is more important to you than the solution itself

scenario (1) you've locked yourself out of your house

scenario (2) you're looked out, with a toddler inside

scenario (3) you've been given a problem at work to solve by the end of the week

scenario (4) you've been given a problem at work to solve in the long-term, with the opportunity of drawing together a team of people from across your organisation

Strength of the preferences %
Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging
11 12 38 33

# slightly expressed introvert

# slightly expressed sensing personality

# moderately expressed feeling personality

# moderately expressed judging personality

The questions were stupid anyway and didn't know how to answer most of them. They were too absolute -- Yes or No -- when often there is really an "in between."

moderately expressed extrovert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
distinctively expressed judging personality

Famous ENFJs include David, King of Israel apparently. I wonder when he took the test.

I really don't see myself this way. But hey I'm a rare breed so who knows. hah

For the first time ever, I scored as an ENTP on this.

I'll just sit quietly in the corner with the other two INFJs.

22 62 75 33

apart from being an extrovert, i'm so well balanced!!!!!!!!

Anyway, INFJ...

Introverted 11
Intuitive 50
Feeling 38
Judging 11

I guarantee though I could take the same quiz later this afternoon and it would totally come up different.

I'm ENTP.

You do realize this shit is like astrology for HR people, right?

i don't think i've ever got 'extroverted' or 'judging' before

yeah i must have answered wrong!

Extroverted 1%
Intuitive 50%
Feeling 38%
Judging 33%

You are:
slightly expressed extrovert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
moderately expressed judging personality

ENFP - Libra.

Me too.

donut's 1% extroverted is classic. id love to see how that translates to social situations.

Your Type is
INTJ

Introverted 33%
Intuitive 25%
Thinking 75%
Judging 22%

moderately expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
distinctively expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality

It has always been fairly accurate for me.

Seems about right having read the descriptions, can't remember if I came out the same last time I did it though.

I think I was INFP once upon a time, I guess the years have soured me on people.

Wow,

this was really interesting to read

so many N's !

and how could there be so many INFPs, INFJ's or even INTP's around here?

no wonder so many people on this board are so gifted with language

ENTJ

Extraverted 1% Intuitive 38% Thinking 12% Judging 33%

just took the quiz ... scary how accurate these things are

very scary

quite a comprehensive ENFP

Extroverted 78%, Intuitive 100%, Feeling 50%, Perceiving 33%

this kinda figures tbh, and the breakdown at the end figures as well. feels good to be a champion!!!!! lol

I've come up INFP every time I've taken it in the past and have no reason to believe that it's changed. I'm, like, somewhat E/I and J/P cuspy, but the N and F are pretty firm.

Like anything else, one can surely attribute too much weight to this kind of stuff, but I've found Meyers Briggs to be a really effective shorthand for figuring out why certain people do and do not click. For instance, I know from experience that I can pretty much only handle other NFs on a voluntary social level. But understanding the way non-NFs function helps me to deal with them, say, at work.

i am lj's exact opposite, allegedly

ENFP

Extraverted - 22%
Intuitive - 38%
Feeling - 25%
Perceiving - 33%

and yeah, summaries are kinda shockingly otm. apparently i like to talk, seek attention and tend to be flighty. yup.

it's coz i'm an exuberant priggish wordy youth bouncing around annoying everybody, the true mark of the ENFP'er

contenderizer is still an exuberant priggish wordy youth and he is in his 40's. i salute you good sir!!

what's weird is that i think i scored as an ENTP in my youth, when i was far more priggish still.

If it hasn't already been done, there's a goldmine waiting for the person who sets up a dating service based on Myers Briggs. I've always said that I could never date anyone exactly like me, but I think dating someone who pretty closely matched my MB makeup (particularly in terms of those areas where I'm kinda on the fence) would be ideal.

keepin' it priggish in the '09

tbh we deserve our own board, a board of prig

I don't think it will come as a suprise that I've tested well ISTJ since childhood.

there's a goldmine waiting for the person who sets up a dating service based on Myers Briggs

OK Cupid does stuff like this

Today, I am mostly E N F J
Strength of the preferences %
11 25 38 22

Hmm, this is an old thread, have I done this before?

Ha, saw this thread before, did not do test!

Did anyone come out as "ESOJ" ?

INFP
Introverted 67%, Intuitive 6%, Feeling 12%, Perceiving 78%

Your Type is
ENFP
Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
22 62 50 33

The same type as 6 years ago. Though apparently since 2003 I've become somewhat less extroverted but more intuitive and more feeling.

ENTJ - not particularly surprising.

Your Type is
ENFJ
Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
22 62 62 1

This is interesting only because it's the first time that I haven't scored ENFP. Huh. Wonder if I'm just having a J kind of day or something. idk.

ENTP
Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
11 12 38 44

i'm at a complete loss as to what this does. some of the questions seemed liek pretty obvious leading questions-

"do you like other people y/n if no you are an introvert, kthxbye"

I did a professional MBTI test in 2006 and got ENFP - where's the online one you lot are doing?

yeah the questions are really problematic. And of course it is based on self-assessment, as opposed to observation. Someone could believe they are a certain way, but relative to the rest of the population, they could be the opposite.

"are you a dick y/n if no you are not a dick"

disclaimer- other people may still percieve you as a a dick

and grammatically challenged

where's the online one you lot are doing?

There's a link in the first post.

xp - exactly - and then there's the ones that are specific - like the TV Soaps one. One could say "no" based on the fact they don't watch TV Soaps, or they could interpret the question more broadly as "Do I get emotionally involved in mediated dramatized experiences of fictional characters?"

i literally cannot be bothered to google nf.

not fussed

Of course the other question is, if you say, "Yes, I think I'm a dick." does that make you perceiving, because you perceive you are a dick, or judging because you are making a value judgment on your dickishness?

national front

i think a perceptive dick is still a dick

ENTJ
Extroverted 22%, Intuitive 75%, Thinking 12%, Judging 22%

wait wait wait so this means that i'm not judgemental?

IN YOUR FACE NOODLE VAGUE & GRIMLY FIENDISH maddy's parents are bad people.

heh maybe it just means i have no judgement

So if I got ENTJ but only 1% J then maybe I am still ENFP after all? This is v confusing. All these years I thought I was one thing and it turns out I may be another. Why you confuse brain stupid test?

INTJ
Introverted 67% Intuitive 25% Thinking 38% Judging 22%

We need 16 new boards, one for each of the personality types.

Erica, I thought you were "ENBB", not "ENTJ"?

Extraverted iNtrospective Ballsy Bored?

my result just said BALLA

ENTP as usual. Numbers are weird this time, tho: 1%, 100%, 1%, 11%.

Extraverted iNtrospective Ballsy Bored?

Not so bored right now. Extraverted iNtrospective Ballsy Broad, maybe although not so sure about the ballsy part.

Sorry, that was just a wild guess. Though I don't think "broad" is a descriptive word for personality.

So if I got ENTJ but only 1% J then maybe I am still ENFP after all? This is v confusing. All these years I thought I was one thing and it turns out I may be another. Why you confuse brain stupid test?

The test linked to above is hella problematic, and the questions are definitely leading. I retook and came up INFJ for the first time ever. Which is not terribly surprising, as I have a job which pretty much requires me to be way more J than I'm usually comfortable with. But I think the gist of MB is that the more you kind of straddle the bifurcating categories, the better. Like, if you're super I, you should strive towards becoming somewhat more E, if that makes sense? In a 'strive to become a whole and ideal person' sense.

Another way I've heard it described, and which makes a lot of sense to me, is that one end of the continuum (and it probably is better to think of each category as a continuum rather than as a dichotomy) gives you energy and the other takes it away. I get energy from solitude, and being around people too long is somewhat exhausting to me. That helps me reconcile the fact that I'm an 'I' with the fact that I don't think I'm necessarily an introvert per se, since I'm perfectly fine with people in the short term and can do stuff like improv with no problem.

so having nothing higher than 44% just means that i'm bland, essentially.

you're being too judgmental!

so having nothing higher than 44% just means that i'm bland, essentially.

No, it means you're a paragon of psychological health, dude! Or something.

Seriously, I came up 100% introverted on this latest runthrough of the test. I know I'm not that bad, but I still acknowledge it as a problem. I'd rather be closer to 50%.

ENTJ
11-12-25-22

so evenhanded and chill I'm practically in a coma

INTJ 22,12,12,33. I am evidently a judgmental a*hole. Not really a surprise to me and certainly not to my co-workers. At least I can intuit that they know I don't like them, fat b*st*rds. Need a higher T score to think about how to get them to learn from the nutrition-nazi thread, and a lower I in order to care enough to make them.

I finally quit lying to myself and came out ESTP. You know, the auto mechanic personality. Insensitive....well maybe. I'm getting too old to feel bad about that.

it feels good to come clean about that sorta thing, doesn't it. i tested ENFP last time i took it, low e high n. still convinced this is like a multiple-choice test astrology.

I think I'm slowly turning into an E and it's freaking me out a little. I'm used to being okay on my own, so thirsting for company and feeling legit bereft when I haven't been around my people for a couple of days is taking some getting used to.

2 years ago:

ENTP
Extravert(22%) iNtuitive(12%) iNtuitive Thinking(38%) Perceiving(22)%

You have slight preference of Extraversion over Introversion (22%)
You have slight preference of Intuition over Sensing (12%)
You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (38%)
You have slight preference of Perceiving over Judging (22%)

two minutes ago

ENTP
Extravert(22%) iNtuitive(12%) iNtuitive Thinking(38%) Perceiving(22)%

You have slight preference of Extraversion over Introversion (22%)
You have slight preference of Intuition over Sensing (12%)
You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (38%)
You have slight preference of Perceiving over Judging (22%)

hmm i've almost certainly c'd pver my own c&p there haven't i

ENTP
Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
11 12 38 44

result from 2 years ago

getting less perceptive, huh well i coulda told you that

i've tested as INFP and INTJ. i think INTJ describes me better.

i still can't read that as anything but the journalist's union

Yeah, I'd wager ILX is more NT-centric. I think us hippie NFs are much more prone to butthurtness than your average ILXor.

p sure that ilxors have exhibited sensitive posteriors many many times over the years

Was reading a thing not long ago indicating Myers-Briggs types are about as scientifically sound and reliable as astrology

Eh, that's kind of a lazy comparison. I wouldn't trumpet M-B as some paragon of scientifically-sound personality metrics, but it's based on actual questions that people answer so it has a little more weight than assessing personality based on what position the planets are in. It's a method of classification that, for me, helps me to understand some of the different reasons why some people interface smoothly and others butt heads. It facilitates a perspective that I think has utility, scientific merit be damned.

utility is scientific merit

M-B probably has much more appeal to particular M-B types than it does to others, is another thing to consider, as well.

To me, it's interesting bullshit, but then again I don't know why I waste my time with such idiot fluff! Myers-Briggs helped many workplaces understand workplace dynamics. I mean, it helped me at work because I am just not an "F" or a sensitive "N" and my co-workers need to understand that!

It's still better than those idiot personality tests on Facebook!

Yeah, I mean, if you have some codified method of understanding the way in which another person views and processes and interacts with the world, that's a starting point for bridging communicative gaps and learning to understand people who seem otherwise almost impossibly different than yourself. I understand why you'd write it off if you're not interested in that stuff, but it definitely has utility for those who are.

INFP for life

I think Myers-Briggs does reasonably well measuring the four traits it tests for. The only thing i find a fallacy is the notion some have that those are the only four important measures of personality type. Nobody I know with the same MBTI result as me (ENFJ) is anything like me.

For what it's worth, I last tested as - extroverted: 100% - intuitive: 50% - feeling: 38% - judging - 11%

^ was surprised when i pegged the meter on extraversion.... I definitely think like an extravert, but don't always act like one

i took this test last night for the first time and got Introvert(11%) iNtuitive(81%) iNtuitive Feeling(12%) Perceiving(11)%

i don't know what it means tho, or whether it aligns w/ how i think of myself

I can't remember if it's just alternative tests or if there's an actual variant of M-B, but I've done a workplace seminar where it was a handful of coworkers/friends who filled out surveys rather than me. M-B highly dependent on people having a good perception of how they actually interact, as opposed to how it appears to a third party.

The other thing about MB is people treat it as a thing you are, rather than a tendency you prefer. It's not an absolute like height -- it's a tendency, same as "being a grumpy bastard" doesn't mean you never smile or laugh.

Which is probably why I got INTP when I tested myself late last night, despite generally being a solid ENTP.

those are both what you'd rank yourself as, at least

^_^

accuracy of answers notwithstanding

Your Type
ENFP
Extravert(67%) iNtuitive(88%) Feeling(38%) Perceiving(22%)

Still the same basic type as 3 and 9 years ago, but according to the test I've become more extroverted and intuitive, and somewhat less feeling.

I don't really think I've become more extroverted though, I'm pretty sure I was a bigger extrovert when I was 24 than now at 33.

I was ENFP when I did the test in 2006. I'd like to try again. Where's a link to a decent test?

infp duh

i used to be very very obsessed with mbti

worth mentioning that the tests aren't holy, it's probably better to just look at an indepth rundown of the 16 types and pick for yourself which one sounds most like you

I'm always INTP, strongest on the I and the P. With a good test, it's definitely not astrology, especially if you understand the terms as defined by MB and not the way people use them casually. As Old Lunch says, it's a good starting point. I've found it quite useful in the workplace. In relationships, not so much.