Meyers-Briggs

Is ILX run by NFs?

It is more or less tautological. It asks you about your preferences and then tells you that a person with your preferences is a *fill in blank* sort of person. So, you ask, what is a *fill in blank* sort of person? It's a person whose preferences generally match yours!

I would never apply for a job that had a mandatory personality test. I think, when you simmer it all down, believing in the relevence of this test is no different than believing in astrology or numerology.

I think the Myers-Briggs psychological underpinnings are suspect at best. Many critics say that Myers sort of mis-understood Jung.

enfp borderline entp

I don't like the idea of jobs with personality tests. It implies that you can know more about how a person interacts and thinks through generalized questions than through actually knowing them.

Meyers-Briggs is straight up bullshit you guys, try the MMPI or MPQ

There is such a thing as personality, and it can be tested, just not using the Meyers-Briggs inventory.

IMHO

The MMPI is a lot more FUN to take fwiw. "I would enjoy the work of a gardener: t/f" (My counselor said this one probably had to do with "gender roles," but what of all those kindly old male gardeners in books like The Secret Garden? A far easier question, that in fact could comprise the entire test for yours truly, would be "I want to be Dickon: t/f" and the answer would be YES, a YES so potent it would knock the sun out of orbit.)

Also I think Meyers-Briggs is maybe 10 steps away from astrology, but...I am a crank.

ENFP in the hizzouse.

This stuff is like a multiple-choice test astrology. Of course I'm an INTJ, so I would say that.

The MMPI has like 550+ questions, too, so you get to see this CRAZY FUCKING GRAPH of everything you said (if it's shown to you), and I love graphs. I love how big complex ones LOOK even if I cannot parse their meaning.

INFP! People who score as INFP seem to get really into this. Probably cause the descriptions are like "You're a total sweetheart and everyone who knows you well loves you to death and you like, know magic and shit."

INFP or ENFP depending on my mood.

In extremis? No! Fart Pants! (me INFP)

abbott, i love dickon and therefore i love you!

Yeah I'd be surprised if ILX was much other than E/INFP to be honest.

im quite sure there's a good variety

Also I think Meyers-Briggs is maybe 10 steps away from astrology, but...I am a crank.

10 is waaaaay too charitable. At least my astrological sign is consistent over time.

MMPI is a much more credible instrument. Unfortunately its scales were batshit to begin with, and are now both batshit and dated.

I have a friend who insists on guessing everyone's Myers-Briggs and explaining their behaviour smugly using this completely-guessed-at knowledge. I also used to have a boss who never got anything done but did lots of 'innovative' useless brainstorming, and explained this by saying 'oh, you know me, I'm just so P...'

^^^^ OK, that's really really obnoxious.

I don't know how much stock I put in these but I took it again recently just for the hell of it and as with every time before - I am definitely an ENFP.

ENBB the ENFP

I am an INTJ which apparently makes me a robot

Maybe but apparently you're my natural partner <3

"ENFP's natural partner is the INTJ, or the INFJ"

My ex was an INTJ, I think.

Fictional ENFPs:
Dr. Doug Ross (ER)
Balkie (Perfect Strangers)
Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Steve Irkle

Sweet.

I had been INTP every single time I took this test until the last two times I took it, which varied so wildly that I don't even remember what I scored.

infp

hi

ISTP

think i was an intj

i remember taking this for a job and thinking it seemed pretty accurate but basically useless

also hi5 horseshoe

i am a *feeler*

i am homo not horseshoe

sry :/

According to the other thread my fellow ILX ENFPs include:

Hoosteen
Gareth
Slocki
GBX

Good company imho.

Like I said earlier I don't know how much stock I put into this but I just read some of the ENFP profile stuff and some of it is almost shockingly accurate for me.

INFJ - the counselor? apparently I'm an artistically inclined empathetic mystery wrapped in a riddle. shrug

what i said upthread:

intp here, but an earlier test said infp. i'm a little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll.

reading the description of intp, it sums me up perfectly. it may be pseudo-science, but it's not wrong.

According to the other thread my fellow ILX ENFPs include:

Hoosteen
Gareth
Slocki
GBX

Good company imho.

Like I said earlier I don't know how much stock I put into this but I just read some of the ENFP profile stuff and some of it is almost shockingly accurate for me.

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enfp borderline entp

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More like Gheyers-Briggs.

Most of the questions seem pretty generic, and I consistently find myself responding thinking -- well, I'm somewhat like that, but I know people who are a lot more like that and people that are a lot less.

Then, I end up thinking that most of the people I know are artists, musicians, writers, gallery owners, non-profit workers, etc. and are probably not representative of the general populace, and I have even more trouble answering the questions. Should I really be answering the questions like I'm a normal, staid, vaguely conservative person, when really, I only perceive myself that way because I spend so much time around flakey people who have less aptitude for boring organizational stuff than I do?

The questions that are designed to elicit creative inclination were worded unappealingly, and I didn't feel like going beyond answering the literal question.

ENFP last time i did it a coupla years back.

my dad does this kind of shit a lot (senior management type) and has lots of big books lying about the house like MBTI Manual Third Edition or whatever. Never given it a shot myself though he did once tell me what he thinks I am, and apparently it's the rarest one or whatever.

is there a decent free online test to work this out?

If there was a personality type here that was like, 'too skeptical for your own good,' maybe the irony wld give me more faith in this thing.

Irony: I am too skeptical for my own good, a test I am skeptical about telling me I was just a skeptic might not be bad.

i don't find this sort of personality inventory to be worthy of awe or surprise, but i don't think there's too much to be skeptical about either. You basically answer questions based on your behavior and values, and the result is basically a summation of the answers you've given. where this sort of personality typing goes wrong, i think, is when it assumes your motivation for your behavior or the reasons you have those values -- not to mention the fact that you can value qualities / behavior you do not have.

for example, i'm not the most motivated person, buy i nevertheless think it is a worthy, enviable quality.

It also assumes consistency in behavior. It keeps asking variants on "do you make decisions based on logic or feelings?" I'd guess that most people do a bit of both, me included. It depends on the context of the decision.

there is only one thing wacker than the Myers-Briggs, and that is the retroactive classification of Famous People From History by Myers-Briggs type

you're just jealous that I share a personality type with Homer

i am definitely a lot like tom cruise so shut up

and I get get compared to Balkie Bartokomous at least a couple of times a week

okay but how do we know how fictional character scored on it? is there an episode of Perfect Strangers about this?

that's a damn good question horseshoe

i mean, Ariel from the Little Mermaid?

if this is like an actual job, i would do it. decide where fictional characters would fall on the meyers-briggs whatever.

I know.

I'm ok with being lumped together with The Fresh Prince though so it's cool.

If you find out pls let me know. Would also do this and am looking for work.

Wondering if Mr. Butt, who wrote the descriptions for a lot of the types, is an introvert ...

Wondering if Mr. Butt has a tattoo of a butt on his butt

Not Meyers-Briggs but Tom Ewing just described this as 'the creepiest personality test EVER.'

He adds: "that test is awesome, it's like Myers/Briggs redone by Philip K Dick."

"Leon, which one can hear you breathing?"

http://xirdal.lmu.de/xirdalium/xpix/voightkampfftest.png

Tom Ewing OTM!

Shit dude, I just did that test and it made me feel stoned. Most WTF moment was "Where is the betrayal?" with two identical glowing shapes comprising the answer. Huh?

It is interesting, but for me the results were a bit so what and not very accurate. I mean "you need to obtain psychiatric help right now", yeah right.

My results were actually pretty much OTM. (Then again it didn't tell me to get help so I might be more kindly disposed to it.)

Reminds me of hazing sessions where if you show no fear of authority, you are rewarded. As a child, I attended a semi-creepy experimental church where we engaged in these exercises. Outside of classroom time, of course.

I am "innovative in the extreme" and have "no respect for authority". Which would have made me group leader in no time.

Well, my results were OTM, but I don't think we need to have that whole astrology conversation again. xp

Weird cult group therapy type stuff can be fun and interesting...as long as you hang it up when daily life resumes (i.e. don't take it to work).

this was insane! and my results were also almost totally off-base

O_O yipes

Luckily my results were pretty 'normal' though apparently I have an affinity with the physical world and enjoy hangliding

Which is a relief because I thought the results would say RUN. GO NOW TO THE NEAREST PSYCH FACILITY. THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU.

you all should be STFU
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i lol'd

I wonder if there are people out there somewhere taking the test and thinking, "oh yeah... obviously... this makes TOTAL sense to me..."

feels like an entrapment test you'd take at a government facility...like no matter how you answer the questions they'd be like 'yep, sorry no you're completely insane'

You have a poetic sensibility and an ability to see beyond the day to day.
You often seem to be living in a higher realm, or to be not-of-this-earth.
Occasionally you imagine interior lives for friends and associates that
are near-complete fabrications based on your fears or hopes for the
future. You are often not aware of your own feelings. You have a strong
sense of right and wrong, and because of this are often disappointed.
Despite what can sometimes be a destructive inward-turning anger, you are
very gentle. You are sometimes a bit out of touch with the ebb and flow of
modern life. If your behavior is out of synch with your moral values, a
severe psychic disturbance can result. Because connectivity is so
important to you, you can become quiet and sulky if you feel that others
around do not understand your point of view.

^^^ allround I can say this is pretty much OTM

i get the impression that the significance one attributes to the test results are more telling than the results themselves

I get the feeling that the people who put this test together are MEAN ;_;

It kind of reminded me of the toys sent from the future in the story "Mimsy Were The Borogoves."

Haha via unperson, the test hit io9:

http://io9.com/#!5789483

Cool test. The Blade Runner comparison is spot on. OTOH it told me I like hanggliding and motorcycles and have very little verbal output, which is so far wrong that I'm kind of impressed.

that's what I got too!

it seems telling that folks seem to be clinging to the reassuringly bland and familiar "results" following the deeply unsettling test

Most WTF moment was "Where is the betrayal?" with two identical glowing shapes comprising the answer. Huh?

I got the question "Which one is pretending to be you?" with the identical shapes.

I really like these weird viral marketing things in spite of myself.