MBTI tests

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

Ok, so I've taken one of these several times, and every time I end up as an INFP (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving), which is all well and good, but much of the time I fit much better into the INTP (Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving) catagory...

I don't know how many people here have any experiences with these, nor do I know how many of you know me well enough to judge, but any thoughts?

Also, I thought it might be a good bit of fun and maybe a nice laugh to see what everyone else is (compared to what I thought they would be). Feel free to join in the fun

[Ari Rahikkala]

If anyone here with a decent understanding of the MBTI isn't able to tell I'm INTP, I've failed in my quest.

[hypatias mom]

A few years ago our family took the Meyers-Briggs Survey, and I scored as an INFP. I just retook the survey, and now score as an INFJ, which is the personality type most associated with counselors and social workers, and other, similar caring, supporting careers. http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirs ... =counselor I had not realized that, in a few years, one's personality can change types and focus under the influence of one's choices and life experiences.

[Erik Mortis]

<----Psych major.

[hypatias mom]

My one foray into the study of psychology is limited to a freshman class which was an exercise in conditioned responses.

[Andreas the Wise]

INTJ, apparently.

[Icebreaker]

ENTP, APPARENTLY.

[Ari Rahikkala]

A few years ago our family took the Meyers-Briggs Survey, and I scored as an INFP. I just retook the survey, and now score as an INFJ, which is the personality type most associated with counselors and social workers, and other, similar caring, supporting careers. http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirs ... =counselor I had not realized that, in a few years, one's personality can change types and focus under the influence of one's choices and life experiences.

Well, it could be that you actually have changed... but it could also be that the test isn't exactly reliable. Different people get different results depending on the exact wording of the questions, etc.. If you were close to the borderline in the first place it might as well be meaningless which letter you happen to get.

[hypatias mom]

I really do believe I have changed a lot over the past 8 years. I have found that severe health challenges and physical limitations have a salutory effect on one's emotional and spiritual growth. I honestly feel that by becoming one who could not take care of my own, most basic needs, and by having to learn how to gracefully accept the help I used to give while healthy, has given me a level of compassion and understanding of hurting people that I could never have truly understood without these experiences.

A quadraplegic artist, Joni Erickson Tada, dove head-first into a shallow lake at her family's summer cabin when she was a healthy, self-absorbed sixteen-year-old. More than forty years later she reports that she could not have become the person she has grown to be, or have the understanding and compassion she has gained through her paralysis, if she had remained totally healthy. Joni is a radiant Christian evangelist, author, and artist (she draws and paints with a brush or pen held between her teeth.), and an inspiration in personal courage and growth to many.

My physical therapist was a motorcycle rider, and reckless in her personal life. An accident in 1980 which broke her back and made her realize she was not self-sufficient to everything in her life, has helped her become a shining example of becoming victorious over one's circumstances. (Oh, yes, she is a paraplegic, wears braces on her legs, walks with two canes, and holds down a very full career. A doctor once told her she is "the least handicapped handicapped person he has ever met." She also lives a life in caring service to others.

Challenging life experiences can either make us withdraw from life, or we can learn how to use them to grow and become stronger inside,where it really counts. Almost any circumstance, short of death itself, can be a catalyst for change. We need to remember that a lot of the severity of that circumstance in our life can be perceived in more than one way--asa crushing blow, or as an opportunity for personal growth.

These examples are not the only path to personal growth, by any means, nor would I wish for anyone to experience such life-altering events . There is, however, a rich opportunity to learn about life from a different, uncomfortable, and unsettling perspective. If one can learn from it, and become kinder, more understanding, more compassionate, etc., you will never be left just as you were before. The old expression, "You will truly never understand another until you have walked a mile in his mocassins," rings truer for me each day, and I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to become more than I was before.

[Ari Rahikkala]

I accept that you've changed, but the test is still unreliable anyway

[hypatias mom]

Ari--

I would definitely agree that the test results are not dependable, but personal growrh is possible, and it is possible to learn through adversity of all kinds.

[Scott of Hyperborea]

INTJ, the "Mastermind" or "Scientist", all pretty strong except the J. I've gotten the same every time I've taken the test over the last, say, five years.
Except I don't have much of the self-confidence or leadershipiness that's supposedly a defining trait.
I do like that title, though. And I'm not surprised to learn I'm the same type as Andreas.

[Prodigy Almighty]

ENFJ for me. Last time I took this maybe two years ago, I think I scored INTJ... Looks like I've stopped thinking and started shouting.

But the amounts are rather vague. I'm strongly extroverted, but only moderately everything else.

[Gilrean Treebane]

I've taken this type of test like 3 times recently XD one had me as ESFP but I don't think that one was very good or accurate. All the other tests of this type that I've ever taken had me as ISFP and when looking at descriptions I think that describes me best.


Wow looking at famous people who share my type...
Marie Antoinette
Ulysses S. Grant
Liberace
Paul McCartney
Michael Jackson
Britney Spears
John Travolta
Princess Diana
Elvis Presley

[Demon of the North]

INTJ... W00T???

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

My my my, this is fun!

Not surprised at all the INTJs. I dunno, it seems like a very analytical type to me, and a lot of people here fall into that catagory.

@Ari: Actually, that was the type I had you pegged at

[Demon of the North]

well i suppose *coughevilcough* masterminds make good micronationalists.

[Artz]

INFJ for me..

Must be pretty accurate, as any of the other 'personality tests' I've done before said roughly the same thing. More or less..
I'm pretty interested ijn psychology, hoping to do an A level in it.. depends what other courses I have to do after this year. (As I'm in year 11 atm lol)

[Bayen]

It scored me at INTJ, but the "J" wasn't very strong, and I think I'm more of an INTP after reading the respective descriptions.

[Andreas the Wise]

INTJ, the "Mastermind" or "Scientist", all pretty strong except the J. I've gotten the same every time I've taken the test over the last, say, five years.
Except I don't have much of the self-confidence or leadershipiness that's supposedly a defining trait.
I do like that title, though. And I'm not surprised to learn I'm the same type as Andreas.

Actually, it doesn't surprise me either that you're the same type ... (though one ... N I think ... was only 12%. Dunno if that's good or bad, I just did the test)

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

ENFJ for me. Last time I took this maybe two years ago, I think I scored INTJ... Looks like I've stopped thinking and started shouting.

Wait a minute...so the last one you took was shortly before you met me? I CHANGED YOU!

[Prodigy Almighty]

Damn you Corey! *shakes fist in mock anger*

[Gryphon Avocatio]

I usually score as INTP, though I have often come up as INFP. I'm quite borderline when it comes to T/F, though I tend to lean towards T. Everything else I score very strongly in.

[Malliki]

INFP, 56-12-25-11.

[Oroigawa Koreyasu]

I'm not so lonely anymore!