| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/18/2009 8:24:00 AM | | All in all the test was interesting but basicially did nothing to change my life. After 25-years in the clerical field I returned to college to pursue accounting. I wanted to take the MB Personality test to see if it could help uncover passions I had put aside while single with two children and just trying to make a living. I did uncover some suppressed personality traits, and a few things I thought were quirky actually turned out being pretty normal. I also learned that the testing isn't very accurate as we grow older due to life's events that turn and shape a person. Interesting but I wouldn't stake too much validity on it. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/18/2009 8:44:35 AM | I took the test just for fun and in my opinion it puts people in a box meaning "this is who you are and this is who you will get along best with" I don't like it when people think they can define me with just a few questions I have answered, they haven't lived with me from day to day they don't know what goes on in my head. There's no room for growth or change, you're just one of the 4 personalities, how boring, what about venturing outside the 9 dots, be who you want to be, don't let some test define who you are!
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/18/2009 9:18:39 AM | | Trying to squeeze people into one of sixteen different pigeonholes is only slightly better than trying to do the same thing with twelve different astrological signs. Granted, this has the scant whiff of science supposedly attached to it as opposed to the nonsensical pseudo-science of astrology. Either way, if you make the descriptive terminology vague enough to cover most eventualities you're very likely to be just sorta kinda accurate enough for folks to identify with it, recognize something of themselves there and buy into it. Personally I'd rather live outside that easily defined box. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/18/2009 9:34:02 AM | | It's interesting how things change as the years go by. I used to be INFP. My most recent test was ISFP. I agree when they say I'm a Protector. An ex would always make the comment that I was still trying to save the world (maybe if there were more of us, the world could be a better place to live). | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/18/2009 10:19:21 AM |
Trying to squeeze people into one of sixteen different pigeonholes is only slightly better than trying to do the same thing with twelve different astrological signs.
Those who stuff us into one of two gender categories, who are legion on this site, are even sillier.
Either way, if you make the descriptive terminology vague enough to cover most eventualities you're very likely to be just sorta kinda accurate enough for folks to identify with it
Just like that carnies at the fairs. Yeah, it's hard for me to invest heavily in the opinion of someone I've never met, who defines me by a string of answers to multiple choice questions. Maybe they're very, very clever questions, but then they proceed to tell me what's right and wrong about me. Sorry, don't urinate on my head and tell me it's weather-related. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/18/2009 1:58:28 PM |
used to be INFP. My most recent test was ISFP. Which in part disputes the claim that a person's personality cannot change. If that's true, it's the answers provided that've changed...your preferences. Fifty percent of you changed, according to the "inventory." | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/18/2009 5:32:04 PM | | I have taken it several times over the past 25 yrs and everytime I am an INFP. I had taken it in recent years just to see if it had changed at all and it did not for me. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/18/2009 7:57:49 PM |
It's interesting how things change as the years go by. I used to be INFP. My most recent test was ISFP. I agree when they say I'm a Protector. An ex would always make the comment that I was still trying to save the world (maybe if there were more of us, the world could be a better place to live).
The test is supposed to be administered by a trained psychologist who can help discern what you really are. There is a huge difference between a Sensor and an iNtuitive. You need to understand the four basic types first.
INFPs are the artsy, musical, dreamy types. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/20/2009 12:04:29 PM |
I love when people who don't understand personality analysis and/or astrology give such decidedly firm opinions on the process or merit.
Makes fun reading.
AND..I love it when people who don't understand "reading entrails" analysis give such decidedly firm opinions on the process or merit...
come now..MBTI..vague descriptions just like astrology such that ANYONE 'could' fit.
mine when done once said that : "I like recognition for special extra efforts" , etc.
um, yes. because so many people do NOT like to be recognized for going above & beyond the call of duty?
I think that could apply to ..oh, about..99% of the population..at least..! | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/28/2009 9:40:30 PM | Msg# 460 - I never met a Leo that wasn't a know it all (I'm a Leo smile!  )
I test between an ENFJ and an ENTJ. I used to test the latter and now test ENTJ -- I think I'm a happy medium between the two. I have all the strengths of ENTJ and I have the benefit of being emotionally grounded and empathetic as well. Both descriptions pretty much accurately describe me AND people's reactions to me! | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 1/29/2009 8:24:47 AM |
mine when done once said that : "I like recognition for special extra efforts" , etc.
um, yes. because so many people do NOT like to be recognized for going above & beyond the call of duty?
Some people don't see it that way. They feel it is their duty to put in that extra effort and they don't need recognition for it. In fact, it may annoy them to see that others feel they require this and see it is high maintenance. Rather than being recognized for that special effort, they would rather be recognized for their character as a whole.
Lots of different ways to see things.
Some people want lots of compliments on their appearance, status, or belongings etc. While others could care less about those types of compliments and want to be recognized for their actions or work they do.
While neither is likely offended (although they might be) with compliments of their other side, it's not want motivates them and is meaningful to them in a deeper way. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 3/16/2009 1:36:44 PM | | I don't give any credence to this test. It's fun to take and all, but what I come out as is almost always affected by my mood when I take the test. If you take it and look at the results right away you'll probably say "That's me!!!" but if you wait a few days and look chances are you'll wonder who took the test and put your name on it. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 3/16/2009 1:44:03 PM | Nah I have taken the test many times and it is one of the best personality test out there. The only way the letters can change is if you are cheating (not being honest) or you were so borderline on a letter that a couple different answers will flip the letter. This can happen of course but typically it will not change based on mood. There are many online versions of the test, MBTI or Jung variations and some are not the best. It is like taking your weight every week. You don't take your weight on different scales you stick to the SAME ONE.
So anyone know where the personality search buton is on this site? | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 3/16/2009 1:59:16 PM | | Don't know what to tell you James. For me it never is the exact same each time. And yes that's taking it multiple times using the same exact test. In my experience I bounce between INTP and INFP | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 3/16/2009 2:37:08 PM | Interesting. I just found a few tests online and took them.
According to ONE online test - I'm an I.S.T.J.
Introverted 56% - Sensing 12% - Thinking 50% - Judging 44%
According to a DIFFERENT online test - I'm also an I.S.T.J. (however with different percentages)
Introverted 75% - Sensing 77% - Thinking 65% - Judging 77%
According to YET ANOTHER online test - I'm in the highest percentage(s) either E.S.T.P. or E.S.T.J. (I'm not sure why this test results that I am leaning towards being extraverted.)
What does all of this really tell me? It tells me that tests like these are mostly nonsense.
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 3/16/2009 2:58:06 PM | On my second try at the same first test I tried in my last post I came up I.N.T.J. Same test, slightly different, yet still true answers. I suppose the Intuition and Sensing seem to fluctuate with me as sometimes I go more with my gutt. It's also interesting that at least one test scores me extraverted, since I don't really even see myself that way. I can feel comfortable in a social setting or not. I don't feel I need to be the center of attention in social settings and can take them or leave them. I don't feel a *need* to be sociable really even at a social gathering.
I'd say thinking is one that is the single common thread in all of these. Judging and perceiving also seem to fluctuate.
I'd have to really average the results of more than three different tests to be able to peg it to one type. All the tests I took in the above post were very different.
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