| | Myers-Briggs Personality Profile and DatingPage 1 of 3 (1, 2, 3) | I have been reading about the Myers-Briggs personality profile, and have been thinking about how it relates to dating. For those of you who don't know, there are 4 preferences, all either one or the other, for a total of 16 types of people. The closer you are in type, the more likely you will get that instant connection, and see the world similarly. I wonder what everyone's type is, and how it seems to affect their dating life.
Pick one of each of the four choices:
1. Extroverted (getting energy from people and variety) E
/ Introverted (getting energy from being alone and focused.) I
2. Sensing (noticing things your senses tell you) S
/ Intuitive (noticing global implications of ideas) N
3. Thinking (making decisions based upon dispassionate logic) T
/ Feeling (making decisions based upon feelings, instincts, or how it affect people) F
4. Judging (quick to decide, organized, orderly) J
/Percieving (like to keep options open, non-structured) P
Everyone uses all of them, but you pick the one that is most often you. You might want to actually take a Myers Briggs test to know your personality.
As for myself, I believe I am an ENFJ (Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling Judger). What are you? | |
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Posted: 12/9/2006 5:37:45 PM | I was tested over a few years and came out as an INFP...
The interesting thing about this system is that even though you have a preference, you can drift along the continuum over the years and develop skills to cope with and interact with your polar opposite types...
But everyone is gifted differently in this life and everyone has their preferences...INFP is a small frequency for men...there is a gender breakdown for types that is interesting to see as well. The founders of this form of typing based some of their work on Jung if I recall correctly...it's interesting stuff. | |
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Posted: 12/9/2006 5:44:04 PM | I did 3 days of testing and still was able to determine what my type was.
I guess I have a multi-faceted personality!!!!!!
No... you don't...
YES! I do...
Dont' listen to them.....
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Posted: 12/9/2006 7:21:46 PM | Just from the choices given I pegged myself as
an ISTJ. Then I did the whole test and I came
out as a ISTP. However, the ratio of perceiving
over judging was marginal.. only 11%. | |
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Posted: 12/9/2006 8:32:48 PM | MadFiddler is right, it is based upon the works of Jung. Also, while your personal type may well reflect you, we should remember that humans behave predictably in *statistically significant numbers*. In other words, on the individual level, we can be apart from the norm, or be fit into unexpected categories (like those more common in the opposite gender).
Furthermore, for those of you interested in knowing more....
There are definitely gender biases in the Thinking/Feeling groups. Men tend to be Thinkers and women tend to be Feelers.
Even more interesting (to me) are the further applications of the 4 letters into 4 temperments.
If you are _S_J, you are a Traditionalist, ie. the backbone of the community type. Traditionalists value structure, the status quo, and community. They do lots of the Community Leagues and are in organized religious groups.
_S_P: Experiencer. These are the free-spirits. Carpe Diem! They chafe under structure and are often very body-aware. Thus, many athletes fall in this category. And those who love sports and playing.
_NT_: Conceptualizer. These are the logical intuits who see the big picture in a logic-based way. Scientists, computer types, strategy developers. Innovators.
_NF_: Idealists. These are the hippies and the artists. The revolutionaries and such. These are the ones who see the big picture from a human-centered perspective. Any one out to change the world? They probably belong here. | |
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Posted: 12/9/2006 9:47:44 PM | | I've always tested as an INTJ although if I was guessing I would have thought myself to be ISTP. *shrug*, but when I read a more detailed profile of the INTJ personality type, it seems to fit quite well. | |
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Posted: 12/10/2006 9:44:40 AM | Of those four categories, I can only see the first one as having more or less mutually exclusive choices. Certainly one will be a degree of each, but items two and three...well, I'd count myself as all four points on those two, and I don't see a way that I could do otherwise.
I'll have to give it a whirl and see what it says. | |
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Posted: 12/10/2006 9:51:26 AM | More interesting is how the personality types get along in the long term. Opposites attract, but that only seems to last short term. My take on it:
E vs. I : no big deal, these types almost *need* each other
N vs. S: could be problematic if the S gets frustrated with the N's inexplicable decisions based on their gut instinct. I don't think this is a huge issue though.
T vs.F: 70% of North American women are feelers. A strong thinker with a strong feeler could be problematic down the road. The T might not satisfy the strong F's emotional needs.
J vs P: Potential big problem here. A strong P is going to resist the full out planning and list making needs of a strong J. The P just doesn't want to be regimented.
Your thoughts?
-Jim | |
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Posted: 12/10/2006 10:16:32 AM | Google "Jung Briggs-Myers Typology Test" the test should be the first link.
The last time I did this test, I was INFJ. I've also taken the test and had it come up INTJ, and INTP. Oh, and a different test came up ENFP.  I don't usually have strong preferences for T/F or J/P, consequently it changes depending on my mood when I take the test. | |
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Posted: 12/10/2006 12:07:37 PM | | ESFP. I can't remember if that's the same as four years ago when I worked at an office in Edm and we were all put into a room and had some guy put us through a very detailed version of this test (with images and scenarios we had to deal with). But yeah it was interesting to see that only four of us were extroverts, and the other 14 were introverts. It explained a LOT. It also helped us understand each other better..... I know that a couple of the guys who were kinda jerks to me ended up being pretty damn cool after a while because our differences could be put asside. | |
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Posted: 12/10/2006 12:43:53 PM | | http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm For those who have no clue what they really are (don't speculate take the test - usually people are surprised). | |
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Posted: 12/10/2006 12:52:09 PM | Your Type is
INFJ
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 Introverted
12 Intuitive
50 Feeling
11 Judging
Ok why does that only add up to 84%?
Am i like 16% Alien. wtf? | |
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Posted: 12/10/2006 1:04:29 PM | Sen - they won't add up because they're not relative to each other. For example, 11% introvert is relative to percentage extrovert, not the other categories. I don't know the exact rating, but I THINK that means that you are 11% MORE introvert than extrovert, making you pretty middle of the road. I would GUESS that to be 61% introvert overall, assuming it to be additive.
Mine's pretty much as expected.
Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
89 50 62 11
You are:
very expressed introvert
read - arrogant SOB
moderately expressed intuitive personality
I need facts and data, but I don't need to do the math to reach a conclusion
distinctively expressed thinking personality
'nuff said.
slightly expressed judging personality
I draw conclusions; I judge and decide, based on the data, but my mind isn't closed to alternatives
That's my take on it. | |
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Posted: 12/10/2006 2:56:01 PM | I believe I sway both ways for all of these choices, but have determined that I am likely stronger with the ISFT.
I did not rate myself on the "dating" me, but did use the only other choice I had which was in the "real world" me.
In the real world I am a mother and an educated worker with a lot of responsibilities (not at all unlike many other women on this site).
Having stated THAT, the ISFT is based upon how I am with my children and my career.
Were it related to actually "dating"...I would be a mixture of all of them, falling equally in the middle of all the choices.
This is a fascinating observation of how we perceive ourselves though and I wonder how I would rate if the complete test were to be conducted.
^^BG^^ | |
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