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What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type?
#5890947 - 07/23/06 03:01 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Back in early college I got turned on to the concept of Jung - Myers-Briggs personality typing. According to the approach, all people can be roughly categorized by their personality types, based on four criteria, each of which can go one of two ways:
* Extraversion - Introversion * Sensing - Intuition * Thinking - Feeling * Judging - Perceiving
Depending on how you answer a series of YES\NO questions, these typologies become apparent. More than just one way or another, each characteristic has a strength attributed to it.
I've taken the test several times over a long period of time and always came up with the same type, though the strengths differed a little. Last night, after a long, late-night, top-of-the-parking-structure conversation with my girlfriend, I decided that we should both take the test and see what the results were (which is a great bonding opportunity for you new couples). To my surprise, my type has changed. Reading the description, I felt that it was totally appropriate. This time, I tested out to be an INFJ, the 'counselor idealist'.
I think that, whether you believe the psychology or not, this test is a great little way to explore parts of yourself and thought that this community would most certainly appreciate that.
So, what's your personality type? After you take the test, there are two links to two different descriptions of what your type means. Share your reactions to the descriptions and interpretations!
The Test
Quick Edit: I'm also curious to see what the spread for the community is. Are certain people drawn to drugs? Do drugs create\shift personalities towards certain types?
-------------------- Q: We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons... and for one brief moment, you did. PICARD: When I realized the paradox... Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you'd never considered. That's the exploration that awaits you...not mapping stars and studying nebulae... but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence. To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening. -Dogen Zenji
Edited by toastandjam (07/23/06 03:08 PM)
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: toastandjam]
#5891043 - 07/23/06 03:20 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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welp im a mastermind (INTJ)
http://keirsey.com/personality/ntij.html
http://typelogic.com/intj.html
surprisingly quite accurate. bravo on the first good internet quiz (even though i bet it didnt start as an internet quiz)
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Edited by lemon_lw (07/23/06 03:28 PM)
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: lemon_lw]
#5891047 - 07/23/06 03:21 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm INTP
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: toastandjam]
#5891055 - 07/23/06 03:22 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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My Myers-Briggs personality type is STFU. Take it to heart.
LOLOLOL no its actually the opposite:
INFJ Counselor-Idealist
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: Asante]
#5891106 - 07/23/06 03:36 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: toastandjam]
#5891119 - 07/23/06 03:39 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm one of the 2-3% of the population who's a teacher. Cool.
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: lemon_lw]
#5891230 - 07/23/06 04:00 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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lemon_lw said: surprisingly quite accurate. bravo on the first good internet quiz (even though i bet it didnt start as an internet quiz)
You're correct, on both fronts. Definitely not just some POS internet quiz written by a 16 year old. Not that i doubt the capacity of some very special 16 year olds to develop and comprehend such things.
Wikipedia article on the test and its development etc
-------------------- Q: We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons... and for one brief moment, you did. PICARD: When I realized the paradox... Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you'd never considered. That's the exploration that awaits you...not mapping stars and studying nebulae... but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence. To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening. -Dogen Zenji
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: toastandjam]
#5891243 - 07/23/06 04:02 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm ISFJ -Protector Guardian..
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: toastandjam]
#5891256 - 07/23/06 04:04 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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INTJ, wewt
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: toastandjam]
#5891310 - 07/23/06 04:17 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Code:
Your Type is
I N F P Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences % 44 88 12 33
Thanks for an actually cool little test 
I'll have to read up on the differences between Thinking vs. Feeling, because I had a hard time answering a few of the questions... I'm very analytical, and don't really let emotion get in the way of that, but sympathetic(empathy?) i can see very strongly within myself as well...
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: absolute zero]
#5891337 - 07/23/06 04:24 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I researched MBTI in depth for about a year or so while studying psychology in college, and find it incredibly fascinating. I myself am an INFP (Healer/idealist) and have come across statistics stating that we are one of the rarest of all brain types (somewhere around 1%-4% of the world's population), yet 24% of the people who have responded to this poll are INFP. Is this because the INFP is naturally intested in these issues (psychedelics, mind exploration)?
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: absolute zero]
#5891404 - 07/23/06 04:41 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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So, I took the time to read both Healer Idealist descriptions...
I must say that if I allow a little bit of room for personal interpretation, the description is almost 100% accurate...
I was actually just going through the description and going to point out the parts that didn't really fit, but as I was going through the points I disagreed with, I thought of plenty of instances with which I could relate, obviously not word for word, but with a slightly different interpretation than what first came to mind.
I'm going to read through a few of the other descriptions and get a sense for how this differs from the other classes...
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: mw_oscar]
#5891411 - 07/23/06 04:43 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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mw_oscar said: I researched MBTI in depth for about a year or so while studying psychology in college, and find it incredibly fascinating. I myself am an INFP (Healer/idealist) and have come across statistics stating that we are one of the rarest of all brain types (somewhere around 1%-4% of the world's population), yet 24% of the people who have responded to this poll are INFP. Is this because the INFP is naturally intested in these issues (psychedelics, mind exploration)?
Yeah, that's what i was wondering. There's not nearly enough responses to be able to tell as of yet. If a couple hundred people took it, maybe we could make that assertion. I also noticed that, thus far, the vast majority of responses are introverted. Still too soon to make any conjectures though. I rehosted this image from wikipeida:

Which is supposedly a US population breakdown. When it was projected, I dont know. People being products of their environments (if that's the philosophy you ascribe to), as times change so too ought the breakdown.
-------------------- Q: We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons... and for one brief moment, you did. PICARD: When I realized the paradox... Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you'd never considered. That's the exploration that awaits you...not mapping stars and studying nebulae... but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence. To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening. -Dogen Zenji
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: mw_oscar]
#5891429 - 07/23/06 04:50 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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the problems with these "personality tye" tests is that its degrading the individuality of each personality to fit them inside of a sub-class of human beings. Alot of those questions, I would answer "sometimes" or "depends on the circumstances", and it is hard to think back to whether or not I should answer yes to them. Also people have different perceptions of themselves and are prone to answering questions as what they "wish" to be, as opposed to what other people might answer in their place.
I think its a shame that science tries to pigeonhole people, to explain away the vastness of each individual experiential reality with "introverted/extroverted" etc.
Also, I think its rediculous that someone actually thinks that a test can tell them something about themselves that they wouldn't have been able to understand more completley on their own, if they had the inclination to think about it.
but yeah, its always fun to hear what some qwack with a doctorate writes to validate his funding.
edit: it was fun tho, hehe.. I'm an ENFJ, or Teacher Idealist. ENFJ
Edited by vivid (07/23/06 05:03 PM)
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: vivid]
#5891493 - 07/23/06 05:10 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: toastandjam] 1
#5891509 - 07/23/06 05:16 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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There's no option for crazy fucking moron.. that's me.
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: eris]
#5891541 - 07/23/06 05:23 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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ENFP.
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: vivid]
#5891585 - 07/23/06 05:36 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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vivid said: the problems with these "personality tye" tests is that its degrading the individuality of each personality to fit them inside of a sub-class of human beings. Alot of those questions, I would answer "sometimes" or "depends on the circumstances", and it is hard to think back to whether or not I should answer yes to them. Also people have different perceptions of themselves and are prone to answering questions as what they "wish" to be, as opposed to what other people might answer in their place.
I think its a shame that science tries to pigeonhole people, to explain away the vastness of each individual experiential reality with "introverted/extroverted" etc.
Also, I think its rediculous that someone actually thinks that a test can tell them something about themselves that they wouldn't have been able to understand more completley on their own, if they had the inclination to think about it.
I don't think the purpose of the test is necessarily to pigeonhole people at all. I'm not clear on how observing a system and discovering latent commonality or identifiable patterning in it devalues the system itself. There's plenty of room for tendency. If I describe someone i know to you as a talker, am I degrading their individuality?
When I take the test, I don't think the questions over. I go with my immediate gut instinct response, the very first scenario I envision. I finished the test in under 2 minutes. While certain questions most definitely could be examined in depth and questioned depending on circumstances, I'd call your attention to the similarity of some of the questions. I think that they're written specifically in this way to remove some of this ambiguity by approaching a few points from several different angles. One could execute the test with a third as many questions, but having the similar yet different statements helps to clarify things.
As for the process of self discovery and the possibility of people answering questions through rose glasses, how they perceive themselves as opposed to how they actually are, I would venture that, ideally, the...aware individual would have little to no differentiation between the two. That's part of the purpose of the test, at least to me. That's also why I recommend it to couples. Reviewing the responses and then the descriptions with an external opinion can be quite a learning experience. I am constantly trying to actualize my internal vision of myself externally. It's my life's mission.
Part of the purpose of my posting the quiz was as an aide in self discovery. I don't think too many respondents are surprised by their answers; they find them familiar. They know these things. The descriptions are vague enough to allow for personal consideration. The test is a springboard to thinking about oneself, be it in agreement or disagreement with the results. I'm glad you enjoyed it
-------------------- Q: We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons... and for one brief moment, you did. PICARD: When I realized the paradox... Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you'd never considered. That's the exploration that awaits you...not mapping stars and studying nebulae... but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence. To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening. -Dogen Zenji
Edited by toastandjam (07/23/06 05:39 PM)
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: toastandjam]
#5891598 - 07/23/06 05:40 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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INTJ (check my MBPT poll in the polling forum )
Just got back from the library, doing some research on energy and electricity generation for my future career endeavors. Is that INTJ enough for you??
This test is very valuable in regards to knowing yourself and knowing others and how they respond in certain situations.
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Re: What's your Jung - Myers-Briggs personality type? [Re: toastandjam]
#5891735 - 07/23/06 06:14 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Your Type is INTJ Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging Strength of the preferences % 56 75 1 67
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