What's your Meyers-Briggs type?

[Sylvester]

[I'm putting this here because of the psychology aspect of Science.]

Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality test given out by many schools and workplaces, at least in the US. (I won't link any here since most of them are laden with ads. But if you haven't taken a test, you might be able to find a free one online. Be careful of ones that make you take the whole quiz before they ask for money at the end.)

Wikipedia for reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator

The indicator is composed of 4 letters, each standing for where you measure on the scale based on your answers to a certain set of questions. If you know yourself well, you might be able to categorize yourself without the questions.

The first letter stands for

Introversion or Extroversion

The second letter stands for:

Intuition or Sensing

The third letter stands for:

Feeling or Thinking

The fourth letter stands for:

Perception or Judging.


Based on these four letters, people are grouped into types and generalizations are made about them.

There are message boards for the specific types. There are subReddits for the specific types.

Here's a list of some forums and places online that discuss certain personality types.

https://personalitygrowth.com/myers-briggs-mbti-forums-message-boards/

Having been to some of these sites, people do feel a sense that people of their personality type understand them better.

What's your Meyers-Briggs type and what do you think it says about you, if anything? Have you found any usefulness in finding out other people's MBTI?

 

[Signa]

I'm much more of a fan of the big 5 personality types model. Jordan Peterson talks about it constantly and it just makes sense to me as it self describes each trait. Having an IITJ is meaningless all by itself, and once its explained and expanded on, it's a binary result instead of giving you a spectrum.

 

[Sylvester]

I'm much more of a fan of the big 5 personality types model.

Interesting. I've never heard of that before. Looking it up quickly, I found this on wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

This theory uses descriptors of common language and therefore suggests five broad dimensions commonly used to describe the human personality and psyche.[2][3] The five factors have been defined as openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, often represented by the acronyms OCEAN or CANOE. Beneath each proposed global factor, there are a number of correlated and more specific primary factors. For example, extraversion is said to include such related qualities as gregariousness, assertiveness, excitement seeking, warmth, activity, and positive emotions.

One thing I don't like about the categories on first take is that they're positive and negative words from the start.

I don't think anyone would strive to be high on the neuroticism scale.

The thing about words describing personality types is that each value has a strength and a weakness.

For instance,

Tendency to be organized and dependable, show self-discipline, act dutifully, aim for achievement, and prefer planned rather than spontaneous behavior. High conscientiousness is often perceived as stubbornness and obsession. Low conscientiousness is associated with flexibility and spontaneity, but can also appear as sloppiness and lack of reliability

The same characteristic can be viewed as either positive or negative, depending on how it's viewed or who is viewing.

The MBTI categories are fairly neutral, depending on one's value system, I suppose.

Jordan Peterson talks about it constantly and it just makes sense to me as it self describes each trait.

Jordan Peterson has a subReddit about him that doesn't look very well modded.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/

Having an IITJ is meaningless all by itself, and once its explained and expanded on, it's a binary result instead of giving you a spectrum.

It's actually quite meaningful. INTJ's usually have a lot in common and are often quite different than other designations. They're the most likely to be on message boards, I've read. I am also an INTJ.

Here's an article about INTJs. You might recognize some traits there.

https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/24-Struggles-All-INTJs-Can-Understand

You're right that's it's binary, but I'm not sure how the other classification is not. They're both set on a scale for each of the factors. In the MBTI, the other side of the scale is a different letter. I'm guessing that for the big five the other end is just low on the scale.

 

[Signa]

It's more that the "positive" and "negative" traits can give you high and low stats. You can be low in agreeableness and low in neuroticism. It's usually measured by your ranking in the population too.

And I was using the example to say that the initialization by itself without anyone to translate is meaningless. Once you know the code, it makes more sense. But coded ideas are typically a bad thing because it takes more effort to understand, and it gets really bad in the case of modern academia where they are using plain English for their coded words, so you can't fight on level ground when they push a bad idea forward.

 

[Houseman]

I think I may have taken this test once, but I forget. I took some kind of personality test, and my type was "idealist" or "iconoclast" or something that started with an "I".


Or maybe it wasn't even this test.

 

[Ogoid]

I didn't quite recall, so I just took it again. Came out INFP, which checks out with what I remember.

The description's honestly pretty accurate, as far as I go.

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

Whenever I've done the tests, I've always gotten INTP.

 

[Kaleion]

I personally don't trust it all that much, since my results tend to vary quite a lot depending on my mood, I've taken the test many times and the results normally gravitate to INTP or ISFJ which are very different results, however lately I've been getting INTP so that's the most likely result, but I did prefer the title of Defender over Logician, while I tend to be logical and I am very quiet and observational my decisions are very often based on emotion and I will very easily throw everything away to defend someone, in fact I almost got arrested yesterday because of that, but that cop was cunt and that needed to be clarified.

Regardless lately I find that trying to put labels on intangible things is a lost cause, it can never be done accurately enough and there is always a margin of error so trying to come up with a classification for something as hard to define as a personality seems quite pointless to me, but still because it's something I don't understand I find it quite fun to investigate it even when I think it shouldn't be taken seriously.

BTW I'm taking different Myers Briggs tests to prove a point, so far I got INTP & INFP on different webpages, on the first one I've taken it twice to make sure and even with variant answers I keep getting INTP on the second one I am still experimenting on and I'll probably continue to do it with more pages, however I like the second more because it doesn't commit and while it says I gravitate more to INFP it also says that I have a strong tendency towards INTP, which is probably more accurate than the first one.

1st Test
2nd Test

 

[JoJo]

It's been years since I've done any tests, but I believe I've come up as INTJ. No surprise that we're a bunch of introverts around here. ;D

 

[Sylvester]

1st Test
2nd Test

Thanks for linking those. I was looking for some free tests and couldn't find them quickly.

 

[Sylvester]

After looking at some of the responses and how they group together, I added a poll just for fun. For science.

 

[Monoochrom]

I'm INTP. Didn't really like the Test's (used the ones Kaleion linked), seemed like there were way too many situations in which the "opposing" statements were not at all mutually exclusive. Also, I tend to find the language in such Tests too vague and simplistic.