What's Your MBTI?

[jbfrady]

I've been on the forum for a minute and I've never thought to ask. I did a search to make sure I wasn't overlooking the topic, but nobody seems to have started a thread specific for personality type.

If you're unfamiliar, MBTI is a personality theory started about a century ago off some general premises from Jungian psychology. The weakness of the system is that, since you have to take a test, it relies on a particular grasp of self-awareness. Still, once you land on the accurate one, it's a great tool for self-improvement and understanding.

Here are links to two free tests and I suggest taking both, reading over them, and seeing which result seems most accurate.

Free personality test | 16Personalities

Free personality test - take it to find out why our readers say that this personality test is so accurate, “it's a little bit creepy.” No registration required!

www.16personalities.com

Free Online Personality Test | Personality Junkie

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personalityjunkie.com

 

[fireground_piper]

I took one for work a few years ago. I consider that day and the shenanigans around it the single most awful day of my professional career.

 

[jbfrady]

I took one for work a few years ago. I consider that day and the shenanigans around it the single most awful day of my professional career.

I can get that. In a work setting, the same tool can become stressful, because it becomes a method for the employer to better motivate (i.e. control) you.

 

[kcghost]

Very problematic IMO.

 

[autumnfog]

I don't believe in pop-psychology or online personality tests.

 

[ThomasS]

Aww... disappointing, here I was trying to figure what "Mean Time Between" we were going to be asked.

Mean time between inhales?

(and yeah, I transposed the letters in my head. Alas)

As others who have had these forced on them at work, I despise these tests.

 

[jbfrady]

I don't believe in pop-psychology or online personality tests.

Good. This ain't an altar call.

 

[chilllucky]

The Meyers Briggs test is absolutely useless, unscientific trash. It proliferates into the current day because the HR industry has the lazy momentum of a Missouri float trip, not because it has been proven valid.

 

[warren]

On-line would be the first place I'd look for self-awareness validation or discoveries. Of course it might help those who also turn to horoscopes to determine how they are expected to behave for the day or, to select a personality for the week.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

INTJ-A Architect. The Architect is a rare, but very capable, personality type, full of contradictions. Architects strive hard to be, do, and achieve more to escape the all too common (for the rest of society, that is) clutches of mediocrity. But they don’t always know the best way to go about distinguishing themselves on their own terms.

Personality type: Architect (INTJ-A)
Traits: Introverted – 53%, Intuitive – 54%, Thinking – 78%, Judging – 65%, Assertive – 68%
Role: Analyst
Strategy: Confident Individualism

I've taken these before, no major changes. It seems reasonably accurate but, who cares? I'm 67, I own my own small business with 1 1/2 employees and there's practically no chance I'll work in a corporate environment again. I left the corporate environment 30 years ago and happy I did.

 

[olkofri]

I'd rather take the "What OS are you test?" If I'm gonna waste my time, I'd rather read entertaining and funny questions whilst doing it.

Arthur Machen wrote of the "science" of psychology as one ounce of sense and a pound of nonsense. A hundred years after his wise assessment it's become a pinch of sense and 10 tons of nonsense.

For personality "types" I still go by the old melancholic/choleric/sanguine/phlegmatic. It's the "system" I've found best.

 

[olkofri]

I can get that. In a work setting, the same tool can become stressful, because it becomes a method for the employer to better motivate (i.e. control) you.

Well, control is what psychology is all about. A friend of mine who majored in psychology told me that right from the get go, in the first psychology class the instructor stated that the purpose of psychology was to study and control human behaviour. When they speak of controlling behaviour, they mean others' not their own.

 

[jbfrady]

INTJ-A Architect. The Architect is a rare, but very capable, personality type, full of contradictions. Architects strive hard to be, do, and achieve more to escape the all too common (for the rest of society, that is) clutches of mediocrity. But they don’t always know the best way to go about distinguishing themselves on their own terms.

Personality type: Architect (INTJ-A)
Traits: Introverted – 53%, Intuitive – 54%, Thinking – 78%, Judging – 65%, Assertive – 68%
Role: Analyst
Strategy: Confident Individualism

I've taken these before, no major changes. It seems reasonably accurate but, who cares? I'm 67, I own my own small business with 1 1/2 employees and there's practically no chance I'll work in a corporate environment again. I left the corporate environment 30 years ago and happy I did.

Heyyyy look, somebody answered the f@cking question!

 

[jbfrady]

Well, control is what psychology is all about. A friend of mine who majored in psychology told me that right from the get go, in the first psychology class the instructor stated that the purpose of psychology was to study and control human behaviour. When they speak of controlling behaviour, they mean others' not their own.

Absolutely, though it's a tool than can be used for self control or the manipulation of others. But here.... this is just a thread on a forum and meant purely for entertainment.

 

[olkofri]

Absolutely, though it's a tool than can be used for self control or the manipulation of others. But here.... this is just a thread on a forum and meant purely for entertainment.

Yeah, I get you.

It's just that what with how the "science" has been weaponised and taken to ridiculous extremes that some of us get kinda jumpy out of being sore.

Speaking of ridiculous and insidious: at one time someone posted on one of the suxial medias that the following actually is a job interview question:

"It's 1 AM and you're in bed asleep when the doorbell rings and it's your family from out of town coming for a surprise visit with you. You have to scramble through the tins and jars in the fridge trying to find something to feed them at such late hour. What do you open first?"​

Yeah, the answer is "my eyes".

I woulda answered "a can of ale so I can go back to sleep", then proceed to tell the interviewer, "well, to silly questions silly answers. I've no time to play mind games."

 

[olkofri]

Heh, I indulged the OP. LOL.



Not sure they nailed it in the Judging vs. Prospecting category. Upon reading the description of such, I find that I'm more of the judging kind. Then again, I wasn't overthinking the questions when answering.

 

[olkofri]

INFJ

Oookay...

 

[jbfrady]

INFJ

Oookay...

Sound like you?

 

[Ash Cooper]

I got ENTJ-A. Did I pass? If so, do I now proceed to annex my neighbor's territory by force?

 

[LeafErikson]

Looks like a nonsensical pop-psychology online survey. Also, what in the hell are they doing with all of the data that they're collecting for free on those that complete the survey? No thanks.