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Myers-Briggs results.

StarryNightshade

StarryNightshade

Spiritually confused Jew
Premium Member
2 weeks ago, one of my classes took an official Myers-Briggs test and we got the results back yesterday. I gotta say, I'm a bit surprised with my results.

ISTJ (Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging).

ISTJ Personality ("The Logistician")

One thing my professor stressed was that the results mostly provided what we ultimately prefer; not how we may necessarily carry ourselves. Which makes sense, because I'm not that organized personally, but I do greatly prefer it when things are orderly overall.

For those who have also taken the Myers-Briggs, what were your results? Do you think it's fairly accurate?

Also, we didn't take the test through this site. It's just the one with the most detailed explanations of the personality types I could find.
 
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Saint Frankenstein

Saint Frankenstein

Here for the ride
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Sees

Sees

Dragonslayer
I think they can be relatively accurate to very accurate, depending on how much the person is honest with who they are and their answers...along with the specific questions.

I took these a few times for work and school with results that seem fitting.

That one gave me www.16personalities.com/enfp-personality and it sounds familiar.
 
Brickjectivity

Brickjectivity

Veteran Member
Staff member
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They tend to be completely wrong. In the first place they are often given by employers. If you were an employee wouldn't you be tempted to put yourself in the best possible light? The questions are pretty simple, and its not hard to determine which questions will result in the personality your employer will value the most.
 
Helvetios

Helvetios

Heathen Sapiens
Spiny Norman said:
I got INTJ.

Is that good then? :p
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It certainly explains your Doctor Evil title and avatar.

I test as INTP, although as a child I tested as INFP. While I personally have gotten a lot of insight from my results, I'm going to ruin the party by introducing a personality test that is more grounded in evidence and less in pop psych: the Big 5. Feel free to continue talking about the MBTI (it's one of my favourite indulgences sometimes) but don't take it too seriously.

The reasoning: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-mbti-the-fad-won-t-die

The Big 5 test: http://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test
 
Rick O'Shez

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
I was involved in Myers Briggs testing years ago as part of leading a team development programme. The results are vaguely interesting, but based on experience I'm not sure how practically useful such information is. Theoretically you could use the results to recruit people to a team, but I've never heard of this being done in practice.
 
Saint Frankenstein

Saint Frankenstein

Here for the ride
Premium Member
Helvetios said:
It certainly explains your Doctor Evil title and avatar.

I test as INTP, although as a child I tested as INFP. While I personally have gotten a lot of insight from my results, I'm going to ruin the party by introducing a personality test that is more grounded in evidence and less in pop psych: the Big 5. Feel free to continue talking about the MBTI (it's one of my favourite indulgences sometimes) but don't take it too seriously.

The reasoning: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-mbti-the-fad-won-t-die

The Big 5 test: http://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test
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Here comes Helv to rain on our parade. :mad:
 
तत्त्वप्रह्व

तत्त्वप्रह्व

स्वभावस्थं निरावेशम्
StarryNightshade said:
One thing my professor stressed was that the results mostly provided what we ultimately prefer; not how we may necessarily carry ourselves. Which makes sense, because I'm not that organized personally, but I do greatly prefer it when things are orderly overall.
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That's true, and the original conceivers of the MBTI posit it as a tool that enables identification of preferences - some dominant, some inferior - and the interactions that lead to preferred behavior by the individual.
For those who have also taken the Myers-Briggs, what were your results? Do you think it's fairly accurate?
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Tests indicate INTJ (http://keirsey.com/4temps/mastermind.asp) type for me over the last two years, though when i initially took the test over 8 years ago it was INTP. I do agree with the shift in preference overall, so it is quite accurate to that extent.
I recommend taking this test to my students (mostly Post Grad candidates), though, like all self-administered tests, results vary quite drastically. I then ask them to discuss results with their friends/colleagues and compare the two, outcomes can be very interesting! Gets more interesting when they take the test again after two years, and more often than not, there is a shift in preferences.

नारायणायेतिसमर्पयामि।
 
तत्त्वप्रह्व

तत्त्वप्रह्व

स्वभावस्थं निरावेशम्
Spiny Norman said:
Yes, it's all very subjective. How we see ourselves ( or would like to see ourselves ) isn't always how others see us, or how we actually are.
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In organizational settings more professional options are available (http://www.myersbriggs.org/using-type-as-a-professional/versions-of-the-mbti-questionnaire/) and supposedly there are internal checks in the questionnaire that minimize self-reporting biases, though not sure to what extent they are effective. Still, can be a good tool when evaluating individual aspirations v/s performance in organizations. Mapping of personality types (based on Jung's theories) with actual preferences is quite useful.

नारायणायेतिसमर्पयामि।
 
StarryNightshade

StarryNightshade

Spiritually confused Jew
Premium Member
Shadow Wolf said:
If only more people knew how Myers-Briggs came to be, and the overall accuracy, low validity, and poor reliability of the tests, it wouldn't be so popular or widely used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers–Briggs_Type_Indicator#Criticism
Psychometric specialist Robert Hogan wrote that "Most personality psychologists regard the MBTI as little more than an elaborate Chinese fortune cookie..."[44]
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To be fair, that can be said about most things that emerged from psychology in the past few decades. Even the Kinsey scale is sort of going out of style when it comes to evaluating something like human sexuality.

For me, doing the Myers-Briggs was more fun and interesting than a 100% accurate measurement of my personality. Somethings were fairly accurate, others not so much.
 
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