Self-identification

[andrewducker]

I was intrigued by how few people identified as "an introvert" on the previous poll. Looking down the list, it seems to me that the majority of people on my friends list are reasonably introverted - insofar as they get energy from time away fom people, and feel drained by prolonged periods around others, however it seems that they don't feel the same.

So, I'm intrigued how people come out on the Myers-Briggs personality types.

If you've never taken this before then take the test here (takes about five minutes) and report back...

[Poll #1446310]

Comments

[andrewducker]

I'm an INTP, of course - the classic geek :->

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

As am I, though I clicked the wrong button.

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

The J-P preference isn't really about whether people prefer to judge or perceive. We all do both, and there are social weightings attached to the words that make this a sub-optimal frame.

It's really about whether people prefer to be in the S-N data gathering mode (perceivers) or the T-F decision-making mode (judgers). Put another way, Js make decisions as early as possible in a process and Ps as late as possible.

Sorry to be picky but it's easy to mess up typing because people don't want to be labelled judgmental or lacking in perception. (Obviously the naming conventions for the other dimensions have just as many problems.)

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

It's most obvious in approach to planning a project. Your classic J works day by day, showing steady progress; your classic P skits about all over the place with no apparent plan until suddenly everything falls together just after the deadline.

I worked out long ago that lots of line managers are very J and respond really well to little weekly progress charts.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

INFJ

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

Me too. One test claimed this was the same as Jesus, which I found amusing. :)

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

introvert (noun) a shy, reticent, and typically self-centered person.

I think you need to reconsider your definition, because what you're claiming to mark someone as introverted doesn't necessarily match up with people who are, according to the definition of the word, introverted. I'm not shy, reticent or self-centred, but by your definition I'm introverted. Yes, I find social occasions draining - that's because I put energy into them, and nothing to do with being introverted.

And that test fails, because it isn't fannish enough. There's no way I'm going to tell it I feel involved with "TV soaps" but Battlestar Galactica and Heroes both got me very deeply involved... :P

[andrewducker]

Not my definition. One that I've seen in use all over the place. On the introversion/extroversion scale, it's generally described as extroverts get energy from being around people and introverts use energy up being around people. I know extroverts who put a lot of energy into social occasions - and they come out with _more_ than they went in with...

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

INTJ. Which looks about right.

[soon_lee]

Snap!

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

ENFP, baby!

For a part of my adolescence, I definitely tended toward the more introverted, and I still get tetchy if I'm around people too long, but I remember I once went to a therapist and told her that I'd originally perceived myself as being an introvert, and she laughed (politely) in my face. I guess I'm stuck being a people person!

[andrewducker]

I'm an introverted people person too. I _love_ people, but I can't cope with many of them for long. Going on family holidays generally drives me to hide in my room for long periods, as does anything else with lots of people there. I think it's great that all those people are there, I just get drained after a few hours.

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

ENFJ (Although just barely F and J BTW. That could change tommorrow were I to take the test again...).

Why Jungian typology? I feel dirty now...

[andrewducker]

Myers Briggs is the one test that seems to actually work, descriptively, in my experience. Ok, The Big Five personality test works too, but it doesn't have the same flavour - whereas MBTI descriptions seem to actually grab people's imaginations.

[likeneontubing.livejournal.com]

I love Myers Briggs

[fjm.livejournal.com]

INTJs most of the way. Now there's a surprise (not). In quick and dirty poll I did for The Inter-Galactic Playground, NTJ dominated, with NTP not far behind.

And I'm an INTJ although usually pretty close on the N/S axis.

[andrewducker]

Sounds about right. The biggest thing I expect is for nearly all of my friends to be N, I also expect more T than F, but not in such an extreme manner.

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

'ENFPs are both "idea"-people and "people"-people, who see everyone and everything as part of an often bizarre cosmic whole.'
That kind of made me lol, it is actually all very true of me, but I didn't realise other people and things didn't know they were part of an often bizarre cosmic whole! What do they think they're part of?!

[andrewducker]

They don't.

They see lots of bits, and not a big cohesive thing.

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

I'm slightly surprised actually - I've generally come up as ENTP, but this shows me as ENFP.

[andrewducker]

I seem to have become more touchy-feely myself recently :->

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Oi! There isn't a box for 'Couldn't give a toss about tiresome binary opposites dreampt up by yankee mind-doctors for the edification of navel-gazers and witless corporate recruiters' types.

[andrewducker]

That'd be ESFJ :->

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

ENTP (suprise, surprise)

I have once tested out as ENTJ (must have been in a funny mood!)

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I'm IST... but I refrained from answering the J/P one, since I get each result approximately equally often.

and now in the right place

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I'm still a huge ENFP. Well, E89 N12 F62 P56, so not hugely N I guess. But still.

Re: and now in the right place

[andrewducker]

Better than being one of those awful S people :->

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

INTJ, as usual. Oddly, this test said I was only marginally "T" (by 1%) and yet INTJ has come up every time I take the Myers-Briggs.

-- Steve looked at the "good fit" careers suggested by the personality test, and notes he's bombed out on more than a few of those in his checkered past. Caveat lector.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I think this particular test is bringing people out much F-er than usual.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

ESTP, same as always

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

ESTJ.

[andrewducker]

Sounds about right :->

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I think this is a rather weak implementation of MBTI (which is of course copyrighted); many of the questions are non-standard and rather strange.

[andrewducker]

Yeah - I don't know of an actively good one, and obviously you have to pay to do one properly.

It did also bring me out more F than usual.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Apparently I'm the first ISFP (to comment, at least, I'm not going to trawl through the poll answers to find another :-) ). Career-wise, I'm not so sure, though, I'm firmly in IT, and I'd really be pushing it to claim that any of my code is a work of art :-)

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

INTJ. Tried posting earlier so sorry if only a bit came out - lappy crashed.
I thought the accompanying analyses(?) were pretty bang on. I especially the "Mastermind" bit. Mua ha ha ha. Feel like I should be dressing up as an evil X-man now.

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

Especially *liked* the Mastermind bit. obv.

[guybles.livejournal.com]

The one time I sat a Myers-Briggs, I failed - there were too many questions that I couldn't answer, given that there was no right answer for me to give (and certainly not either of the options offered).

As a rule, I dislike all personality tests. They're still a little too closely related to their ancestral origins, namely intelligence tests (and all the unpleasant eugenics-style posturing that went with them in the nineteenth century). Myers-Briggs, however, is a little more suspect than most: the originators had no real training in psychology or human testing.

The organisation that owns, publishes and scores the test has a deeply vested financial interest in promoting the test as a "tool", whilst carefully backing away from any responsibility for the categories that are applied as a result. The "trained practitioners" who interpret the results are quite thorough on reminding you that you shouldn't take any of the descriptions (or even your final type) as absolute. There's also a bit in the official manual warning that the test should not be used to assign or exclude people in particular jobs.

With a little gentle questioning, the "trained practitioners" even admit that people sitting the test can actually change their type according to the circumstances of testing, the time of day, recent activities and so on. Have these people ever heard of test-retest reliability?

I think I've got that off my chest now.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

ENTJ, which is supposedly one of the rarer personality types.

[garunya.livejournal.com]

1st time I've ever identified myself as extroverted, and some would be surprised, but it's definitely true... I love being with other people, and draw energy from it.

I was an I last time I did the Myers-Briggs test, but it's been a while... it'll be interesting to see what it rates me this time...

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

ESTJ, although I used to be more ESFJ. I get the impression this is rare in respondents here!