Battle of the introverts

[andrewducker]

When I first met Jane I told her that I was introverted. And about two weeks later she laughed at me, pointing out how many friends I have, and how much I socialise.

Last night, when I couldn't sleep at 5am, I did a Myers-Briggs test* (to check that I was still INTP - I still am). And then this morning I got her to do it too.

Turns out that I'm 61% introvert/39% extrovert. And she's 94% introvert/6% extrovert. So to her, I look all the same as those extroverted people who leave the house, and talk to other people. And to me she looks like a tiny dot, fleeing into the introverted distance.

Preempting some of the comments - if you want to claim that MBTI is just a horoscope then you'll have to explain its correlation with the Big Five.

Comments

[yalovetz]

I'm a fairly extreme introvert. I've had a couple of work training exercises in my two most recent workplaces based on personality tests that measure introversion/extroversion. Both were in workplaces that probably select for introversion (statisticians, librarians) and in both I tested as one of the most introverted people in the room. And this was based on my 'work personality', which involves a fair bit of public speaking and generally being quite outspoken and personable. Like someone said above, I'm quite confident, not at all shy, and get lots of feedback that I'm very adept at handling really quite tricky interpersonal interactions and social situations. But I would really rather hole up on my own and hermit most of the time.