Meyers-Briggs Personality Type

[Payne]

I only took the test to fit in with the cool kids! 

[LMNO]

In the past, I've gotten INFJ, INTP, ENSF, and ENTP.

Yeah, I know.  But if you consider a question like, "I tend to prefer the specific to the general,"  I immediately see it as "I tend to prefer the specific to the general when ______."

Because I will answer differently depending on the situation.  When I'm doing engineering on a music project, I'm bearing down on specifics.  But when I'm producing a project, I'm all about the big concept.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I'd be alarmed if I did fall into one of these categories. I took the test by answering "very inaccurate" to all the questions. Might sound like a cop out but, in all honestly, none of those statements apply to me more than 50% of the time. I put a great deal of time and effort into shifting my attitudes around as much a possible largely to avoid exactly this kind of stagnation.

[Cain]

Interesting.

That does tend to fall into what we've got so far (IN, EN, TP) but also has a few which have been less common.

I want to look into some academic papers dealing with theories of how they relate the different groupings to each other but, naturally, I wont have access to them for another week or so.  Still, I could probably draw some wildly simple conclusions which may take us somewhere of interest.

[Triple Zero]

Ah hell I did it and got INTP.  Which is apparently 3.5% of the population, yet, it seems to be the most common one here so far.  So it's probably all bullshit or something. 

eh

but there's 16 personality types.

so on equal distribution that would give 6.25% to each.

3.5% is not that much of a deviation.

also, with 29 voters so far, distributed over 19 choices, there is hardly any statistical significance in it.

OTOH, what cain said, for thinking about weaknesses and strengths of the group it's useful. OTOOH, herding cats.

[Cain]

I'd be alarmed if I did fall into one of these categories. I took the test by answering "very inaccurate" to all the questions. Might sound like a cop out but, in all honestly, none of those statements apply to me more than 50% of the time. I put a great deal of time and effort into shifting my attitudes around as much a possible largely to avoid exactly this kind of stagnation.

Well I went by if it applied to me more often than other options did.  Its not perfect, but nothing is.  And besides, other people are probably going to be far more stable in their personality types than people here.  So if we can understand how to speak their language, and relate to their thinking, and it works....well, more power to us.  If not, back to the drawing board.

[LMNO]

I think what would be more interesting would be to answer those question about other people.

For example, When I got the INTP score, Mrs LMNO couldn't believe I was an introvert, because I'm often quite social and talkative at cocktail parties.

She also doesn't quite buy the Intuitive part, because she considers me to be quite logical.

[AFK]

Ah hell I did it and got INTP.  Which is apparently 3.5% of the population, yet, it seems to be the most common one here so far.  So it's probably all bullshit or something. 

eh

but there's 16 personality types.

so on equal distribution that would give 6.25% to each.

3.5% is not that much of a deviation.

also, with 29 voters so far, distributed over 19 choices, there is hardly any statistical significance in it.

OTOH, what cain said, for thinking about weaknesses and strengths of the group it's useful. OTOOH, herding cats.

Yeah I know.  I'm just talking out of my ass. 

[Cain]

I think what would be more interesting would be to answer those question about other people.

For example, When I got the INTP score, Mrs LMNO couldn't believe I was an introvert, because I'm often quite social and talkative at cocktail parties.

She also doesn't quite buy the Intuitive part, because she considers me to be quite logical.

Well, introvert means you think about what you do and why you do it and generally have an expansive internal dialogue.  It doesn't necessarily mean a shut in.  Also, INTPs, in the classical analysis, usually apply logic and structure to philosophy or mathematics or sciences, but when it comes to dealing with others, rely more on intuition than theories of what people should do.

A lot of the sites are really, really bad at explaining the complexities of the different types.  I was fortunate enough to do personality types as a first year Psych course at a pretty scientific orientated department, so we went more in depth into this sort of thing.

And yes, it may be more interesting and ultimately useful to use it to typify others.  To a degree, of course.

[Jenne]

In the past, I've gotten INFJ, INTP, ENSF, and ENTP.

Yeah, I know.  But if you consider a question like, "I tend to prefer the specific to the general,"  I immediately see it as "I tend to prefer the specific to the general when ______."

Because I will answer differently depending on the situation.  When I'm doing engineering on a music project, I'm bearing down on specifics.  But when I'm producing a project, I'm all about the big concept.

Same problem I had when taking it.  And I bet I'd be a different personality type based on what's happening to me at that moment, so it'd change day to day.

[Cain]

OTOOH, herding cats.

Cattle prods.

Srsly.

I worked as a vetinary assistant, we have contingencies for everything related to animals.

[Jenne]

Doctors use these personality types, btw.  They teach them here in the US when they go through their psychology unit.

[AFK]

You know, I remember somebody posting something a couple years back, where you went to this site and you attributed descriptors to other people.  A bunch of us did it, I'll see if I can dig it back up.  

[Cramulus]

Extroverted (E) 54.29% Introverted (I) 45.71%
Intuitive (N) 63.41% Sensing (S) 36.59%
Thinking (T) 63.64% Feeling (F) 36.36%
Perceiving (P) 72.73% Judging (J) 27.27%


Your type is: ENTP

ENTP - "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population.


I guess that checks out.
Though I think there are probably 10 other results I could have gotten and said "Oh yeah, that's me"

That strange confused multifaced "self" is really hard to say anything for sure about. Tomorrow, it'll be someone else.

[Vene]

Personality profiling is painting yourself into a corner any way you look at it.

If you conform to one of these modern day zodiac signs it should be suggesting to you that you've got limitations you should be looking to overcome.

That said, most of humanity are stuck in one of these boxes and it's worth researching the different manipulation approaches in order to gain maximum lulz when interacting with them.

Only if you try to conform to whatever personality type you're listed as.  I'm INTJ, which is one of the loner types and I do try (at times) to act more and more social.  I've had some moderate to low success.

If we could get a decent sample size we may be able to find a common trait in discordians.  Or not, who the hell knows.