Meyers-Briggs Personality Type

[Chairman Risus]

Ok, I decided to do a more detailed breakdown:

26 Ns
19 *NT*s
19 *N*Ps
14 *NTPs
16 IN**s
13 INT*s
5   fnords 
6 7 assholes who didn't want to play along
1 freak (Roo)

I don't know if you'll find something that may point more towards discordianism, but maybe different kinds of the posters we have here.
See if you can go back and find out who fell into what category and see if there are similarities between those posters, or try to connect it to Cain's AoS/Chaotician* types or similar ideas.



* http://www.poee.co.uk/site/content/view/96/1/ 

[Golden Applesauce]

Golden Applesauce, are you reading the Art of Memetics?

I ask because one of the excersizes they give at the end of a chapter is to go take a Meyers-Briggs Personality test.

I downloaded it, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.  Probably will this weekend, unless I devour my roommate's Neal Stephenson collection.


My personality type is nearly perfectly consistently and strongly an INTP whenever I test.  As far as why we have so many INTPs and people who are one step away from INTP the best explanation I can think of is that INTPs tend to gravitate towards each other, and that the whole notion of the BIP fits pretty well with people whose world is mostly internal.

I use the personality profiles as a starting point for introspection.  Some things fit me, others don't - but having a set of characteristics in front of me to think about can definitely help, especially when identifying weaknesses.  The other thing it lets you do is read self-descriptions by other people who might think similarly to you; they might vocalize something that you know is true about yourself but couldn't quite pin down.

[Golden Applesauce]

This just came to me -

Can anyone think of a way to take a personality profile of a group?  Not as a collection of individuals, but more of an "emergent group personality" or something.

[Lies]

This just came to me -

Can anyone think of a way to take a personality profile of a group?  Not as a collection of individuals, but more of an "emergent group personality" or something.

Are you trying to put the discordian movement into a box? 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That would be an interesting project.

[Lies]

For sure. You guys can do it. I'm going to stand aside and laugh.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Well, we know for certain that Idem fits in a box. Ask Payne.

[Payne]

In Soviet Russia, Discordia puts YOU in a box

[Cain]

This just came to me -

Can anyone think of a way to take a personality profile of a group?  Not as a collection of individuals, but more of an "emergent group personality" or something.

Its an interesting idea.

In theory, it would seem to be possible.  I mean, if you could define the emergent personality or egregore (however the fuck its spelt) or the memeplex or whatever.

I know Leary came up with an interpersonal tool for analyzing the relationship within groups, so this would seem to be the next logical step.

[Cain]

Ok, I decided to do a more detailed breakdown:

26 Ns
19 *NT*s
19 *N*Ps
14 *NTPs
16 IN**s
13 INT*s
5   fnords 
6 7 assholes who didn't want to play along
1 freak (Roo)

I don't know if you'll find something that may point more towards discordianism, but maybe different kinds of the posters we have here.
See if you can go back and find out who fell into what category and see if there are similarities between those posters, or try to connect it to Cain's AoS/Chaotician* types or similar ideas.



* http://www.poee.co.uk/site/content/view/96/1/ 

Or indeed Roger's first heresy types.

[Cramulus]

This just came to me -

Can anyone think of a way to take a personality profile of a group?  Not as a collection of individuals, but more of an "emergent group personality" or something.

I think the way to do this would be to have a bunch of people take the test as if they are the whole PD forums. Then we average the results.

How to accomplish that - I do not know. Maybe take the averages of the %s?


did that make sense?

[Idem]

ISTP

[Triple Zero]

This just came to me -

Can anyone think of a way to take a personality profile of a group?  Not as a collection of individuals, but more of an "emergent group personality" or something.

I think the way to do this would be to have a bunch of people take the test as if they are the whole PD forums. Then we average the results.

How to accomplish that - I do not know. Maybe take the averages of the %s?


did that make sense?

i think i'd first check what someone who has studies sociology thinks of it, preferably a smart one that's also has eaten the cheese of statistics, because making tests to figure stuff out like this is really an art. and i hate going through effort without being as effective as possible.

[Payne]

ATTN: INFP's

I HAET YOU ALL. PLEASE TO MOVE TO ANOTHER BOX.

My only concession is DaveDim (oh so DIM!) who I have yet to meet in a drinking competition. I will kill him with my alcohol prowess.

[Nast]

While I think it's hard to define in percents, I do think that it's possible to identify the "personality" of a group. For example, as a whole, the collective personality of this site is a far different than say, the Martha Stewart Online Forums. 
The personality is influenced by the culture of the place, and the culture is influenced by the personality of the place.