I may be a chemistry major, but I am equally fascinated by psychology. More specifically, personality. I consider myself an ammature expert on MBTI, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Some of you might have heard of this personality test before. I have been studying the inner workings of it for several years now, and I have found it to be very reliable.

Here is the basic’s of how it works. You are assigned a 4 letter code for your type. Each letter has two possibilities. These possibilities are I/E Introverted/Extroverted, S/N Sensing/Intuition, F/T Feeling/Thinking, J/P Judging/Perceiving. As such there are 16 different types. Each type, from these letter combinations, has a distinct set of personality traits, and there are plenty of online descriptions for these types (some better then others).

In reality, these types are actually short hands for the “cognitive functions”. There are 8 of them in total. Ni, Ne, Si, Se, Fi, Fe, Ti, and Te. the i/e stands for introverted/extroverted, and each capital letter represents iNtuition, Sensing, Feeling, and Thinking. Each of these is spoken, for example, as “Extroverted Sensing” which would be Se. Each person has a set order for how much they use, or do not use each function. Each type though, has a set specefic order of four of these. Depending on the type, and this is actually where details of the personality.

Anyway I am getting far too detailed at this point. Here is a link to a basic test. Also, THIS IS IMPORTANT! You MUST answer the questions for WHO YOU ARE, and NOT who you want to be, who you ideally prefer to be, or who you aspire to be. You must answer for the things you think feel and do, not what you prefer. Otherwise, the results will not reflect who you are: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

Post your results here, and discuss. If you have results that seem conflicting (i.e. you read your type description and it doesn’t fit, or a letter is on the border), I might be able to explain it.

It will be interesting to see what the type spread is for the website here is.

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I must have taken this test over 100 times now over the years (large sample size ftw!), and I think around 90% of the time I get INFJ. I am pretty definitvely an INFJ. Now and then I will get INTJ or ISFJ. J is always my highest number.

Your Type is
INFJ
Introverted = 33
Intuitive = 25
Feeling = 12
Judging = 78

Also I screwed up the link in the opening post (I wanted it to be hyperlinked) so here’s hoping it will work right:

“http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp”

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I’ve done this several times. Don’t know the numbers, but I’m definitely a ISTJ.

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Your Type is ENFP

Strength of the preferences %
Extraverted 11
Intuitive 88
Feeling 12
Perceiving 11

1. slightly expressed extravert
2. very expressed intuitive personality
3. slightly expressed feeling personality

1. slightly expressed perceiving personality

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Hmmm… I think something isn’t quite right, or I answered wrong.

I do understand why I got such low scores on three of those areas, as I consider myself to be pretty even mix of those types (introvert/extrovert, etc). But that high intuition seems really really wrong. I am much more sensing than intuitive.

I think these types of tests are a bit flawed, my answers might change from day to day, and depend on a number of things. I also think they could do with a scale, rather than just a yes or no. The questions themselves are open to interpretation as well. I could have answered most of those questions as the opposite.

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There is another test out there with a scale that I use (that is more accurate with the letters, cognitive functions the test has a major flaw). However it is more time consuming, and it takes a pretty high level of self inflection for the results to work, and not everyone has that. This test also takes self inflection but not as much.

As far as your N score. With a number like that you would be quite hard pressed to convince me that you aren’t an N type. The test does have fluxuations. However I have noticed with the majority of people they are consistent after taking it several times over the course of a few months or so. Those who aren’t, generally are just bad at self assessment.

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The high intuition doesn’t make sense, because I am very much a sensing person.

I had a look at the potential jobs, and they are not strongly my thing. Psychology and counselling are about as close as it would get. But psychology is more a theoretical interest, and counselling I couldn’t do. I can’t deal with peoples issues anymore when they don’t take my advice! Ergh. I become a people person less and less each year.

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INTP – its scarily accurate for me. I’m strong in most counts of my stuff as I recall. I should dig up my Myers-Brigg results.

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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is not as reliable as you may think. I am studying Psychology and I am busy with a chapter about Personality.
And in this chapter they say:

Research worker examined the MTBI for several times on its reliability and validity. They especially examined of the profiles from the test persons where stable over the time. Form this study it became clear that, if a person is retested with an interval of five weeks, almost 50% of the examined got another code. According to this theory this would mean therefore that almost half of the test persons changes each month of his or her personality. So if this test was reliable almost half of the test persons would have an identity crisis!!!

sorry for my grammar

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Your Type is
ESFJ
Extraverted = 33
Sensing = 1
Feeling = 38
Judging = 67

Sensing = 1% means that I am heartless??? (

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No, no mini, I think the scale is more of a continuum from 100 of one end, to 0 in the middle, then 100 of the other end.

I think this is another flaw as a 0 could indicate a strong balance for both, or a lack of both (can you be lacking in both ends?).

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Being in AP Psychology and Health I have had to take the Myers-Briggs 4 times. For the most part, I have had the same results every time…

INFP

Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving 89 81 50 11

Albeit, I normally score higher in perceiving but… nevertheless…

P.S. Great topic post World, glad someone else here shares the same interest for psychology as I do.

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Apparently,
Princess Diana, Richard Gere, Audrey Hephurn, Albert Schweiter, George Orwell, Karen Armstrong, Aldous Huxley, Mia Farrow, and Isabel Meyers are examples of a Healer Idealists a.k.a. INFP.

Well happy to be in the likes of Orwell and Huxley, that’s comforting I suppose.

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I am a VERY strong INTJ:

Introverted – 67
Intuitive – 12
Thinking – 1
Judging – 67

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

I know for a fact that this is true of me If you see me with a large group of people, I will quickly hover to a corner and wait for people to come talk to me, even if that never happens (which is quite often the case, unfortunately)

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http://students.usask.ca/support/employment/careerguide/discover/pdf/ENFP.pdf

awesome indicator website…

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ENFP

Love meeting new people and making friends… especially ones that are way taller than me (because most of them can shut me up)

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