Who are you?

[jammies]

I came up as PIMP but I don't see that choice in the list - what gives?

[evman150]

I was INTJ, four years later I'm ENTJ.

This does not surprise me at all, as I have done a lot of growing socially in the last few years.

We've all been around this place for a while.

Carl Sagan, Al Gore, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were/are all ENTJs.

Is this thing correlated with political tendencies? It would seem to be.

[Rhetts_the_Best]

ENTP
however this test is alot smaller than the last one i took, i think it took me at least 10 min when i filled it out with my sociology class.

[HalifaxDrunk]

ENFJ for me.

[PowerPlayoffs06]

INFJ for me. Sums me up pretty well.

Some of the famous INFJs from the long list...

Famous INFJs:


Nathan, prophet of Israel
Chaucer
Goethe
Robert Burns, Scottish poet
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nelson Mandela
Mel Gibson
Carrie Fisher
Nicole Kidman
Jerry Seinfeld
Billy Crystal

I wonder how exactly they profile folks from before the test was invented.

[Saint Troy]

INFJ for me, pretty accurate, spooky how 50 questions can distill you so quickly.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by Mike F

Yet another INTJ

Tend to believe that they’re always right -- That could explain some of the extensive arguments

I don't believe I am always right... I AM always right.

though for me it's a toss up between INTP/INTJ.

[Caged Great]

INTJ like so many others.

[FanIn80]

ENFP, baby!

Been one my whole life!

[Resolute 14]

Still an INTP, though that N is now bordering on S

[algernon]

ENTP. I'm surprised how close this seems to be. I didn't like that I scored a '1' in the thinking aspect, though. I think sometimes, damnit!

[stang]

Originally Posted by Kobasew7

ISFP here...

I read description, and for the most part it's dead on accurate. I still don't see where it says what % of the world is ISFP though. A couple things I don't really consider myself in the description..but for the most part..scary accuracy.

Wowzas

Organized education is difficult for the majority of ISFPs, and many drop out before finishing secondary education. Their interest can be held better through experiential learning, at which many excel. ISFPs will practice playing an instrument or honing a favored skill for hours on end, not so much as practice as for the joy of the experience.

Bang on...

[onetwo_threefour]

INTP, but I can't get the U.Pitt descriptions to load.

Your Type is
INTP
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving Strength of the preferences % 22 38 25 11
Here's an alternative. http://typelogic.com/intp.html

Links at the top of the page for all the types. I remember taking this in one of my psych. classes, I'm still the same a decade later.

The typelogic description fits me to a t. Right down to the games I like to play, my corrective nature, and the tendency to second-guess myself, even my love of math puzzles and abstract reasoning. This one always seems scary accurate if you answer the questions honestly. Nice to be in the company of Socrates, Descartes, Newton and Pascal.


The typelogic site also contains links to forums of similar typed people. Although I wonder how interesting it would be talking to a bunch of other over-corrective introverts!

[jolinar of malkshor]

ENFJ

ENFJs are the benevolent 'pedagogues' of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. Many ENFJs have tremendous power to manipulate others with their phenomenal interpersonal skills and unique salesmanship. But it's usually not meant as manipulation -- ENFJs generally believe in their dreams, and see themselves as helpers and enablers, which they usually are.

ENFJs are global learners. They see the big picture. The ENFJs focus is expansive. Some can juggle an amazing number of responsibilities or projects simultaneously. Many ENFJs have tremendous entrepreneurial ability.

ENFJs are, by definition, Js, with whom we associate organization and decisiveness. But they don't resemble the SJs or even the NTJs in organization of the environment nor occasional recalcitrance. ENFJs are organized in the arena of interpersonal affairs. Their offices may or may not be cluttered, but their conclusions (reached through feelings) about people and motives are drawn much more quickly and are more resilient than those of their NFP counterparts.

[Sample00]

ENFJ here as well.
I would think pretty accurate in the description.

[Sainters7]

Another INTJ here. Considering we're only supposed to be 1% of the population, there's alot of us on this board. Maybe INTJ's are the type of people who read message boards...

[troutman]

Intj - Are INTJ's skeptical? My first thought is to question the validity of these tests:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-B...ator#Criticism

Validity

The scientific basis of the MBTI has been questioned.[citation needed] Neither Katharine Cook Briggs nor Isabel Briggs Myers had any scientific qualifications in the field of psychometric testing.[citation needed] Furthermore, Carl Jung's theory of psychological type, which the MBTI attempts to operationalize[citation needed], is not based on any scientific studies[citation needed]. Jung's methods primarily included introspection and anecdote, methods largely rejected by the modern field of psychology.[17] However, extensive subsequent studies using the MBTI assessment have shown increasing reliability and validity over the last 50 years of use and research.[citation needed]

The statistical validity of the MBTI as a psychometric instrument has also been subject to criticism, in particular, the dichotomous scoring of dimensions.[citation needed]bimodal distribution with peaks near the ends of the scales. However, scores on the individual subscales are actually distributed in a centrally peaked manner similar to a normal distribution. A cut-off exists at the center of the subscale such that a score on one side is classified as one type, and a score on the other side as the opposite type.[citation needed] This fails to support the concept of For example, it was expected that scores would show a type--the norm is for people to lie near the middle of the subscale.[4][5][18][19][20]

It has been estimated that between a third and a half of the published material on the MBTI has been produced for conferences of the Center for the Application of Psychological Type (which provides training in the MBTI) or as papers in the Journal of Psychological Type (which is edited by Myers-Briggs advocates)[21] and it has been argued that this reflects a lack of critical scrutiny.[18][21] Estimations on the research related to the most utilized tool published in fifty years (e.g. 40 million administrations) is affected by the popularity of the instrument.

Reliability

The reliability of the test has been interpreted as being low[citation needed], with test takers who retake the test often being assigned a different type[citation needed]. According to surveys performed by the proponents of Myers-Briggs[citation needed], the highest percentage of people who fell into the same category on the second test is only 47%.[citation needed] Furthermore, a wide range of 39% - 76% of those tested fall into different types upon retesting weeks or years later, and many people's types were also found to vary according to the time of the day.[18][20] Skeptics[citation needed] argue that the MBTI lacks falsifiability, which can cause confirmation bias in the interpretation of results. They[who?] criticize the terminology of the MBTI as being so vague as to allow any kind of behavior to fit any personality type, resulting in the Forer effect, where an individual gives a high rating to a positive description that supposedly applies specifically to them[18][17]. As a result, when people are asked to compare their preferred type to that assigned by the MBTI, only half of people pick the same profile.[22]

Utility

Although the proportion of different personality types varies between different careers[6] the relevance of the MBTI for career planning has been questioned, with reservations about the relevance of type to job performance or satisfaction, and concerns about the potential misuse of the instrument in labelling individuals.[18][23]

[Antithesis]

INTJ here as well, I think that's a pretty accurate description.

[Ford Prefect]

I'm another INTJ, with pretty high I and N scores ... 78% and 75% respectively. Thinking and Judging were 38% and 44% respectively.

Famous personalities include Newton, Montaigne, Jung and Nostradamus. That's a pretty cool group, but other that Newton they're a group I don't put a lot of stock in. Newton was a pretty cool dude though.

[metallicat]

ISTJ...it fits.