Your Myers-Briggs type?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:02 am

I hate your guts.

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:43 pm

Lordstar wrote:any links at all where i can take the test for free?

http://similarminds.com/

The Jung test is the one we're talking about here. The Enneagram test is kinda interesting too, I was 5w4 or 5w6, I forget which.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:32 pm

I don't like the Enneagram one. Seems like a less accurate Myers Briggs.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:15 pm

The questions on the Enneagram test seem to just be the Myers Briggs ones rephrased and repeated, I don't think they really match up too well to the things that it supposedly reveals.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:33 pm

ISTP

Laydock out for tonight... (we have visit).

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:22 pm

INFP

E:

Ed Oscuro wrote:http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

This one said I was INTP

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:23 pm

Rob wrote:I don't like the Enneagram one. Seems like a less accurate Myers Briggs.

Not any less accurate, but less insightful, at least for me. The Enneagram Type 5 describes me pretty well, but not as eerily well as the INTP profile.

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:59 pm

I liked the global personality test (the one with 126 questions). It makes a graph of your many attributes and gives a trait snapshot of you.

trait snapshot:

introverted, secretive, reclusive, tough, non social, observer, fearless, solitary, libertarian, detached, does not like to lead, outsider, abides the rules, mind over heart, good at saving money, does not like to stand out, does not make friends easily, self sufficient, not aggressive, likes the unknown, unconcerned with external opinion, strong, abstract, independent, very intellectual, analytical, high self control

grovsnus · Post by **grovsnus** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:24 pm

^Yeah, I took both the global one and the Jungian one. Jung told me I was a loner aspiring to be a dictator (INTJ). The global one pegged me as an optimistic weirdo who likes bizarre things. I feel the latter is a more accurate description of the person that is me.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:32 pm

The global one makes me sound a bit scary.

messy, depressed, introverted, feels invisible, does not make friends easily, nihilistic, reveals little about self, fragile, dark, bizarre, feels undesirable, dislikes leadership, reclusive, weird, irritable, frequently second guesses self, unassertive, unsympathetic, low self control, observer, worrying, phobic, suspicious, unproductive, avoidant, negative, bad at saving money, emotionally sensitive, does not like to stand out, dislikes large parties, submissive, daydreamer

Thats not true at all, i'm actually quite good at saving money.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:54 pm

^Yeah, that's pretty negative. I don't think you're bizzare or dark, if that helps.

Here's mine:

messy, tough, disorganized, fearless, not rule conscious, likes the unknown, rarely worries, rash, attracted to the counter culture, rarely irritated, positive, resilient, abstract, not a perfectionist, risk taker, strange, weird, self reliant, leisurely, dangerous, anti-authority, trusting, optimistic, positive, thrill seeker, likes bizarre things, sarcastic

Dangerous

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:03 pm

INFJ

introvert: 56%
intuitive: 12%
feeling: 50%
judging: 44%

everything quite moderately balanced in my personality, apart from intuition. i am the councellor idealist type. lumped into the same group as gandhi

i can see why these tests are free

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:09 pm

jpj wrote:i can see why these tests are free

Most of them aren't; these are just rough but effective variants. I've taken 3 different tests, one payed for at a counselor, and they always give the same results.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:13 pm

actually, i take that back after reading the 3 paragraph description. not totally accurate (i certainly have no inclinations of psychic phenomena etc), but pretty accurate.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:51 pm

Zebra Airforce wrote: Dangerous

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:33 am

Zebra Airforce wrote:^Yeah, that's pretty negative. I don't think you're bizzare or dark, if that helps.

Yes, that's my territory

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:41 am

yes or no questions
too complicated

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:24 am

INFP, but imo MBTI = pseudo-astrology. Spent 2 years of my life with that shit before realizing that, glad to be out.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:34 am

needs more PVPP

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:47 am

ENFJ I think it was.
A Teacher

I aced the personality test (I'm a teacher for a living- but I'd only hope to be such a fine teacher as the great descriptions of myself it gave me)

It's probably why I also like to credit feed and love shmups with check-points.

I suggest that no one post from here on unless they can use the test to validate their shmup preferences

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:54 am

dpful wrote: I suggest that no one post from here on unless they can use the test to validate their shmup preferences

ISTJ is all about Psikyo.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:04 am

Raiden Fighters Jet

jp · Post by jp » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:31 am

Rob wrote:
dpful wrote: I suggest that no one post from here on unless they can use the test to validate their shmup preferences
ISTJ is all about Psikyo.

Untrue. I was ISTJ back whenever I first posted in this thread, and even then I despised Psikyo's games.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:14 am

Only an impostor ISTJ would change their personality type. You can't just grow out of being uptight and boring just like that.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:02 am

INTP definitely makes me better at Sky Adventure.

jp · Post by jp » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:01 am

Rob wrote:Only an impostor ISTJ would change their personality type. You can't just grow out of being uptight and boring just like that.

I was living a lie...

Very well, you win, ISTJs all love Psikyo games.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:20 pm

shoe-sama wrote:needs more PVPP

Wins the thread.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:24 pm

I'm not ready to drop the astrologer/palm reader comparison I made earlier. Any personality analysis - no matter if it is "scientific" or otherwise - is going to ask for some information and attempt to spit it back out in the "best known fashion." There indeed are interesting ideas in the profiles, but there is just as much that is completely missed. Of course, I have a low enough opinion of the average psychologist after reading some horror stories that I wouldn't trust many of them to try to read me - on that count at least the generally inoffensive and safe nature of these profiles don't do any harm.

So, again, aside from the study of large groups of people, how are they really different from your average television astrologer/mindreader who hopes (rather than believes) they can fit their caller into a stereotype? Both say "give me a bit of information and I'll give it back to you in a slightly different form." Exciting!

Ya know, I find the Champion profile on Wiki to have some interesting stuff - the bits about viewing life as drama certainly apply to me, to some degree (although I try not to forget that some people are living lives of 100% terror and repression and eating feces or playing parody games).

All that stuff about being intuitive about other people and the like - well, I'd like to think it's true, and some people say it is. However, I also often tend to feel that if somebody doesn't talk to me that it's my fault. That seems at odds with the rest of this profile.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:40 pm

You're taking this very seriously. Yes, they make obvious broad connections based on a simplified version of how you think, which clearly works best the more extreme your preferences are. What were you expecting?

But I think it is better than your examples since it uses actual human input.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:49 pm

I found it uncanny how closely the profile appears to match what I perceive to be my personality. It got me excited for about a day; and then I decided to forget about it and be how I am again, without comparing myself to some psychological profile.

If you spend too much time thinking about these things, they tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies.