Your Myers-Briggs type?

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:56 pm

As long as you're here replying to my post, Rob, it must not bother you all that much.

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

The examples do as well. The real difference lies in how much information is collected and how it's compared to the archetypes. I get what you're saying, though, and it's clear there is a difference in at least the intent.

I think these could be very useful to somebody who isn't very introspective, and I didn't find it horrible.

Part of my problem could be (read: was) Wikipedia, as the profile there is very short.

Here some guys throw more words at the problem of explaining my personality type. To be fair, they're getting pretty close to me at times. Basically all of Joe Butt's response fits me:

ENFPs have what some call a "silly switch." They can be intellectual, serious, all business for a while, but whenever they get the chance, they flip that switch and become CAPTAIN WILDCHILD, the scourge of the swimming pool, ticklers par excellence. Sometimes they may even appear intoxicated when the "switch" is flipped.

It's easier playing at being drunk in IRC. I don't tickle people.

ENFPs like to tell funny stories, especially about their friends. This penchant may be why many are attracted to journalism.

Thought about that for a while.

ENFPs are global learners. Close enough is satisfactory to the ENFP, which may unnerve more precise thinking types,

I'll let you guys decide. I put a lot of stock in precision, although I have to work at it.

I like how they gave Ghost Dad as an example of what Bill Cosby's done.

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:58 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:Both say "give me a bit of information and I'll give it back to you in a slightly different form." Exciting!

Even if you think the test is full of shit, you have to admit it goes a little deeper than that. And if nothing else, it's a tool that helps you step back and reflect upon yourself.

Ceph wrote:If you think about these things too much, they tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies.

Maybe, maybe not. But they sure are a convenient scapegoat. Quit something before I finished it? It's because I'm an INTP! Socially inept? Of course, I'm an INTP! And so on.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:00 pm

Is there a "which shmup ship are you?" test?

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:25 pm

Davey wrote:
Ed Oscuro wrote:Both say "give me a bit of information and I'll give it back to you in a slightly different form." Exciting!
Even if you think the test is full of shit, you have to admit it goes a little deeper than that.

It goes deeper than the counter-examples I gave, but I think I've outlined how these things work in general. I'll be fair and say that they're doing the best they can with something that's meant to be administered on a massive scale. Does it beat a person-to-person meeting with a competent psychologist? No, of course not. I realize that's not possible for many people, of course.

Mountains, molehills, etc.

FIL wrote:Is there a "which shmup ship are you?" test?

Make it!

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:36 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:As long as you're here replying to my post, Rob, it must not bother you all that much.

Why would it bother me? I'm just saying there is no reason for getting on a soapbox about this. Even Ceph got something out of it without lecturing people. I mean damn!

Davey wrote:it's a tool that helps you step back and reflect upon yourself.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:14 am

Rob wrote:I'm just saying there is no reason for getting on a soapbox about this.

It's an invisible reason.

It was good when people were giving me other perspectives on the thing, which is what I was looking for It only takes me a minute or two to write something like that, and if I get some serious + well-thought-out response (that happened), it's worth it in my book. Your milage may vary, but I don't worry myself about it.

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:09 am

At best the Myers-Briggs test (et similia) can give a blurry picture of one's personality. If you can live with a blurry personality, it will work fine in describing you. Sorting out one budweiser joe from another budweiser joe can be quite difficult (maybe they differ in average morning smell...?), so why such tests should be more fine-grained?

Also, it is more or less based on Jung's speculations (theory is improper here), they probably are "not even wrong".

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:41 am

My shmup ships are

r-9 79%
silver hawk 82%
dodonpachi dai ou jou 12%
Shienryu boy's ship 5%

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:20 pm

Overall Shmupness: 178%

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:03 pm

Somone should make a test that tells you which crappy CG cartoon you are.

Code Lyoko
Maxx Steel
Action Man
ReBoot
Transformers
Zoids

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:09 pm

Zebra Airforce wrote:Reset (was that what it was called?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot ?

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:12 pm

The system is nonsense anyway. There are only 10 different types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:15 pm

That joke was already old when I got to try out a PC for the first time in '88.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:03 pm

I'm probably a Zoid.

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:31 pm

Ceph wrote:The system is nonsense anyway. There are only 10 different types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I thought there were 3 different types.
Those that can count and those that can't.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:34 pm

Or 01 types of people: those who understand hexidecimal numbers, and those who don't.

LAUGH, DAMNIT.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:16 am

http://www.mbticentral.com/forums/sj-gu ... hread.html

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:29 pm

MX7 wrote:Or 01 types of people: those who understand hexidecimal numbers, and those who don't.

LAUGH, DAMNIT.

You mean 10 people, who know binary or don't?

The biggest problem is reducing such complicated animals as human beings into generalizations, then saying, well, I see how it fits, but I also see how it doesn't...

Enhasa · Post by **Enhasa** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:37 pm

I got a very strong INFP, the "healer idealist." I have to admit, the INFP description matches me way too perfectly (including the negatives), it's almost creepy. I could go into a lot more specifics about my situation but I doubt anyone here cares about it.

It kinda sucks too, the people that I am curious to see results for, mostly haven't posted in this thread. Actually, INFP seems to be well overrepresented here (1% of the total population), which was the same case at SDA. Definitely all introverts are very common at gaming sites though, and INTP/J I figure has to be the most overrepresented.

Ed Oscuro wrote: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."

Actually, that's the whole point. It's like taking a spreadsheet full of values and turning it into a graph. I think that's very useful as long as you don't blindly accept everything. Every time I've taken this (probably 5 times now going back to high school, some of them required, always INFP), I wish that I paid more attention to the results previously, actually.

charlie chong · Post by **charlie chong** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:51 pm

i got an intp but my test wont be accurate cos i' recently went bipolar positive manic so some of the answers are a mixture between my old mind state and my new one (it's happended for a couple of days before but this time it lasted for 2 1/2-3 weeks) i had never felt such happiness in my life before and at some points i wasn't sleeping,eating etc and i started to burn out and got real scared of going back into my normal depressed state.. lucky my friends had words with me and calmed me down a bit and a day or 2 later i finally came down from the space babble land i was living and i have never felt so much peace and contentedness before..
even amongst serious family troubles and relationship probs nothing seems to be denting me at the min.. i just see stuff logically and realistic now and dont seem to let my heart get hurt like it used too.. i guess it's just me finally growing up a bit and coming to terms with stuff and not letting bitterness attack..
thats why my test will be innacurate cos who knows next month i may be beck to my ol nihilist mindstate!!

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:16 pm

Enhasa wrote:
Ed Oscuro wrote: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."
Actually, that's the whole point.

No shit?

It's like taking a spreadsheet full of values and turning it into a graph.

Except your values on a spreadsheet hopefully represent known quantities, whereas here it's a guessing game.

I don't soundly condemn it, but I just figured it'd be worthwhile to mention that one can read too much into it.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:27 pm

ENFP in here to tell people how to interpret online test results. So typical.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:13 pm

Absolutely as advertised

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:18 am

Ed Oscuro wrote: I don't soundly condemn it, but I just figured it'd be worthwhile to mention that one can read too much into it.

While this test is basically opium for the masses

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:28 am

I'm intrigued. From where does this allusion to Marx find its genesis?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:54 am

Read the entire page backwards.

bitkid · Post by **bitkid** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:26 pm

ENTP, right up there with Thomas Edison and Weird Al!
Clever, sharp, quick, ingenious, optimistic.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:19 am

I'm totally ISTJ-ing up the top 25 discussion thread by inventing new rules. :(

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:09 am

What's funnier is that people are actually responding.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:14 am

INTJs think they're soo smart.