MBTI Personality Test, Anyone?

[notabitail]

I might just retake the thing when I'm more awake.

 

[SourRoses]

No really, I bounce between because of my ADHD and my high impulsivity. It really depends on my distraction level and my mood. Today I'm more distracted, but less surly

I understand why that would make it confusing.
But one must channel a proper Vulcan and separate emotion from the critical data.
Your comfort with not making a decision leads me to believe you are of the Ne planet. Decision made (I'm a J, see how I have to?).

 

[SourRoses]

Me an intp who only uses my special overthinking powers for anxiety and hypochondriac purposes

You win a million dollars...
What are you going to build?
Describe the parts you would choose.

 

[FrostRanger]

Mine is ISTJ (introverted, sensing, thinking, judging) which I think is pretty accurate

 

[thecatumbrella]

Well it never hurts to try them all and know for sure, even if it is a pseudoscience

Agreed. I don't take it too seriously, but it's really helped me to understand why everyone looks at the world differently.

Functions...
Mental strengths and weaknesses (aka type) don't transmit as a whole unit. It's more complicated. Functions are passed down and with the typical lottery system of other inheritance.
So grandparents matter too.
My mom is an ISFJ (Si, Fe, Ti, Ne). father an ISTP (Ti, Se, Ni, Fe)
I got Ni, Fe, Ti, Se.
See? Functions.
Lol I'm probably so annoying.

Geeking out is cool with me! I like hearing about all this stuff.

I might just retake the thing when I'm more awake.

Just hit the neutral option straight down the middle and see what happens.

 

[PeaShack]

Just had to share…part of my husband’s belongs from the 90’s (before we met). Just him having this is an accurate assessment of his personality!

 

[azurbanclucker]

I understand why that would make it confusing.
But one must channel a proper Vulcan and separate emotion from the critical data.
Your comfort with not making a decision leads me to believe you are of the Ne planet. Decision made (I'm a J, see how I have to?).

It has more to do with not taking MbTI seriously, because it's not a serious assessment of personality. Boyle wrote a paper on it in the 90's. The last line of the introduction was

"In view of these serious limitations, routine use of the MBTI is not recommended, and psychologists should be cautious as to its likely misuse in various organisational and occupational settings."

It's probably more accurate than astrology, but it's not highly regarded by any credible psychologist. MBTI is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy in many cases.

HR people use it to help troubleshoot conflicts in the workplace by identifying common ground, but that's about as far as I'd go with it.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Interesting- I have never taken one of these before. I am going to look into it more.

 

[SourRoses]

It has more to do with not taking MbTI seriously, because it's not a serious assessment of personality. Boyle wrote a paper on it in the 90's. The last line of the introduction was

"In view of these serious limitations, routine use of the MBTI is not recommended, and psychologists should be cautious as to its likely misuse in various organisational and occupational settings."

It's probably more accurate than astrology, but it's not highly regarded by any credible psychologist. MBTI is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy in many cases.

HR people use it to help troubleshoot conflicts in the workplace by identifying common ground, but that's about as far as I'd go with it.

There's newer science than that.
Dr. Dario Nardi published his book "Neuroscience of Personality" with results from his EEG studies on students at his university.
He found an 80% correlation in brainwave patterns among individuals of the same type.
In his book he shows diagrams of the typical brainwave patterns and discusses the brain regions in use.

Most of the detractors regarding personality type are focused on the instrument (test) not the system of cognitive functions proposed by Jung.
Myers and Briggs tried to create an accurate test to make Jungs work easier to apply. In some ways they succeeded and in others they failed. I don't think that should reflect on the functions.

And in Psychology circles, they prefer instruments like the Big 5, which is predicated on the most ludicrous system. They have such a bias towards extroversion and that colors everything.

Meanwhile, MBTI / the cognitive functions hold that for every strength there is a weakness, and help show how people can use their skills to work together. That's why companies use it as often as they do.

 

[notabitail]

I took it for a second round and this is what it gave me: