Myers Briggs Type Indicators

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  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    INTP

    Which I would say is about right, but I read descriptions for all of them and I thought sounds a bit like me!

    A lot of the questions I find hard to answer as well. For instance depending on my mood I can be much more extroverted or introverted. So a question like 'do you like to read a book on your own?' depends on my mood, as do loads of the others.


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    INTP
    Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    ENFJ will try it again when in a bad mood and see what I am then :lol:
  • sloboy
    sloboy Posts: 1,139
    INTP - with the P/J pretty close, but I felt that the J stuff was coming out from learned behaviour.

    Of all the classification stuff I've seen over the years, this has been the most useful. Especially the I/E stuff - so as a strong "I" I've taught myself to babble while thinking and formulating my completed response, so people don't think I'm weird or my view just gets ignored for being delivered too late amongst a bunch of E's
  • robdaykin
    robdaykin Posts: 102
    we did this at work a few years back. At gun point in some cases,

    One guy hit the fence squarely and could not be classified. Which describes him perfectly.

    I found it impossible to answer the questionnaire, and left some big parts of it blank because I could not honestly select one of the given answers. I have no idea if they came up with a type for me, because I refused to answer personal questions on the follow up day, and got sent back to the office to do some work.

    Personally I didn't need a type indicator to tell me people are different, and I don't need to reduce people to one of a mere 16 types to deal with them as individuals.

    After some time, we have not repeated the exercise, and I think one or two people learned something, but I do not believe it was worth the expense. NLP is another matter though.
  • chocothon
    chocothon Posts: 38
    I used to work in recruitment and the main driving force for using a lot of these tests was to make decisions easier. Note: not better, just easier. Then the client was more reassured, because there appeared to be some rationale for the decisions other than interviewing. Just occasionally, someone actually used the results to really probe the candidates - now that actually was effective and served to get them talking about themselves.

    From any scientific point of view, the idea that you can ask questions, then average them out to get a few different scale scores and then magically retransform those few scores into several pages of A4 about someone's personality and likely working characteristics is fundamentally flawed.

    When we brought in structured interviews, now that really was revealing. In fact, once I remember we hired a specialist for finals and it was quite stunning how much information he managed to extract. It seemed to be that he was extremely skilled in picking up where there were 'issues' just by listening and watching candidates. May have been NLP actually.

    Actually quite nice to see the puffy-chested ego people being uncovered for just being 'in the team', while at other times finding out that the more modest individuals had actually run an entire project, although you would'nt think it from the way they appeared. Such is often the case I guess.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    For what it's worth, I am apparantly an ENTJ.

    They all figure on their own, but the 'fieldmarshal' profile - always coming up with plans an executing - doesn't seem to fit, and I like to think I have a little more emotional intelligence and empathy than the profile suggets - especially given my current job!
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  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    I'm into teh science innit. So I may as well have INTJ stamped on my forehead.
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  • nottscobb
    nottscobb Posts: 147
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    For what it's worth, I am apparantly an ENTJ.

    They all figure on their own, but the 'fieldmarshal' profile - always coming up with plans an executing - doesn't seem to fit, and I like to think I have a little more emotional intelligence and empathy than the profile suggets - especially given my current job!

    If you do a full profile you will see that each section isn't purely defined as one letter or another, each is a sliding scale so you're probably borderline T/F. Read ENFJ and see how that suits you, that'll probably sound familiar in some areas too.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    nottscobb wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    For what it's worth, I am apparantly an ENTJ.

    They all figure on their own, but the 'fieldmarshal' profile - always coming up with plans an executing - doesn't seem to fit, and I like to think I have a little more emotional intelligence and empathy than the profile suggets - especially given my current job!

    If you do a full profile you will see that each section isn't purely defined as one letter or another, each is a sliding scale so you're probably borderline T/F. Read ENFJ and see how that suits you, that'll probably sound familiar in some areas too.

    Yeah I guess I'm familiar in some respects.

    I've noticed that I'm percieved to be a bit insensitive to people, though when that's mentioned to me I can pinpoint exactly what and when I've been insensitive most of the time. I have no issues upsetting people if it's for what I feel are the right reasons, as I'm sure a few people on here could tell you.

    Having said that, thinking about it, there are an awful lot of people I've come across who have taken a strong disliking to me long before I feel I've even known anything about them.

    Maybe I jsut think I'm better than I am!
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