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[MatsNorway]

http://similarminds.com/embj.html



I was a:

Introverted (I) 58.82% Extroverted (E) 41.18%
Intuitive (N) 52.5% Sensing (S) 47.5%
Thinking (T) 70.59% Feeling (F) 29.41%
Judging (J) 58.06% Perceiving (P) 41.94%

Your type is: INTJ

INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population.


take the test and post if you dare. its wise to google the type you are and find something like this(me): http://www.personali...e.com/INTJ.html

[gruntguru]

I think most of us have assessed each other fairly well by now, but Myers Briggs can be illuminating.

Introverted (I) 64.52% Extroverted (E) 35.48%
Intuitive (N) 55.56% Sensing (S) 44.44%
Thinking (T) 64.86% Feeling (F) 35.14%
Perceiving (P) 67.65% Judging (J) 32.35%

Your type is: INTP

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

[pugfan]

I think most of us have assessed each other fairly well by now, but Myers Briggs can be illuminating.

Introverted (I) 64.52% Extroverted (E) 35.48%
Intuitive (N) 55.56% Sensing (S) 44.44%
Thinking (T) 64.86% Feeling (F) 35.14%
Perceiving (P) 67.65% Judging (J) 32.35%

Your type is: INTP

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

The questions remind of that bit in Yes Minister where Humphrey states that they can make survey results say whatever they want. One of the questions for females is:

I talk a lot.

[gruntguru]

The questions remind of that bit in Yes Minister where Humphrey states that they can make survey results say whatever they want. One of the questions for females is:

I talk a lot.

Just don't answer.

[SteveCanyon]

102 questions =

TL;DR

[gruntguru]

102 questions =

TL;DR

102 mouse clicks = 5 minutes.

[Todd]

ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

Edited by Todd, 19 July 2010 - 02:40.

[cheapracer]

True story....

A few years ago when I came back to Oz to sell my house I thought I would be there for 2 to 3 months so I went for a good paying part time job close by.

They ran me through a similar test and I failed - the job was a for a car parking attendant at a theme park (Dreamworld)!! They considered according to my test that basically if someone didn't park perfectly I was likely to get angry at them


Introverted (I) 56.41% Extroverted (E) 43.59%
Intuitive (N) 54.76% Sensing (S) 45.24%
Thinking (T) 51.22% Feeling (F) 48.78%
Perceiving (P) 66.54% Judging (J) 33.46%

Your type is: INTP

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

Type 1 Perfectionism |||||||||||| 46%
Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||||||| 80%
Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Type 4 Sensitivity |||||||||||||| 56%
Type 5 Detachment |||||||||||||||| 66%
Type 6 Anxiety |||||||||||||| 53%
Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||||||||| 66%
Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||||||| 70%
Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||||||||| 80%

[gruntguru]

This could get interesting. Of three forum member who have done the test, we have one INTJ and two INTP. (Both relatively rare birds, there are 16 Myers-Briggs categories so the average category size is 6.25% of the population)

[Fat Boy]

When I got done with mine it said: D I C K

[Tony Matthews]

INFJ, apparently, but I would modify some answers if I did it again - like most multiple-choice thingies sometimes none fit. Anyway - Author (which is something I would be fullfilled as, I think), 1.5% of total population.

[gruntguru]

When I got done with mine it said: D I C K

50% of the total population.

[malbear]

this is me
Introverted (I) 51.72% Extroverted (E) 48.28%
Sensing (S) 54.84% Intuitive (N) 45.16%
Thinking (T) 58.82% Feeling (F) 41.18%
Perceiving (P) 58.06% Judging (J) 41.94%



Your type is: ISTP


ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

cheers Malbeare

[jcbc3]

Didn't do it here now, but previously I have been graded as an 'ENTP'.

Am i the only extrovert around?

[Bloggsworth]

If I had any real character, I would have far better things to do than be posting in this forum...

[McGuire]

This could get interesting. Of three forum member who have done the test, we have one INTJ and two INTP. (Both relatively rare birds, there are 16 Myers-Briggs categories so the average category size is 6.25% of the population)

Try this one. Be sure to click and read all the way through.

http://forer.netopti.net/

[gruntguru]

Try this one. Be sure to click and read all the way through.

http://forer.netopti.net/

Although close, I didn't find the profile as accurate as Myers Briggs. I have completed a Myers Briggs test three times (same result every time). On one occasion I read a two page description of my personality type which was uncanny in the detail with which it described my life including childhood.

[Tenmantaylor]

Extroverted (E) 50% Introverted (I) 50%
Sensing (S) 53.85% Intuitive (N) 46.15%
Thinking (T) 60% Feeling (F) 40%
Perceiving (P) 58.62% Judging (J) 41.38%

ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

My job : Design Engineer

Edited by Tenmantaylor, 19 July 2010 - 09:42.

[Tony Matthews]

If I had any real character, I would have far better things to do than be posting in this forum...

You could be like me and do both...

[McGuire]

Although close, I didn't find the profile as accurate as Myers Briggs. I have completed a Myers Briggs test three times (same result every time). On one occasion I read a two page description of my personality type which was uncanny in the detail with which it described my life including childhood.

You needed to click and read all the way through to see how the results were obtained. One clue was available in the test's name, Forer -- after the Forer effect. As in Bertram R. Forer, the prominent American psychologist. The Forer effect is also known as the Barnum effect, often summarized as "there's a sucker born every minute."

Personality tests have little or no scientific basis. They are no more valid than horoscopes and as Forer demonstrated, they are based on the same methodology. The principle is known as subjective validation.

[saudoso]

Introverted (I) 57.14% Extroverted (E) 42.86%
Sensing (S) 53.85% Intuitive (N) 46.15%
Thinking (T) 68.75% Feeling (F) 31.25%
Perceiving (P) 64.52% Judging (J) 35.48%



Your type is: ISTP


ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

[zac510]

I have done a couple of MBTI at various times and I noticed that sometimes they are Yes/No options and sometimes Yes/No/Third option like Unsure. That third options seems like it would change the results. Which method is correct?

I did McGuire's test but I didn't ever reach the bit about how the results were obtained. Was I deemed not worthy? (edit: I found it- there's a link after you have rated the test result).

Edited by zac510, 19 July 2010 - 11:00.

[gruntguru]

They are no more valid than horoscopes . .

So I was duped! The Forer effect is undoubtedly real, but I am not convinced of the ultimate conclusions drawn. In fact, as mentioned in my previous post, I found the "Forer" profile less accurate and therefore Forer's conclusions less convincing.

Responses here are interesting. Of seven suckers so far, six differ from my own result in one category or less. (Tony Matthews is the exception and he will tell you he is not the typical engineering type we get here.) So I think it is at least interesting that Myers Briggs may be able to predict a tendency to participate in technical rev-head forums.

[Tenmantaylor]

I imagine if I were to do the test again answering very accurate or very innaccurate the results would be quite different. As it was I only answered 'very' for about 5-10 of the questions. The rest were middle or 1 each way.

[Tony Matthews]

I imagine if I were to do the test again answering very accurate or very innaccurate the results would be quite different. As it was I only answered 'very' for about 5-10 of the questions. The rest were middle or 1 each way.

Me too, and I don't think more than two were a 'very innacurate'.

[cheapracer]

You could be like me and do both...

You can only do 2 things at once?

Piss poor for a 1.5% elitist pompous ass.

5.4% of total population.

Commoner.

Edited by cheapracer, 19 July 2010 - 12:16.

[meb58]

not what I thought it would be but oh well...

Extroverted (E) 60.53% Introverted (I) 39.47%
Intuitive (N) 64.1% Sensing (S) 35.9%
Feeling (F) 61.11% Thinking (T) 38.89%
Perceiving (P) 66.67% Judging (J) 33.33%



Your type is: ENFP


ENFP - "Journalist". Uncanny sense of the motivations of others. Life is an exciting drama. 8.1% of total population.

[Tony Matthews]

You can only do 2 things at once? Piss poor for a 1.5% elitist pompous ass.

'Both' does not exclude others.

[condor]

I did it earlier today and got an ENTP which had me as an entreprenuer, go getter etc.
Since I'm naturally lazy, I read the bit that said if you didn't agree with their result click the refresh button and you'd get another answer.
I did click and I got a preferred answer of ESTP which had me down now as an inventor

But agree with other poster who said it was a load of nonsense

[meb58]

It's just for fun....the general theory of relativity and gravity have a much bigger affect on our souls

[MatsNorway]

ISTP seems to be the most common on the forums i am at. close to half the forum users. at least beyond 30-40% +

those who rate this north and down also often are those who gets in arguments in the current forums.

even tho the interests are vastly different.

hmmm.

Fun to see that cheapracer proves the testes to be on to something due to a No go on a job, because they rated him too aggressive.
that's my verdict too.

Edited by MatsNorway, 19 July 2010 - 18:00.

[McGuire]

So I was duped! The Forer effect is undoubtedly real, but I am not convinced of the ultimate conclusions drawn. In fact, as mentioned in my previous post, I found the "Forer" profile less accurate and therefore Forer's conclusions less convincing.

Responses here are interesting. Of seven suckers so far, six differ from my own result in one category or less. (Tony Matthews is the exception and he will tell you he is not the typical engineering type we get here.) So I think it is at least interesting that Myers Briggs may be able to predict a tendency to participate in technical rev-head forums.

Well, even the daily horoscope is useful to many people. It provides affirmation and positive reinforcement for our self-selected and/or imagined attributes, employing the same method as as the Myers-Briggs test: confirmation bias.

[Tenmantaylor]

We can discuss the merits of the method to death, I think the biggest margin for error is the takers lack of self awareness and honesty.

[malbear]

We can discuss the merits of the method to death, I think the biggest margin for error is the takers lack of self awareness and honesty.

have someone who knows you well, fill out the test for you while you get the coffees and compare your result to their result for you.
malbeare

[gruntguru]

Fun to see that cheapracer proves the testes to be on to something

The old teste-radar.

[pugfan]

[quote]Personality tests have little or no scientific basis.[quote]

This was meant to be the gist of my post but I realise it may have come across as a personal attack. If some of these questions were asked in court I could see there would be an objection for leading the witness.

Edited by pugfan, 19 July 2010 - 23:33.

[gruntguru]

Well, even the daily horoscope is useful to many people. It provides affirmation and positive reinforcement for our self-selected and/or imagined attributes, employing the same method as as the Myers-Briggs test: confirmation bias.

If you think the daily horoscope has any predictive ability perhaps we should poll the forum members and see if there is a concentration of Saggitarians or whatever?

[pugfan]

have someone who knows you well, fill out the test for you while you get the coffees and compare your result to their result for you.
malbeare

I'm quite happy in my little world where I'm highly intelligent, a visionary, impossibly good looking and generous almost to a fault thankyou very much.

[Ian G]

The last personality test i did on line i was the lucky 1000th viewer and won a trip to Las Vegas,all i had to do was pay for the airflight,hire car and accomodation ,what are the odds of that happening.

[gruntguru]

I'm quite happy in my little world where I'm highly intelligent, a visionary, impossibly good looking and generous almost to a fault thankyou very much.

Did it mention "modest"?

[pugfan]

Did it mention "modest"?

I'm too modest to say...

[Dmitriy_Guller]

There has to be some statistical predictive power to those tests, even if the underlying theory is completely bunk. People who get grouped in the same category do have to have things in common, since they answered a lot of questions the same way. This may explain why a lot of people in this thread fall in the same group, or close enough.

[Canuck]

I don't have the results at hand but 2 online and one administered MBTI test show me as IN/STP. I'm split right down the middle for N and S but with a strong (74%) I. On the other hand, a mangement course I took at the local university put me squarely in a red "Director" category which is roughly half way to the extroverted extreme. When I asked about the significant difference I was told that one of them was likely my "natural state" and the other a learned one.
I suspect I'm naturally intro with a learned extro as most of the time I'd rather noodle things on my own than anything else. Of course, if I'm not captured by what I'm working on I can talk the ears off a marble statue...unless it's boring me... I am what I am, whatever that is.

[SteveCanyon]

Ended up doing it.

Introverted (I) 60.71% Extroverted (E) 39.29%
Sensing (S) 52.94% Intuitive (N) 47.06%
Thinking (T) 64.52% Feeling (F) 35.48%
Judging (J) 64.52% Perceiving (P) 35.48%



Your type is: ISTJ

[cheapracer]

It's just for fun....the general theory of relativity and gravity have a much bigger affect on our souls

It's true, my souls wear out quite fast because of gravity but then they are cheap Chinese Nike.

[Tony Matthews]

Responses here are interesting. Of seven suckers so far, six differ from my own result in one category or less. (Tony Matthews is the exception and he will tell you he is not the typical engineering type we get here.) So I think it is at least interesting that Myers Briggs may be able to predict a tendency to participate in technical rev-head forums.

Engineering is a greater fascination than art for me, and although I always feel slightly uneasy posting on this forum, I think it is more because I don't have the 'knowledge', and no maths. When I left school the only option offered by the careers master was an apprenticeship at George W King, a large local engineering business making cranes and hoists. However, by the time I went for a preliminary interview I had met James Allington, and been knocked out by seeing him drawing a cutaway of a BRM four cylinder engine mated to a transaxle. Suddenly theere was something that I really wanted to do. I still don't know if I made the right choice, I think my heart lead my head - GW King was a good business, Alan Mertens of Galmer fame did his apprenticeship there - and the creative process would have been different, but still there.

Shortly after I joined Motor Sport and Motoring News I was told that Robin Herd, having seen my March 711 cutaway, wanted me to work for March, but I had no self-confidence, had just made the major - for me - move to London and Standard House, so I didn't persue it. I sometimes think I should have. The engineers responsible for the cars and engines I have been lucky enough to illustrate over the years have always been my 'heroes', and I think it sad that the engineering side of motor racing is so rarely given the spotlight it deserves.

Bit of a ramble, sorry.

[Pat Clarke]

Jung Test Results


Extroverted (E) 78.79% Introverted (I) 21.21%
Sensing (S) 61.11% Intuitive (N) 38.89%
Thinking (T) 52.94% Feeling (F) 47.06%
Perceiving (P) 64.52% Judging (J) 35.48%

Your type is: ESTP

ESTP - "Promotor". Action! When present, things begin to happen. Fiercely competitive. Entrepreneur. Often uses shock effect to get attention. Negotiator par excellence. 4.3% of total population.


Pat

[Tony Matthews]

ESTP - "Promotor". Action! When present, things begin to happen. Fiercely competitive. Entrepreneur. Often uses shock effect to get attention. Negotiator par excellence. 4.3% of total population.

Hello, Pat, have you been lurking, or busy, or away?

[cheapracer]

Hello, Pat, have you been lurking, or busy, or away?

Match his profile to your choices.

[Pat Clarke]

Hi Tony and Cheapy,

Been away, a few weeks in the States, then some interstate stuff here. Been home recovering from a 'minor procedure' for a week or so and back to work tomorrow. Then off to UK and Germany at month end.

Will be away for the big election, but I organised a postal vote today =]

First time today I actually had an inspiration to say something. I had done the Myers Briggs assessment several years ago and seemed to remember I was ESPN...or something like that, so, I did it again

Cheers

Pat