In the Dustbury post I linked yesterday, he talks about the Myers-Briggs personality test. I think I did one of those before but I couldn’t remember what it said about me so I googled Myers-Briggs test and clicked on the first result. It says I am an INTJ. Huh! I understand that’s quite rare?
I don’t have a lot of confidence in the accuracy of the test though. For some questions I could equally answer either way, depending on the specifics of the situation or what kind of mood I happened to be in at the time. I sometimes wonder if I am actually a born extrovert who has been conditioned to be an introvert because my early attempts at being outgoing didn’t turn out well. Is that possible? Or am I just naturally a mix of the two? Or is there possibly a third orientation that no one has made up discovered yet?
As for the rest of it, a lot of it seems fairly accurate except that I’m not as talented as it makes INTJ’s sound.
March 20th, 2013 - 11:13 am
Each of those four factors has only two possible values; someone who’s fairly close to the middle of the scale is not going to exhibit the same qualities as someone at the far end. This somewhat limits the usefulness of the test.
March 20th, 2013 - 4:45 pm
You are probably more talented than you think you are
March 31st, 2013 - 2:47 am
What most people don’t know about Meyers-Briggs is that it isn’t four binary values: it is four axes. If you ever do one where you get to score yourself, it will be obvious. I forget the details, if you come up one side of zero on the first axis your an E, the other side an I. The other three work the same.
I normally test as INxx, which means on the last two axes, I usually score around 0. But computer scoring doesn’t look how close you are to 0, so they usually report INTJ or INFJ or sometimes INFP.
Wade.