Pop psych--how you test

[SimonDoom]

What's your Myers-Briggs profile? I'm an INTP.

 

[NuclearFairy]

What?

 

[AwkwardMD]

What?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I'm a Pepper.

 

[Zephreck]

The Myers-Briggs test is a self test that distinguishes a person's personality.

From Wikipedia a small overview of the personality traits:

"The MBTI is based on the theory of psychological types proposed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung in 1921,[38] which was partially based on the four elements of classical cosmology.[39] Jung speculated that people experience the world using four principal psychological functions—sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking—and that one of these four functions is dominant in an individual, a majority of the time. In MBTI theory, the four categories are introversion/extraversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving. According to the MBTI, each person is said to have one preferred quality from each category, producing 16 unique types.[40]

The MBTI Manual states that the indicator "is designed to implement a theory; therefore, the theory must be understood to understand the MBTI".[41] Fundamental to the MBTI is the hypothesis of psychological types as originally developed by Carl Jung.[23] Jung proposed the existence of two dichotomous pairs of cognitive functions:

• The "rational" (judging) functions: thinking and feeling.
• The "irrational" (perceiving) functions: sensation and intuition.

Jung believed that for every person, each of the functions is expressed primarily in either an introverted or extraverted form.[42] Based on Jung's original concepts, Briggs and Myers developed their own theory of psychological type, described below, on which the MBTI is based. According to psychologist Hans Eysenck writing in 1995 the 16 personality types used in MBTI are incomplete, as Jung's theory used 32 types, 16 of which could not be measured by questionnaire. Per Eysenck, it was unfair to Jung to claim the scale accurately measured Jungian concepts.[43] Both Jung's original model and the simplified MBTI remain hypothetical, with no controlled scientific studies supporting either.[44]"

 

[Djmac1031]

I can count to potato.

 

[Fatdog25]

Undiagnosed...but somethin' ain't right.

 

[Areala-chan]

INFP. If we want to add Enneagram into the mix, 4w5.

 

[Bamagan]

I was born without a personality. I think I'm a B negative, though.

 

[SimonDoom]

I must say I am impressed at the many creative ways people have found NOT to take this thread seriously. I knew I could count on @Bamagan , but the rest of you stepped up your game as well.

 

[XerXesXu]

So, I took it seriously.

ENTJ-A.

This test is a classic of how one can invent constructs and tests to determine where any person on a 'spectrum'. Everybody always falls somewhere on a spectrum. It's a classic way of promoting therapies by the therapeutic professions and explains why there's been a huge increase in spectrum disorders for therapists to treat. They find their way into DSM and ICD.

Jung talked bunk, but if you go to a Myers-Briggs test site, you'll find that they have on-line ways to induce the credulous to pay, to know more.

I could probably make more money inventing psychological tests than I do writing. Thanks for the idea.

 

[SimonDoom]

So, I took it seriously.

ENTJ-A.

This test is a classic of how one can invent constructs and tests to determine where any person on a 'spectrum'. Everybody always falls somewhere on a spectrum. It's a classic way of promoting therapies by the therapeutic professions and explains why there's been a huge increase in spectrum disorders for therapists to treat. They find their way into DSM and ICD.

Jung talked bunk, but if you go to a Myers-Briggs test site, you'll find that they have on-line ways to induce the credulous to pay, to know more.

I could probably make more money inventing psychological tests than I do writing. Thanks for the idea.

Yeah, that's why I entitled the thread "Pop psych."

It has a bit of validity to it, but it's not an especially insightful validity. It takes no particular skill to know that some people are extraverted and others are introverted.

It's a nice little thing to know if you delve into online dating. Like love languages.

 

[Elypep1980]

ENFJ

 

[Wonderer67]

I am

Me.

 

[EmilyMiller]

CMNF

 

[OddLove]

I got INFP

What's funny about that is the weird feeling I got after reading the information about my personality type, and then slowly realizing I'm just one of sixteen personality types.

If you ask google what 8 billion divided by 16 is, it claims it's 500 million.

So my mom lied to me when she said I was special.

 

[AloneTooLong]

I recently read a book and the author mentioned this test: I am ISTJ-A

 

[UsuallyPresent]

I can count to potato.

Carrot. Rutabaga. Cabbage. Potato.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

I got even on extrovert-introvert two different times I’ve taken it, so xNFP for me.

 

[Comshaw]

What's your Myers-Briggs profile? I'm an INTP.

INXP I ended up right in the middle of the T-F.


Comshaw

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I've had to do it half a dozen times for work, after a couple for my own interest. Consistent INTJ, apart from the first (non-official) result which was ENTJ, described as 'Politician' - I shuddered, double-checked my answers, and tweaked one, which pushed me over the boundary into Introversion (INTJ), described as 'Machiavellian - you probably cheated on this test'. Fair!

It's a tool; it gets misused. It can be a good way to assess the understanding of science that a course organiser has (often no clue about psychology or stats, some get very defensive...) The most useful use of it was when about 80 of us were grouped by it, asked to consider how we likely to go about planning projects, running meetings, etc, then what sort of people and behaviours really annoy us. And then comparing the results. And tightly chairing the ensuing debates: "you *like* unplanned meetings with no agenda? Are you mad?" was one aghast response from my group to the opposite types.

Myers and Briggs were mother and daughter, not a common combo among research partners.

 

[Erozetta]

I score differently based on if I answer in personal mode or work mode. There are things I do for work because they work, that I personally loathe, but is accurate to how I work as a manager. Work me and home me are two different people.

 

[TheLobster]

CMNF

I’m a simple man, so I’d just go for MFFF.

 

[THBGato]

ENFJ (protagonist)

Yeah. In my dreams (and not always then).

 

[ElectricBlue]

INTP or INTJ, depending whether or not I've had staff to manage