I'm ENTJ - just like Madonna and Whoopi Goldberg!
You forgot Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Jobs would be an ENFP.
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
I once took a similar, but much simpler test consisting of choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic, and scored near evenly in each category. I was told that it was because I was a super-rare type of person, who was essentially capable of exhibiting whichever type of personality suited me at the time. I think it was because I gamed the test. While I can see the value in attempting to define the traits of certai…
http://skepdic.com/myersb.html
good read.
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#93Between the Forer Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect ), confirmation bias ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias ), and the fact that people routinely retest into different categories ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs#Study_of_scoring_c... ), I don't place much stock in Myers-Briggs. Add to that the dubious way in which the theory was developed, and I'm completely mystified by the…
"It just seems like you could take any 4 either/or categories and have a test that's equally valid." The categories used by the Big Five were actually created using empirical research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Con...
Okay, then on that note, what's everyone's Big Five personality test score? There's an online inventory at:
http://www.personalitytest.net/ipip/ipipneo120.htm
Mine is 10 (3-4-4-70-17-57) / 73 (70-61-33-80-74-63) / 43 (52-33-41-35-26-80) / 41 (12-20-53-89-48-28) / 67 (81-50-5-38-87-87) in test order (that's Extraversion/Agreeableness/Conscientiousness/Neuroticism/Openness). Interestingly, that seems like it's about the worst possible personality for an entrepreneur, with super low scores in all the extraversion categories, high cautiousness, high self-consciousness, low self-discipline and adventurousness.
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#94I'm an ENTP but I am very close to the borders for E/P
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#95INTP
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#96INTJ - is this good or bad? I am interested now to find out what everyone else is.
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#97Feature request: display poll results as histograms.
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#98What's up with the percentages? Zero points gets 13%, 6% or 5% depending on the answer, while 122 points gets 1%, and 133 points gets 1%. I'm intrigued to know what the logic behind the percentages is, considering the solution is so simple (points/total*100) I'd love to know how the code was developed to get it so spectacularly wrong.
(It's probably the same code which gives you an "Unknown or expired link" message when you try and make a post after reading comments for more than five minutes... get those Reddit guys over here to sort this out!)
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#99Wow, pretty amazing. I test myself every year or two, and other than flipping from ENTP to INTP several years ago, it's been INTP ever since. I'm surprised just how many INTPs there are on here considering the supposedly low prevalence. FWIW, my wife is ESFJ, the polar opposite. It actually works out rather well. It's worth seeing what your SO is too, I wonder if that's a pattern.
i'm intj and my wife is esfj. she's going to school to become a therapist, while i'm finishing a cs degree... talk about opposites. but, it works.
You're not wrong there. Mine's a nurse! The way I see it, hopefully I can use my brains to bring in some cash while we're young, and she can care for me once I go senile in my 50s from stress.