101–110 of 133 posts
I'm a QWBX - that's the personality type for people who think pseudoscientific bullshit like the MBTI doesn't belong in the boardrooms, factory floors and minds of the human race.
Wow, you really have zero tolerance for things you don't like, don't you.
My personality type is the "I don't believe in personality types" type.
What does believing and not believing in pesonality types mean exactly? I mean, as a generalization, as a very introverted person I sure as hell won't get along too well with a very extroverted person unless I really have to. Of course exceptions exist.
I've taken 4 or 5 versions of this test many times over the last 14 years, and have always gotten the same result. Even when I went back and answered differently for questions I was on the fence for. The description was always very accurate too, but I don't like the Idea that there are only 16 models of people.
Are you also upset that there are only 2 genders for people? I mean, who is Biology to pigeon-hole us like that?
Joking aside, it's just a loose classification.
P.S. If you spend some time among people, it becomes clear there really aren't a million different "types" of people.
I 71.77% - E 28.23% (General population: I 50.90% - E 49.40%)
N 90.73% - S 9.27% (General population: N 26.90% - S 73.40%)
T 77.16% - F 22.84% (General population: T 40.40% - F 59.90%)
P 49.57% - J 50.43% (General population: P 46.00% - J 54.30%)
And the personality types reported here in comparison to the general population (from the MBTI Manual, 3rd edition, published in 1998):
ISTJ General 11.60% - HN: 2.37%
ISFJ General 13.80% - HN: 0.97%
ISTP General 5.40% - HN: 2.05%
ISFP General 8.80% - HN: 0.86%
ESTP General 4.30% - HN: 0.97%
ESFP General 8.50% - HN: 0.65%
ESTJ General 8.70% - HN: 0.65%
ESFJ General 12.30% - HN: 0.75%
ENTJ General 1.80% - HN: 7.44%
ENTP General 3.20% - HN: 9.91%
ENFJ General 2.50% - HN: 1.94%
ENFP General 8.10% - HN: 5.93%
INTJ General 2.10% - HN: 31.36%
INTP General 3.30% - HN: 22.41%
INFJ General 1.50% - HN: 4.96%
INFP General 4.40% - HN: 6.79%
Edit: Updated statistics at 16:00 PST
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, just learn the test well enough that you can figure out what they want, and then give them the result which gets you hired.
In general, investing energy in deceiving people would have a greater cost than landing one job vs another would have a benefit.
Those lamenting the fact that "asshole" isn't one of the available types might like to try instead the Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type test: http://www.andrewlipson.com/lstest.html "The Lipson-Shiu test attempts to remedy this and other oversights by classifying along four alternative axes: Intelligent-Stupid; Lawful-Chaotic; Important-Unimportant; Good-Evil."
I used to read comments and articles of people that liked quiet space and time to think, or of people who hated open office spaces, and think, "They probably just don't like being around people," or even "They probably just don't like people." I thought that the idea of being "wired in" was just as ridiculous as someone calling themselves a "rockstar," or "killing it," and was something that most people pretend to do because it seems cool in the movies but nobody really does.
Then I started to program. Nothing earth-shattering and no big data, just simple applications with a little bit of logic behind them, and everything changed.
The little chat and text notifications would kill my concentration and make me lose large chunks of time and thought. A good pair of headphones wasn't just for music, but for blocking out the rest of the world (even soft, classical music was too distracting to my thought process). There was some really cool stuff happening, and I had created it.
And sometimes, to be frank, the code is more interesting than the social situation I tend to be in. It's not that I don't like people, but even though I consider myself an extrovert (or I used to be an extravert?) I would rather be in a quiet room coding.
My parents say they saw at an early age how intense I was when I played video games (and how agressive I became), and forever banned them at my house and in my life. I feel like that was a major determining force in my personality and who I am today.
Now it feels like there are two people fighting inside of me. I can still go to a party and really enjoy myself, I'm still late all the time, and I still am on the more extraverted side of a lot of the answers and laugh it up and have a very wide circle of friends and barely-acquaintences I love to keep in touch with, but sometimes (and a growing amount of the time) I just want to be left alone so I can figure things out. And I don't crave to be around people like I used to.
It's not hard, when taking a test like this, to see which personality type the answers are lending themselves to, and most of the time when taking them I am thinking to myself, "It depends." I really don't know anymore. And interestingly enough, I feel like my personality is more a result of the things I do than who I am.
For the record: I scored Extravert(44%) iNtuitive(62%) Feeling(62%) Perceiving(67)%
I've taken 4 or 5 versions of this test many times over the last 14 years, and have always gotten the same result. Even when I went back and answered differently for questions I was on the fence for. The description was always very accurate too, but I don't like the Idea that there are only 16 models of people.
I don't like the Idea that there are only 16 models of people. Are you also upset that there are only 2 genders for people? I mean, who is Biology to pigeon-hole us like that? Joking aside, it's just a loose classification. P.S. If you spend some time among people, it becomes clear there really aren't a million different "types" of people.