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Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

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Post by tokipin »

mkn wrote: post #72

Between 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…

those issues have to do with testing, not the theory itself. it's not the theory's fault that humans are so... kaleidoscopic when they try to look at themselves

as expected, people here are overwhelmingly INTJ/INTP. you'll find that's the case in most scientific disciplines

it's not easy to see how the theory is good without having noticed how particularly similar people can be

these type combinations are not just 'any four categories', their effect on a type is greater than the sum of the parts. a bit more descriptive is the underlying Jungian functions. for example, INTJ is syntactic sugar for Ni-Te, introverted intution primary (the part that makes them so confident) and extraverted thinking secondary (the part that makes them logical). INTP is sugar for Ti-Ne, introverted thinking primary (the part that makes them absent-minded), and extroverted intuition secondary (the part that makes them look at the world for answers)

so by flipping the J to a P, the whole type is different. not all letter flips are that significant. I/E is the closest. for example, Feynman (ENTP) and Einstein (INTP) were Ne-Ti and Ti-Ne respectively. Feynman was driven by extroverted intuition, while it served Einstein. the nature of their discoveries is similarly 'playful' and creative

also, these four categories are not poorly-chosen. the most significant category is the S-N axis. it's basically this simple: if you meet someone who shares this same letter (you are both S or both N,) you will click. otherwise you won't

here's some forums where the type differences stand out

http://infp.globalchatter.com/messageboard/ -- fluffy

http://www.intpcentral.com/ -- levitous

http://intjforum.com/ -- dry

one thing to keep in mind is these aren't 16 "boxes." it's a bit complicated. for example, i suspect pg is INTP, but not standard-issue. he might be an Enneagram 3 INTP, for lack of a formal label. it's something he would share with Maddox ^_^

Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

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Post by dill_day »

DougBTX wrote: post #98

What'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 w…

  I am interested to see how much we differ from the average
  population. The average #s appear in parenthesis after the
  choices, and were copied from 
  http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/stats.htm

Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

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Post by Alex3917 »

nostrademons wrote: post #93
Alex3917 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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 th…

I don't remember my scores offhand, but I remember getting weird results the last time I took an online version. I think it said I had low openness to experience, which is weird, because that factor should be pretty much off the charts for me. It's important to remember that while the categories themselves have empirical support, the specific test you took might not have high reliability for assigning scores within any given category.

Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

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Post by jrsims »

mkn wrote: post #72

Between 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…

That's exactly what an INTJ would say. If you were an INTP, you wouldn't have posted that because you would've been second-guessing yourself. :)

Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

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Post by Spyckie »

misterbwong wrote: post #71

I'm an ENFP now, but the funny thing is I was an ISTJ in high school (about 7 years ago). Funny how a few years can change you.

wow. now THAT is quite some change. Can you be more explicit in what changed you so much?

I'm transitioning now from an INFP to an ENFP, but that's only because I've found some people who I can feel comfortable socializing with.

Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

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Post by hawk »

misterbwong wrote: post #71

I'm an ENFP now, but the funny thing is I was an ISTJ in high school (about 7 years ago). Funny how a few years can change you.

these two types are actually relatively similar (negatives of each other); they perceive and judge in the same manners but emphasize their parts in opposite orders

Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

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Post by hawk »

tokipin wrote: post #101
mkn wrote: post #72

Between 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…

those issues have to do with testing , not the theory itself. it's not the theory's fault that humans are so... kaleidoscopic when they try to look at themselves as expected, people here are overwhelmingly INTJ/INTP. you'll find that's the case in most scientific disciplines it's not easy to see how the theory is good without having noticed how particularly similar people can be these type combinations are not just '…

you are an entp presumably?

Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

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Post by louislouis »

watmough wrote: post #67
tricky wrote: post #19

for all you INTPs out there, have a look at this: http://www.intp.org/intprofile.html I was floored when I found that link. Describes me to a T.

"Hence, it is common to see INTPs dabbling at many things, achieving competency, just enough to prove to themselves that they could become more proficient if they wished, but rarely actually bothering to refine their skills further. This is a point at which we begin to get a feel for the workings of iNtuition backing up Thinking. The INTP has a whole set of skills which he knows that he would be proficient at, yet ot…

Wow! Took the test 5mins ago, found out I'm an INTP too. Now reading these comments and links is blowing my mind! lol
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