HN Poll: What is your personality type?

The assumption that you can judge personalities from a Myers-Briggs test is rather silly. The test was constructed by non-experts based on Carl Jung's theories of psychological types. The "Criticism" section of the test's Wikipedia article [1] is rich in citations of how the test by and large doesn't test anything, except perhaps the I–E scale.

I admittedly kind of have an axe to grind on this test. I think it's a waste of time if you're trying to actually learn something, and especially dangerous when people use it for any actual purposes other than just personal fun.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Cri...

(I'm also a Phlegmatic, and we're a naturally skeptical bunch.)

I'm also a dom who enjoys pain, both ways. But yeah, these personality tests are worth near 0$ (they're funny, and my time is not free).

that talked about these personality types as well. The premise of the book is that by understanding your type and choosing a career that is a good fit you are more likely to achieve financial independence. One thing that occurred to me while reading it was that so many of the holy wars in software might be rooted in the fundamentally different perspectives that the different types have. The big one that comes to mind is the difference between the Perceiver and the Judger. Here I'm thinking about programmers who want to prescribe rules of style on the team, or even things like late versus early binding.

For what its worth the book listed historical examples of INTJ as people like Edison and Ben Franklin while INTP were Einstein and Carl Jung.