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#41

I got to 25 before I bailed .. what does that say about me? 72 questions you got to be kidding me.

Answer the questions as quickly as you can. Your first impulsive response will be the most accurate.

Most accurate against what other measure? Has this been tested in some way, or is it just something people say?

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#42
YOUR TYPE I N T P Strength of the preferences % 67 75 1 22

i dont get that. 1% thinking but yet

RANK of FUNCTION FUNCTION ORIENTATION Dominant Thinking Introverted ( Ti ) Secondary iNtuition Extraverted ( Ne ) Tertiary Sensing Introverted ( Si ) Inferior Feeling Extraverted ( Fe )

The consequences of the orientation and rank of each of the four functions for the INTP type is described in turn below.

thinking seems to be the most dominant of INTPs?

i myself consider myself a thinker. maybe with a direction towards more practical means though rather than philospoher.

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#43

Wow, 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 INTP and my girlfriend is INTJ. I consider myself very lucky to have someone to relate to. We have a lot of the same habits -- e.g. we both stay up too late, are too stubborn, and we try to be completely honest with each other -- and usually this is nice, but sometimes we get carried away.

For example, when we met four months ago, we almost completely ignored our school work in favor of getting to know each other.

And for the past week we've been going to bed at 5am and waking up at noon. Ugh. :)

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#44

Wow, 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.

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#46
It's instructive to read the prose about all of the types this test partitions people into. Do it before you see your results. Can you pick the one that describes you ahead of time?

They're all flattering and describe experiences that I think most humans have at some point. The sense that something written for a very broad audience applies specifically to you can be deceiving. That's part of why horoscopes are popular.

I came out as an ENTP this time (I've scored as an INTP and INFP in the past) but the profile for ISFP also describes characteristics I'd like to think I have.

I'm suspicious of things like personality sorters. This one takes the more continuous and multifaceted range of human personality and quantizes it into four binary dimensions. Even assuming those categories represent some kind of tendency for human personalities to cluster around certain traits, are sorters like this helpful? Do they provide some genuine insight you didn't have before? Or are they just a more sophisticated variety of horoscope?

You answer a bunch of vague and general questions, and get a vague and general answer. Your input is 72 bits, and the output is only 4 bits. Were those 4 bits really such a mystery to begin with? Would the results be different if the test just briefly described both categories for each dimension, and had you pick the one that sounded more like you?

If you can pick your personality out beforehand by reading short descriptions of the personality types, what was the point of answering 72 questions? If you can't, are you still willing to accept that your type really describes you?

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#47
I took a "leadership" course at work recently and it was all based on Meyers-Briggs and learning what your personality type is and how to deal with other personality types. The Meyers-Briggs test and the whole "ecology" around it seems to me a way for some subset of the business training industry to make a buck.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Cri... for criticism of Meyers-Briggs.

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#50
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i'm surprised there are so few extroverts here.. INTJ represent

I'm a ENTP and rarely post. I am right on the line between INTP/ENTP. I've seen people on the line refered to as an XNTP. I've taken the test a number of times over the years and always end up with the same type.

I know I am, as more of an extrovert, just as likely to voice my opinions in any number of different ways. I think if anything this forum provides a way for introverts to voice their opinions.

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