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Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types
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Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types
#62It'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 popula…
Who's to say studying the personality types before taking the test won't influence your answers? For many there is quite a disconnect between who you are and who you _think_ you are. The difference is even greater between who you are and who you want to be. I'd bet people who read the prose before taking the test would alter their answers (even if subconsciously) to conform to who they want to be.
Tests like these can help you gain valuable insight into your personality and may help you get a handle on others with whom you don't click. If you game the test, you totally miss out on any knowledge it may provide.
Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types
#63It'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 popula…
Well the questions can help you reflect on yourself as well as people in general.
Also, the fact that the responses to this poll skew massively toward INTP/INTJ tells you something doesn't it?
Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types
#64It'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 popula…
I scored INTJ in high school and I just took the web test and scored INTJ again. So the test at least seems to have some kind of consistency.
Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types
#65It'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 popula…
Well the questions can help you reflect on yourself as well as people in general. Also, the fact that the responses to this poll skew massively toward INTP/INTJ tells you something doesn't it?
"Also, the fact that the responses to this poll skew massively toward INTP/INTJ tells you something doesn't it?"
It does. I voted this up, because finding out about personality traits that correlate with voting in polls on news.YC is at least a little bit interesting.
But it's still not terribly surprising, if you expand the letters: people here tend more than the average person to describe themselves as introverted, interested in theories and abstractions, and reliant on thought for decision making rather than feelings.
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#66I wonder how much of an overlap there is between the INTPs and INTJs. For example, I always score INTP on these tests, and yet the INTJ profile describes me far, far better.
You really only need one question to test for INTP. Do you have a constant compulsive need to correct people for even very small errors in logical congruency regardless of the social consequences? Can you detect cognitive dissonance from like 100 meters away? Have you ever not really been listening to somebody but somehow still noticed that they contradicted what they just said two minutes ago? Have you already hit t…
No, I won't explain this to you.
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#67for 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 other people may know little of this."
Yes, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up when I read this.
There's a great book by Radcliffe Hall called 'A Saturday Life' (Info on Radclyffe Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyffe_Hall) that should be of interest, and also some good pulp SciFi Fantasy that I found pretty comforting while I was growing up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Five_Magics Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy about a hopeless wizard trainee.
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#68([E|I][S|N][F|T][J|P]) Doesn't matter. Go write Code!
Wow, I am an ([E|I][S|N][F|T][J|P]).
Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types
#69It'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 popula…
I scored INTJ in high school and I just took the web test and scored INTJ again. So the test at least seems to have some kind of consistency.
Sure it does. It sorts people into bins based on what they say. So if you would answer these questions the same way now as you did then, it will produce the same answer. The aspects of your personality that it quantizes haven't changed enough to flip the answer on any axis since last time you took the test.
A test like "which Harry Potter character are you?" probably has the same kind of consistency.
Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types
#70It'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 popula…
Who's to say studying the personality types before taking the test won't influence your answers? For many there is quite a disconnect between who you are and who you _think_ you are. The difference is even greater between who you are and who you want to be. I'd bet people who read the prose before taking the test would alter their answers (even if subconsciously) to conform to who they want to be. Tests like these ca…
I'm not sure it really can help you gain valuable insight into your personality. Has anyone measured that value? Do people who have seen their Meyers-Briggs results do better in some measurable way from people who haven't?