INTP last time I checked.
Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types
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#82Between 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…
"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...
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most accurate against what other measure? Has this been tested in some way, or is it just something people say?
Good question. Actually I'm not sure - I'm just repeating the advice my mother gave me when I asked her. She's a certified proctor for these sorts of things.
At least three different psychologists have told me that the instinctive response is supposed to be the right one. I think it has something to do with how these tests were developed.
Keep in mind that personality tests like these are primarily intended to map out traits of a person's personality in preparation for some kind of psychotherapy. Maybe not so much for Myers-Briggs, I wouldn't know. But the scientific intent of these tests, if you could call it that, is simply to give your therapist an idea of when to start when trying to figure out some deeper issue. (Why you are miserable, unable to work, excessively anxious in specific situations etc.) For that purpose, personality tests are perfectly suitable.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I think the benefit is less in helping you understand your own personality, and more in helping you understand how others' personalities differ from your own.
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#85INTJ. type loudly, speak boldly on occassion ;)
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#86Wow, 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 really think that the 1% prevalence number thrown around for INTPs in the general population has to be an underestimate.
I'm wondering how they came up with that number. Where did they get their test sample? Surely if you go around asking people to take personality tests at random, their likelihood of saying "yes" vs "no, sod off" is going to be a lot stronger for some personality types than others.
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#87Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types
#88Between 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…
You're missing the point. Myers-Brigg types are most useful for understanding other people, not for understanding yourself. Before I read about the other Myers-Brigg types, I just didn't understand why certain other people made decisions as they did, e.g., a member of a group insisting on a worse outcome for everyone to punish someone who'd offended them. I mean, it just wasn't logical!
You see, I was trying to understand/predict others' behaviour by projecting my own personality onto them. Much better is to understand/predict someone's behaviour based on how someone of their Myers-Brigg type would behave.
If understanding how others are different is what Myers-Brigg types are for, then the division into 16 types makes sense. It represents a trade-off between having too few types (and not having predictive power) and having too many (and having to learn too much information of less relevance).
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#89Between 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…
Despite the drawbacks in MB, the poll results show an interesting and compelling deviation from expected (i.e. average) results.