This looks interesting!! Unfortunately it's bed time so I'll check it out again tomottow!

INFJ, no surprise to me.

In every version of the test I've ever taken, and I think my first time may have been couple of decades or more ago, my results are always the same. I took these two just to see what would happen but once again I am still an INTJ. The percentages have varied over different test formats but the result is still always a pretty solid INTJ.

ENJF seems quite accurate. I'd like my DH to take it, but he'll resist.

INFJ. The rarest personality type, by the way.

ISFJ for me....interesting!

I was noticing how many of us are INFJ (which not only PKPonder, but so are my son and me), and then you pop in with rare Scott. Is it our personalities that draws us here?

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The mother and daughter who created this program were not psychologists. It was created for amusement only. They did follow the teachings of Carl Jung though. The personality types are described in flattering terms and are somewhat generalized. Somehow, this took on a life of it's own and is even used as a hiring tool for some jobs.

Years ago, I managed a 7 person staff. Each of us took Meyers-Briggs and then worked with a coordinator. She used our individual results to identify ways each person could work more effectively with the rest of the team. So an ISFJ and ENJF, for example and based on each personality sync’d in one way, but had conflicts in another way. Identifying the relationships was a huge benefit to better functioning of my team.

ENFJ-A

Used to be ENTP - the T and P have always been close to the 50-50 mark.

I've taken it a few times and get the same results each time. Sometimes the scale moves a bit in one direction or another, but I'm always the same personality subtype. And my subtype describes me to a "t". So that alone makes me think there is some validity to it.

They may describe the subtypes in somewhat positive terms, but there are "negatives" built in there as well. For example, would you rather have someone tell you that you are great at working in a team setting - or that you suck at working alone? They can (sort-of) mean the same things but just phrased in different ways.

My organization uses this in some of our management and HR trainings and most people seem to think it is an accurate description of them. We don't have to share our results with others if we don't want to, it's just for personal growth and knowledge. It helped me to see how/why I react as I do in some situations.

The people who think it doesn't describe them well seem to fall in the middle of a few of the scales, and so then when when they get characterized and aggregated, they may end up falling into an overall personality type that's not a great fit. Meaning, if you're in the middle of I/E, it has to pick either I or E. Sometimes if you're truly split down the middle, that's a coin toss. Same with the other 3 either/or choices. So folks who are in the middle of more than one scale on more than one of the subtypes can end up not totally identifying with the final outcome.

Several times in conjunction with work teaming activities. INTJ every time.

I took both versions of the test. The results were very similar. ISFJ and ISFP.

I=introvert I got the E on both tests. Was happy to see a T in there. lol ENTJ & ESTJ

INTJ. Always have been.

INTJ. ... According to Myers-Briggs the INTJ represents "The Mastermind". INTJs are one of the rarest
of the 16 psychological types and account for approximately 2% of the
population. Women of this personality type are especially rare, forming just 0.8% of the population.

I think many INFJs thrive online, because we want to be alone, but we also want to help others. We are a bundle of paradoxes. But don't make us angry. The ensuing wrath is comparable to Moses smashing the Golden Calf with the tables of the Torah or Yeshua overturning the moneychangers' tables in the Temple.

ENFP...for today, anyway!

Not only do we want to help others but we can come and go as we please on the computer. If you guys start to exhaust me I can just turn you off. :)

Introverts need their downtime, their alone time to recharge. I get a little irate when people define introverts as shy and think that they are the same thing. They are not.

I've done this a few times and am always the same. I just don't remember what it is but I do know that I am a strong I.

It's generalized and only a model, not hard science. I was first exposed to it at a leadership retreat - it was an entertaining way to spend a morning with lots of laughs as individuals got up to explain their own results and the audience of colleagues reacted to what was said. As a model, it may help SOME people understand some of their tendencies, which they probably know anyway.

There are some gender tendencies or stereotypes. Many women tend to lean, or think they lean, more in the intuitive -feeling-judging directions. I'll emphasize "think they lean" because (I believe) for many people of both genders, self-image and self-awareness can be wrongly cast as more how they would like to be, or how they would like others to think of them, than the reality of how they really are.

One of the shortcomings of the test is that question answers lead to a default alternative - If not A, then for the categorization the answer is treated as being B. But that's not always a valid assumption, it may be not A AND not B, but rather F.

Scott, my son describes us as introverts who like to "pretend" to be extroverts.

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blfenton you hit the nail on the head! Introverts are energized by being alone, and the internet gives us the right amount of "energy flow" (some interaction, but not too much!) by simply shutting it down and walk away when we've reached our limit.

Adjectives are generalizations while human nature is nuanced. No one is all this and not that. But I think more introverts are shy to some extent rather than not and so the generalization. It doesn't apply to everyone, of course not. Conversely, few people with an inherent internal nature to be extroverted (rather than just acting that way) would be described as shy. Are some? Maybe, but it is somewhat contractory.

The need to be alone to recharge? Sure, I know many people like that, there are even a few in my family. It's neither good nor bad but it is good to be in touch with one's own nature and what works and doesn't work.

INFJ. So here I am again! The second test said INFJ-T Advocate. I'm waiting for my calling to be a Mother Theresa or Martin Luther King. Don't quite get that but if I could figure out how to set up a web site I could do something, starting with publishing my late husband's Nachlass. I have tried but could not figure it out. I can read other languages but not computerese.

How do you INFJs deal with extended stays from visitors? I find them exhausting and have one coming up. I like and am used to being alone and wonder how I can handle entertaining for days on end. (Their phone calls and emails are welcome of course.) The last time it was so tiring I just slept for a long time and felt ill afterwards. How can I become an Extrovert for a few days and not need alone time?

How do you INFJs deal with extended stays from visitors? I find them exhausting and have one coming up. I like and am used to being alone and wonder how I can handle entertaining for days on end.

Well as an INTJ, I just don't. I don't put myself in a position for extended stay visitors. I don't like to stay at other people's homes either. Give me a nice private hotel room.

I don't share rooms with anyone when traveling either. The only ones I could bear to do that with are my DH, my DD and my best friend who is just as introverted and probably even more private than I am. I would guess her to be an INFJ which is why we get along so well although her more sensitive and emotional nature sometimes get to me, just a little. ;)

I don't even like to carpool very much. With family yes, but to outside activities not much. I prefer to get somewhere on my own and leave on my own. Footloose and fancy free.

I find it interesting that the rare INFJ seem to be a majority here. Coincidence?

Watchmelol - are you ME? I could have written EXACTLY what you did, except I won't even share a room with my best friend. Nope.

When I go to work-related conferences, where I have to be "on" all day, I retreat to my room (my SOLO room!!!) early and just crash-and-sleep.

Keeping in mind that this "system" is a suggestive model and not a diagnosis, it's interesting to me how many of you had responses that lead to an "I" categorization. Is that suggestive of a predominance of this trait in the population in general? Of participants in online forums? Of women (as the majority of you are)?

I'm a solid E. I love being at a group function of any kind and meeting new people, delivering a presentation to an audience, performing music in public, etc, these are the best times for me. We don't generally invite out of town guests to stay in our house (it's my preference, I don't do sleep-overs myself when visiting someone) but our kids and their families are of course always welcome and enjoyed.

I don't like sharing a room with another man (because of inconvenience reasons, not out of privacy or alone-ness reasons ). I had to do that early on in my career for some business travel, fortunately before too long I was promoted to a level that entitled me to my own room.

Everyone is different.

The E and I are on a continuum scale as we all know. So the population should be split 50/50 and then you either lean slightly E or I or more heavily E or I. Like you say, this isn't a science but little of behavioural study is.

Many E's mistake the need for alone time of I's as being anti-social or shy. I too love meeting new people and am actually more forward and better at introducing myself than many of my E friends. I too, like many Introverts here, have led meetings and tutorials, made my way comfortably through work and social cocktail parties and am better at that than my Extrovert DH.

The only difference is the way in which we need to re=energize. Introverts do it be themselves and Extroverts do it with others. Nothing wrong with either way.

I have a friend who is an extrovert and she figures all introverts should be accountants. She has a dismissive view of introverts and doesn't care to understand the difference.

Introverts aren't necessarily anti social and many of us like getting out among people. But the caveat is we prefer it to be on our own terms. I can be the life of the party or I can be happy sitting by myself watching people. I've had more than one person comment on how I "own" a place when I enter. Yes I do. I own it because I am there on my terms. I can stay or I can leave. I don't have to engage in mindless chit chat or gossip. I am not shy, nor am I stuck up although some people would think that of me. I generally find someone of interest to chat with where ever I am. However I am just as happy on my own, quietly observing. I am the person with my back to the wall where I can see the whole room. Contrary to the popular belief that introverts suffer from social anxiety I am the opposite. i am so comfortable in my own skin I can be in a crowd and be alone. Not lonely. Alone by choice.

mc101

Years
ago, I managed a 7 person staff. Each of us took Meyers-Briggs and
then worked with a coordinator. She used our individual results to
identify ways each person could work more effectively with the rest of
the team.

Years ago at my workplace we all took M-B. There were 13 of us. But the person who was going to work with us on "working together" had a long look at our tests and told us a couple weeks later that she would not be working with us. She said there were too many skipped questions, too many questions not answered via the given multiple choices, but with notes or paragraphs written to the side of the questions. Now, I was not one of those who did that; I chose from the given responses, yet I surely could see questions I had questions about, and questions I'd rather have been able to give a different or qualified response to.

Actually I thought we worked together phenomenally. Best, most respectful, most fun, most ethical place I ever worked. I'd trust my life or even my car keys to any of those folks.

I think the test is no more accurate than tarot cards and horoscopes. No real science behind it at all. I do know it is widely used and respected. I would have challenged a potential employer who demanded I take it. Good thing I was self employed.

It's not really a test because every answer is a correct answer.

Touche

Thank you everyone, and thank you Elmer for correctly pointing out that it is not a test, it is a self assessment.

Do I think it is solid science? No, it can't be because it is self assessment only and therefore, biased.

However, it does have merit, in my eyes.

It offers interesting insights into how we actually view ourselves and our reactions to the outside world.

I think a large portion of "who" we are to others IS based on how we perceive, and therefore project, ourselves to be.