Katrinya ([info]katrinya) wrote,
@ 2008-03-16 05:30:00
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Myers and Briggs think I need to get more
I think the Myers-Briggs personality test contains an awful lot of bullshit questions ("Would you rather be hard-headed or soft-hearted?" Come on.) That said, though, I can't say I've really ever disagreed with the outcome it gave me. The first time I took the Myers-Briggs test I was around 10 or 11, and I thought it was somewhat interesting how the results have changed over time.

At 10 or 11 I was INFP. By my early teens I was INTP, which turned into INTJ by the time I was in college. When I took it today the results came back ISTJ, which I guess is a consequence of studying science full time. It's funny... as a kid I spent a lot of time thinking about philosophy and the nature of truth or whatever and I considered rational people to be a type of robot. I was very proud of being a "dreamer". Now I'm proud of my ability to distinguish between the practical and the fanciful. People can change a hell of a lot over 12 years... particularly when those 12 years span puberty.

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[info]lannie
2008-03-16 02:16 pm UTC (link)
ISTJ sounds right... I would have given you ISTJ :)
Funny to see how much you've changed over the years. I've meandered a bit between ENFJ/ENFP and sometimes more along the lines of ESFJ, but nothing much has changed that fundamentally... the E and the F have always been a constant given :D

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[info]katrinya
2008-03-16 05:20 pm UTC (link)
It's not a strong S for me: 12 out of a possible 100 according to the test. (As an aside, I got 100 out of 100 on the introversion scale. :P) I still make a lot of decisions based on my own internal compass, which I suppose counts as "intuition". The J is also not very strong, somewhere in the 20 range... I don't fully subscribe to the ISTJ description (anyone who's ever been in my house knows I'm not a particularly tidy person). But it's a 5 minute online personality test; you can't expect it to describe you perfectly. People are more complicated than that.

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[info]lannie
2008-03-20 09:42 am UTC (link)
the J works two ways; there's the tidyness and organisation on one hand, but there's also the 'own moral compass & my way is right' part of J there.
I'm a bit like you in that regard: not much sense of tidyness and organisation, but I certainly have flares of judginess :)

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