Myers-Briggs...

[donquixote99]

Ike, I need to be able to understand your post better in terms of YOUR personality. Could you repeat your MB classification please?

In fact, shouldn't we all get our classifications put up as user titles? So instead of 'Ready' mine would say INAZ (or whatever?)

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Well all-righty then!!! We'll base our evaluation of the MBTI on Dean Burnette's opinion. He might even still be employed as a neuro-scientist when he's not busy putting out bilge for the Guardian, writing comedy scripts, or doing stand-up.

Well look what we got here. A true believer. What else ya got Ike? Have you checked your biorhythm chart for toady? Howabout your Horoscope?

[catswiththum]

Tests. Pfft. At a certain age, you either know who you really are or have learned to live comfortably with the lies you tell yourself.

I have no illusions - I'm prob. a borderline sociopath. I obey the law mostly because it's less trouble that way and I am all about easy.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by catswiththum

Tests. Pfft. At a certain age, you either know who you really are or have learned to live comfortably with the lies you tell yourself.

I have no illusions - I'm prob. a borderline sociopath. I obey the law mostly because it's less trouble that way and I am all about easy.

I'm a Taurus.

[catswiththum]

Virgo. I have it all figured out.

[BlueStreak]

Been diagnosed as suffering from chronic depression with anti-social tendencies.......or something like that. Basically, I'm shy around strangers. I'd rather be alone, or at least, in sparse company. I hate crowds, I need my space.

Not a true believer in such things, but very description of my sign I have read fits me. I am Pisces.

[BlueStreak]

So, where is this Myers-Briggs test? I want to take it.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Been diagnosed as suffering from chronic depression with anti-social tendencies.......or something like that. Basically, I'm shy around strangers. I'd rather be alone, or at least, in sparse company. I hate crowds, I need my space.

Not a true believer in such things, but very description of my sign I have read fits me. I am Pisces.

Those things are written so that anyone can find something that fits.

I can find plenty of shit in the Taurus description that fits.

I can also find plenty of shit that does not apply at all.

Myers Briggs is a lot like that too.

I test out as an INFP.

And sure a lot of the characteristics seem to fit me, but I still think it's basically bullshit.

[catswiththum]

I got halfway through and it stopped - said my code is STFU.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

The DSM of course has an opposite problem from Meyers-Briggs. All the Meyers-Briggs personalities are good; all the DSM ones are bad.

That's what we were taught in MBTI administration training. No bad types. Or in MBTI terminology, "No type bias."

That does not preclude a mental health professional having a little fun with MBTI type on occasion, lest we have permanently left our sense of humor in our other pants.

And I would also argue with you that all DSM categories are "bad." There are plenty of psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical counselors who believe that, for instance, dissociative disorders are a reasonable protective response to trauma and resultant PTSD. Many who did not have these conditions would have likely killed themselves years earlier.

But that's just one example. There are plenty more where that came from.