Myers-Briggs...

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by 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?)

As I said earlier, I'm a trained MBTI administrator and evaluator. Just so's TJ will understand fully just how fucked up I actually am, eh?

I have always tested ENTP. Although it's getting close to a decade since my last formal testing. The third letter over is the T-F "preference." Are you "Thinking" or are you "Feeling". Which doesn't mean are you an intellectual nerdlinger or an emotional pile of wreckage. It's the decision making preference. Do you make decisions based on logical and analytical considerations and objective analysis of cause and effect? Or do you make decisions based on interpersonal or social issues and comfort with the decision regardless of it's possible logical conflicts.

There are a number of ways to determine MBTI type. I've done some self-selecting the last few years and I "feel" that my T_F preference has shifted significantly to "Feeling". I might not test that way though but there's more to it than the testing.

MBTI structure is also sometimes used in high profile legal case jury selection, where an MBTI professional is hired by a legal team to run a profile on prospective jurors. Certain questions that indicate the four preferences are typically asked and the type is used by the legal team to find those most receptive to their strategy and, in the case of the defense, the defendant. There are apparently some people very good at identifying type in this setting and have spent years perfecting their system for jury selection. They make a shitload of money. I thought about it for a while but decided on retirement instead.

Long answer. Somewhat typical of a decent ENTP. We are often in the habit of thinking about what we want to say while we're saying it. It's a troublesome aspect of our type. ENFP's do it as well.

[donquixote99]

The T/F dimension is troublesome, in my non-professional opinion, because I think there's good reason to think the decision-making process is at root emotional.

In other words, everyone's an F, it's just that some people are Ts as well.

[donquixote99]

Count me an INFP. I've measured INTP, but I know better.

That said, I have major problems sorting all mankind into 16 boxes, and in particular making decisions as to what to do with or to people thereby. Nor do I think it's usually good for people to have a box to call their own, as it were.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

The T/F dimension is troublesome, in my non-professional opinion, because I think there's good reason to think the decision-making process is at root emotional.

In other words, everyone's an F, it's just that some people are Ts as well.

Just as an FYI, the predominant type in our culture is ESTJ, the most rare, INFP (the blonde is one of those).

Between T and F...feeling is more common preference about 60-40.

All according to the Myers-Briggs Foundation. BTW - Myers is the daughter, Briggs the mother. And the basis is in Jungian theory of "psychological type".

[donquixote99]

Oooo...that makes my box a very special box!

^^^ seductive but unhelpful notion, IMHO.

[BlueStreak]

Okay I took it.

INTP-A

Whatever that means.

[BlueStreak]

Just read the description. Sounds about right.

[BlueStreak]

What's the "-A" part mean, Ike?

[Oerets]

After taking a few tests for this thread. Getting different results ENFP ENFJ INFJ on the free tests. So feel it is alot of smoke and mirrors, little to gain.

Liken this to Six Sigma (load of crap) and other concepts in use to pigeonhole people, taking the ability of independent thinking or initiative away. Just go to a data sheet to make the decision.



Barney

[bobabode]

FWIW ESTJ-A sub grouping GFY.