A little filler

[pameladean]

I'm chopping up the trip report a bit so as to accommodate both those who want cut tags and those who don't. In the meantime:

ISFP - "Artist". Interested in the fine arts. Expression primarily through action or art form. The senses are keener than in other types. 5% of the total population.

Take Free Myers-Briggs Personality Test

This is not an utterly crazy evaluation, but how I did hate answering those questions. Context! It depends on context! They don't give you any!

Pamela

Comments

[sdn.livejournal.com]

i did mine and was (as i have always been) an ENFP. so i guess we have FP in common.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I came up ISTJ, as opposed to my usual INTJ, but the S/N percentages were 52/47, so clearly that one depends on what mood I'm in. The others were all much more emphatic. :)

I don't like being told I'm a "guardian of time-honored institutions," though, because I don't think I am. I'm wondering if their test doesn't distinguish quite clearly enough between personal conservatism (change is bad! new experiences are scary!) and social/intellectual conservatism.

Can you tell I'm avoiding my dissertation?

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Yes, context. I wound up choosing the center circle on many of the questions, because my answer was "It depends."

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those sorts of tests (plus all the labeling, laying claim to the names of various long-dead people as being embodiments of those labels, etc.) are kind of run-screaming things for me.

[pameladean]

Oh, that's hilarious, because I did fill out the place where one is allowed to comment on the test, and I said my motto was, "It depends."

Pamela

[pameladean]

I think you are entirely correct; that's exactly the split I felt was not addressed.

You're not avoiding your dissertation, you are recharging your spiritual batteries.

Pamela

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Good old ESFP ("The Entertainer") - what a surprise. I waffle back and forth between that and ENFP every time I take a Meyers-Briggs.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I got 'Administrator', (which I'm sure is wrong) - I filled out the center circle in almost all of the questions, because there was no option for 'sometimes this, sometimes that.'

On being an "E N [huh] P" --

[jonsinger.livejournal.com]

That's the way Michael Butler used to describe it, and it covers him, too.

Also me, for that matter -- I think I was something like 33/35/3/33 (EN ...just barely F... P) in a moderately formal testing, back in 1991; but that's memory, so take it with a few grains of salt.

I have another objection to questions on tests of this general sort: not only does it depend, as Pamela and others point out; but a lot of tests include questions about whether you like or dislike something, or which of two things you like better ...and then fail to allow you to express conflict or ambivalence. As far as I'm concerned, that precludes an accurate result. If I say much more about this, however, I shall commence to ranting, which I'd rather not do right now, so I think I'll leave it at that.

Best --
jon

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

I got ISFJ this time instead of INFJ, which I've gotten forever. Funnily enough an evil ex-coworker of mine was ENFJ, and we hated each other.

Introverted (I) 69.44% Extroverted (E) 30.56%
Sensing (S) 56.1% Intuitive (N) 43.9%
Feeling (F) 53.33% Thinking (T) 46.67%
Judging (J) 57.14% Perceiving (P) 42.86%

moi

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

What I find particularly interesting about this go-round with MB is the number of LJers turning up introverts. Everyone on my friends list has so far. The only extroverts I've seen are the ones who've replied here. This may be a function of the fact that I'm very introverted and I guess we get along best with each other. Which makes sense.

MKK

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Woh! Snap! and this one didn't make any sense to me whatsoever. I suppose the 'guardian of time-honored institutions' thing might apply to guarding archives, but otherwise it didn't resonate at all - sounded like a Girl Guide captain, which hardly fits with all the 'like to be alone/not a people person' things I ticked. But it's a very coarse filter - there were lots of questions to which any real answer would be, in some sets of circumstances yes, in others no; e.g. I like to think that my desk may look chaotic, but I do actually get things organised and done.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

I tried to go take the test, but got caught on the preliminary survey stuff -- in particular:

"Write a uniquely relevant test question which would identify someone with your personality."

I mean, what the hell?? They want I should write test questions for them? That's way too much effort just to get in to take a test, even if I were any good at writing questions that are "uniquely relevant", which I'm not. Did everyone else here really do that?

I usually show up as INTJ, just by the by (once upon a time, I used to be INTX; as I have aged, I have drifted towards J; I've also become a lot more punctual). However, I think that this Skeptic's Dictionary article makes a number of good points.

[pameladean]

Well, I actually did, but I didn't think they wanted to use it in future versions of the test, I thought they just wanted some kind of calibration tool.

Mine wasn't very cooperative, anyway. I put something like, "I find these kinds of tests impossible because they do not allow for context or nuance" and then put "STRONGLY AGREE" after it. For some reason I found the scale of accuracy to be very offputting.

Pamela

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Lots of people are getting S instead of N. I think that test is messed up, honestly. I'm so not-S it isn't funny.