21-02-2014, 01:37 AM
In college, I took a course that made us find out our personality type. Per the penultimate and ever reliable source Wikipedia, personality types are defined thusly: "The psychological classification of different types of individuals." To establish our personality type, I took the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire which asks some basic questions. Again, from Wikipeida: "The questionnaire was designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions ... Jung theorized that there are four principal psychological functions by which we experience the world: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. One of these four functions is dominant most of the time." Quoting more: "The MBTI preferences indicate the differences in people based on the following:
How they focus their attention or get their energy (extraversion or introversion)
How they perceive or take in information (sensing or intuition)
How they prefer to make decisions (thinking or feeling)
How they orient themselves to the external world (judgment or perception)
By using their preference in each of these areas, people develop what Jung and Myers called psychological type. This underlying personality pattern results from the dynamic interaction of their four preferences, in conjunction with environmental influences and their own individual tendencies. People are likely to develop behaviors, skills, and attitudes based on their particular type. Each personality type has its own potential strengths as well as areas that offer opportunities for growth.
The MBTI tool consists of multiple choice questions that sort respondents on the basis of the four "dichotomies" (pairs of psychological opposites). Sixteen different outcomes are possible, each identified by its own four-letter code, referred to by initial letters. (N is used for iNtuition, since I is used for Introversion). The MBTI is approximately 75% accurate according to its own manual."
After taking the MBTI, I found out that I am an INTJ. That is, I am more introverted than extroverted; more intuitive than sensing; more thinking than feeling; and more judging than perceiving.
I was wondering if anyone else has taken this test and, if so, what are you? The reason I ask, is I am curious to see if there are common personalities and what that could possibly mean.
If you are interested, you can take a test that's essentially the MBTI: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
How they focus their attention or get their energy (extraversion or introversion)
How they perceive or take in information (sensing or intuition)
How they prefer to make decisions (thinking or feeling)
How they orient themselves to the external world (judgment or perception)
By using their preference in each of these areas, people develop what Jung and Myers called psychological type. This underlying personality pattern results from the dynamic interaction of their four preferences, in conjunction with environmental influences and their own individual tendencies. People are likely to develop behaviors, skills, and attitudes based on their particular type. Each personality type has its own potential strengths as well as areas that offer opportunities for growth.
The MBTI tool consists of multiple choice questions that sort respondents on the basis of the four "dichotomies" (pairs of psychological opposites). Sixteen different outcomes are possible, each identified by its own four-letter code, referred to by initial letters. (N is used for iNtuition, since I is used for Introversion). The MBTI is approximately 75% accurate according to its own manual."
After taking the MBTI, I found out that I am an INTJ. That is, I am more introverted than extroverted; more intuitive than sensing; more thinking than feeling; and more judging than perceiving.
I was wondering if anyone else has taken this test and, if so, what are you? The reason I ask, is I am curious to see if there are common personalities and what that could possibly mean.
If you are interested, you can take a test that's essentially the MBTI: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
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