What’s your Myers Briggs personality type?

cuddlesfordays1cuddlesfordays1
edited May 2019 in General

Continuing in the current vein of personality questionnaires aired in the forums, I thought it’d be interesting to see what our fellow cuddlers have typed as. For those who don’t know, according to wiki, Myers Briggs is an introspective self-report questionnaire with the purpose of indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world around them and make decisions based on Carl Jung’s philosophy. It also isn’t necessarily accurate, but like zodiac signs, blood types, or an animal preference, it can be a bit of fun to discuss. ;)

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  • cuddlesfordays1cuddlesfordays1

    I’m an INFJ ?

  • MissAdventurousMissAdventurous

    ENFJ.
    Though I'm a 1% cusp of INFJ

    I'm like the 1-2% of thinkers in the world. According to this MB test.?

  • [Deleted User]CharlesTwisted (deleted user)

    I’m a homeschooled snap pea.

    Much like the two ladies who made this up, with not a shred of education, training, certification, or experience in the fields of psychology, sociology, or cultural anthropology.

    Also, I’m a Capricorn, and part Stegosaurus on my father’s side of the family...

    The ladies themselves.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/myers-briggs-personality-test-is-misleading-2014-6

  • [Deleted User]CharlesTwisted (deleted user)

    Also, ENFJ.

    I’m not immune to conversation starters, even knowing what I know about cold reading, salesmanship, and performance...

  • cuddlesfordays1cuddlesfordays1

    @CharlesTwisted @FunCartel I did emphasise it was all a bit of fun, you Scorpios ?

  • HoneyBooBooHoneyBooBoo

    Those who sell it and administer it may have a bias, but why would the business world continue to use the test unless it was useful?

    Took it twice corporately, and once online a few months ago.

    ISTP

    https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

  • cuddlesfordays1cuddlesfordays1

    @HoneyBooBoo interesting! Does your profession generally slot in with the “Istp” type?

  • cuddlesfordays1cuddlesfordays1

    @CharlesTwisted that’s a very choice picture haha Would you take the test more seriously if we photoshopped some spectacles and a lab coat onto the mother-daughter team?

  • cuddlesfordays1cuddlesfordays1

    @MissAdventurous nice! What do you mean by “thinkers”?

  • HoneyBooBooHoneyBooBoo
    edited May 2019

    @cuddlesfordays1

    I have no recollection of my full score but I was an I at both corporate tests, and just recently. In a room of sales and account reps. 60% E, 40% I

    I became a split personality. I could turn on the extroverted side of myself when it was obviously needed. But when it wasn't essential, especially away from work, I would avoid crowds, meeting new people and so on.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    @HoneyBooBoo Some states have outlawed the administration of personality tests by employers. Academia has denounced the test as a novelty without much intrinsic value. Just because you took it does not mean much other than your employer seems to be misguided as to its importance.

  • PlushandPerfectPlushandPerfect

    ENFP

  • HoneyBooBooHoneyBooBoo

    As I recall, it had no role in hiring or retention at Blue Cross.

    Later, i had a job with A. J. Gallagher as a Senior Benefit Consultant. They administered several test, including math, and I met with a psychologist for 25 minutes. Had to pass, whatever that meant, to be hired. I got used to it. Took an actuarial and underwriting test once for a job outside that department. Go figure.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    @cuddlesfordays1 I do not find snake oil fun. It is like lying to yourself. The more people talk about these tests the more it lends popular credence to them. They are dangerous. The USSR used to use these tests to label people by the age of 12 and use the results to assign people to what they would do for the rest of their lives. That is not cute. It is soul crushing.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    @HoneyBooBoo So if it had no bearing on your employment, then you could refuse to take the test?

  • cuddlesfordays1cuddlesfordays1
    edited May 2019

    @FunCartel I really wasn’t meaning to offend anyone. Of course human beings are far too complex to categorise in such a general way and consider it completely accurate. I just thought it was a fun conversation starter like star signs or blood types. I would hate for cuddle comfort to turn into the ussr haha

  • WorthyWorthy

    Big believer in Myers-Briggs and also a mental health professional and therapist. INFP.

  • cuddlesfordays1cuddlesfordays1

    @Worthy nice! A mental health professional seems like a natural fit then :)

  • hogboblinhogboblin

    This means something. I guess.

  • HoneyBooBooHoneyBooBoo

    @FunCartel

    It was the fun part of two days training. No one felt threatened that I'm aware of. I'm not even sure results were reported to the company. There was open discussion and nearly all agreed it was accurate

  • [Deleted User]checkingthings (deleted user)

    (E/I)NFJ

    I had a job not long ago that used this test during training; not as a requirement or to judge, we all had been working there at least a year.

    Rather, it was a way to get everyone thinking about , acknowledging, and understanding that we all do things differently because we each think differently.

    It was meant to get us all to be at least a little more sympathetic, empathetic, and respectful.

    It was fun.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel
    edited May 2019

    @HoneyBooBoo You did not answer the question. Can you turn down taking the test? Whether it was fun is not relevant.

  • HoneyBooBooHoneyBooBoo

    @FunCartel

    1993 is too long ago to remember

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel
    edited May 2019

    @HoneyBooBoo I only ask because most states prohibit personality tests from being administered for employment, as a condition to retaining employment, or even for informational purposes. The latter falls under privacy laws. If you felt coerced or compelled into taking the test for fear of losing your job you could have sued your employer and most likely won.

    But 1993 is too long ago and corporations are much smarter today about this stuff. Any employer using it now, at least in the private sector, is opening themselves up to an invasion of privacy lawsuit. This has been proven time and time again in court because the test has no empirical value as to whether a person can perform a duty but it does force the individual to reveal their basic thoughts and thinking processes. An interesting fact about this was one of the first cases brought against an employer for using an MBPT was a refugee from the former Soviet Union who freaked out because the test was used for insidious intent in his former country. He won the case. So much for the illusion that we are any better than anyone else in another country. We are not.

  • HoneyBooBooHoneyBooBoo
    edited May 2019

    @FunCartel I was tested (not MB) by an insurance company. It was necessary to get as sales manager job in1985.

    Again, late 1997, consulting firm, also not MB. Got both jobs. Whatever that proves

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel
    edited May 2019

    That proves it was before the flurry of lawsuits that cropped up in the late 90s and early 00s.

  • SuperManCuddlesSuperManCuddles

    My type is ENFJ.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    Here is an excellent book on the history of the test and the problems with it. The author, Merve Emre, is a distinguished professor at Oxford and holds degrees from Harvard and Yale.

    https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Personality_Brokers.html?id=_2FDDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button

  • HoneyBooBooHoneyBooBoo

    https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-employer-require-me-take-personality-test.html

    I am in an At Will State

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