Just trying to get a general feel, here…
We’ve seen Kazzy’s post about teaching with regards to personality type and saw, once again, my assumption that we’re all INTPs or INTJs.
Well, this is one of those things that is a HUGE assumption on my part and, heck, I’m probably wrong. BUT!, I asked myself, how can we DEMONSTRATE that Jaybird is wrong? Well… I suppose that we could take some personality tests? Maybe?
Which brings me to The Ordinary Gentlemen Personality Test Event! To be carried out in this very thread! Maybe we’ll learn something about ourselves along the way, maybe we’ll learn about our community, maybe we’ll just be doing our damnest to prove Jaybird wrong. It’s all good.
I took the Enneagram test from here and the Myers-Briggs test from here… as such, I figure that those would provide a common baseline for all of us. Take the test and tell us whad’ya got. I will do my best to neither wager nor reach a scientific conclusion based on the answers we get in the comments.
Edit: I just got an email (like five minutes ago, on March 13th, 2019) and a guy who spent years at the Enneagram Institute told me that the Institute doesn’t offer a free test anymore but you can take a free test here.
So if, for your own curiosity, you found this post and want to take the Enneagram test? Take that one! (The Myers-Briggs test still works as of this edit, fwiw.)
Edit2: All of the numbers that came in before the cutoff got tallied up way back in 2012 in this thread. If you’re curious.
I’ll go first:
Enneagram: 5
Myers-Briggs: INTP
Oh, and I’m a Libra.Report
I suppose I should also say that I appreciate that there are many readers out there who may have never commented on our site before. Please understand that I am *MOST* interested in your results.
“But I’ve never commented before and I don’t want to use my real name!”, I hear you say.
I can appreciate that. As such, I’m going to suggest you use the handle “Reader”, “Grippytape”, “Stoopgnome”, “Bradleycooperfan151”, or something that you’ve always *WISHED* that your nickname was as your handle for when you leave the comment telling us your Enneagram and your Myers-Briggs.
I’m trying to figure something out, you see… and I need your help to do it.
Thanks.Report
Anyone who needs help, I would recommend this for pseudonym generation. Codename and Nickname Generator will get you something pretty generic-like, though if you want to be a pirate or superhero, knock yourself out.Report
INTP
and thank you.Report
5 (1,6) “Investigator”
INTJ “Architect”
So, Forensic Architect is my dream job is my takeaway? Boy did I goof.
and thank you.Report
Okay, I’ll bite. I know forensic engineers; that job is to determine “Why did this device fail?” for devices defined broadly. What does a forensic architect do, answer “Why is this building ugly?”Report
Like I said, dream job.Report
Enneagram:3
MB: ENFP
It probably will do no good for me to go over once more why I think these tests are inherently flawed, so I’ll hold my tongue, except to say that 3/ENFPs totally rock.Report
I think that the “these tests are inherently flawed” post will be a perfect post for, oh, Tuesday.Report
Are you familiar with Dario Nardi’s work on personality typing and neuroscience? Of course people fear this is phrenology redux, but his studies are pretty intriguing.
http://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Personality-Brain-Insights-People/dp/0979868475Report
I don’t think that Myers-Briggs is phrenology because it’s at least repeatable.
You give someone three tests in similar circumstances over three months and you’ll get hella overlap. (Now it’s true that there is the phenomenon of how someone may be an INTP at home and an ESTP at their job doing sales or whatever and that’s interesting too… but if you give them three tests at work they’ll be consistently consistent.)Report
To some extent, I think it depends on who is being measured. Some people thwart tests by not having definitive traits in the specific areas being looked at. Some people fit more comfortably within a specific test’s paradigm.Report
I’ll look forward to that, Tod. I had to take 5 such tests a few weeks ago when I was interviewing for an different position with my employer. It seemed a bit excessive at the time.Report
Enneagram: 4/9, but I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t think 6 was most on-target.
MB: INTJ (I didn’t take that test, but heaven knows I’ve taken it a great many variations of it and with rare exception, it’s INTJ)Report
Enneagram: 5/7
MB: INFPReport
yep, INTP. Nothing novel or new to see over here.Report
4. ENTP.Report
Enneagram 9
ISTPReport
Enneagram 9
That fits–you’re a real pistol.Report
That’s what ISTP means — it’s short for istol-pay.Report
Nice.Report
I was ENTP on a MB test that was personally given by Mrs. Katharine Meyers. Somewhere around here I’ve got the original score sheet. The letters supposedly aren’t as important as the numbers but I don’t remember why. It has been at least 20 yrs.
My friend tried to license the MB test for something that he was going to do online and the foundation refused. In the end they were copied without royalties as far as I can tell, although my friend wasn’t the culprit by any means. He just brought me along to the meetings as the “internet expert” but she was very interested in me. When she asked if I was going to be involved in the new company I said “No, perhaps as an investment”. That might have been the deal killer I don’t know. I’ve taken /lots/ of tests in my life, they don’t mean that much to me. I am an inventor and an entrepreneur and she was very “See how accurate this is?” I said I could game the test and produce any outcome she wanted, she tested me verbally and agreed after she saw how I answered. She asked how long I’d studied their system and I said, “never”, which was entirely true. MB isn’t an intelligence test (of which I’ve had many) but it is a preference delineator.
Even though I think of these things as largely hocus pocus, there is a part of me that is wide open to them, because I like to believe there’s a bit of truth everywhere. Supposedly that’s my ENTP trait.Report
No one here has suggested that M-B is an intelligence test. It’s a safe bet that we’re all aware that it is a personality test. I would hope that your entrepreneurial friend was equally aware of this fact but in light of your anecdote, maybe not. Perhaps that explains why the M-B foundation refused their request. (That, and maybe your friend’s endeavor was seeking to make a profit from MBTI’s official online instrument for which they already charge a tidy $60)
In any event, personality test has long and ubiquitously served as an easy moniker to remember, so I’m not sure that “preference delineator” will catch on.Report
One thing that a full version of any serious personality test, including the M-B, does is include questions that are designed to detect response sets. It’s impossible completely prevent people from gaming the test, of course, and researchers expect that (it’s noise), but unless you’re really paying attention, it’s more difficult to do so than it might at first seem, because they throw questions in there to trip people up.
This is also what validity and reliability measures are for.Report
Wait, what?
That’s nothing like the test I took.
Mine asked questions like: “You’re walking in the desert, and you see a tortoise lying on its back…”Report
Underrated comment.Report
E: 6 points in “7”, 5 points in “1” and “4”
MB: INFP, but none more than “slight” or “moderate”.Report
I am both a lurker and someone who reads this site thoroughly on a near-daily basis.
Enneagram: 6/5
MB: INTJReport
Ennegram: 5
Myers-Briggs: INTPReport
I scored the exact same as Murali and JB. Who’d of thunk?Report
That makes 4 of us.
While I know there’s great skepticism about Myers-Briggs I tend to put some faith in it wholly on the basis of my reaction to it. When I read the section about INTPs, it all makes perfect sense, whereas reading about the others makes me feel like I’m an anthropologist studying a strange culture with mysterious rituals. At the extreme, the thought of being some of those types is positively repulsive (I’m sure they’re actually good people, I suppose). MB was really helpful to me, an awkward kid who didn’t fit in well, in coming to grips with myself at a time when I was deeply unhappy.
I’m deeply suspicious of the Enneagram because I found the questions really badly written. I’m suspect they weren’t written by an NT.Report
“I’m deeply suspicious of the Enneagram because I found the questions really badly written. I’m suspect they weren’t written by an NT.”
Allow me to rewrite that sentence as: “I’m deeply suspicious of my present biology course because I find the questions really badly written. I suspect they weren’t written by an NT. God, I miss orgo.” and you’ll have captured my exact thoughts on the prospect of spending the rest of today studying for my upcoming exam.Report
By the way, another interesting personality test might be to rank the core sciences:
1. General Chemistry
2. Organic Chemistry
3. Physics
4. Biology
for me. Any other takers?Report
What are we ranking them on?Report
Awesomeness, I guess. Feel free to throw in other subjects.Report
If it’s awesomeness, I think physics has to come first.
If it’s personal interest I’d put biology first–in my idiosyncratic view, the social/behavioral sciences are really just sub disciplines of biology. I guess I’d put physics second on the personal interest scale. I know diddly, but as a reductionist am fascinated at how fundamental it is, and lately I’ve been learning some about the history of physics and really enjoying it.Report
Only a physicists would propose ranking the sciences!Report
Obligatory xkcd.Report
I did get out my binoculars.Report
The science teacher at my school insists that, within the sciences, there is a tendency to rank the sciences based on the ease of “seeing” the science. Geology and natural sciences rank lowest: everyone can see rocks and mountains and volcanic eruptions. From there, you move to astronomy, biology (those two might be flip-flopped), chemistry, and then physics. As she put it, the more difficult a science is to see or perceive, the “harder” it is considered. You often see this in the way the sciences are sequenced in schools.
I don’t know how accurate she is, either in the tendency of those within science communities to do this or whether this is the wrong way to rank them, which she maintained. But it was an interesting theory.Report
1. Math
2. Physics
3. Biology
4. Gen Chem
5. Org ChemReport
Bah
1. Electrical Engineering
2. Mechanical Engineering
3. Chemical EngineeringReport
4. Social EngineeringReport
1) Biology
2) Organic chemistry
3) Physics
4) Having my eyes clawed out by a ravenous band of avenging Furies
5) General chemistryReport
4) Having my eyes clawed out by a ravenous band of avenging Furies
I think you can CREP that one.Report
Dammit , CLEP, not CREP.
Not that that makes the joke any funnier.Report
1. Astrology
2. Alchemy
3. General witchcraft
4. NumerologyReport
College: Miskatonic University
Course: Intro To Necromancy
Text: Necronomicon, duh (now available for Kindle!)
Syllabus: Fbzrguvat gung ybbxf fvavfgre jura lbh ebg13 vg.
Tuition includes field trip to The Mountains Of Madness!
Sign up today!Report
Oh and I’m a TaurusReport
So am I. We have two data points now, so I guess we can draw the conclusion that all
INTPs are Taurii.Report
Unfortunately Jaybird’s a Libra. Roger?Report
That explains any remaining personality differences.Report
Enneagram is all over the place:
Types 1, 5 and 6 get 6 points each
Types 7 and 9 get 5 points each
I don’t want to judge it myself which ‘describes’ me best.
MB: INTJ (but “You have marginal or no preference of Judging over Perceiving (1%)”)Report
Enneagram: 5/4
Myers-Briggs: INTJ
Read quite often but never comment.Report
Enneagram 2/3/7 (another three-way tie person here) and Myers-Briggs ENFP.Report
Enneagram: 7, followed closely by 2.
I didn’t bother to retake the Myers-Briggs, because I am always ENFP.Report
Me too on MBReport
Since other people are mentioning it, also a Leo. Even though I put no stock in astrology, I am exactly like what I’m told most Leos are like. (My brother, who is temperamentally very different from me, is also a Leo.)Report
Enneagram–somewhat all-over with 8 as the most frequent.
I’ve taken the Myers-Briggs numerous times and generally come out INTJ, sometimes ISTJ. My “I” score is always quite high.Report
Oops! I misread the Eneagram results. My score was 5/6.Report
And I’m a Leo for what it’s worth.Report
Enneagram 4, MB INFPReport
INTP no matter the instrument. And I may have commented before, I’m not sure.Report
Dunno from Ennegram; INTPReport
Oh, and I’m a Saggitarius.
I like long walks on the beach and coercive taxation.
My turnoffs include needy women and genocide.Report
space awesomeReport
Enneagram 2/5/ followed closely by 6 MB ENFJReport
oh yeah, I’m a VirgoReport
Hey Anne – am I rememberIng correctly that you’re in healthcare?Report
Wow I thought you were omnipotent. Nope Art Conservator/Art History/Anthropology
Off topic I am not getting follow up comments by email anymoreReport
Did I ever know that? That seems too cool a job for me to have spaced.Report
My TOD thinks my job is cool (giggle)
Don’t know I’ve sort of mentioned it around here before not sure if directly to youReport
I’m a pretty stable INFP.Report
Enneagram: 7 closely followed by 2 (no surprises)
Myers-Briggs: ESTJReport
My E and S were really high but it looks pretty close on the last two. My E will never change but my thinking and feeling will no doubt.Report
Enneagram Type 5,
Myers-Brigg INTPReport
Ennegram: 3-Way Tie: 3/5/7
Myers-Briggs: ENTJReport
MB: ENTP, extreme on the N scale.
E: 7 on 7 (; 6 on both 1 and 5.
I’ve read sporadically for a few years; comment occasionally. I came because of blog-roll links from several blogs I do read/participate in. I return because there’s discussion, and not so mich out-and-out trolling for trolling’s sake; the occasional worthwhile book review, etc. And there’s some sense that the majority of men here are at least willing to confront their male prerogative and misogyny; I commend the group for that.Report
Thank you so much for saying that. After these past few days I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this.Report
It’s not worth putting in the effort, not worth taking the risk, it there isn’t some hope of being heard, of effecting change.
Particularly given my personality profile.
So thank you.
And you’re welcome.Report
I was going to write “you have lady parts?” … meant as a humorous reference to the whole Kazzy/TVD kerfuffle, but too easily unappreciated/misunderstood.
I’m curious though – there’s plenty of preening going on at the LoOG – what does it say that (1) not many women are prominent in the discussion and (2) the men, esp the lefties from what I gather, are fairly self-conscious and concerned about it? For my part, the whole there-are-only-men-commenting reality wouldn’t even have occurred to me had it not been pointed out repeatedly.Report
Thing is, a mainly male commentariat is pretty common all over the Internet. So, this being yet another male-dominated space isn’t really surprising. It also means there aren’t many good templates out there for shifting the balance.Report
Does saying “I was going write,” and then writing it with the addendum that it would be easily misunderstood mean you didn’t write it?
But yes, I do have lady parts. It’s not questions like ‘do you have lady parts,’ that offend; it’s the suggestion that someone else knows best what I should do with those lady parts that offends.
Because they’re my lady parts. And they’re every bit as important to me as your man parts are to you. Including the mass of gray matter at the top of it all.Report
“And they’re every bit as important to me as your man parts are to you. Including the mass of gray matter at the top of it all.”
I would like to caution our male readers that if they do find a mass of gray matter on top of their man parts, they should consult a physician.Report
Does Dr. Saunders do comment calls?Report
In situations like this, I typically refer.Report
I think the verbose preamble mainly served to reduce the risk of being misunderstood (like some person who doesn’t know you making a borderline offensive catcall – I moved up a rung with the preamble, just a rung).
As for telling others what to do, I’m not so inclined – libertarian generally, pro-choice, and secular bordering on anti-religious.
I do take issue with much of pro-choice politics, such as the uncharitable view of pro-life folks that they want to control women and don’t value freedom. That’s just not a view that takes seriously how ANYONE would feel and behave if they felt that fetuses were full-fledged human beings, albeit weak and legally unprotected ones. Take the Democratic party’s talking points after Republicans tried to block provisions in PPACA that would require all insurance companies to cover birth control. This is a blatant new restriction on everyone’s economic freedom. Instead, the bat-shit-crazy right presented it as an assault on freedom of religion, which is absurd since the govt can raise general taxes to fund whatever already and this in no way restricts religious practice proper. The get-women-angry left declared, repeatedly, that the right was trying “to restrict women’s access to healthcare” which is absurd; it is absurd to call an attempt to prevent a new regulation from taking effect, one that has never been in effect during the whole of modern birth control, as an attempt to restrict “access” to healthcare. You can say that the right is trying to stop Democrats from expanding access, but you cannot act like they are trying to change the status quo when their position is to keep access, funding, and regulations the same as they have been for decades.
Anyway, I don’t have a dog in that fight, since for me it’s just the govt trampling economic freedoms, but not ones that matter much to me (since I don’t run a Catholic non-profit or depend on employer provided healthcare). But anyone who tends to root for arguments to be based on facts and truth-telling had to be fairly disgusted with both sides this spring.Report
What, now the other side deserves CHARITY?Report
This is, perhaps, the only blog anywhere on the entire Internet where “Do you have ladyparts” would not be offensive.Report
I’ve had enough of these baseless allegations. I do not and never have had ladyparts.
Especially not in the freezer in my basement.Report
Thanks for participating, Zic. I hope you stick around.Report
Ennegram: 1 followed closely by 5.
Myers-Briggs: INTJReport
Enneagram 9
MB ITSJ
Aquarius (on the cusp of Cancer*)
*Used to work with a lady who REALLY believed in this stuff, did a whole chart on me, taking my birth time, longitude and latitude etc and all I got out of it was that I am on the cusp…Report
I actually have a theory about astrology and how it might not *ENTIRELY* be crap.
It dates back to when the majority of civilization all lived in more or less the same place more or less and more or less every year was the same as every other year… and how food impacts personality and the first few months of life outside of the womb either being swaddled from the cold or allowed to kick free in the warm sunlight would result in various personality traits. A mother who ate a great deal of ripe fruit during the first trimester and had a baby who spent the first month swaddled but after that was allowed to kick around would have these traits… and a mother who ate salted meat and preserved foods during the first trimester and went on to have a kid who had his earliest days wrapped up for warmth followed by months of being wrapped up for warmth would have an entirely different personality.
And using the stars as a clock is just an example of mistaking the map for the territory.
“Ah, Jaybird. What about the Chinese Zodiac?”, I hear you ask.
“Dude. I have no idea.”Report
Oh, yeah, Chinese Zodiac. I’m a snake. And I hate that little twerp Harry Potter.Report
Heh, just read the following about the snake.
“People born in the year of the Snake often have a good temper and a skill at communicating but say little.”
How far off from me is that?
Maybe it doesn’t fit because I’m not Chinese.Report
Snakes are gay. At least so says fruit basket (and it’s reasonably accurate).
I love how people don’t know the sexual meanings behind these animals.
People should read more Chinese New Years cards.Report
And since hunting lessons began in the spring of the year a boy turned one-less-than-many, prowess at it was strongly correlated with being almost many rather than barely one-less-than-many.
By the way, I’m a Gemini/pig.Report
Hah, knew you were a pig. Me too, which might mean we’re only 12 yrs apart or you’re older than I thought you were. Leo and like Saunders have a Leo brother but his personality is similar to mine. Have a Libra brother and his personality /might/ be similar to Jaybird’s.
BTW pig in Mandarin sounds like Ju.Report
Heh.Report
Seems reasonable. Also, rabbit on Chinese zodiac — if what I just read online is “accurate,” a complete miss for me.Report
Rabbits are nurturers (Drogo from Game of Thrones)… I’d say being an pediatric doc fits nicely.
(also, they’re more likely to fixate on younger features as being “hot”).Report
East Asia climatological processes and then agricultural practices had less seasonal variation but had more year to year variation.
Alternatively, there is seasonal and year to year variation all over the world, but some cultures stumbled into and emphasized the seasonal aspects, while others stumbled into and emphasized the year to year aspects. (and some did a bit a both, probably the Mayans, because they’re good for this sort of thing).
Or it’s all made up.Report
Chinese zodiac ensures that men are about 5 years older than women when they get married. Simple objective, clearly realized.Report
There do appear to be generational cycles as well, though I doubt they’re anywhere near regular enough to line up with the Chinese zodiac.Report
Not surprising to see so many NTs here. NTs love to systematize and synthesize information, and so they’re overrepresented in the sciences, including the kind of social science talked about on this site. Many economists and virtually all programmers and engineers are NTs. But I’m surprised to not see as many NFs here, because they gravitate toward the social sciences and the humanities (especially philosophy). Personally, I’m an INFP who has bouts of INTP-ness — one of my best friends is a personality researcher and an INTP who says I’m his favorite INFP because I’m still capable of conversing in scientific terminology.
I can also confirm that Ns and Ts are overrepresented in the legal field (from which this site draws many members, I wager). The career services center at my law school gave us a list of MBTI types showing that Ns and Ts are each overrepresented compared to the general population by a factor of 2-1 or 3-1. Being an NF in law school is interesting because we tend to gravitate together: Almost all of the people in my law school friend group are NFs, and we’re one of the most tightly-knit social groups at the school.Report
If that’s the case how do you explain all the liberal arts majors? Where do econ geeks fit in?Report
Whoops. Sorry, Mr. Greer. I went back and read your comment again while there wasn’t a big play on the TV. You addressed all of those points already.
I shall endeavor to comprehend the whole comment in the future.Report
It’s the iNtuiting and Thinking that are apparently valuable traits for lawyers, which is why NTs are so overrepresented. But NFs are also fairly well-represented in law school (which is where you get your stereotypical lib-arts majors), as are STs. And because SFs are a pretty large portion of the general population, there are a lot of them in law schools even though NTs are overrepresented.
I’d guess most econ quants are NTs, but the more philosophical econ-y people would trend NF. I’d guess people like Murray Rothbard or Amartya Sen (and maybe Hayek) would be NFs, while the Milton Friedmans and Austan Goolsbees of the world would be NTs.Report
I’ll add that the NFs in my friend group are an ENFJ film major, an INFP philosophy major (me), an INFJ polisci/Russian literature major, an ENFP physics econ major (which seems less incongruous when you learn he attended a liberal arts college) and an ENFJ polisci/history major. The sole NT studied finance/econ.Report
I’d venture to guess my NF students are the ones who dread my methods class. I had a math/Pesci major I’d bet my bippy was an NT and he just grooved on methods. Now working in an advanced degree in mathematical finance, I think.Report
NTs love to systematize and synthesize information
And Vistas love to garble it.Report
… does vista have bigger breasts than NT?
(the japanese, they anthropomorphize everything…)Report
rare commenter, avid reader
INTJ, with the T and J always “slightly”, and the I and N lnways “strongly”, no matter how many sites I go and take the test.
In the Eneagram, I am all over the place. it’s easier to say what I am not:
Type 8: zero
Type 2: one
Types 3 and 6: six
Types 4, 5 and 9: five
Types 1 and 7: four
which I take to mean taht I am a total mismatch of anything that is not 8 or 2.
I find the M-B quite accurate, including the almost being an F and a P, but I don’t find myself being really a not 8-not 2. It must be my strong N that has a problem with the Eneagram 🙂
That, or being a Scorpio, with Aquarius rising, and a Water Tiger, both of which, I am scared to say, are quit accurate descriptions of my personalityReport
Enneagram: 1/5
MB: INTJ
OG: Infrequent reader, complete lurker.Report
Enneagram: 1/3
Myers-Briggs: INTJ
Next we can test IQ and see how the libertarians dominate … that’s a joke … sort of.Report
Only if we also all take an autism diagnostic.Report
There’s one here.Report
Thanks, J.Report
For empathy, I’ll take libertarians over the traditional left or right. For instance, most libertarians have a lot more sympathy for what it must be like to be a pro-life American than your average pro-choice Democrat does (who cannot get past how wrong they think pro-life folks are).Report
Oh. so youw ant sympathy… *sharpens pencil* sure, I’ll give you some “sympathy”Report
No, if it’s sympathy you seek, generally the left will do (unless it’s not PC) … for empathy however look elsewhere.Report
Enneagram: 5
MB: INTJReport
Enneagram: 3/7, though also high in 5 and 6
MB: ENTJReport
Are you a Capricorn by any chance?Report
Virgo.Report
Oh, don’t tell me I’m the only INFJ!!
E: equal 3 and 5 at 7 each. I don’t know much about this test, but the blurbs seemed kinda accurate to me.
While we’re at it, I’m a Capricorn and a dragon (metal), both if which seem eerily accurate to me.Report
1% of the population, dude. My heart would go out to you if I wasn’t an INTP.Report
Suddenly all this loneliness makes sense.Report
I’m a Capricorn too, but it doesn’t look like we have many letters or numbers in common.Report
FTR I think nearly all of this is of minimal to negligible value. But you’re looking to accumulate data and I’m happy to help out a friend.
My enneagram was very well-balanced. Type 3 was only one point ahead of types 6, and 7 and two points ahead of types 1, 2, and 9.
My Myers-Briggs is ENTJ. E scoredat 1%. J scored at 78%.
Today is my birthday. Which astrological sign that makes me depends on which sorcerer you ask. My Voight-Kampff confirms that I am nonsynthetic.Report
Happy Birthday Burt! Open a nice bottle of hooch to celebrate 🙂Report
Happy Birthday, Burt! (And, from what I understand, Voight-Kampff doesn’t confirm nonsynthetic status as much as it merely confirms synthetic status. While the early models weren’t very sophisticated and could be outed after a handful of questions, the new models require hundreds of questions to confirm and there’s reason to believe that the test just doesn’t work anymore. So I have been told.)Report
Happy Birthday!!!Report
Tie between 4 & 5, INFP. Very surprised to find other INFP’s here; I seem to remember being told it’s really rare years ago when I took the test.Report
I seem to recall the numbers being something like there is a 75%/25% E/I split, a 75%/25% S/N split, a 50/50 T/F split (but there is a gender bias insofar as men are 60/40 T/F and women are 40/60 T/F), and a 50/50 J/P split.
So if you’re an IN, you’re one of the really rare types no matter what your T/F or J/P happens to be.Report
Enneagram: 4
M/B: INFP
A regular reader.Report
5. ISTP.
(Dude, I have an inkling of where you’re going with this. If I’m right – I LIKE it.)Report
Oh, crap! Maybe I am and maybe I’m not! (rot13 your guess for me… I was thinking about qbvat n yvggyr fbzrguvat nobhg gur qvssrerag pbzzhavpngvba fglyrf gung gur qvssrerag crefbanyvgl glcrf unir, qvssrerag nhgbzngvp nffhzcgvbaf gung graq gb or znqr, naq qvssrerag jnlf gung qvssrerag glcrf gnyx cnfg rnpu bgure. But nothing’s gelling.)Report
Lrf. Gung’f rknpgyl jung V gubhtug. V ubcr lbh trg fbzr vagrerfgvat erfhygf jura lbh pbzcvyr gur qngn. Bar guvat V zragvbarq va gur pbzzrag guernq nobhg GIQ vf gung gubfr bs hf (be … jryy … zr, ng yrnfg) jub unir n graqrapl gb guvax nanylgvpnyyl, erqhpgviryl, rgp, pna orpbzr bireyl vafvfgrag gung *gung* glcr bs pbzzhavpngvba vf gur bayl rssrpgvir jnl gb trg gb gur Gehgu Bs Guvatf. Jr pna orpbzr vasyrkvoyr engvbanyvfgnf nobhg vg. Ohg vg’f cerggl nccnerag – boivbhf, ernyyl – gung bgure crbcyr ner gelvat gb qb fbzrguvat ryfr jvgu gurve pbzzragf orpnhfr gurl’er nccebnpuvat qvfpbhefr sebz n qvssrerag cbi.Report
Ogj, jura V fnl vg’f boivbhf gung crbcyr ner gelvat gb qb bgure guvatf, V zrna *abj gung V ernyvmr vg* vg’f boivbhf. Cngevpx trgf gur perqvg sbe cbvagvat bhg gung oyvaqfcbg va zl guvaxvat.Report
This seems like an invitation:
Speaking in tongues, however, does not. I admit to confusion on the invitation front.Report
Zic-
Rot13 is a basic “code” that is used to avoid “spoilers”. If you follow the Rot13 link, you can copy-and-paste what’s typed here and it will translate it for you. If you’d rather not have anything spoiled, you don’t have to worry about accidentally reading something. It’s not intended to render things “private”, as its usage is almost always accompanied with the link to the translator; it’s simply used to avoid inadvertent spoilage.Report
Thanks, Kazzy and wardsmith. I’ll keep it in my virtual cracker jack box.
/Abe C ydrgidy cy ,ao yflcbi cb Dvorak; but there were too many vowels.Report
Qwerty <-> Dvorak is an awesome one, but it has a direction. Rot13 lets you jump back and forth without having to know which direction you need to go in. There’s only one: 13 letters around.Report
Here’s the secret decoder ring Zic.Report
Sorry, Zic. It’s something we use a lot on the Mindless Diversions site when we’re talking about books or tv shows or movies or whatnot.
It allows people who have seen whatever it is to talk about the stuff without ruining everything for people who haven’t but intend to.
For example, “The butler did it” translates to “Gur ohgyre qvq vg” (and vice-versa) when you put it into a rot13 encoder.Report
ISTP
Cripes. I don’t know why I wrote that down, Jaybird, and I’m not sure it matters, but I actually tested as an INTJ.Report
This makes much more sense but I didn’t want (and fully intend to not) ever write a comment that says “really, you’re this personality type? You strike me more as a that!” when it comes to someone that I speak to only via ascii.
But I was tempted to.Report
Eenegram: 4/5/6/9 tie. Yeah, I don’t know.
INTJ (I 89, N 31, T 12, J 22)Report
Oh, and I’m a Pisces.Report
INTP. Enneagram is a three-way tie, with two others only one point behind: mostly I’m not type 2 or 8.Report
Enneagram: 2/4/9
Meyers-Briggs: ESFP
The M-B test made me feel like I was giving the answers I wanted, not the answers I thought were correct (does that make sense?). I didn’t get that feeling with the Ermagerd…er…Enneagram test.Report
Extravert(44%) Sensing(38%) Feeling(38%) Perceiving(44)%Report
The M-B test made me feel like I was giving the answers I wanted, not the answers I thought were correct (does that make sense?). I didn’t get that feeling with the Ermagerd…er…Enneagram test.
That’s exactly what I thought, too.Report
Same here. On the other hand, with the full Enneagram test, I might have felt more comfortable skipping the questions that didn’t have good answers.Report
I felt the opposite – the MB makes sense to me after about a decade of coming out the same even when I’m not expecting to, while the Enneagram generally seems to function as a mood test for the last 2 or 3 weeks rather than as any kind of personality assessment.Report
On Myers Brigg I am a INFJ, and on the enneagram, I am a Type 6.Report
Enneagram: 9 (7pts)/ 6 (6pts)/ 2 (5pts)
Briggs Myers: INTJReport
Forgot to include the % breakdowns on my Briggs:
Introvert(89%) iNtuitive(25%) iNtuitive Thinking(1%) Judging(22%)Report
“Your actions are frequently influenced by emotions – Y/N”
I answered “yes”, because I think anyone who answers “no” is fooling themselves. Did anyone else have a problem with this question?Report
I think that shows you answered the question right for yourself. For others, it may be different.Report
I think it depends on how you define “frequently”, which will vary from person to person.Report
Well, it’s a matter of degree. And also how likely differently personality types are to believe/admit to it.Report
I get the gist of the question; I just object the superficial framing of “influcence by emotions”. Someone else might jump up and down, hooting and hollering for joy after a stranger told them they just won the lottery. I, on the other hand, would give that guy a Spock-like eyebrow raise, and go into detective mode to first determine if I had really won the lottery, or if Ashton Kutcher was hiding in bush somewhere ready to punk me. I could claim I was “not influenced by emotions (in this case, joy), but that would be wrong, since I am being influenced by the fear of “inappropriately reacting” to misinformation.Report
It seems as if people tend to be strong either E or I, but many of the other things seem much closer to the middle. Is this accurate? If so, why?Report
I come out 50/50 (or darn close) every time on the E/I, and way over on the P side of J/P almost every time…Report
Not me. I’m very strong N, T and P as well.
In recent years, with our kids’s schedules, and traveling with kids, I’ve had to act a lot more J (more planned, less spontaneous). It works really well, and at times is a big relief. But it’s not natural, and I look forward to the day when the wife and I can get back to winging everything.Report
Enneagram: 5
Briggs Myers: INTJ
But only the N is strong, everything else is moderate.
I prefer the Big 5.Report
enneagram: 4 | 6
Briggs Meyers: INTJ
The Briggs Meyers even nailed my career, how depressing. I guess I’ll keep my engineering job as I’m not cut out to be a bartender on a beach in Australia.Report
Ennagram: 5
Briggs/Meyers: INTJ, STRONG on the I.Report
Hi everyone! Long time listener, first time caller.
MB: Didn’t take that version, but I’m consistently an INTJ.
Enneagram: I scored 5 or 6 points in all categories except Type2, Type 7, and Type 8. So I guess that makes me a type 1/3/4/5/6/9
Zodiacs: Aquarius/Sheep
Political leanings: libertarian-ish with a preference for social safety nets (and yes, my Autism Quotient score was 24)
Career: Chemical EngineerReport
Ennagram: 7
Briggs/Meyers: ESTJReport
Twins! I knew that I liked you for some reason.Report
Enneagram: 2, by a hair more than everything other than 8; very very much Not-8
Meyers/Briggs: XNFP (50/50 split on E/I)
Mostly I agree with Tod, although, as you know, I also find my face-to-face gut-level attraction toward (and thus ability to identify) INTPs rather disconcerting. (I think it’s because they often remind me of Jaybird…)Report
I have to say, I notice that too. I can generally pick out the INTPs but I admit I have a hard time distinguishing with the other personality types.Report
INTJ as always, but the Internet draws introverted NT types like crazy since they seem to appear in high ratios in certain types of strategy/videogaming forums whenever Myers-Briggs goes around.
Frequent lurker, and for those concerned about lack of minorities and women. It is a general thing that happens with the Internet, Libertarians and Republicans unless you specifically cater to their viewpoints. It is rather illuminating to see what people who don’t live so much in abstract thought actually do btw.Report
It is rather illuminating to see what people who don’t live so much in abstract thought actually do btw
If you can call that living. 😉Report
I should point out that there’s a rather big INTJ mailing list that’s been around for years and years. NT types tend to attract each other in person as well, since I have a disproportionately high number of INTJ, INTP, ENTJ, ENTP friends despite their % of population.
Yes, I have a problem with Myers-Briggs just like all the other INTJs above probably do.Report
INFJ. Lots of N, lots of J, medium on F/T.Report
Woo, we are the 1%Report
Yeah, I saw that from higher up in the thread. Lol, not sure if we should feel special, freakish, or both!Report
Enneagram: 1/4/6
MB: INTJReport
Enneagram: 5/9
MB: INTP, strong I, moderate N and T, slight P
Zodiacs: Cancer, Sheep
AQ: 32
Career: Bookbinder/business owner
Lurker extroardinaireReport
Enneagram: 5
MB: ESTJ
Taurus/Dragon
Gentleman lurker & wall-to-wall reader of blogReport
Enneagram: 1/7
MB: INTJReport
Enneagram: 4
Myers-Briggs: INFPReport
Enneagram: 6 Points in types 5&6; 5 points in types 1&9.
MB: INTJ but every single one is only slightly (single digit differences).
GemeniReport
Enneagram: Type 7, with Type 9 in close pursuit.
MB: INTPReport
Enneagram 3/5/7 tie (with 6 right behind)
M/B: slight E, marginal S, moderate T, slight PReport
1/3/9
INTJReport
ENTP, but I’m actually more of an Introvert than Myers Briggs suggests.
I am that peculiar personality type that codes as “introvert pretending to be extrovert.”
If you’re one, you’ll know what I’m talking about.Report
“introvert pretending to be extrovert.” might explain the Ascii Tourettes.Report
INFP/J (Depending on the phase of the moon)
6/4/9Report
Wouldn’t you know it, just when I’m looking for some engaging distraction from a necessary but icky task (one that involves the wearing of household gloves- ’nuff said), y’all come through. In what is probably an unimagined sense of the word, you are indeed Gentlemen.
Enneagram: 1/5/6/7 all tied, followed closely by 3.
Using my toes as a rough metric: I’ve got six little piggies in The Thinking Center, two in The Feeling Center, and two in The Instinctive Center.
It’s not news to me that I’m kinda complicated, but I suspect my scattered results are best translated as: fork over 10 bucks for the full ride.
M-B: INTJ
Professionally administered, I’ve taken this test several times since the late 1980’s. In more recent years, I’ve taken it as many times online. The end result has never changed, although the degree to which I lean has ever been in flux. Apparently I’m now straddling the fence between T & F with only the teensiest lean toward T, that’s new. Plus, I’m used to being on the E/I fence and I think I lean more heavily I than before.
In the spirit of complete disclosure of arguably useful personality assessments:
Gemini, Virgo rising. Strictly speaking, I’m not on the Taurus/Gemini cusp, but had I been born on my official due date I’d be a Taurus.
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Well then. No more goofing off for me.
I’m off to read the referenced Kazzy post, and I don’t even have to pretend like it’s more important than the icky task presently haunting me. (Sure, I’m still procrastinating, but it feels more defensibly constructive.)Report
Enneagram: Type 5 (with a score of 7; I had scores of 6 for Types 4, 4, and 6)
Myer Briggs: INTJ with a “weak” J. Plausible — in the past I’ve invariably been scored as an INTP with a weak P, but it’s been a decade or more since I last took the test.Report
It proved impossible for me to take either the Enneagram or the Jung personality (Meyer-Briggs) test because the answers to all questions were both YES and NO. In all cases.
This suggests a test format so poorly designed that, regardless of the pseudoscientific basis of the test criteria, the tests have no meaning.Report
I realize you’ve already finalized and collated your results but just for the heck of it, I scored 1/5/3 (with respective scores of 8/7/6) on the Ennegram (RHETI Sampler) and I usually come out as an INTJ on the Meyers-Brigg test (occasional variances to INTP or ENTJ depending on mood).Report
If there are ever additional results that are welcome, it’s additional results that confirm biases.Report
The RHETI Sampler test is no longer offered by the Enneagram Institute. 🙁
However, here is another free enneagram test that you can use.Report
I’ve updated the post. Thank you!Report
And I updated the post again with a link to where we tallied up the numbers.Report