Just did an MBTI personality test.

[stinkwheel]

My girlfriend is taking part in a study where someone is checking what personality types work in her profession.

They are using a Myers-Briggs/Jung personality test.

Out of interest, I just did an online version which is nowhere near as extensive as the one she's doing but gives you some idea.

I normally scoff at these kind of test but this one seems scarily accurate! I did three different online versions and they all came up with the same result.

https://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
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[st3v3]

Your Type is:

ESTJ

Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging

Strength of the preferences %
78 12 25 1


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[The Original Muzza]

Your Type is
INTP
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
56 12 50 44

I prefer those online tests which tell me how gay I am or which Harry Potter character. Detachment from reality is how I like to live.
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[ms51ves3]

Your Type is:

ENTJ

Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 50 62 44

[stinkwheel]

I got INTP. You missed the clicky on what that means though.

It would apparently suit me for a career in teaching, natural sciences, computing or engineering. Uncanny when you consider I'm a motorcycling vet who spends an inordinate amount of time on the internet.

The intersting bit is where you look up what traits they expect your type to have.

You can look it up on wikipedia or similar.

EDIT: Worth noting that quite a few companies now use this type of test to help decide if they want to employ you.
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[The Original Muzza]

[Tarmacsurfer]

So INTP is supposedly around the 1-5% bracket? There seems to be a few responding to this thread...

(Yes, that's what I scored as)
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[Ste]

Famous people of your particular type
Charles Bronson

[smegballs]

I got ENFP with a preference of


Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
22 12 31 56


Clicked on one of the links and apparently this makes me a Champion!! WooHoo

Again its described me very well

[Walloper]

ENFJ
Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
56 75 12 11
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[Hetzer]

Ooh, I'm a "mastermind", INTJ (44 25 25 22 ). According to the blurb I'm very rare, "comprising no more than 1% of the population".

"Rational Portrait of the Mastermind (INTJ)
All Rationals are good at planning operations, but Masterminds are head and shoulders above all the rest in contingency planning. Complex operations involve many steps or stages, one following another in a necessary progression, and Masterminds are naturally able to grasp how each one leads to the next, and to prepare alternatives for difficulties that are likely to arise any step of the way. Trying to anticipate every contingency, Masterminds never set off on their current project without a Plan A firmly in mind, but they are always prepared to switch to Plan B or C or D if need be.

Masterminds are rare, comprising no more than, say, one percent of the population, and they are rarely encountered outside their office, factory, school, or laboratory. Although they are highly capable leaders, Masterminds are not at all eager to take command, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once they take charge, however, they are thoroughgoing pragmatists. Masterminds are certain that efficiency is indispensable in a well-run organization, and if they encounter inefficiency-any waste of human and material resources-they are quick to realign operations and reassign personnel. Masterminds do not feel bound by established rules and procedures, and traditional authority does not impress them, nor do slogans or catchwords. Only ideas that make sense to them are adopted; those that don't, aren't, no matter who thought of them. Remember, their aim is always maximum efficiency.
In their careers, Masterminds usually rise to positions of responsibility, for they work long and hard and are dedicated in their pursuit of goals, sparing neither their own time and effort nor that of their colleagues and employees. Problem-solving is highly stimulating to Masterminds, who love responding to tangled systems that require careful sorting out. Ordinarily, they verbalize the positive and avoid comments of a negative nature; they are more interested in moving an organization forward than dwelling on mistakes of the past.

Masterminds tend to be much more definite and self-confident than other Rationals, having usually developed a very strong will. Decisions come easily to them; in fact, they can hardly rest until they have things settled and decided. But before they decide anything, they must do the research. Masterminds are highly theoretical, but they insist on looking at all available data before they embrace an idea, and they are suspicious of any statement that is based on shoddy research, or that is not checked against reality.

Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Ulysses S. Grant, Frideriche Nietsche, Niels Bohr, Peter the Great, Stephen Hawking, John Maynard Keynes, Lise Meitner, Ayn Rand and Sir Isaac Newton are examples of Rational Masterminds.
"

It's an online test, so it's official.
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[Icey]

I S T J
Strength of the preferences %
78 1 1 11


Computer Programming
Technology Education
Engineering
Mechanics/Automotive Repair



Famous people: Lance Armstrong, Warren Buffet, Donald Rumsfeld, Greta Garbo

Love the fictional ones:
Mr. Martin (hero of James Thurber's Sitting in the Catbird Seat)
Eeyore (Winnie the Pooh)
Fred Mertz (I Love Lucy)
Puddleglum, the marshwiggle (Chronicles of Narnia) Cliff (Cheers)
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[Dom_]

ESTP
Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
67 25 12 22

[D O G]

INTJ for me.

I have done one of these fairly recently at work, think it came out the same then, and I was the only one in the room with that type, from about 40 of us.

Makes me the same as Hetzer.

[Hetzer]

[Charlie]

Your Type is
ENTJ
Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
33 38 25 78

[D O G]

[Scouse]

I got bored at q.28. wonder what that says about me?

[truslack]

I got INTP

Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
44 50 50 44
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[NSR Mick]

Another INTP here.
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[Charlie]

Funny how you are both in IT as well
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[DanceLikeAMon...]

I investigated the MBTI tests as part of one of my assignments for Uni and there are quite a few places that dismiss the results as just being like a mediums responses i.e. you can fit yourself into any of the results. One site went into quite deep details about each results and how that covers every personality.

The point of MBTI was that it showed what your "type" was and therefore should be fixed. But there have been several tests done (one of the main ones bv the US military) where the same volunteers have answered the questions on different days and / or different times of day and the results differed, which sort of knocks the whole point of Myers Briggs into the proverbial cocked hat.

[Hetzer]

[Charlie]

Mine was quite convincing in that it said I was a natural born leader, which I am and I do find myself leading groups without even thinking about it. Although more recently I have been more happy to sit back and take a team player roll than be the leader, but that could be down to laziness haha
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[DanceLikeAMon...]

It's not that it gives incorrect results - as people have shown - more that the results are open to interpretation

I've sitting in a bar in Hangzhou now so haven't got access to my assignment (it's too hot to go out), but here's somebody else's thought on this and similar tests that is quite an interesting read:

https://www.gladwell.com/pdf/personality.pdf