I’m not usually one to do the quiz thing, but I saw this at k8′s, and was curious if I’d changed much in the ten years or so since I first encountered the MBTI.
Nope. Still strong INTJ. A little less extreme on the thinking/feeling axes than I was ten years ago, but otherwise mostly the same.
I’m familiar with the criticisms of the MBTI — the concerns with vagueness, and the concerns with telling people things they want to hear about themselves — and I get those concerns, but I also think that people aren’t necessarily coming to the MBTI with high expectations of scientific validity. I mean, I don’t really buy astrology — it seems fundamentally ridiculous to me that your personality traits can be in any way determined by the moment at which you’re born — but at the same time, I’m like “Yeah, I am so totally a Scorpio, and so not a Leo or a Pisces.” The supposed attributes of a Scorpio, in their differences from the attributes of other signs, help people tell stories about themselves in relation to others, much as the Myers-Briggs types do.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Hello, brother SS INTJ. I’ve always felt that the INTJ description fit me better than the sun sun description of being a Gemini because INTJ’s are so intense and goal oriented as well as seemingly arrogant (“seemingly” being the key word here), which I am, rather than an unyieldingly cheerful jack of all trades that Gemini’s are supposed to be. The leader in the background characterizes me fairly well, though I really don’t want to be a leader–or like leading at all–in the foreground or background.
I found my results disturbingly accurate. I’m not sure how being an Aries factors into it though. I am a typical impulsive and impatient Aries, but I’m not always courageous.
I took the test too — not that one because I didn’t want to register with the site — but this one. I am now* an ENTJ:
* slightly expressed extravert (22%)
* slightly expressed intuitive personality (12%)
* slightly expressed thinking personality (12%)
* very expressed judging personality (89%)
This type, on MyPersonality.info, is called The Chief.
* I took the test about eight years ago and was an ENFP, but I can’t remember how strongly expressed an ENFP I was.
/and a Libra
//don’t think the Libra qualities describe me
///slashie slashie