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I was asked to do this in work this week, just for fun though.
My wife was howling at how accurately my type described many of my character traits. I also recognise my self in it, a lot! My daughter is going into 4th year of a psychology degree. She said it's very broad strokes. I can't disagree with her. But I wish I'd known more of it in my 20's rather than my mid 50's. Would have saved me making a mess of so many things! Take the test and see if you see yourself? INTJ - Architect, by the way.
I have no idea why this isn't in the chat forum! Soz
INTJ - Architect
Me too!
Architect too. But then Freud supposedly said the Irish were impervious to psychoanalysis.
3% of population apparently. Do other people get your sense of humour? 🤣🤣🤣
As an anecdote, since childhood I never liked cats. Wanted nothing to with them. Then 5 years ago, we got one. I wasn't happy. Turns out I bloody adore him. I'm totally smitten.
Made me think about my approach to life. If I could be so entirely wrong about this. Then perhaps I might be wrong about, maybe one or two other things? Potentially. As an architect, even when I know im wrong, I still secretly think I'm right.
Made me think...
ISTP. Not an architect, I'm an accountant.
But yes, very, very broad brush. And I can be different types in different contexts.
Another INTJ - Architect
Intp t so they say, needed to find further sources of information, how does being neurodivergent (autistic) affect it... I recollected vaguely perhaps a result from another time in my life was intj. Maybe. Found this was interesting
https://www.michaelcaloz.com/2025/04/02/intj-or-intp/
INTP (Logician)
INFP done similar tests before got much the same result. The earlier one was much longer and done for my work - social care. Seems fairly accurate.
how does being neurodivergent (autistic) affect it
Given Myers-Briggs is an attempt to implement Jung's personality types I would go with it has no more of an impact than any other random factor.
Its a shame they didnt read Jungs comment about the short comings of the binary approach. Its a great example of the Forer effect with most people being able to read most of the "types" and tick quite a few of the boxes.
The lack of any negative types or even any really any negative traits in any of the types shows the problems.
At 71 years of age, I’m pretty sure careers advice is the last thing I need!
I did DISC profiling at work a few years ago , scarily accurate.
It says I'm a logician. I'd say that shows it's not very accurate.
I'm a protagonist apparently. Mrs P will laugh at the description of how I'm so tuned into people's emotions.
I think these things would be fairly harmless if it wasn't for the fact that so many managers seem to take it seriously, to the point that they want us to take these courses so that we can 'interact better' with each other.
I had a look at this particular test and it has the same issue as every other one of these tests I've had to take for work. Half the questions I put my response as neutral, not because I am neutral on it because I can envisage scenarios where I could strongly agree or strongly disagree (with very few scenarios where I am genuinely neutral).
I could get one result simply by putting myself in one mindset or the opposite by putting myself in another.
Who knows, it is possible I'm wrong and for the vast majority of people these tests are accurate and useful and I'm just a special and unique snowflake who can't be neatly put into one of 16 boxes.
But overall my conclusion is these type of tests are maybe useful as a fun game to play at parties (if you're the kind of person whose friends lack sufficient personality that you have to play these kind of games at parties instead of everyone just chatting shit in the kitchen) but instead a large number of managers actually take this bollocks seriously which is the problem.
Yeah, for example " do you prefer to spend time on your own, or love the company of others"
I really like both so put neutral, even though neutral suggests unsure or no opinion either way.
Its a great example of the Forer effect
Interesting reading (on Wikipedia) about this. I did notice a lot of smoke blowing in the results of the test linked in the op.
Beyond flattering my ego for a few moments, knowing I allegedly have the same personality type as Einstein, Darwin, Descartes, Kant, Lincoln, Moog, Aphex Twin, Dustin Hoffman, and Yoda*, is 100% useless.
* intentionally omitted Liam Gallagher
Logician INTP-A
The breakdown seems pretty accurate
ENFJ (Protagonist)
Odd as I had answered most of the questions with the response most related to "meh" from the alternatives. The traits are reasonably in-line with who I am right now though, so I guess it's a decent assessment.
Anyway, I now feel like the guy from Tenet.
It says I'm a logician. I'd say that shows it's not very accurate.
Maybe, I got logician too. And my current job is the most rewarding one I've had and I'm a "Data Process Analyst".
horoscopes for the linkedin generation
Your personality type is:
Advocate
INFJ-T
Quite accurate I'd say!
Adventurer (lol) 84% introverted.
ISTP-T Virtuoso apparently. Whatever that means.
I think it's all bollocks. Typical INTP.
Joking aside, I've done any number of these sorts of tests over the years from mandatory* testing at work to clickbait social media posts. A good amount of them are either self-fulfilling (Question: do you like the company of others? - Answer: yes - Conclusion: hey, you must be an outgoing person! No shit, sherlock) or are little more than Barnum statements.
As a bit of fun they're harmless enough and can be amusing, but some workplaces trust them for real life decisions such as promotion routes and hiring decisions, at which level I think we need to tread just a little bit carefully. Aside from anything else, if you don't know which members of your team are gregarious and which ones are shy without a written personality test then that probably speaks more about the (lack of) Management than about the employee.
(* - back in the 1990s I was subjected to a company-wide personality test. I said "oh that sounds cool, when do I get the results?" They said, I won't get them. So wait, you want to put me through a test of undisclosed provenance, put the details of the results on my permanent personnel record, and I'm not allowed to see what you've written about me? I have no option to challenge anything which might be wrong or defamatory? You must be f'kn kidding me. I point blank refused unless they agreed to share my data with me, they wouldn't so I was one of two people across the company who didn't take it. I wonder what that says about me psychologically... 😁)
They said, I won't get them
Out of interest, did your employer provide any explanation WHY the results wouldn't be shared with you?
(I had to do similar tests but my employer didn't try to hide the results from me. This was 25+ years ago and I can't remember what my classification was and I never figured out whether it hampered or helped my career...)
came here to say horoscope
saw someone had beaten me to it
"Well that was an exercise in asking the same questions in as many ways as possible and my IQ test result should tell what I think of this". I wasn't offered the job I had worked out by that time I didn't want, or any other job with that kind of corporate bollocks. I'd realised by then that the only person I was happy working for was me. 🤠
No I haven't done the test.
Out of interest, did your employer provide any explanation WHY the results wouldn't be shared with you?
I doubt it, it wasn't that kind of company. If they did then I have no recollection of it now (this will have been mid-1990s).
I did Myers-Briggs (this test) 3 times over 25 years at work. Each time I was in a different place within myself (success, personal life, happiness) so tried to reflect that in the answers. Every time I came back as ENTP. Not worked for 9 years, and life stuff is quite dark at the moment. So just done it again and came back as ENTP, again.
I never took it as gospel, it just gave a few insights, and ways of getting along with different personalities. ISTJ was always my nemesis and it did help me try a different approaches which were more harmonious. It also created common ground & language to talk about behavior, which again helped. Its value is to make people think about people they interact with, and that they may react differently, and consider different approaches for greater harmony. Some people are naturals at this, many people benefit from considering a different approach.
Done many of these and the outcome depends on my mood. ENFJ or INTJ. I guess I judge. And am an introverted extrovert. A few of the others scales have been unforthcoming too. A management style one was accurate, however. The Autism Quotient was interesting, most notable when Mrs TiRed filled it in on my behalf 🤣 on average, were normal.
ENFP - Campaigner which is pretty close as I work in charities and been involved in campaigning in various guises over the years.
Similar to @CountZero I'm 69 and retired . Did it anyway turns out I'm a Turbulent Defender like Beyonce and QE2 ( person not ship ) which my wife reckons is spot on 🤔😁
INFP Mediator
Yep
I really really dislike conflict.
I'm too much of an introvert to share my results on here 😀
Anyway. MB is somewhat out of date these days, but there is a big old business behind pushing it for use by businesses. These kinds of things were really intended as a psychological tool for use by psychologists. Corporate suit types getting the company to piddle about with a toy version for the workplace? Take any results with a ladle or two of salt.
My personal experience of doing this in a corporate environment (most recent, though other times were similar) is that one or other of the seniors had seemingly decided that everyone would be able to be twice as effective if we all knew what colour our personality was and what colour everyone else's was and if we could get the right mix of colours on each team we could blend into a glorious rainbow of personality colours in the right proportions and peace and harmony would reign across the land and all that. So we all went and did a test and got a coloured badge a coloured email signature graphic and a personality colours cheat sheet to stick up by our desk and went to a colour personality discussion group and lo and behold... can you guess how much anyone remembered or cared about it, six months later?
ENTJ this morning. Commander. As if 🤣
As others have said, it's horseshit, the scary thing is when it's used in corporate environments.
I’m an academic psychologist who does a lot work in the field of psychometrics. The Myer-Briggs questionnaire has no validity or reliability whatsoever.
There is a reason it is never used by psychologists or academics at all but rather life coaches and career consultants.
Students are often given this type of a measure in the first week of Individual Differences course and then they are all given exactly the same personality profile (which 90%+ agree is accurate) to demonstrates biases and the Barnum/Forer effect.
There are valid measures of personality. MB is not one of them.
ESTJ (Executive), seems I need to have a quiet word with myself
There are valid measures of personality. MB is not one of them.
I've heard. Yet I've been at 2 companies who've used similar tests to understand how we might work better. I don't think it was this MB test but similar and I remember it working well overall. Useful in getting a few basic personality types engaging with each other better .. not sure of the word/term, maybe better emotional intelligence. But I think you need to be open to it in the first place. Some may say gullible rather than 'open' - thing is, we had one manager who was about 95% one type and could be difficult, understanding some of that stuff did smooth out working with them.
I think the measure of these tests that is reliable when used in a workplace is it shows up the folk who don't want to participate or collaborate and always think they know best or their opinion over-rules the group, etc. They may be right of course and there's pros and cons of that attitude .. what's guaranteed is they stand out in these sessions.
Hmmm... Psychoanalyses yourself, then embark on an exercise of handwringing over the results 🤔
I think I'll give that a pass.