Poll of the Day > What's your Myer's Briggs? - Introvert Edition

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

Extrovert: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/78616038

Edit: I realize there's no apostrophe in Myers. I was being dumb. Or maybe autocorrect idk. Same with "interesting."

Myers-Briggs is a legalized excuse for employers to discriminate against introverts in hiring/promotion preference, for the high crime of preferring to read a book alone than attend a party.

Any time a job has asked me to take the test as some sort of "exercise" to "learn" about myself, I fudge* my responses so I'll show up as at least mildly extroverted. I don't need a test to know I'm an introvert, I hate that this test exists, and no I will no be taking it for "fun".

* It's a self-survey on how you view yourself, so it's technically impossible to "lie", and fuck anyone who actually would get upset at someone for lying about their personality traits that they didn't choose to have, in order to protect himself.

I forgot...
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INFP, but on rare occasion Ill get INFJ too.

I got INFP-A with this test

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INFP-A
79% Introvert

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INTJ-T says it is not common for a female

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https://imgur.com/a/gTjmekr

The T/F and P/J are always changing for me, and the I has been creeping up towards E for years.

INTP-A.

Do I win something?

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Used to always get INTJ but the last couple times Ive taken it Ive ended up with INFP the mediator

97% introverted lol

https://www.16personalities.com/infp-personality

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capricorn

Voted INTP before taking it. Wasn't going to take it, but decided to anyway.

Sure enough, INTP.


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INTP, with strong I and N traits, moderate T and weak P traits, to the point where some tests will classify me as an INTJ.

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Idk how how but I always get INTP or INFP, depending on the test.

intj - t

83%

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How can it be 3% of the population if everyone is Intp

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I got INTJ several times. I don't put much stock in the test though. But I got 100% introverted on the last one lol

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NFs

ewwwww

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Ifnp-t the hippie

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I usually come up INTJ. Which I always find amusing because in versions of the test that assign archetypes to the results call that one "Mastermind".



streamofthesky posted...

Myers-Briggs is a legalized excuse for employers to discriminate against introverts in hiring/promotion preference, for the high crime of preferring to read a book alone than attend a party.

Myers-Briggs is also basically pseudoscience that's about one step up from old Livejournal quizzes.

The only research it's actually based on was invalidated as obsolete decades ago. It's more New Age philosophy than it is psychology.



5tarscream posted...

How can it be 3% of the population if everyone is Intp

Because 3% of the population =/= 3% of the people taking the test on the Internet. Or admitting to their results in a topic on a video game message board.

You're talking about a self-selected sample of a self-selected sample of a self-selected sample (sort of like how GameFAQs poll results almost never accurately reflect the real world). It could easily suggest that introverts are more likely to spend their time "socializing" on the Internet than extroverts are, and thus would be disproportionately represented in a self-reporting topic.

But also, the test is mostly bullshit.
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INFP for me ^.^
Sometimes I'll get INFJ depending on the test.
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wherfe the FUCK is the extrovert poll

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Joshs Name posted...

wherfe the FUCK is the extrovert poll

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/78616038

ISTP 61% introvert

idk, the results screen was really faded on my phone and the top of the page had nothing there
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INFJ , pretty well nailed my occupation for over 35 years

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People take this Myer's Briggs shit seriously?

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I thought everyone knew that test was terribly conceived by now?

INTP.
I don't believe for a second 22% of PotD users are INTP.

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Joker_X_II posted...

People take this Myer's Briggs shit seriously?

Pointman posted...

I thought everyone knew that test was terribly conceived by now?

Just because its not a strongly predictive doesnt mean its not fun or theres some truth to predicting where different types may gather. Look at how many Is are here compared to Es.

blu posted...

Just because its not a strongly predictive doesnt mean its not fun or theres some truth to predicting where different types may gather. Look at how many Is are here compared to Es.

No one needs a pseudo-science "test" to come to the observation that some people prefer the company of large groups and socializing, and others prefer to be alone or in small groups.
Myers-Briggs came along and gave names to those two basic personality types and capitalized really well off of it, but anything beyond that basic division (and it's a spectrum, not a binary choice, so even then there's people who fall in the middle and don't really fit either) is pure bs clown science.

And yeah, they're popular and "fun" for some people. So is astrology, but that's not taken seriously at least. M-B sadly is.

streamofthesky posted...

No one needs a pseudo-science "test" to come to the observation that some people prefer the company of large groups and socializing, and others prefer to be alone or in small groups.
Myers-Briggs came along and gave names to those two basic personality types and capitalized really well off of it, but anything beyond that basic division (and it's a spectrum, not a binary choice, so even then there's people who fall in the middle and don't really fit either) is pure bs clown science.

And yeah, they're popular and "fun" for some people. So is astrology, but that's not taken seriously at least. M-B sadly is.

Depends on what you mean by pseudoscience. If it can classify where types of people congregate (like it did), its more of a model, and all models have drawbacks and conditions where they apply. It also isnt binary, official tests gives you results on a spectrum. But it can give you statistically significant results (and statistical significance is its own discussion).

You can certainly see certain types are drawn to certain places, like INTJs more common in a physics department. One of the academic climate science blogs I read polled the readers, mostly all N-types. Could likely extrapolate to other academic science blogs. Maybe could be a little useful for targeted ads, depending on what other info you had about the person.

Its definitely a better predictor than astrology. People shouldnt live their lives by it any more than they live by a sign.

Usually my results are INTJ -- like a lot of people on the internet -- and once again I came up as an INTJ, although I was tempted to skew more towards capability than preference on some of the extrovert questions.

idk, a few of the "extroversion" questions in there don't actually seem like extroversion and more just the ability to socialize (meaning that some "introverts" are just socially maladjusted extroverts... although I generally suppose a lot of people who think of themselves as introverts are just socially maladjusted extroverts). I find it easy to initiate or engage a conversation, but usually I'd rather be doing something else.

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idk how to honestly answer like half the questions theyre asking

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https://www.16personalities.com/isfp-personality

This test must be faulty.
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ISTP-T.

From reading the description of what that is/means....the test is clearly worthless and would struggle to be less accurate.

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Anyways, I took this again out of curiosity, and get INFJ. I regularly get INFJ but tend to mix it up. I know it's one letter off of INTJ, but exactly what letter always mixes me up.


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blu posted...

Depends on what you mean by pseudoscience. If it can classify where types of people congregate (like it did), its more of a model, and all models have drawbacks and conditions where they apply. It also isnt binary, official tests gives you results on a spectrum. But it can give you statistically significant results (and statistical significance is its own discussion).

You can certainly see certain types are drawn to certain places, like INTJs more common in a physics department. One of the academic climate science blogs I read polled the readers, mostly all N-types. Could likely extrapolate to other academic science blogs. Maybe could be a little useful for targeted ads, depending on what other info you had about the person.

Its definitely a better predictor than astrology. People shouldnt live their lives by it any more than they live by a sign.

I think it's still considered pseudoscience. And I heard it's largely ignored by the field of psychology. Not 100% sure, though...
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I got this. Not really sure what any of it means...



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GenericGuy posted...

I got this. Not really sure what any of it means...

You can find out more about it. If you keep reading, its go through your strengths, weaknesses, love life, friendships, etc...
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