Slightly OT, but bear with me...

fc123

chewmylegoff wrote: »

INTJ as well. this board is clearly a magnet for INTJs given that it says they are only 1-2% of the population.

the description seems to fit, but i'm largely of the view that these things are based on the same nonsense as horoscopes - write something that is pretty wishy washy and general then people will selectively fixate on the parts of it which do actually match their personality and ignore the fact that 75% of the profile bears no resemblence to them.

......you sound like my OH when I read Shelly Von Strunkel on a Sunday and get all excited about the great things that are going to happen in the coming week.

The INTJ description is 'Masterminds'. Great name for a type. I want to be one too.;)

Ilya_Ilyich

julieq wrote: »

That's the most startling confusion, isn't it? Really very surprising.

It's almost as if people try to answer the quiz in a way that'll help them fit in best with the groupthink.

chewmylegoff

Ilya_Ilyich wrote: »

It's almost as if people try to answer the quiz in a way that'll help them fit in best with the groupthink.

no self respecting INTJ would do that when they could just claim to be INTJ without doing the quiz at all.

LydiaJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

INTJ as well. this board is clearly a magnet for INTJs given that it says they are only 1-2% of the population.

the description seems to fit, but i'm largely of the view that these things are based on the same nonsense as horoscopes - write something that is pretty wishy washy and general then people will selectively fixate on the parts of it which do actually match their personality and ignore the fact that 75% of the profile bears no resemblence to them.

I agree with you about horoscopes, but I think there is something to this Myers-Briggs thing. I'm not sure you can get much out of it from an online questionnaire that spits out a single profile description at you, with no context and no explanation, though. It started to become interesting and useful to me when I read some books about it and began to understand it in some depth.

I'm also not convinced that work is the environment in which it's most helpful. I know my brother and sil (who are different on all 4 letters) have found it useful for giving them some value-neutral language with which to talk about the many ways in which they see things completely differently: "My partner may be behaving in a way that is alien to my mindset, but s/he is not mad or bad or sad, and certainly doesn't feel the way I would need to feel in order to behave like that. S/he is just one of those, and they see things like this and usually consider X more important than Y."

pqrdef

The test gave me the wrong answer. I wonder which questions I answered wrong.

Sibley

ENJF for me.

macaque_2

INTJ

I also tested it by getting 'she who must be obeyed' to answer the questions on my behalf.

Given the high number of INTJ's on this thread, either:

• The 1-2% INTJ stat is wrong or;
• Members of this forum represent a skewed sample or;
• We might distinquish between bull and bears on house prices, but when it comes to ourselves, we are all full of bull.

Thought for the day: Behind every successful man is a surprised woman

LydiaJ

macaque wrote: »

INTJ

I also tested it by getting 'she who must be obeyed' to answer the questions on my behalf.

Given the high number of INTJ's on this thread, either:

• The 1-2% INTJ stat is wrong or;
• Members of this forum represent a skewed sample or;
• We might distinquish between bull and bears on house prices, but when it comes to ourselves, we are all full of bull.

Thought for the day: Behind every successful man is a surprised woman

Obviously it's a skewed sample. We are self-selected because we choose to come to come on here, whereas most of the population don't.

Given that this kind of personality analysis is all about what kind of things one finds interesting or chooses to pay attention to, and whether one enjoys or avoids debate and other kinds of conflict, it would be very odd indeed if posters here had the same distribution of personality types as the general population.

JonnyBravo

LydiaJ wrote: »

Obviously it's a skewed sample. We are self-selected because we choose to come to come on here, whereas most of the population don't.

Given that this kind of personality analysis is all about what kind of things one finds interesting or chooses to pay attention to, and whether one enjoys or avoids debate and other kinds of conflict, it would be very odd indeed if posters here had the same distribution of personality types as the general population.

Absolutely. I'm surprised people are surprised.

vivatifosi

So far 41 people have answered.

Of these 15 are INTJ: 37%
A further 6 are ENTJ: 15%

So the same NTJ traits are shared by 51% of respondents - the difference being whether they are introvert or extrovert. In the general public as a whole, these should be 4% of the population.

More interesting still, the bulk of the remaining respondents are:
ENFJ: 7 people or 17%
INFJ: 4 people or 10%

So 78% of us share the N and the J, but we should only be 8 or 9% of the total.

Then we have the smaller groups:

Generali is - as we all know - in a class of his own and can go shout "There's only one ENTP" from the terraces. We also have one INTP, one ISTP, one ISFP, one ESTJ and two each of ISTJ and ISFJ.

Surprisingly we have no ESFJs or ESFPs, even though both group should each represent over 10% of the population. We also have no ENFPs or INFPs. Yet.... Hopefully someone will come along, take the test, and throw all of these stats out.