Myers Briggs Test, What are you?

I'm an NP...extreme on those two, but very close to the border on the I/E and T/F axes. I guess this means that it's really hard to get me to start talking, but just as hard to get me to shut up. Also that I think too much about what I feel, yet feel too strongly about what I think.

You’re not the only one who has ever heard of it.

I think these tests are dubious and best used for entertainment purposes much like palm reading. The idea that from a few questions you can categorize the whole human race into a handful for types seems like a vast over simplification.

With that being said I took the test for fun and was rated as ENTJ also known as the Field Marshal personality.

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail" - Alfred North Whitehead.

Here is another vote for INTJ. INTJ's are supposed to be rare, less than 1% of the population.

Hmmm.... I wonder if there is one type that is most prevalent among game designers? Also, maybe some types are more suited for game design then others. So far everyone that has responded is N (intuitive over sensing), and T(thinking over feeling). The following is a description of a sub-group of the meyers-briggs types, the Rational NTs.

RATIONAL NTs, being ABSTRACT in communicating and UTILITARIAN in implementing goals, can become highly skilled in STRATEGIC ANALYSIS. Thus their most practiced and developed intelligent operations tend to be marshalling and planning (NTJ organizing), or inventing and configuring (NTP engineering). And they would if they could be wizards in one of these forms of rational operation. They are proud of themselves in the degree they are competent in action, respect themselves in the degree they are autonomous, and feel confident of themselves in the degree they are strong willed. Ever in search of knowledge, this is the "Knowledge Seeking Personality" -- trusting in reason and hungering for achievement. They are usually pragmatic about the present, skeptical about the future, solipsistic about the past, and their preferred time and place are the interval and the intersection. Educationally they go for the sciences, avocationally for technology, and vocationally for systems work. Rationals tend to be individualizing as parents, mindmates as spouses, and learning oriented as children. Rationals are very infrequent, comprising as few as 5% and no more than 7% of the population.

Yep, I'm an INTJ. I don't know how much credence I give to this particular way of categorizing people; in some ways it seems it might be useful in understanding how other people's minds work, and in other ways it does sound a bit like astrology. Read the description of any of the 16 types, and there's a tendency to pick out the familiar and/or admirable parts and see yourself. And, like astrology, there are not many different types so the descriptions are rather vague.

But I'll admit that the descriptions given of the INTJ type do sound a lot like me, if not 100% accurate.

I note with amusement that the INTJ type is labeled as "Mastermind" at one Web site. While it's true that I have built a gigantic, futuristic underground secret base staffed by hundreds of loyal, lethal minions determined to make my dreams of world domination come true, I think that "mastermind" may be overstating the case as I don't feel I'm making a very good job of it. We're way behind schedule.

INTP here, with a strong NT (particularly the N).

M-B is a nice vocabulary for talking about personality, thinking, and learning traits. Unlike, say astrology, it's a descriptive rather than proscriptive system. You are what you are, it's just trying to describe you in a coherent framework.

The other interesting thing about it is that it while it describes your natural tendencies (what you learned first in life), everyone is ideally supposed to learn to utilise the skills and avoid the weaknesses of all the types as they mature. People who have pushed themselves to adapt and learn new things are often really hard to characterise by the time they are 30-40. For instance, I can seem like an E or an F or a J at times (still don't think I fool anyone into thinking I'm a S).

Of course there are plenty of people who find the whole idea insulting and also those who will say M-B is a lot more rigourous and proscriptive than I'm described (to each his own). It was at least created by some rather insightful academics as a descriptive tool.

I'm generally quite sceptical about this stuff, but it worries me slightly when they are regularly so damn accurate...

ENTP if your interested :D

#Phil

I took that test years ago and can't remember what I was. :(

One thing about these types of test is that they only test for certain traits. That is they test for A,B,C and D. Therefor if you fit into E,F,G,... then you must be cramed (like a square peg in a round hole) into one of the existing categories. This means that the tests can not determine anything that they do not test for (it sounds obvious but it is an extremely common failing).

I have taken many of these multiple choice personality type tests and have always wanted to choose option E (out of A,B,C,D) not because of some mischievious reson (although it is always tempting :D) but because none of the other options are apropreate (hmm does this mean that I have no personality? :D).

As for using them in potential employee testing. Well they can reveal certain personality traits that may be benificial or harmful in the workplace, but they can not be used to make a blanket assesment of all personalities. They even used biometric (not in the modern sens but mesure the distance between the eyes and such) to determine personality and fitness for jobs, so just because they use this now and they claim that it works (they did that for bimetric personaily too) is no recomendation.

Sorry for breaking the mood!

What the Hell are you talking about?

ENTJ INTL NTMP, what is it a new communication code?

From what I could see, it seem like some sort of interest test generally useful to know what kind of job you like.

I don't know about this test you are talking about ( can we pass it somewhere on the net ), But I know I have passed 2 other test.

The first was the "Holland" code which has 6 categories :
Realist, Investigator, Artistic, Social, Buisiness, Conventional.
When the test is over you get a different level rating. I think my best categories was R,A,S and my worst was B.

The second test had 5 or 6 categories each with 2 elements that oppose each other. You can either be on one side, on the other or on neither side. If my memory is good, the categories where :

Solitary <-> Work in group
Creative <-> Routine
Objects <-> People
Production <-> Prestige
I don't remember the others.

I don't dislike these test but I think it should be more used as a guide line than using it to classify people. Human being will always be unique.

Yup. I'd tend to agree. A similar effect can be observed currently with research into what's called "Emotional Intelligence" - in general academia doesn't like it because it doesn't fit into their pigeon-holes. That doesn't make it instantly valid, of couse ;-)

Myers-Briggs is merely one of a whole bunch of ways of taking what are generally observed patterns of human behaviour and fitting them together into a consistent schema. I rate it mostly due to its broad use and general simplicity (although I agree that it suffers from this in some ways - but no more so than any other test of its type.)

Anyway, I'm an INTJ iirc.

True. Though many (including me) don't read Jung in the same way.

Academia is quite hard on alternate views at times, often for sound reasons but sometimes just out of fashion (I'm an academic, BTW). Of course M-B isn't falsifiable so (according to Popper) it isn't scientifically valid.

Personally, I just think of M-B as an neutral, descriptive, insightful vocabulary and framework for discussion of personalities. Used that way it's been fairly useful to me.

I wonder what types of games are typically liked by the different M-B types? And more relevantly to M-B who the differences in thinking effect learning and playing a game?

Ya know, maybe it's just me, but I feel that these types of tests suffer from my natural tendency to try to fit my answers to the type that I think I want to be perceived as. Is there a known term for this, or am I just weird?

Mitch

umm wow this is weird am I the only ISTP?

or perhaps the only one that really cares enough to state such

--"mechanic" -- "Crafter artisian" that would explain the method of game creation I've been going through

heh cool I'm 1 in 10% of the general population

That reminds me of a tidbit of wisdom I came up with a while back, "You may be one in a million, but that just means there's 6 thousand just like you!"

Heh.
-Darke