Myers-Briggs personality test - what type are you?

MikeyC wrote: Also an interesting fact to note about predictive technologies is that only about 65 likes are needed to predict personality better than a roommate/friend, 125 likes for a family member, and 275 likes for a spouse!

You deserve the Nobel Marco.. <3

INTJ

I'm an ENTP. I fit the description very closely. I've taken these tests several times and always get the same result

MikeyC wrote: So I'm bored and decided to take this.

Introverted(6%)(iNtuitive(31%)Feeling(12%)Judging(1%)

INFJ

But it also said sense I have a marginal (1%), or no, preference of Judging over Perceiving, INFP could also apply to me.

That's not how it works. INFP and INFJ share no cognitive functions. It simply means you prefer Extraverted Judging(Je). Say as an example that my Fe is very well developed as a Fi-user, that doesn't make me an ENFJ instead of ENFP, that simply means I have learned to develop one of my cognitive functions bettwer. You can't change personality type. But you CAN develop your cognitive functions.

MikeyC wrote:

WillhelmTheNotSoGreat wrote: Considering its questionable statistical validity, I simply can't be assed to take it

Immersive, kudos for this brief observation: "the MBTI might tell you a lot, but it has a fair share of criticisms because the results aren't reproducible about 80% of the time"

I just took it again and this time around, on a different well-known site, I got the same result (INFJ) . Humanmetrics and 16Personalities are two of the main sites for free MBTI, and I used the former the first time around and the latter the second time.

However, I guess if you retake this 5 weeks later it is a 50% chance you would reproduce the same results, according to the article I saw. So perhaps I'll try it a month or two from now just to see for fun

Ah, so you did not take it on the official site But that is the only way you can be sure that you are taking the MBTI and not something else Let us not forget, the MBTI is copyrighted material and whatever you can find on these sites, it is probably even less scientifically sound than the MBTI itself

Just like you mentioned, the MBTI has a poor test-retest reliability. Add to that the simple fact that it is based upon a typology imagined by Carl Jung in the 1920's Now, Carl Jung was a disciple of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis (the name of this esteemed gentleman just screams "pseudoscience" for me ), but he decided to create his own school of "analytical psychology" (because you can never have enough weird pseudoscientific ideas in a single school, right? ). Moreover, as pointed out on The Skeptic's Dictionary , "Jung believed in astrology, spiritualism, telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance and ESP. In addition to believing in a number of occult and paranormal notions, Jung contributed two new ones: synchronicity and the collective unconscious". He was a fascinating guy, just like Freud, and I enjoy reading about him and his ideas, but with a critical eye

The five-factor model (FFM) of personality probably has more empirical validation than all other constructs that I know of. Still, it seems that many pervasive paradigms in psychology are essentially based on vague speculations and abstract observations rather than a solid neurobiological understanding of the brain.

That will probably change in the next few years (or decades), but until then, it is better to spend time on more rewarding pursuits.

what about people who have seen visions or had god speak to them or have seen people's auras or have been "told" something is about to happen (like the death of a relative) and it happens? or children that say they have spoken to a dead relative that they've never met? or people who say their dead loved ones came to visit them after they died. their senses picked up on something that only they would have known was from their deceased loved one. i believe and/or have experienced some of those things, including visions which i was shocked by.

they say some of those INFJ people can see people's auras. that was news to me and i wondered if it was true.

I got INTJ. To be honest I don't really believe in personality tests. I just take them for fun when my friends tell me to.

Sunbunny wrote:

MikeyC wrote: So I'm bored and decided to take this.

Introverted(6%)(iNtuitive(31%)Feeling(12%)Judging(1%)

INFJ

But it also said sense I have a marginal (1%), or no, preference of Judging over Perceiving, INFP could also apply to me.

That's not how it works. INFP and INFJ share no cognitive functions. It simply means you prefer Extraverted Judging(Je). Say as an example that my Fe is very well developed as a Fi-user, that doesn't make me an ENFJ instead of ENFP, that simply means I have learned to develop one of my cognitive functions bettwer. You can't change personality type. But you CAN develop your cognitive functions.

I'm not really too familiar with the cognitive functions. Let alone the cognitive functions that fall undef INFJ and INFP. But I think it was saying cognitive functions from both INFJ and INFP may both apply to me, rather than having only the dominant cognitive functions in INFJs. So maybe I have mostly dominant cognitive functions of an INFJ, but couple other cognitive functions from INFP that are also very strong. I don't think it should matter whether or not the two share cognitive functions, as long as they are not mutually exclusive it could be possible to have strong cognitive functions from both. That's just what I gathered from when the website told me characteristics from both INFJ and INFP could apply to me. Not sure if the INFJ and INFP cognitive functions are mutually exclusive, as I have very little knowledge of this stuff though.