What is your Personality type?

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by CCIP

But sadly my type (INFJ) is not in the poll

Apologies, like i said in the OP, i could only fit in 10 options in the poll, there are 16 personality types all up, yours incl.

[antikristuseke]

ISTP though only the thinking part is strongly expressed.

[Jimbuna]

Tried it twice and got two different results

[Skybird]

As a former psychologist I can only say - do not put too much trust into such tests, even more so the more "static" their categories are. Personality may have traits and characteristics, nevertheless the most prominent quality needing to be mentioned with regard to "personality", is that of "process".

However, the most useful personality system I found to be that of the Enneagram. It is a bit unfortunate that it has the breath of esoteric circus and Jesuit conceptions around it, nevertheless is can be quite useful not so much in telling people what they are like as a static description, but to tell them by what they get attracted for personal developement, and what may function as a reverse attractor for their personality not developing but stagnating. It is both more dynamic and leaves the people more responsibility for their own developement, than many other orthodox psychiatric personality systems.

The value of magazine and online tests in most cases can and should be questioned anyway. That is true for theEnneagram as well. To use it for positive effect, one cannot avoid to thoroughly learn the whole system and why it is the way it is, and not different.

Good introductions are offered by Richard Riso or Helen Palmer. Claudioo Naranjo's work probably is more interesting for the practitioner in jobs of the psychological field.

[Hottentot]

72 ways of asking the same 4 or 5 questions over and over again . It missed the question 73.: "You feel sudden urge to smash your computer screen into tiny bits at this point. Yes / No".

[NeonSamurai]

On this one I got ENTJ (the so called Fieldmarshal personality), but the results could easily vary depending on my mood at the time I take the test.

Also I agree with Skybird in not placing too much stock in these tests (particularly the online variants). Furthermore there is little supporting evidence that tests like the MBTI, or MMPI are testing what they claim to, beyond psychometric testing (correlations and the like).

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Tried it twice and got two different results

You have a split personality Jim

[Rockstar]

According to Keirsey a 'rational mastermind'
Maybe I should start plotting how to take over of the world.






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[MH]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

According to Keirsey a 'rational mastermind'
Maybe I should start plotting how to take over of the world.






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LOL

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

According to Keirsey a 'rational mastermind'
Maybe I should start plotting how to take over of the world.

Let's all hope your World Domination is just as rational.
Keep us posted

[JU_88]

Im an ISTJ

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

You have a split personality Jim

You beern talking to my missus again?

[Flaxpants]

Well I'm an INTJ, which apparently makes me a rational mastermind as well.

[frau kaleun]

INTJ, no surprise there.

I've tested for this many times over the years. I will always be an 'I' and a 'T' and probably always a 'J' - figured that out about myself a long time ago. But I go back and forth between 'N' and 'S' and occasionally on some tests that allow for it, I get an 'X' in either the second or fourth position which I'm told means that it's too close to call. This usually occurs in the second position, which doesn't surprise me either. I used to always get the 'S' there but the last few times, leaning definitely toward Intuitive instead.

Edit: looking at the results so far, I wonder if we really have an abundance of the supposedly rare "Mastermind" here at Subsim, or if INTJs are just more likely to take the test.