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So, due to a work development type programme, i took one, Myers-Briggs, a few weeks ago and i passed. High fives all round and whatnot. I got the feedback today.
Apparantly i'm a Mastermind (queue evil laugh ... MUWAHAHAHAHAHA). I went through this process as it was "suggested" by my mentor (suggested in so far as he said he wouldn't really be able to guide my development if he didn't know my type or at least he'd find it difficult or something). I approached the whole thing in quite a sceptical manner (the people who devised the test weren't trained scientists after all). Suprisingly i feel the test has helped me. Sitting the test i got a couple of characteristics different from my actual type. This was due to me answering the questions in a "How i act now" fashion rather than "How i feel most relaxed acting" which just goes to show i might not be in the best job for me if i have to modify my behaviour so much. That is, however, a completely seperate point. It also pointed out some weakness in my interaction with people that i was already vaguely aware of. The test showed me how i could improve this though so i'm actually quite grateful. Anyway there are some tests in this old thread. I'm not sure how much use the tests will be on there own as feedback seems to be an essential part of the process. Sit them or not i'd just thought i'd mention about my day. |
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'You have no personality, you terrible excuse for a human being.' :crymeariver:
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Only joking, I'll take it later.
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Apparently I am also a Mastermind (INTJ)
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INTJ, that's 'weird' as I'm not a mastermind at all wich might be reduntant to say.
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who else is hoping horn won't have the same result as himself?
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as himself? not sure what the correct gramatical version of the sentence I'm trying to construct is :(
also just noticed I ignored your question because I'm a mean person, to redeem myself here's the link to the thread again and below the links to the tests! http://pirate.planetarion.com/showth...ighlight=myers http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm http://www.advisorteam.com/temperame...r/register.asp http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?te...47196786251960 |
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I'm an INFJ like Mz but I hate him I hope i@m not like him!
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ENTJ, which doesnt fit at all, although i tried to answer everything truthfully.
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INTJ on the Myers-Briggs which is kind of dull. I did another test on OkCupid that was funnier and possibly more accurate. According to them I'm a Manchild.
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Guise, guise, guise...
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Though the test is clearly flawed; there's no role variant for idiot.
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today I'm an ENFJ!
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Myers-Briggs is nonsense, but whats more interesting is the way that people continue to participate in these tests even when they dont believe the results are especially meaningful. Its kind of like horoscopes I guess; noone actually thinks they have real validity, but many people enjoy reading them anyway because its 'fun' (I suppose you can put voting in political elections into the same category)
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Like i said, i participated as it was doubtful i'd get much more support from my mentor if i didn't. Being the positive kind of guy i am i tried to gain something from the experience. |
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I find the same phenomenon occurs in a group of people watching a game show (which I equally detest). They wont be winning any prizes or large somes of money from participating in the game show, yet they feel compelled to shout out answers at the TV set and compare quiz notes all the same. |
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Derren Brown gathered a groupd of 6 people together.
He gave them all an enveloope with a detailed critique of their personality. I think 5 out of the 6 people said it was very accurate. The same critique was in the same envelope for every person. Shazam! Edit: only one more post to go. Are you as excited as I am? |
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I'm glad you found it amusing as that is what i intended. |
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afternoon, lovely day for it guv'nor
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1) Trying to quantify personalities has its roots in positivist psychology and like most positivist psychology, it tends to ignore the complexity of human consciousness in order to reduce everything to 'neat' categories. Theres something really pathological about talking about there being 16 'types' of people, as if the huge amount of individual variance you encounter throughout human history is that easy to categorise. At most, M-B would be a typification of the people that existed in the society where the test was made, and if that society only allowed for 16 different types then that would be a pretty serious indictment of it. In any case, it's really not clear to me what the quantitative approach of M-B adds to the qualitative Jungian archetype theory which inspired it. 2) The Myers-Briggs test assumes that a 'personality' is something fixed that a person carries around with them through their day-to-day life, and that it makes sense to oppose character traits which are taken as mutually exclusive. In reality, people will generally exhibit different personality traits in different environments; someone who is 'introverted' in a workplace environment may be quite different in a pub with close friends, or in an internet chatroom. I think theres a real sense in which 'personality' doesnt exist; people generally act and think very differently in different circumstances, and trying to pick one particular set of conditions as being 'normal' and representative of their true self is somewhat dubious. More fundamentally, trying to split personality traits into an either/or categorization schema implicity promotes the idea that its acceptable for a person to be too narrowly focused in one direction rather than striving for a healthy balance between extremes. This again goes back to the industrial psychology origins; if your goal is primarilly to have a productive workforce then it makes sense to have a test which puts people in boxes, but this sort of thing is probably opposed to the healthy development of individuals. I suppose its possible for a test like M-B to be used in a humanistic setting by making people aware of imbalances in their character due to modes of thought/living which they are neglecting, but this is not generally the use to which it is put. 3) M-B takes a strongly uncritical attitude towards politics and the education system by remaining silent on why people have the personality traits they do. This ties into the above; its not clear how you can distinguish between someone who is 'naturally' a Perceiving person, and someone who would become Judging if they were exposed to scientific education. It would only make sense to talk about a person's natural preference for a specific mode of thought if they had been exposed to many different kinds, and I dont think that this is generally true in modern society. Also, in its strongest form, M-B seems to suggest that the difference between (eg) a person who is extremely pro-science and one who prefers intuitive religion/spirituality is ultimately a subjective matter of personality traits rather than being something that can be judged as right or wrong and traced back to its social origins. 4) Even if it were possible to categorize personalities, there isnt really any evidence that the M-B test does so 'correctly'. Most of the questions are far too open and broad to be answered yes/no, and you could easily imagine different people selecting the same option for very different reasons (this is a problem with pretty much all quantitative psychology and psychometrics really). Theres also no scientific evidence that the assignments the test produces are 'correct', nor is it clear what correctness means here or how youd go about testing for it. Quote:
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It's the grown-up version of deciding which Thundercat you wanted to be (I was always Lion-o, because I liked to be the leader and boss people around!!). |
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Cheetara was hot. Panthra was definitely the best though.
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panthro
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hey guys i did a personality test for you; the results are below :)
Lion-o = horn because he's tough and doesn't hold back Tigra = nodrog because he is a bit weird but still loyal to liono Panthro = jer because he's an ethnic minority Cheetara = vampy because she's the token girl Mumm-ra = yahwe because he's immortal and kind of mean Wilykit = Kila because he's an annoying kid Snarf = furball |
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I represent the Ro-Bear Berbils.
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For starters Nod, I think it's a mistake to criticise the test because of the motives for its own existence. The test either works or it doesn't. The fact that it's primarily used in the corporate/industrial environments (if what you say is correct) is neither here nor there - you may criticise the fact that it's used and the motives for using it, but it seems a little strange to criticise the test itself.
So, why take it? I'd say that there's a natural human curiosity in tests such as these to see the results. Some are automatically cynical and just take them to see how accurate they are. Some like to see how they're classified and how that matches up against other people. Others are genuinely amazed to discover their own personalities....they're usually the people who read their horoscopes as well. I realise that you weren't attempting to directly compare M-B with horoscopes, but the two are clearly different: M-B is based on the responses of the testee, horoscopes are not. Can such tests be accurate? It depends on the number and type of questions they ask. Your standard internet test is usually pretty terrible. Then again, if you're taking a test that guesses your penis size then you really shouldn't have high expectations. Quote:
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Leonardo leads! (me :alpha: )
Donatello does machines! (idimmu!) Raphael's cool but crude! (horn!) Michaelangelo is a party dude! (Phil^) |
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ha! I never imagined Phil as much of a party dude :P
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I'm somewhere between and ISTJ (Inspector) and INTJ (Mastermind)
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Most people who know me could have probably just guessed it, but I'm ENTP.
Incidentally *NTP is the most common result for people with ADHD from what I've observed(not a very random sampling though I'm afraid, all Mensans etc.). |
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oh good the freaks from the other boards have come
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I've taken a couple, and always ended up being INTP.
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How can a test which depends on the subject giving subjective answers about themselves produce meaningful, objective results?
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many people can't be honest towards themselves though (edit: read the reply of mzysdfhldsn, that's what I meant!), I tried to answer the questions based on how I would react in an example situation I drew up myself, but depending on the example situation I'd always react differently
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I finally did this (procrastination!) and apparently I'm ESFJ..
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Honesty is not the same thing as objectivity you fools.
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