The Quiz Thing

Mike Edwards

Categories: Asides

I’m not usually one to do the quiz thing, but I saw this at k8’s, and was curious if I’d changed much in the ten years or so since I first encountered the MBTI.

Click to view my Personality Profile page

Nope. Still strong INTJ. A little less extreme on the thinking/feeling axes than I was ten years ago, but otherwise mostly the same.

I’m familiar with the criticisms of the MBTI – the concerns with vagueness, and the concerns with telling people things they want to hear about themselves – and I get those concerns, but I also think that people aren’t necessarily coming to the MBTI with high expectations of scientific validity. I mean, I don’t really buy astrology – it seems fundamentally ridiculous to me that your personality traits can be in any way determined by the moment at which you’re born – but at the same time, I’m like “Yeah, I am so totally a Scorpio, and so not a Leo or a Pisces.” The supposed attributes of a Scorpio, in their differences from the attributes of other signs, help people tell stories about themselves in relation to others, much as the Myers-Briggs types do.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Comments

  1. joanna

    Hello, brother SS INTJ. I’ve always felt that the INTJ description fit me better than the sun sun description of being a Gemini because INTJ’s are so intense and goal oriented as well as seemingly arrogant (“seemingly” being the key word here), which I am, rather than an unyieldingly cheerful jack of all trades that Gemini’s are supposed to be. The leader in the background characterizes me fairly well, though I really don’t want to be a leader–or like leading at all–in the foreground or background.

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  2. k8

    I found my results disturbingly accurate. I’m not sure how being an Aries factors into it though. I am a typical impulsive and impatient Aries, but I’m not always courageous.

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  3. Clancy

    I took the test too – not that one because I didn’t want to register with the site – but this one. I am now* an ENTJ:

    * slightly expressed extravert (22%)
* slightly expressed intuitive personality (12%)
* slightly expressed thinking personality (12%)
* very expressed judging personality (89%)

    This type, on MyPersonality.info, is called The Chief.

    • I took the test about eight years ago and was an ENFP, but I can’t remember how strongly expressed an ENFP I was.

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