Myers & Briggs in relation to ASD

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All opinons and thoughts about the Myers & Briggs' personality testing model in relation to Aspies would be welcome.
Has anyone done any research in this area or have an interest in this?
Does it relate to the aspie quiz that I found on this forum?

I am yet to be diagnosed but have a doctors appointment on Friday this week so I am doing some research

Tori

I meant to add this link for anyone who doesn't know MB

http://www.myersbriggs.org/

Although I'm a practitioner, there isn't the same user community in Europe that there is in the States. If anything has been done, your best contact in the US would be Consulting Psychologists Press.

I'll do a bit of digging round, because as a practitioner with ASC I'm certainly interested!

Many thanks for your help...i am after all just curious so a shared curiosity will at the least be shared confusion if nothing else lol!

Myers Briggs is slightly more useful than horoscopes.

Jason

Before I'd even considered aspergers I stumbled upon the myers briggs test, and was evaluated as INTJ (and have done every time I take the test, normally >90% for the first 3 and about 60% for 'J'). Whilst it's accuracy or relevancy may be questioned, it was the first time I found validation that I'm not the only one with such a weird personality (although supposedly INTJs are only about 1% of the population I think). I ended up reading quite a few discussions on the intjforum before later discovering aspergers and realising it tied up the loose threads the personality description couldn't cover (attention/eye contact stuff etc).

I cannot understand the questions on the personality tests. They need to give five eggsplicit eggsamples per question for me to decide if I am X BS answer or Y BS answer.

This question has come up in threads and polls on this site many times. You could find them by searching the forum for terms like MBTI, Myers-Briggs, INTJ, etc.

Although I don't know of any formal published findings on the subject, there seems to be a greater representation of xNTx types among people here (funny, since "NT" usually stands for neurotypical in this context.).

The only for sure answers I get is that I have an ixt and usually j. The Myers Briggs test is nit very reliable. Studies havve shown out of personality tests the anagrams test is more reliable.

By logic, people with ASD should be close to IxxJ - "I" because of social impairment, "J" because of the restricted interests and behavior.

Comparing

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt137942.html

with

http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-pers ... y-type.asp

Introversion is over-represented (89% vs. 50.7%)

Intuition is also over-represented (77% vs. 26.7%)

The same for Thinking (71% vs. 40.2%)

No significant differences for Judgement (52% vs. 54.1%), but slightly under-represented (against my theory)

The original Jung types were intended as a short-hand / mnemonic to document patients. Each practitioner will catagorise people in different ways. They are not that useful, except for that original purpose.

Every test I've taken has given very different results (routinely 4 different types), which shows that I'm either on the margins, crazy or these tests are flawed. I'm tempted to go with the latter, I do not believe that the entire population of the world can be classified into 16 meaningful types.

The skepdics dictionary as ever has some nice background on myers-briggs: http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html

Jason.

Ooh I just talked everyone in my family to take those MBTI tests recently. Assuming they were honest with answering those questions, the results for the 4 confirmed people with ASD and the 2 borderline ones are rather predictable.

ASD: INTJ, INTP, INTP, INFP
Borderline: ISTP, INTP

We have two NT women married into the family, and they're: ESFJ, ESFP. You can probably guess that they haven't been very satisfied with their marriages. Thank goodness they don't live in my house.

People on the spectrum aren't all aspies and some of them have very strong emotions, and don't use logic much. I just realized that not too long ago.