Jung Typology/Myers-Briggs Personality Test

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It was just six months ago that I first learned about the Jung Typology/Myers-Briggs Personality Test. It was very similar to my recent experience of learning about Aspergers Syndrome. Similar in that I felt a sense of relief. I have always struggled with being different. After exploring Jung typology I was able to find a description of my personality type, "INTJ". This was the first accurate description that I ever read about myself. It was more accurate than any description that I could put into words myself. The experience was very similar to what alot of recently discovered Aspies and similar others are experiencing on wrongplanet.net now. I would like to make this thread a place where people can post there scores and discuss there experiences with the links I am about to provide. I am assuming that most Aspies already know about the test but I think that it might still be enjoyable to take the test again and post your scores. I would not be surprised if we all scored mostly the same letters and mainly the only difference being the percent values. To better explain the test I am going to cut and paste a copy of an email I recently sent to a friend. When I have more time I may come back and edit this post to more directly explain the test and links. The email goes....

Hello

I am writing with little free time so I am hoping I can make this clear. I realize that you are a smart girl and I could just send you the link that we spoke of earlier, but I just like to make things more complicated. Also I am hoping that you enjoy the quiz and the associated links, so I figure why not wrap the gift.

After you take the quiz you will be given a score with four letters and a percent value associated with each. Here is what my scores are.

I = 100%
N = 46%
T = 46%
J = 22%

Let me explain my first letter as it may be helpful to you. All four letters have an opposing letter. The opposing letter to "I" is "E". The quiz scored me as being 100% "I", which stands for Introvert. "E" stands for Extrovert. This means that I am a complete introvert. I am as far away from extrovert as possible. I am writing this to make my next statement more clear. If I had scored 50% "I" then I would be halfway away from complete introvert and half way from being in the middle of both, introvert and extrovert. If I had scored a 1% "I" then it is fair to say that I could be a "INTJ" or "ENTJ". I say this to prevent you from thinking that a 50% score is in the middle of two letters, it is not. A 1% score is in the middle of two letters. This becomes important after you take the quiz. The quiz results allow you to follow two links at the bottom of that page. The links will provide you with written descrptions of your personality type. This is the part I hope you will enjoy.

I enjoyed reading the two available descriptions of my personality type because I honestly felt as if these general descriptions of my personality type were better than any of my own attempts to describe myself. As I do like to make things complicated, I struggle with words and never really say what I mean, in any short period, as this email proves. I hope you will have an enjoyable experience as well. So with that poorly said here are those links.

The actual quiz link is below. The most accurate quiz results are recieved by answering quickly. If you start to think about them, stop. Just go with your first instinct. Don't ask anybody what the questions are asking. Just answer them and be honest.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

The descriptions of the personality types are on two different website. They will be linked after the quiz but I am also including links to the sites incase you would like to do some exploration. The first site is more of a social description of the personality types while the second site more technical or scientific. Unfortunately, not all of the personalities have been described well. Mine is quite detailed while many are lacking forward statements. I hope yours is well developed. Also make sure to notice at the bottom of the description page you can link to how your own type relates with other types.

http://typelogic.com/

While the second site is a bit more scientific in its terms...

http://keirsey.com/

but also includes some thoughts on how to handle such information, about yourself and others.

http://keirsey.com/Drummers.html

And finally, I am including links to my own descriptions. I found the first of the two to be more enjoyable.

http://typelogic.com/intj.html

http://keirsey.com/personality/ntij.html

Remember that if you get any of those in the middle of the road 1% scores it may be necessary to explore two personalty types, instead of the following the links given after the quiz, in order to find an accurate description of yourself. Scoring a 1% "I" means that you need to read both the INTJ and the ENTJ types. If you do not feel comfortable giving me your results that is fine. I don't mind. There are certain people that I would not want to share such informatin with, perhaps you will feel the same. If you are not interested in the quiz then that is fine also. Keep in mind that if the quiz says that you are an Introvert, no big deal. Some people have the idea in their minds that being an Introvert is somehow lesser to being an Extrovert. This is not true. Both websites will give high quality examples of famous people with your personality type. All types are well represented while a few are also more rare.

All that being said, I guess I really could have just sent you a simple link. I hope to hear from you soon and I will be sending you some photos next time. bye.

I am also an INTJ, although at times I can become an INTP. I've heard that the majority of gifted students are INTP.

Here are some links to INTP descriptions if anyone would like to look...

http://typelogic.com/intp.html

http://keirsey.com/personality/ntip.html

I hate these kinds of tests. I obsess over the answers and I really never know what the answer is. I try hard to do these tests, but i probably randomly choose things (or i think i do, but I try to choose what is right). I probably screwed it up but I got:

then i realized i missed one question

i changed the answer to some questions while i was going back to answer the quedstion i had missed. here are the scores after i did that:

I don't think this can be accurate for me if i can easily change my score just by changing an answer that I am still not even sure about being correct.

Alex, I think that it is not surprising that your scores would fluctuate over a short period of time. I have read some of the advice that you have posted on other threads. I do not know if it is appropriate for me to identify the exact thread and who it concerns but I think that you will identify with what I am writing. I have read your posts advising people what to do when they are in certain modes. Your advice seems very helpful but I could never give such good advice because I do not experience such modes. I do not know you well but I imagine you as being on a roller coaster. While generally you can end a day by saying either it was a good day or a bad day, I am guessing that at one moment you can be very happy and excited and then in the next few seconds a thought or an environmental circumstance can make you feel miserable or perhaps anxious. Up and down or side to side. I can imagine you taking the Jung Test and over-thinking the questions. Then I see you getting the results, not pleased or at least unsatisfied, and going back to insure accuracy. I think that before the test you are in one mode. At first one part of your brain is being dominant. Then you start to take the test and another part of your brain becomes more active and causes an emotional or even physical reaction to the test. Before the test is over your brain is being dominated by a different part of itself. When it comes to viewing the results a different brain than what you started with is in control. This brain answers the questions differently. This may be why your results change. They should be changing because different parts of Alex are taking the test at different times. I think the most important result from this test for you is that your results change from moment to moment. Mine do not. They are rock solid. All day long I do not fluctuate. My friends ask me how I manage to stay so emotionally stable or sometimes they suggest that I do not have emotions. I show emotion but typically it is one emotion per day, unless I purposely induce an emotion. I wasn't always this way.

When I was 18, I was all over the place. Somehow over time I have leveled out. One of the things that I like to suggest to people who take this test is that the results from youth may differ from results in adulthood. Modern psychology suggests the opposite I think but I'm not sure. Perhaps only NT's test the same at age 13 as they do at age 23. If I had taken this exact test when I was 13 I would not have answered honestly. First I would have looked for the right answer and then maybe the best answer or what I thought was supposed to be the best answer. At age 19 I think that I would have tried to be honest but still I think that I would not have scored accurately because I didn't really know myself very well at that age. I certainly didn't want to consider myself flawed in any way. I constantly had to tell myself that I was better than other people as a coping mechanism to survive in the public school environment that was making me miserable. Most of the day back then was spent thinking about how not to get picked on. Now that I am away from that horrible place I have gotten to know myself better and I think at age 27, when I first took this test, I can answer much better.

I have friends that have had an identical experience as Alex. I have noticed that just like you, they too fluctuate on the "T" and "F" letters. I observe them as being on an emotional roller coaster. This is why I have guessed that you may be similar. I am sorry if my guess is way off. I hope that my assumptions are not insulting. I just thought you might like to read my thoughts.

I got an ENTJ, but keep in mind I didn't understand most of the questions.

Mich

Eek gats man! Online personality testing is intended purely for "entertainment purposes". The results of which are also potentially damaging to everyone, especially those with self-esteem issues to begin with. Do not put "any" stock in the results you receive as they do not serve as true indicators of anything. I would advise everyone to stop "self-diagnosing" via such mediums - if you truly have concerns, visit a registered clinical psychologist [in the flesh]. Most who formulate online tests are quacks, that care nothing for their test-takers, and could not give a "monkey's" about the harm they inflict.

Use your discretion - don't take the tests!

Today my personality type is INFP:

Introverted: 56%
Intuitive: 67%
Feeling: 33%
Perceiving: 11%

I could probably also test INTP, INTJ, and INFJ.

I: 100%
N: 78%
T: 78%
J: 33%

I've done the MBTI quite a few times recently and get INTJ consistently, although I was P rather than J a few years ago.

Yeah... tests like this mean *something*... but certainly not everything. It's good fun to do self-discovery but you really have to poke around with a whole battery of these to find out if it really reflects you or not. I'm not good at some of the "gray" area ones because my answers change on different days, which is to be expected.

You'll know over time.

I learned after a long time studying these tests (and the ideas behind them) that the only thing I test consistently or strongly as is "I", and I don't need a test to tell me I'm introverted. So I mostly just don't do these tests anymore. I have a personality; it just doesn't seem to show up all that clearly on personality tests. And I find that reading the entirety of ISTP, ISTJ, ISFP, ISFJ, INTP, INTJ, INFP, and INFJ (and not having any of them jump out particularly as "This one is me!" despite knowing myself pretty well) kind of points to the idea that the MBTI isn't something I should be spending much more time on.

I=89%
N=100%
F=11%
P=78%

I'm borderline F/P, in that I find reason, knowledge and objectivity to be immensely helpful, but wouldn't think of calling them the end all to everything: we have to be true to our feelings as well.

I'm pretty passive... I only like teaching people stuff, not telling them it. I'd rather understand the situation than make a judgement on how to move forward.

Quite introverted. I enjoy being quietly immersed in a crowd, or listening to other people converse, but find it a draining affair myself. Then again, for a cup that fills in thoughtful solitude, the act of draining it is itself a relief.

And intuitive. I'm way too intuitive. I've actually been more intuitive lately, losing track of application entirely. I do love application though, or at least realization of a concept. For instance those 11 dimensional super string particle things far too small for us to measure or even demonstrate the existence of, I really don't dig that stuff. When someone invents a dimension travel machine (not me, I is teh suck at application) I will be impressed. Until then concepts such as genetic engineering; ecology, sociology and culture; computation and stories will be more interesting to me, since I know at least someone can apply it. Anyone looking to hire a muse?

Ahhh... Michio Kaku, bless his soul -- oh, he's still alive. He is, of course, a major advocate of Superstring Theory and one of my heroes. My mind can't even begin to grasp some of the wild ideas he puts forward, but I have faith in his continued reputation as a vanguard and stalwart of the unorthodox in the scientific community that may someday seem mundane (much as we take Einstein's E=mc^2 for granted...). It's not reality that changes so much as how we perceive it.

I am in solidarity with you about practical application. What good's an experiment in the long run if it's never finished, or doesn't lead to something else? Theory is nice and all, but I'd like to think that there is a continuity of real, tangible action, that once the talk is talked, then the walk can be walked.

Man, I can't begin to understand superstring theory. Though I haven't read much on it in the past few years since I've heard of it.

What fascinates me is the idea of hypothetical spatial dimensions beyond the third. Surfing Through Hyperspace by Clifford Pickover is a great book on it. I'd go on at length right now -- in my normal aspie fashion -- but I think I'd be getting off topic.

I - 78
S - 11
T - 1
P - 33

Hey guess what - just about all the questions except the social ones could have been answered both ways depending on what I focused on. See - if you asked me if my desk was tidy... the reality is that my desk is a shambles, but my actual desktop of my computer is run like a military campaigne! So how do I answer that one?
Confusing huh?