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View Poll Results: What is your personality type?
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Analysts - INTJ
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106 |
47.75% |
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Analysts - INTP
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17 |
7.66% |
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Analysts - ENTJ
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12 |
5.41% |
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Analysts - ENTP
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5 |
2.25% |
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Diplomats - INFJ
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8 |
3.60% |
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Diplomats - INFP
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13 |
5.86% |
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Diplomats - ENFJ
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8 |
3.60% |
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Diplomats - ENFP
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4 |
1.80% |
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Sentinels - ISTJ
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28 |
12.61% |
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Sentinels - ISFJ
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4 |
1.80% |
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Sentinels - ESTJ
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3 |
1.35% |
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Sentinels - ESFJ
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1 |
0.45% |
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Explorers - ISTP
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8 |
3.60% |
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Explorers - ISFP
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3 |
1.35% |
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Explorers - ESTP
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1 |
0.45% |
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Explorers - ESFP
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1 |
0.45% |
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10-23-2014, 07:31 PM
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#41
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 1,069
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Personality Types
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Originally Posted by BreathFree;
INTJ strengths are: imaginative and strategic thinkers, ambitious, confident, independent, logical, persistent and determined, open minded and jack of all trades. I think these are great traits for early retirement. 
Just to be fair, weaknesses are: arrogance, judgmental, overly analytic, a dislike of structured environments, and clueless in romance. 
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i don't need to take the test, but i do need to find where in my house you put the camera's.
Actually, turns out i'm ENTJ.
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10-23-2014, 07:38 PM
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#42
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 9,358
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Originally Posted by Walt34
Well, not always engineers or math majors. I'm certainly not, retired law enforcement and the first time around I flunked algebra I in high school. (Cracking a book might have helped.) But what I see consistently on the board is either no debt or low debt in relation to one's resources.
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Good point. I have an old book on how to live frugally, written by a guy who used to deal in antiques and settle estates, and he was always surprised at how fast the heirs could make $100K disappear on purchases like vacations and luxury goods.
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10-23-2014, 08:51 PM
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#43
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 120
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+3 INTJ here. Was tested at megacorp during one of our week long management workshops. I was always made leader of our sub-group. Boy did I hate those things.
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10-24-2014, 06:13 AM
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#44
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 529
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The trend in this poll that screams out to me is the overwhelming dominance of Introverts, 85% (63/74) are I's. It suggests to me that extroverted folks may enjoy the work place and or need the social contact it provides and they may be less anxious to escape it.
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10-24-2014, 06:51 AM
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#45
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Location: San Diego
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The first time I was given the Meyers Brigg test was when I was working for a small engineering corp. The owner/president's wife was a psychologist - so this was a way for him to throw her some paying work - test his employees. It had soooooo many questions rephrasing the same thing over and over.
I was so frustrated by the test because I felt the answers weren't black and white - I wanted to answer "it depends" to so many of them. I still want to do this - even on dumbed down versions of this test - like the one linked in the OP.
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10-24-2014, 06:52 AM
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#46
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Utrecht
Posts: 2,650
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shotgunner
The trend in this poll that screams out to me is the overwhelming dominance of Introverts, 85% (63/74) are I's. It suggests to me that extroverted folks may enjoy the work place and or need the social contact it provides and they may be less anxious to escape it.
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It suggests to me extroverted folks don't like staring at anonymous screens and typing on a keyboard taking on-line tests, like I do 
INTJ again. Used to test INTP quite consistently, J/P is only 7% preference though.
The turbulent thing is new to me. I wish I was more "assertive" though, used to be I think too. My professional training shifted it I guess.
50% so far in this poll while statistically speaking that type is 0.8% of the population. INTP is 11% here and only 3% in the population, so a bit likewise.
I guess this explains why I like this forum so much and find it quite unique.
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10-24-2014, 06:55 AM
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#47
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Limerick
Posts: 5,074
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shotgunner
The trend in this poll that screams out to me is the overwhelming dominance of Introverts, 85% (63/74) are I's. It suggests to me that extroverted folks may enjoy the work place and or need the social contact it provides and they may be less anxious to escape it.
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It was my experience at MegaCorp with Meyers-Briggs and a similar Social Skills tool that when we were told to use these tools to better understand our coworkers to become more productive, the extroverts took it upon themselves to try to change us into extroverts
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10-24-2014, 06:59 AM
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#48
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Pittsburgh, PA suburbs
Posts: 1,796
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I am revealed as an ISFP on the MB scale.
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10-24-2014, 07:13 AM
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#49
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: New York
Posts: 44
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I have always tested as INTJ, except once when I was interviewing for job for which I knew they were looking for "people people". Didn't end up getting the job, which was probably a good thing.
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10-24-2014, 07:38 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2014
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Do we have the distribution number for that overall population? Otherwise the poll totals don't have a benchmark.
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10-24-2014, 07:58 AM
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#51
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Mississippi
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Originally Posted by dallas27
Do we have the distribution number for that overall population? Otherwise the poll totals don't have a benchmark.
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This link was in an earlier post, it has the distribution breakdown from several studies in table format. INTJ is ~1% of world population per the tables.
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10-24-2014, 08:51 AM
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#52
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Peru
Posts: 6,335
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I found out I was personality typed with Robin Williams and Carol Burnett.
I'll settle for that. 
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10-24-2014, 09:07 AM
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#53
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,638
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Been quite a while since I last took such a test - I think the last time I did, the results were INTJ. Results just now say ISTJ, although I was near the mid-point on the N/S category.
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10-24-2014, 09:08 AM
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#54
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 589
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Entj - don't really fit the mold but never was a fan of categorizing either. Retired early at 58 - 5 years now (w/o the good fortune of a megacorp/govt pension).
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10-24-2014, 12:47 PM
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#56
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 200
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I'm an ISTJ and have always tested that way. Fortunately, I always held the kinds of jobs listed on the career section of the linked test. I liked the reading about parenting styles. That sounds like the way I parent. Lucky for me, I seem to have a similarly-wired kid. However, I do often forget about positive praise, so it's nice to have that reminder. DH is an ENTJ. Apparently, we aren't that compatible, but we get along fine. 
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10-24-2014, 01:51 PM
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#57
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: SoCal
Posts: 909
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Personality Types
ISTP here, according to the linked test. I've taken variations of this quiz numerous times over the years, and only the 'I' portion of the assessment remains consistent.
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10-24-2014, 01:51 PM
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#58
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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INTJ or ISTJ for me, usually INTJ. Kind of fits well with me being an engineer.
My experience with the use of the test at corp was just to try and make us realize that people view and think about things differently.
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10-24-2014, 03:20 PM
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Interesting. Yesterday I was INTJ. Today I'm ISTJ. Dunno what I did different.
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