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After reading David Keirsey's Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence (you can google 'Please Understand Me PDF' and check the top links) I've recently become fascinated with the study of personality types. His analysis of each type seems to be a stunningly accurate prediction of a person's behaviour and character/temperament.

Anyway, I'm an INTP with a significant overlap with INFP traits and I will hazard a guess that approx. 70% of CE will be in 'The Rational' category.

Sorry I haven't provided a link to the test as I'm not yet sure which is the best version of it. The 16personalities or Truity tests are a good place to start (yet these aren't particularly advanced).

Finally, if you don't believe MBTI is accurate/useful etc. I'd be interested to hear why you believe so and whether there are any other personality tests you find more useful (perhaps the 'Big 5'?).
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I'm honestly sick of this as a topic of conversation
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Joelypoely posted...

I've recently become fascinated with the study of personality types. His analysis of each type seems to be a stunningly accurate prediction of a person's behaviour and character/temperament.

Hate to be the one to inform you that it's just astrology for people who think they're too clever for astrology.

Joelypoely posted...

Finally, if you don't believe MBTI is accurate/useful etc. I'd be interested to hear why you believe so and whether there are any other personality tests you find more useful (perhaps the 'Big 5'?).

Because it's inherently bullshit pseudoscience, as are all personality tests. None are "useful," or indeed needed in any way.
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ASithLord7 posted...

Because it's inherently bullshit pseudoscience, as are all personality tests. None are "useful," or indeed needed in any way.

Do you think these studies are falsifiable?
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Joelypoely posted...

ASithLord7 posted...

Because it's inherently bullshit pseudoscience, as are all personality tests. None are "useful," or indeed needed in any way.

Do you think these studies are falsifiable?

No. They aren't falsifiable scientific "studies."
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MBTI hasn't been studied very much scientifically, and to the extent to which it has, people have found it to have poor psychometric properties.

Which isn't surprising since its theoretical roots are in Jungian psychodynamic theory.
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I - - J

The middle two can be practically anything - it's never consistent.

It's the reason I don't take it seriously.
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Also im p sure TC thinks falsifiable means something it doesnt
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Mine is "fuck that shit".
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ASithLord7 posted...

Also im p sure TC thinks falsifiable means something it doesnt

I've studied the Philosophy of Science. I have a pretty decent grasp of the terminology and the central figures involved in the establishment of the scientific method.
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Joelypoely posted...

ASithLord7 posted...

Also im p sure TC thinks falsifiable means something it doesnt

I've studied the Philosophy of Science. I have a pretty decent grasp of the terminology and the central figures involved in the establishment of the scientific method.

Apparently you dont, because you seem to think it means has this been disproven?
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Chaotic neutral Orsimer spellsword
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ASithLord7 posted...

Joelypoely posted...

ASithLord7 posted...

Also im p sure TC thinks falsifiable means something it doesnt

I've studied the Philosophy of Science. I have a pretty decent grasp of the terminology and the central figures involved in the establishment of the scientific method.

Apparently you dont, because you seem to think it means has this been disproven?

??? Where was that implied?
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ASithLord7 posted...

Hate to be the one to inform you that it's just astrology for people who think they're too clever for astrology.

Astrology is literally based on nothing. It's just a 100% shot in the dark.

MBTI at least tries to be scientific. It's a great tool for describing what's there, but its insufficient to describe the underlying mechanisms.

Infp but I rather go by OCEAN. Literally the only part of MBTI that can be close to worth anything is introversion/extraversion
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...

MBTI is only unscientific because it can't be empirically proven.

No, it's unscientific because it's based on underlying unfalsifiable theory.

Technically, the MBTI could be a good psychological assessment, by chance more or less, but it isn't.

MBTI's classifications can be falsified relatively easily.
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Blue_Dream87 posted...

Infp but I rather go by OCEAN. Literally the only part of MBTI that can be close to worth anything is introversion/extraversion

I'd say the thinking/feeling dichotomy is a huge one.

Why is it always people that identify as INTP that bring this shit up. Is it like, humble bragging about how "unique" they are?
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Vulgorn posted...

Why is it always people that identify as INTP that bring this shit up. Is it like, humble bragging about how "unique" they are?

INTPs love analyzing and categorizing everything.

And just so happen to be one of the most prolific types you see in the science world so most psychologists are going to be of this type.

Vulgorn posted...

Why is it always people that identify as INTP that bring this shit up. Is it like, humble bragging about how "unique" they are?

LOL yes. Nah it's just "For this type of Rational, the world exists primarily to be analyzed, understood and explained...What is important [for INTPs] is that the underlying structures of the universe be uncovered and articulated."
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INTJ

the tests are bullshit ofc, but fun nonetheless
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INTP
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...

ASithLord7 posted...

Hate to be the one to inform you that it's just astrology for people who think they're too clever for astrology.

Astrology is literally based on nothing. It's just a 100% shot in the dark.

MBTI at least tries to be scientific. It's a great tool for describing what's there, but its insufficient to describe the underlying mechanisms.

"tries to be" doesn't cut it.

And yes my point was that they're both bullshit.
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FL81 posted...

INTJ

the tests are bullshit ofc, but fun nonetheless

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I don't know what that is.

But I'm skeptical of personality tests.
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...

Blue_Dream87 posted...

Infp but I rather go by OCEAN. Literally the only part of MBTI that can be close to worth anything is introversion/extraversion

I'd say the thinking/feeling dichotomy is a huge one.

Also OCEAN is woefully incomplete. It doesn't really give you the nitty gritty of how someone's personality works, just the absolute most surface level things.

It's incomplete, but there aren't really any solid theories for personality in the first place. I tend towards OCEAN since there can be subcategories and I've actually read research that used OCEAN for studies involving personality traits.

And I don't think it's supposed to be easy to categorize like MBTI. It's more looking at how they interact. Definitely not easy to digest.
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C_Pain posted...

I'm honestly sick of this as a topic of conversation

Me, too. But only because I've delved so deep into it myself.
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ESFJ
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bump
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intj, the rarest of the rare
only 3 billion people on the internet have it
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The official Myer Briggs foundation wants 50 bucks for the online assessment. Fuck them and their pseudo-science bullcrap.
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ENTP

I remember when I was younger I was so obsessed with it.
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

ENTP

I remember when I was younger I was so obsessed with it.

my old manager was ENTP and she was horrible to work with
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INTJ
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Okay, I just did a free assessment and got ENFP
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INFP in all tests I've taken. Interesting stuff and tbh pretty accurate for my personality/behavior.
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INTP, iirc
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Parappa09 posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

ENTP

I remember when I was younger I was so obsessed with it.

my old manager was ENTP and she was horrible to work with

im her from the future

tbh im probably an ENFP these days
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i've had to take these at work in the past
entj
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Not sure I really buy into these but Ive always gotten ENFJ.
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Used to be INTP but have floated towards INTJ and ISTP at various life stages.

The thing to remember is that the 16 classifications are archetypes and literally no one is pure anything; it's interesting and useful in so much as how people view themselves versus how I see them, notably. And past that it's a basic self descriptor which I find to be more informative than "likes sports, travel, and music"
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INFP
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Depending upon how I am feeling when I take the test, I either score ENTJ or INTJ. I am an engineer by trade, so I guess it makes some sense. I am getting more to the E side with time.
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INTJ for me. It very accurately describes me as well.
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JJJJ

Judging, Judging, Judging, Judging.
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INTJ, Scorpio, Chaotic Good

(I consider all 3 of these metrics equally invalid, but they're fun)
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C_Pain posted...

I'm honestly sick of this as a topic of conversation

^Probably an ISTJ normy

Kickflip posted...

The official Myer Briggs foundation wants 50 bucks for the online assessment. Fuck them and their pseudo-science bullcrap.

I wouldn't call it pseudoscience. Imo though, people should be aware that personality has to be on a spectrum, much like gender really. Just as everyone partakes in different behaviors with varying degrees of what society deems 'feminine' and 'masculine', so then must we partake in actions that are to varying degrees loyal to these typings. The idea of 16 types is kind of misleading, and it's widely accepted that people's personality's change over time, that people are capable of developing certain components of their personalities that were once weaker. So if people can become more well rounded is there personality the same? Not really.

Also, it might not be the best route to type ourselves. And if you ask me, getting typed by some professional would probably take a while if they want to be honest about it....instead of just taking some test.

I would also say that the 'I' types are probably more likely to accurately assess themselves as it's easy to know if you're introverted, and introversion is correlated with introspection.