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Myers-Briggs personality types on WebmasterWorld

Are you INTJ, INTP, ENTP, etc.

         

rjohara

3:23 am on Dec 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I think one of the most revealing questionnaires you can take that's available on the web is a version of the Myers-Briggs personality survey. It groups people into 16 categories according to four pairs of variables: Introvert/Extrovert, Sensing/iNtuitive, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving. The survey thus indentifies you as INTJ, ESFP, ISFJ, etc.

Although people of all categories can be found in all careers, there are strong statistical correlations with certain lines of work. Scientists/inventors are often INTJ or INTP types (introverted, intuitive, thinking, and either perceiving or judging). People in the helping professions are often ISFJs. Sales people are often ESFJ, and so on.

Here's a simple version of the Myers-Briggs [humanmetrics.com] (the real thing is many pages long and is licenced only to professional psychologists). What types to we have here at WebmasterWorld? I would guess something of a bimodal distribution with the more computer-geekish people in the INT- area and the e-commerce/sales people in the ESF- area. But that's a guess.

RJO (INTJ)

Hawkgirl

8:47 pm on Dec 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Argh! Like there aren't a million variables there? (rant snipped)

Typical INTP reaction ...

<duck>

locke

8:54 pm on Dec 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Heh, the site linked to at the top didn't work; took a similar test, and it said I was ISFJ.

mivox

8:57 pm on Dec 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Typical

I knew someone would say that... hehehe.

Learning Curve

9:29 pm on Dec 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Introverts average about 600 posts each.
(excluding outlier rcjordan with 7,686 posts)

Extroverts average about 400 posts each.

Not what I expected. Humm, would introverts rather type than talk?

AgentSmith

10:28 pm on Dec 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

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INTJ for me

Famous INTJ person: Hannibal from Silence of the lambs

But I don't eat people:)

jaybee

11:06 pm on Dec 19, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Ok
So I did the test thing.

Now If I want to be a better person, at least in the top seven (ten) you mean I have to try and change the few things I'm weak in to rank with the top crowd.

Seems like I read many times, several places we are what we will be, at a certain point in life. Age five? Seven?

After that it is HAAAARD to change. So I guess I'm stuck in being me. For what it's worth I guess I'll have to accept being me for better or worst.

Just wondering if this is scientific, or just a broad generalization of respondents.

Took another in the IQ sector, and according to the score I was supposed to be a WORD WARRIOR. For whatever it's worth.

jaybee

Dante_Maure

12:48 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Took another in the IQ sector, and according to the score I was supposed to be a WORD WARRIOR.

Oh really? En garde!

<stabs jaybee with a sharp expletive>

nicebloke

12:54 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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INFP

c3oc3o

1:00 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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INFP number three here

jaybee

1:19 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Dante_Maure

<stabs jaybee with a sharp expletive>

I'm bleeding man, don't push the dagger in any further.

Mia culpa, mon ami. :(
jaybee

caine

1:20 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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night shift

11 INTP
11 INTJ
5 ENFJ
5 ENTJ
4 ENFP
3 INFJ
3 ENTP
3 INFP
1 ISTJ
1 ISTP

chiyo

1:43 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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OK Iid play.

ESTP

austtr

4:47 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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First time I did this was via an employer "staff awareness" initiative - ESTJ

Did it again about 12-15 years later - ESTJ

Guess that means I'm predictable.

Sinner_G

8:09 am on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for taking over the night shift, caine :).

I find it very interesting that we are so many INTJ here, since we're supposed to comprise no more than 1% of the population. Guess there is a close connection between webmaster and mastermind. We just like to be the master of something ;).

ann

12:35 pm on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Hmmm, Not so sure of THAT....

Only four of us? I was sure that I was average, guess not *G*

enfp

Ann

NeedScripts

1:05 pm on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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ENTJ :)

mona

5:34 pm on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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ENTP

-although I never know if I'm answering the way that I really am or the way I think I am. Hmmm...I wonder if that's an ENTP type thought.

Shane

5:38 pm on Dec 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Combining two threads, use of electric shavers (http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum9/3850-8-15.htm) and Myers Briggs, I had the following thoughts:

ENTJs (Field Marshalls) are only allowed straight razors when alone in the room

ISFPs (Artists with feeling) only use electrics on the most sensitive setting

ENFJs (Teachers) don't shave but they do instruct others on the finer points of hair removal

INTJs (Scientists) forget to shave, but they do know how

INFJ (Authors) and ENFP (Journalists) neither shave but they do write instructions on "how to"

ESFPs (Entertainers) use an electric unless they have an audience in which case they always take their time using a blade ;) (Are you listening Mivox, Hawkgirl, .....)

Chow for now,
Shane

WebRookie

2:49 am on Dec 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

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INFJ

Robert Charlton

3:52 am on Dec 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

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INTJ...

...up there with Augustus Caesar, Peter Jennings, CS Lewis, John F Kennedy, Woodrow Wilson, and Hannibal Lecter. ;)

electro

2:10 pm on Dec 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

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ISTP

Kind of close, but I feel I'm less forcefull than the short explination says I should be.

lgn

10:43 pm on Dec 21, 2002 (gmt 0)



INTP

shelleycat

11:09 pm on Dec 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

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ENTP - the inovator. The perfect research scientist (my chosen profession). "Outgoing and intensely curious, Inventors are apt to express interest in finding out about everything they come into contact with"

But as I get older I move more towards ENTJ, probably because I'm just getting more bossy and intolerant as I age (although my official story is that maturity is making me more reposnsible).

Big_Balou

2:42 am on Dec 22, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Finally broke down and took it: ISTP

bill

3:47 am on Dec 22, 2002 (gmt 0)

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ISTP

...interesting
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dingman

5:11 am on Dec 22, 2002 (gmt 0)

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INTP

AAnnAArchy

2:07 am on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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INTJ

rjohara

2:13 am on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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The proportion of INTPs and INTJs here is really amazing. General surveys usually report that each of these two types represents about 1% of the general population.

seindal

2:22 am on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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> INTJs (Scientists) forget to shave, but they do know how

This is so precise. My wife hates it!

I'm still amazed at the amount of N's here.

René.

lgn

2:08 pm on Dec 23, 2002 (gmt 0)



Computer Science always had a high percentage
of INTP. At least when I went to University
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