test time: personality

[theklng]

for the sake of my research and in an effort to prove a point more extensively, i present for you, escapists, a test. as mentioned in the topic, it's about personalities and to some extent, mentality.

without going into too much detail on how it works, the test basically tells you the following:
- whether you're an introvert(keeping to yourself) or extrovert(conversationalist) person,
- whether your mind is sensing or intuitive (i won't go into what the difference is, but you can read up about it if you feel like it),
- whether your mind interprets your thoughts by emotion/feeling or by logic/thinking, and lastly,
- whether your mind judges others or simply perceives them.

each of these four attributes are opposites, leaving you with a 4 letter code for the archetype that you resemble the most, and the percentage in each attribute. feel free to post your type/code here. i will collect anonymous data on specifically how many people there are of each type, so even if you don't want to post your type here for whatever reason, feel free to pm me it so i can get more thorough results.

the test can be found here:

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

after taking the test, you can view a description of the personal archetype here [http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=1&c=overview]. keep in mind that while these archetypes are a foundation for your persona, they are by no means perfect for every or any person. chances are, however, that you'll notice similarities and traits that you recognize from yourself.

for the record, i'm an ENFP (44%/100%/12%/56%)/ champion idealist

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Seems I'm a mastermind.

Spoiler: Mastermind

Rational Portrait of the Mastermind (INTJ)

All Rationals are good at planning operations, but Masterminds are head and shoulders above all the rest in contingency planning. Complex operations involve many steps or stages, one following another in a necessary progression, and Masterminds are naturally able to grasp how each one leads to the next, and to prepare alternatives for difficulties that are likely to arise any step of the way. Trying to anticipate every contingency, Masterminds never set off on their current project without a Plan A firmly in mind, but they are always prepared to switch to Plan B or C or D if need be.
Masterminds are rare, comprising no more than, say, one percent of the population, and they are rarely encountered outside their office, factory, school, or laboratory. Although they are highly capable leaders, Masterminds are not at all eager to take command, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once they take charge, however, they are thoroughgoing pragmatists. Masterminds are certain that efficiency is indispensable in a well-run organization, and if they encounter inefficiency-any waste of human and material resources-they are quick to realign operations and reassign personnel. Masterminds do not feel bound by established rules and procedures, and traditional authority does not impress them, nor do slogans or catchwords. Only ideas that make sense to them are adopted; those that don't, aren't, no matter who thought of them. Remember, their aim is always maximum efficiency.

In their careers, Masterminds usually rise to positions of responsibility, for they work long and hard and are dedicated in their pursuit of goals, sparing neither their own time and effort nor that of their colleagues and employees. Problem-solving is highly stimulating to Masterminds, who love responding to tangled systems that require careful sorting out. Ordinarily, they verbalize the positive and avoid comments of a negative nature; they are more interested in moving an organization forward than dwelling on mistakes of the past.

Masterminds tend to be much more definite and self-confident than other Rationals, having usually developed a very strong will. Decisions come easily to them; in fact, they can hardly rest until they have things settled and decided. But before they decide anything, they must do the research. Masterminds are highly theoretical, but they insist on looking at all available data before they embrace an idea, and they are suspicious of any statement that is based on shoddy research, or that is not checked against reality.

Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Ulysses S. Grant, Frideriche Nietsche, Niels Bohr, Peter the Great, Stephen Hawking, John Maynard Keynes, Lise Meitner", Ayn Rand and Sir Isaac Newton are examples of Rational Masterminds.

 

[Celd]

INTJ/mastermind....cool.

 

[fix-the-spade]

ISTP

Freelance illustrator and bicycle mechanic, figures.

 

[xitel]

Oh, Myers-Briggs. Yeah I've taken this three times so far, I'm INTJ, the Mastermind.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

INFP: The Healer, and I guess that would make sense for an author.


...Oh gods, that means I'm either a cleric or a paladin. Bubble-hearth time!

 

[theklng]

Oh, Myers-Briggs. Yeah I've taken this three times so far, I'm INTJ, the Mastermind.

actually it's the variant of the keirsey school of thought. not that it matters in the test itself, only how you interpret the results.

 

[Cahlee]

Performer *shrugs*

 

[Galletea]

INTP Architect.

Architects are rare - maybe one percent of the population - and show the greatest precision in thought and speech of all the types.
Sweet!

 

[superbleeder12]

ENTJ or Field marshal. "to battle my brethren!"

 

[Yog Sothoth]

i, too, was scored as ENFP/champion idealist

 

[joystickjunki3]

Your Type is
ISFP
Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
11 12 12 33

So I guess I'm a composer. I don't really think that I am, though.

EDIT: I took the test twice more while changing a few answers I was on the fence about and I got the same result. Except for the percentages. I guess it's mostly accurate, though, seeing as how the relationship descriptions are pretty much dead-on.

 

[xitel]

Oh, Myers-Briggs. Yeah I've taken this three times so far, I'm INTJ, the Mastermind.

actually it's the variant of the keirsey school of thought. not that it matters in the test itself, only how you interpret the results.

Well, the Keirsey school is based off of the Myers-Briggs isn't it? Like, each of the Myers-Briggs types corresponds to a Keirsy type.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

I am:

slightly expressed extravert (22%)
slightly expressed intuitive personality (18%)
moderately expressed feeling personality (38%)
moderately expressed judging personality (56%)

Teacher? I don't think so.

 

[rottenbutter]

INTP Architect.

Architects are rare - maybe one percent of the population - and show the greatest precision in thought and speech of all the types.
Sweet!

YAY! Architects, unite!

 

[CoverYourHead]

INTJ, mastermind, there's a lot of masterminds here, we should work together and take over the world. *starts planning a betrayal*

 

[RebelRising]

You are:
distinctively expressed introvert
slightly expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality

I guess, in other words, I'm the calculating type.

 

[John Galt]

ENTJ, 17%, 44%, 62%, 44%.

Spoiler: the Field Marshal.

Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is marshaling or situational organizing role that reaches the highest development in the Fieldmarshal. As this kind of role is practiced some contingency organizing is necessary, so that the second suit of the Fieldmarshal's intellect is devising contingency plans. Structural and functional engineering, though practiced in some degree in the course of organizational operations, tend to be not nearly as well developed and are soon outstripped by the rapidly growing skills in organizing. But it must be said that any kind of strategic exercise tends to bring added strength to engineering as well as organizing skills.

Hardly more than two percent of the total population, Fieldmarshals are bound to lead others, and from an early age they can be observed taking command of groups. In some cases, they simply find themselves in charge of groups, and are mystified as to how this happened. But the reason is that they have a strong natural urge to give structure and direction wherever they are - to harness people in the field and to direct them to achieve distant goals. They resemble Supervisors in their tendency to establish plans for a task, enterprise, or organization, but Fieldmarshals search more for policy and goals than for regulations and procedures.

They cannot not build organizations, and cannot not push to implement their goals. When in charge of an organization, whether in the military, business, education, or government, Fieldmarshals more than any other type desire (and generally have the ability) to visualize where the organization is going, and they seem able to communicate that vision to others. Their organizational and coordinating skills tends to be highly developed, which means that they are likely to be good at systematizing, ordering priorities, generalizing, summarizing, at marshaling evidence, and at demonstrating their ideas. Their ability to organize, however, may be more highly developed than their ability to analyze, and the Fieldmarshal leader may need to turn to an Inventor or Architect to provide this kind of input.

Fieldmarshals will usually rise to positions of responsibility and enjoy being executives. They are tireless in their devotion to their jobs and can easily block out other areas of life for the sake of their work. Superb administrators in any field - medicine, law, business, education, government, the military - Fieldmarshals organize their units into smooth-functioning systems, planning in advance, keeping both short-term and long-range objectives well in mind. For the Fieldmarshal, there must always be a goal-directed reason for doing anything, and people's feelings usually are not sufficient reason. They prefer decisions to be based on impersonal data, want to work from well thought-out plans, like to use engineered operations - and they expect others to follow suit. They are ever intent on reducing bureaucratic red tape, task redundancy, and aimless confusion in the workplace, and they are willing to dismiss employees who cannot get with the program and increase their efficiency. Although Fieldmarshals are tolerant of established procedures, they can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective in accomplishing its goal. Fieldmarshals root out and reject ineffectiveness and inefficiency, and are impatient with repetition of error.

 

[theklng]

Oh, Myers-Briggs. Yeah I've taken this three times so far, I'm INTJ, the Mastermind.

actually it's the variant of the keirsey school of thought. not that it matters in the test itself, only how you interpret the results.

Well, the Keirsey school is based off of the Myers-Briggs isn't it? Like, each of the Myers-Briggs types corresponds to a Keirsy type.

the attributes and types correspond while the interpretation do not. as i said before, the keirsey is a variant (on the myers briggs indicator). it heeds another heuristic above the one that myers found; namely the gap between S and N (the heuristic that myers used herself was that e.g. EFJs would be similar, whether S or N).

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

INTJ mastermind. Oh and masterminds don't work well together, we'd probly just end up killing each other.