Yet Another Personality Quiz

Your #1 Match: INFJ

The Protector You live your life with integrity, originality, vision, and creativity. Independent and stubborn, you rarely stray from your vision - no matter what it is. You are an excellent listener, with almost infinite patience. You have complex, deep feelings, and you take great care to express them. You would make a great photographer, alternative medicine guru, or teacher.

Your #2 Match: INFP

The Idealist You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist.

What's Your Personality Type?

Seen at Pilgrim/Heretic's (who had the same results).

Comments

[Pilgrim/Heretic]

Awww, we're Myers-Briggs twins! (And isn't this the rarest of the combinations?) I think we disagree with parts of the test in the same way, too. :)

[DM]

The only thing that bugs me about these quizs are the questions to which you can legitimately answer with "both." Interesting, nonetheless.

[Another Damned Medievalist]

The real M-B has a ton of questions -- over a hundred, I think. So it's much more likely to be accurate. Still, this one was close to what I usually test -- although I've never had the P variant before. I can switch between E and I, and F and T, but I've never has an s or P before ...

[Rana]

Yeah, there's usually a range of responses I fall more into than others - and, happily, there's usually decent correspondence between what I feel drawn to, career-wise, and what they recommend for the types.

The problem of the questions where one wants to answer "both", "neither" and "it depends" is one that really needs addressing -- like there needs to be a second column where you can qualify the first answer and have that be a second axis to set the other choices against. Like, you're an absolute introvert (in all situations), a conditional introvert (in some conditions, but in a few not), a conditional extrovert (the reverse), and an absolute extrovert.

(As if the Meyers-Briggs distribution isn't already complicated enough. *wink*)

[jo(e)]

The real Myers-Briggs is way less confusing. What is funny is how many introverts I keep seeing on blogs. I didn't know that there were that many introverted people in the universe.

(I am a definite extrovert ....)

[Rana]

I think that some of it is how it's defining "introvert." I don't feel all that introverted myself - I like people and I love socializing and doing things in groups - but I also dislike lots of unwanted noise and crowding, and I'm reasonably content doing something quiet by myself. For some reason it's that second half that weighs most, perhaps because I am confident about my liking solitude and quiet, but my tolerance of noise and people depends on the noise and the people. (A bunch of my friends screaming and laughing like maniacs - excellent! A bunch of drunken yahoos on the bus - ugh!!!)

[Claire]

Yes, it is always better if you know and are part of the group of maniacs, isn't it?

[Rana]

Yup!

[Toast]

You are the Quiz Queen, aren't you?

Me--> INTJ

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The Scientist

You have a head for ideas - and you are good at improving systems.

Logical and strategic, you prefer for everything in your life to be organized.

You tend to be a bit skeptical.

You're both critical of yourself and of others.

Independent and stubborn, you tend to only befriend those who are a lot like you.

You would make an excellent scientist, engineer, or programmer.
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I've taken a few different versions of Myers-Briggs (this one was actually pretty novel) and I always come up INTJ. Everything about that summary is true, too, right down to my being a software engineer, except the part about friends. My friends actually vary wildly in personality types.

[Rana]

Hah. You clearly weren't around for my days-and-weeks of quizzes stage. ;)