Myers Briggs Personality Test
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TexanRose
Puritan Board Sophomore
When I took this test and saw the description of my personality type, I wasn't all that impressed--I saw a few things in the description that I didn't think really applied to me. But then I took a look at the descriptions of the other personality types, and started taking the results more seriously. The other personality types were so drastically different from mine, that I realized the points I was quibbling about with my personality type description were really quite minor.
Different people with different personalities really do think and operate in majorly different ways. Looking at the different personality descriptions and comparing them to the people I know (who had taken the test) really helped me understand those people better.
An example: people of my sister's personality type are described as being very loyal, often keeping the same friendships for years. I read that and thought "Wow, that's totally true of my sister, but you know, I never thought of that before."
I'm another INTJ.
Different people with different personalities really do think and operate in majorly different ways. Looking at the different personality descriptions and comparing them to the people I know (who had taken the test) really helped me understand those people better.
An example: people of my sister's personality type are described as being very loyal, often keeping the same friendships for years. I read that and thought "Wow, that's totally true of my sister, but you know, I never thought of that before."
I'm another INTJ.
Backwoods Presbyterian
Puritanboard Amanuensis
Thank you.
One area that this doesn't cover is a propensity of certain types to be drawn to these tests like a moth to the flame (IQ and memory quizzes as well). As such, the brainy types have all taken this test and love it and are over-represented from curiosity.
Other types will not voluntarily submit to such testing and must be drawn like a fish in a net (when work forces you to fill it out).
ericfromcowtown
Puritan Board Sophomore
Who would have guessed the PB is a magnet for INTPs?
Pass me that Dutch systematic theology tome that hasn't been checked out of the library in 213 years?
Other INTP boards don't have much of an inclination for religious belief (just letting y'all know).
Perhaps Rich could pop for all of us to take the test, then we could have a different forum for each.
I wonder if falls out down paedo/credo lines, post-pre-a lines etc.
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Steve Curtis
Puritan Board Senior
Here is oneFree Jung Personality Test
Here is anotherPersonality test based on Jung - Myers-Briggs typology
Christusregnat
Puritan Board Professor
People are not "types", they are people. I despise such tests.
Does that tell you which type I am
Does that tell you which type I am
MLCOPE2
Puritan Board Junior
People are not "types", they are people. I despise such tests.
Does that tell you which type I am
I think it makes you a G-R-U-M-P.
That's just my professional opinion though. Personally we all think your swell! 
Marrow Man
Drunk with Powder
Interesting, I was INTJ as well. Way up in the corner. Imagine that. Mine was about 10 years ago, and they made us take it when entering seminary.
Ivan
Pastor
Thanks!
I took one. I'm ENFJ...not sure what that means yet.
Famous ENFJs: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Clara Barton (Founder of the American Red Cross), Ronald Reagan. I'm speechless.
Careers most suitable: counselor, social worker, educator, physician, manager, politican
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21st Century Calvinist
Puritan Board Junior
ESFJ! Borderline on the E.
At best I am warm, nurturing, dependable, helpful and caring. At worst I am over sensitive, insecure and manipulative.
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The ESFJ page tells me that Bill Clinton is an ESFJ along with Mary Tyler Moore, Sally Field, Terry Bradshaw, Monica (from Friends) and Donald Duck.
At best I am warm, nurturing, dependable, helpful and caring. At worst I am over sensitive, insecure and manipulative.
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The ESFJ page tells me that Bill Clinton is an ESFJ along with Mary Tyler Moore, Sally Field, Terry Bradshaw, Monica (from Friends) and Donald Duck.
Backwoods Presbyterian
Puritanboard Amanuensis
Any other ESTJ's? Am I the only one?
Christusregnat
Puritan Board Professor
Personally we all think your swell!
Michael,
You need to get your head out of the sand, and ask around a little bit
MarieP
Puritan Board Senior
It means that you love to build relationships with others, people often ask you "What are you smiling about?", you could spend all day lost in "what-ifs," you tend to act upon intuition, you would rather make a value judgment rather than a cold and calculated judgment, and that you think most everything can be analyzed.
And King David...
and Barack Obama... but lets not talk about that...
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Backwoods Presbyterian
Puritanboard Amanuensis
I am quite the social butterfly.
A machete-toting social butterfly.
Backwoods Presbyterian
Puritanboard Amanuensis
What can I say.
CatherineL
Puritan Board Freshman
I'm an INFJ, my husband is an INTJ. I can't believe so many people on here have those - I've only ever met a few other INTJs (who were all scientists like my husband) and never an INFJ. Both are rarer types and I believe INTJ is the rarest.
Although I was initially skeptical of the test, its really helped my husband and understand where the other is coming from. We did it during pre-marital counseling.
Although I was initially skeptical of the test, its really helped my husband and understand where the other is coming from. We did it during pre-marital counseling.
Staphlobob
Puritan Board Sophomore
That's always been mine. I took it about 6 or 7 different times and it always comes out the same. Off the charts with "introversion" and "judgment." (But it's not what people think.)
BTW, why is he doing CPE? I took that nonsense in '84 and never got over my regrets. Psychobabble smoothed over with new age pablum.
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I"m INTJ too! Test said that I'm extremely judgmental! YIKES! Maybe I can look for the good in this?? Can I view this as "a good judge of false doctrine"?
The "judgment" designation speaks of one's ability to make a decision, not whether or not we're judgmental. For instance, I'm so strong on the "judgment" side of things that I have absolutely no problem making decisions. It's just I seldom make the RIGHT decision.
OTOH the "perceptive" designation tells of the person's desire to look at all options, from all angles. So "p's", especially in a group, can seldom make a decision because they will first of all beat the thing to death. So a good grouping of people is a mixture of "j's" and "p's."
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