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Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type?

This interests me greatly. Do you know where I can review the experiment?

Unfortunately, it was never published. The findings were nonsignificant (i.e., the statistical procedure inferred that we couldn't safely reject the null hypothesis, which may lead to a false positive - also known as a type II error). We ran a good experiment, but psychology, as a post-positivist science, is largely inductive. The premises from which we derived our hypotheses were most likely faulty. Such is scholarly research.

However, there is a pretty good body of literature on this type of stuff. For starters, I'd read an important article by Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler, called Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking, which examines how people view certain economic actions as being fair or not. The way situations are framed is very important on whether or not people see things as being fair.
 
Extroverted (E) 50% Introverted (I) 50%
Intuitive (N) 66.67% Sensing (S) 33.33%
Feeling (F) 62.5% Thinking (T) 37.5%
Perceiving (P) 58.33% Judging (J) 41.67%


INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

Have taken this test many times, split even between the E/I then "NFP". So, ENFP or INFP, depends on which day of the week.

Chris
 
Introverted (I) 54.17% Extroverted (E) 45.83%
Sensing (S) 54.17% Intuitive (N) 45.83%
Thinking (T) 50% Feeling (F) 50%
Judging (J) 54.17% Perceiving (P) 45.83%

Your type is: ISFJ

ISFJ - "Conservator". Desires to be of service and to minister to individual needs - very loyal. 13.8% of total population.
 
Introverted (I) 54.17% Extroverted (E) 45.83%
Sensing (S) 66.67% Intuitive (N) 33.33%
Thinking (T) 62.5% Feeling (F) 37.5%
Judging (J) 54.17% Perceiving (P) 45.83%

ISTJ - "Trustee". Decisiveness in practical affairs. Guardian of time- honored institutions. Dependable. 11.6% of total population.


Meh. Whatever's clever.
 
I scored these at work for years, so every year on my birthday I took it myself. Varied between INTJ and ISTP. I was 100% I and 0% E. The rest were almost 50/50, though always a few more T's, and the NJ and SP moved as a set. Curious to see what it is now 15 years later.


ISTP today. I was 84%, the rest were mid-50's. I guess I don't need quite as much isolation to recharge as I used to. Or perhaps it's because I spend my workday in a very quite, focussed and non-social office. But, it's nice to see that I'm still me.
 
I took a similar test about 3 years back, though that test gave percentages based on the different personality types: I was somewhere between INFJ and INFP. The JP thing got pretty one sided here. I'm sure I gave the test to the best of my honesty.

I 100% E 0%
N 100% S 0%
F 100% T 0%
J 100% P 0%

INFJ - "Author". Strong drive and enjoyment to help others. Complex personality. 1.5% of total population.

*Edit* here's the other test I took:

http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/mmdi/questionnaire/
 
Introverted (I) 83.33% Extroverted (E) 16.67%
Sensing (S) 50% Intuitive (N) 50%
Thinking (T) 62.5% Feeling (F) 37.5%
Judging (J) 70.83% Perceiving (P) 29.17%

Your type is: INTJ

INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population.

I'd say that seems fairly accurate.
 
Introverted (I) 66.67% Extroverted (E) 33.33%
Sensing (S) 75% Intuitive (N) 25%
Feeling (F) 54.17% Thinking (T) 45.83%
Judging (J) 70.83% Perceiving (P) 29.17%

Your type is: ISFJ

ISFJ - "Conservator". Desires to be of service and to minister to individual needs - very loyal. 13.8% of total population.
 
I read an article about how this test is being reconsider because they don't think that it reliable in its current form. Of course it is a tool like any other test of this kind and cannot be trusted 100%, but scientists have noticed a problem over the last few years. The results are skewing toward extroverted where over a large enough population it used to be close to 50-50. This is primarily among younger user and they think it is because children are being taught (from a number of sources) that being an introvert is a bad thing, so anything that seems like it might be introverted is reject whether you are or not.
 
Introverted (I) 79.17% Extroverted (E) 20.83%
Sensing (S) 50% Intuitive (N) 50%
Thinking (T) 70.83% Feeling (F) 29.17%
Judging (J) 66.67% Perceiving (P) 33.33%


Your type is: INTJ



INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population.
 
Introverted (I) 54.17% Extroverted (E) 45.83%
Intuitive (N) 66.67% Sensing (S) 33.33%
Thinking (T) 50% Feeling (F) 50%
Perceiving (P) 66.67% Judging (J) 33.33%


Your type is: INFP



INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.


Oh well...

A therapist tested my memory once and came to find I had a huge memory and only 2% of all the people ever tested shared that same kind of memory, yet my boss can't understand why I forget even the simplest things at work (neither can I).

I don't put much faith in 'psychological' tests.