<p>I'm not sure if any of you have ever taken the Myers-briggs, but I'm just curious what your mbti types are? I've heard that a lot of NT types go into engineering, and I want to see how many of you are NT's. Personally I am an ENTP personality type.</p>
<p>I am also ENTP. Go figure!</p>
<p>Depending on the test, I have been labeled ENTP or ENTJ. More often ENTP. Still, I am pretty sure the MBTI is supposed to be administered by a professional, not online, so how accurate the online assessments are I don’t really know.</p>
<p>MBTI is a parlor game, not a professional assessment. Fun, but not terribly meaningful.</p>
<p>INTJ, and none of my scores are anywhere near the midline. My brother, a CivE, took the test and all results were just about dead center.</p>
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It can be, like anything else, but it does not HAVE to be. It is like an IQ test - there are real ones that take hours and are administered by mental health professionals, and there are quick online junk tests that tell you nothing with any real accuracy.</p>
<p>My company paid for a group of us to take the full version of the MBTI, complete with detailed professional analysis. We then went through a series of exercises where we were divided by test results and asked to tackle different problems. We were COMPLETELY different, right along with what the test said. Some of that may have been bias because we knew how we were being split, but the tasks were given to us with minimal instruction and I think we all acted the way we normally would have.</p>
<p>For example, one exercise split the T’s and F’s into two different groups, that were then asked to come up with as complete a description of a full water bottle (given to us) as possible. The T’s described it’s composition, shape, structure, volume, etc. The F’s described it in terms of what you could do with the water inside - I cannot give you details because it was a while ago, but the answers (both valid) were at right angles to each other. I really appreciated that bit of training and it has helped me to work with certain people that I had previously instinctively thought of poorly simply because they worked differently than I did.</p>
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<p>Ignorance is bliss. Don’t ruin it for us!</p>
<p>Also ENTP.</p>
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I was near the midline on a couple, in particular I/E - it was extremely close.</p>
<p>There exists no reliable, scientifically valid, statistically meaningful version of the MBTI. The fact that someone charged you to administer it does not change that. Sorry. </p>
<p>For instance, <a href=“http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=hss_pubs&sei-redir=1[/url]”>http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=hss_pubs&sei-redir=1</a> . “The MBTI is one of the most frequently used instruments for personality assessment. However, as Bjork and Druckman (1991) pointed out, the instrument’s popularity is not consistent with research evidence.”</p>
<p>I’m hugely NT, I by nature and E by sheer force of will, probably “truly” a P but I almost always test as a J. Depending on the day, I can get an extreme I or a solid (but not extreme) E, but it’s typical for me to be close-to-midline I. I’ve never seen a list where I fit the J description better than the P description, but I’ve only gotten a P from an assessment once, and I’m not normally close to midline on J/P.</p>
<p>Wikipedia says, “listeners may judge that the INTP makes things more difficult than they need to be. To the INTPs’ mind, they are presenting all the relevant information or trying to crystallize the concept as clearly as possible.” ;)</p>
<p>ESFJ for me.</p>
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I read through the paper, and it did not support your “parlor game” assessment.<br>
For example:</p>
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I do not think that anyone is saying that all the variations of human personalities fit neatly into 16 boxes - just that it provides a relatively convenient and sufficiently accurate assessment for some purposes. At least as good as you can get without some one-on-one psychotherapy.</p>
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<p>Without a psychometric assessment, you mean? Coming up with some description of a person’s personality traits isn’t usually a goal of individual psychotherapy.</p>
<p>I could come up with a self-assessment scale that classified everyone along the dimensions (tall / short), (fat / thin), (active / sedentary), (smart, dumb), and the resulting matrix would almost certainly be “useful in some applied contexts.” That doesn’t mean my scale wouldn’t be a parlor game.</p>
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<p>Wow there are a lot of NT’s on this site! Keep in mind though that I have been members of 2 of the most popular mbti forums on the net, both typologycentral.com and personalitycafe. I was on Personalitycafe for years and pretty much everyone on the sites agreed that I was an ENTP. In addition, I don’t exactly believe in mbti as much as I believe in cognitive functions. There are 8 different cognitive functions that people generally use in a certain order and I believe mostly in the cognitive functions that were discovered by Carl Jung. This is what mbti is based upon. </p>
<p>Also, I should note that you don’t have to go to an official “psycho-therapist” to ensure that your mbti type is correct. Once you study the system for a long time, you can pretty much type people if you are around them enough. However, I have been to psycho-therapists and I have talked with them about it, and they also agree that I am an ENTP.</p>
<p>@boneh3ad</p>
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<p>Take this cognitive functions test. The functional order of the ENTJ is Te<Ni<Se<Fi and the cognitive functional order for ENTP is Ne<Ti<Fe<Si. Then you might have a few functions in between, but usually your first function is always strong and your last function is always weak…</p>
<p>[Keys</a> 2 Cognition - Cognitive Processes](<a href=“http://www.keys2cognition.com/explore.htm]Keys”>Keys 2 Cognition - Cognitive Processes Assessment)</p>
<p>ENTJ. I would consider myself an INTJ, but I am consistently tested as an extrovert somehow. Whatevs.</p>
<p>Utterly INTJ</p>
<p>Well, Jnelsonmarka, that is officially the first time any of these sorts of things has called me introverted, haha. It said I match INTP. I don’t know if, knowing what I know about myself, I would agree with that at all.</p>
<p>@PoppinBottlesMGT</p>
<p>It makes perfect sense to me. Most ENTJ’s aren’t your classic “social butterfly” extroverts. Your lead function Te (Extroverted thinking) isn’t really a “friendly function”. It’s a function that has to do with planning, organization, strategy, etc. Te is very focused on the facts, execution, and getting things done. Many ENTJ’s in fact mistype as INTJ’s.</p>
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<p>What cognitive functions did it say that you use the most? Ti, Ne, and Si?</p>
<p>I don’t remember the third, but I am pretty sure Ti and then Ne was what it said.</p>