Personality Test

[Adam]

I took a personality test once. They told me I flunked.
The () Curtmudgeon

Same here.
You know my reputation here, so you know my type. (I suppose I already told you on this thread last year.) For those of you who want to figure me out, I'll put my type below the screen image (or for those who want to cheat and research what I said before.)
What, don't you know what the most hated type is?
We're hated because we're loud.
And spacey. Our feet planted solidly in mid-air.
Objective, fair. Won't give in to your emotional pleading.
Messy.
OK, I gave you all the four orientations in the usual order.
Now you should know my type.
Spoiler follows:














ENTP

[Uncouth Angel]

Your Type is
INFP
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
83 88 25 22

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Interesting test. Thanks.

INFP

[RyanS]

What's with all the INFJs? We're the rarest personality type...or so I thought. Man, no wonder I get along with (almost) everyone on this site.

[zemmiphobiac]

What's with all the INFJs? We're the rarest personality type...or so I thought. Man, no wonder I get along with (almost) everyone on this site.

IIRC, one of the most common internet sources for the 'rarest' claim re INFJs is an estimate by David Keirsey. He just guessed how common he thought each type was. The other common source a phone poll done in the US. Neither are terribly reliable. Interestingly, the proportions from the entire Australian Myers-Briggs were published somewhere half a dozen years ago, and the proportions were quite different (INFJ was a relatively common type for women, for example). However, these figures overrepresented certain occupations. (If you like, I can re-Google it and post a link, it's been ages since I looked at this stuff.)

[Xmansmommy]

IIRC, one of the most common internet sources for the 'rarest' claim re INFJs is an estimate by David Keirsey. He just guessed how common he thought each type was. The other common source a phone poll done in the US. Neither are terribly reliable. Interestingly, the proportions from the entire Australian Myers-Briggs were published somewhere half a dozen years ago, and the proportions were quite different (INFJ was a relatively common type for women, for example). However, these figures overrepresented certain occupations. (If you like, I can re-Google it and post a link, it's been ages since I looked at this stuff.)

I know I'd be interested in the findings if you do research it again.

[Jnthn]

The last time I did this test I evaluated as an INTJ. This was during the peak of my depression.

I've redone the test and I'm now an ENTJ, and I've been antidepressants for about a year.

Interesting...to me anyway!

J

I'm back to INTJ again, and enjoying a stable state in my depression management. I guess the change wasn't directly related to my depression.

J

[zemmiphobiac]

I know I'd be interested in the findings if you do research it again.

I wouldn't quite call Googling research

Here's the Australian type distribution article (PDF): http://www.ausapt.org.au/pdf/researc...001_gender.pdf
It's from 2001, so rather dated. And it's rather brief.

This article discusses the 'rare INFJ' claim: http://www.infj.com/INFJ_Statistics.htm
According to it, there is a bit more evidence than I remembered.

[lilpixieofterror]

What's with all the INFJs? We're the rarest personality type...or so I thought. Man, no wonder I get along with (almost) everyone on this site.

INFJ's and INTJ's are going to be rather common in places like this.

[Paintbucket]

The internet is a place for Introverts to dominate. It doesn't require much social interaction and allows for one to think before they speak. I do not know of any person myself on a personal level (at least knowingly) who is an INTP like myself, but the internet is chock full of INTPs I've met. I don't know of a lot of NTs period, for that matter.

[LagMasterSam]

Introverted-78
Intuitive-25
Thinking -62
Judging-11

Career
Computer Programming
Natural Science
Natural Science Education
Engineering

These careers all sound good to me. :D

Famous people of your particular type
Stephen Hawking, Andrew Grove, Marie Curie, Guy Kawasaki, Igor Sikorsky, Hillary Clinton

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

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

[Teluog]

I must be crazy, because I got JQZY












My score: INTJ today (67-25-38-44).

[THIEF]

INTJ

Introverted: 89%
Intuitive: 75%
Thinking: 50%
Judging: 44%

You are:

* very expressed introvert
* distinctively expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed thinking personality
* moderately expressed judging personality

Here's the Australian type distribution article (PDF): http://www.ausapt.org.au/pdf/researc...001_gender.pdf
It's from 2001, so rather dated. And it's rather brief.

According to that (Australia-based) study,

INTJ is one of the most common personality types (this thread's results, though anecdotal, certainly bear that out)
INFJ is uncommon but not the rarest
ISTJ is the most common type
ESFP is the rarest type

[zemmiphobiac]

INTJ
According to that (Australia-based) study,

INTJ is one of the most common personality types (this thread's results, though anecdotal, certainly bear that out)
INFJ is uncommon but not the rarest
ISTJ is the most common type
ESFP is the rarest type

I suspect that the over-representation of managerial and professional occupations in this data is at least partly responsible for the higher than expected proportion of NT and TJ types.

[{Tim}]

Thanks for the data, regardless. It's interesting.