MBTI Assessment testing.

[WaffleSingSong]

Hiyas.

I found this 16 personality test thing online which is based on the MBTI scale of personalities, which I find quite interesting. The test is here
http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test and the description of personality types are here http://www.16personalities.com/personality-types

I got INTP (http://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality), which I think very accurately describes me.

YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE IS: INTP
Wait, where was I supposed to put this again?..
- MIND -
?ExtravertedIntroverted
40%
?
- ENERGY -
?IntuitiveObservant
51%
?
- NATURE -
?ThinkingFeeling
46%
?
- TACTICS -
?JudgingProspecting
30%
?
- IDENTITY -
?AssertiveTurbulent
11%
?

[Hyper]

Why did you post this in ROTW?

And MBTI's been on VT a bazillion times.

Since this is ROTW I will take the time to rant:

Personality tests can be quite inaccurate for a couple of reasons the main being personal bias or answering bias that is we all have some kind of idea of the person we want to be and our self-image is heavily affected by that, especially when answering questions about ourselves.

Also answering a question is not a sure indicator of behaveour.

To truly get an accurate result you need multiple tests done over a long course of time + an opinion from someone very familiar with the system being used and who has also observed and known you for a long period of time.

MBTI is my favorite system though most modern psychology has gone against it in favor of the the big five model.

As for them results: I always score INTP or INTJ.

[WaffleSingSong]

Why did you post this in ROTW?

And MBTI's been on VT a bazillion times.

Since this is ROTW I will take the time to rant:

Personality tests can be quite inaccurate for a couple of reasons the main being personal bias or answering bias that is we all have some kind of idea of the person we want to be and our self-image is heavily affected by that, especially when answering questions about ourselves.

Also answering a question is not a sure indicator of behaveour.

To truly get an accurate result you need multiple tests done over a long course of time + an opinion from someone very familiar with the system being used and who has also observed and known you for a long period of time.

MBTI is my favorite system though most modern psychology has gone against it in favor of the the big five model.

As for them results: I always score INTP or INTJ.

I thought that this is generally where you post things that are out of general talk or discussion. Deeper things, as this relates to Psychology and what-not. Sorry if it should be in another place.

They have? I've never seen them.

I'll look more into the accracy of this test, As I have taken them multipule times, but I have only gotten ENTP once, other than that the million times I've taken it has been INTP.

[Gamma Male]

I've always gotten INTJ. It describes me well.

[Hyper]

You just need to try and be as objective about yourself and your answers as possible.

Another thing to do is ask someone who knows you very well to describe you or ask them some of the key questions that characterize a certain personality.

The MBTI written test itself is always mostly the same.

[tovaris]

here is my
same type as OP
6505

[Lovelife090994]

I always get INFJ and that is me to a "T" it's scary.

[Hudor]

Apart from this site which classifies me as an INTJ more often than not every other test and every description(including the one on this site as well) I have read so far indicates I am an INFJ. However lucky dipping once again today I came out to be an INFJ according to this site as well. So i guess that would be me.

[Vlerchan]

I'm always ENTP (http://www.16personalities.com/entp-personality), and that's what I and friends I've discussed it with feel fits me best.

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I took the test in the OP and was unsurprisingly ENTP:

Extroverted: 63%
iNtuitive: 27%
Thinking: 59%
Prospecting: 68%

[Gamma Male]

Funny, I got INTP this time. It was only barely a P though, really close to the center. I've read both the INTJ and INTP type descriptions and they both seem to describe me well.

[Gigablue]

Personality testing isn't particularly useful. Any sufficiently vague description will seem to match with your personality. As a test, read all the other MBTI descriptions, they won't match quite as well, but I'm sure some of them will have many elements that are accurate. Personality tests ask you about yourself, then use that information to generate a vague, generic, and not especially informative description.

A problem with the MBTI specifically is that it assumes people fit a bimodal distribution (I or E, N or S, etc.), whereas for most traits, personality included, people fit a normal distribution (most people are between introversion and extroversion, for example, with a few people at the extremes). This is a fundamental flaw with the MBTI, one of the reasons that serious psychologists researching personality don't use it.

The big five model is easily the most validated personality assessment. Even then, it isn't useful on an individual level. It is, however, useful in research, seeing which traits correlate with which, and the heritability of different traits.

[pjones]

Isfp

[nikkissippi121]

ISFP on that one, but I usually get ISFJ. Hm.