Encountered one of those polls offering choices that are not necessarily opposed:

[james_davis_nicoll]

"Keep things in their original state.

Make changes, even if only for the sake of change."

Depends if the current state suits my goals.

"I am very excited when I meet new people; I can talk to anyone about various topics.

If I am around people who I am not familiar with, I will feel a bit uncomfortable; some people consider me to be restrained and reserved."

Yes.

"My social circle is very wide. I have a lot of friends and acquaintances.

I have very close relationships with a small amount of people. I am very cautious and serious when I choose my friends."

Yes: Social circle is not the same as close relationship.

"I focus on the outer world.

I focus my attention internally. I spend lots of time on introspection."

Pardon me while I throat-punch the author of this quiz.

Comments

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

There is only one useful thing the Meyers-Briggs test does, and that is to promote an understanding that different personality types exist and can deeply affect how people interact with the world.

For actually sorting people, it's about as functional as a choose-your-own-adventure novel or 'Which X are you?' online quiz. I thought the categories were interesting, then looked into the science behind it, and found it isn't based on science, it's based on Jungian type theory.

Among many other problems, it assumes everyone is neurotypical.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

THAT's why I never get consistent results!

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

I'm pretty certain that was why *I* wanted to throat punch the author of the introvert/extrovert questions. Though I didn't know it at the time, because I wasn't diagnosed yet.

I suspect that a considerable proportion of people who end up classified in some of the rarer categories (I tested as INTJ/ENTJ), are there because of adaptions to neurological differences rather than personality. Which makes the test a lot like 'What dog breed are you?' for a cat.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

There is only one useful thing the Meyers-Briggs test does, and that is to promote an understanding that different personality types exist and can deeply affect how people interact with the world.

My workplace uses it for that, a training/development thing, every few years. I managed to beg off, the last time we were subjected to it -- pointed out that I'd gotten that message the first time I'd been through it, and it wasn't a particularly novel concept even then. This one is a colour version -- admin types are gold, R&D are orange, sales are green, someone else is blue; something like that.

After the last run, I was chatting with one of my colleagues, born and raised in Ireland. He told me that his results were ambiguous: halfway between orange and green. I asked him if that was a northern Irish thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe he was an Irish Rovers fan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqs4EbU02As

-- Paul Clarke