Personality test
Published by Deanna Hoak December 31st, 2005 in blogYep. I still score the same. Here’s another link to the description of INTJ (no more than 1% of the population, it says!), and here’s a test.
How do other people on my list score? I’m curious.
UPDATE: Here’s another description. I sat here reading it and nodding my head and thinking, Yeah, that is me! I particularly liked this bit:
To INTJs authority based on position, rank, title, or publication has absolutely no force. This type is not likely to succumb to the magic of slogans, watchwords, or shibboleths. If an idea or position makes sense to an INTJ, it will be adopted, if it doesn’t, it won’t, regardless of who took the position or generated the idea. As with the INTP, authority per se does not impress the INTJ.
The only parts that didn’t work for me were the bit about decisiveness (I’d love to be more decisive than I am) and the bit about physical touch (I’m a very physical person).
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Last time I took the test, I was also INTJ.
I find these kinds of tests fascinating. I, too, scored as INTJ on that test (89% Introverted, 75% Intuitive, 25% Thinking, 78% Judging). Are we really just 1% of the population?
I’m fascinated by the list of fictional characters who fall in this category. Professor Moriarty? Hannibal Lecter?! Ensign Ro! Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?!? (The Shakespeare characters, or the Tom Stoppard variety?)
- Chris Roberson
INTJ as well. Is it an artsy thing? Cuz I kinda always wanted to be artsy….
I’m willing to bet that it’s not so much artsy as it is SF. :-)
INFJ. The description seemed about right. Just a little iNtroverted and a whole lot of Judgmental, though.
That paragraph you pointed out is very much my opinions as well. I’m always INTJ on these tests, as I pointed out in another comment. I thought most of that description rang true for me. But some things can be overcome. For example, they mention that INTJ’s rarely give praise, but this is an area I have worked to change in myself.
ISFJ
http://keirsey.com/personality/sjif.html
http://typelogic.com/isfj.html
ISFP, but I’m not sure it’s the case–my results for this testing tend to be mood-dependent:
“ISFPs are less fantasy-oriented than INFPs. These types are often confused, however, INFPs lean strongly to daydreams, poetry, prose and more philosophical pursuits; ISFPs often live out ‘id’ experiences rather than writing or even talking about them.”
I’m not likely to live out the experiences I write about. I’d be in jail by now.
I’ve tested all over the lot. The only sure result I get is the “I”.
ISTJ — but according to the test, only the “I” is strong, and the “J” is so close to the edge that it’s just as much a “P”.
Not that I really pay much attention to these things… I pretty much know what I’m like.
I wouldn’t have expected you to be an introvert, Chris! You haven’t struck me that way at all.
It’s odd when you know people primarily through cons, though, isn’t it? People I’ve met at cons have told me I don’t seem very introverted, either, but it’s just because I’m around people with whom I have so much in common. :-) I feel like a different person then, almost, and it’s wonderful.
You must be really close to the edge on the rest of them–probably a very well- rounded personality. :-)
Heh. Sometimes we think we’re just a bit confused. Especially when we start talking about ourselves in the third person.
INTJ as well. Heavy on the I and J.
I am an INFP. I was first tested in the early ’90’s through a career counselor, and score the same on every Internet test I’ve ever taken.
Oh, I’m definitely introverted. When I’m in situations like conventions, I compensate by being overly extroverted, but even there I’m more comfortable sitting at a table in the bar with a few friends than milling around a crowded party.
I think a lot of us tend to act differently at conventions than we would in “normal” circumstances. With some, it’s pretty overt, and ther “con persona” is entirely different, and they dress, or behave, or talk in ways they’d never dream of doing in their regular lives. I used to be pretty annoyed by some of these folks, who I just saw as self-important loudmouths, until I realized that conventions were the one place they felt comfortable enough to come that far out of their shells. I’m not quite that bad, but I tend to be gregarious at conventions, and anyone who knew me in my daily life wouldn’t rush to use “gregarious” as a description of me.
That was me, by the way. Man, I need to start rocking an OpenID, don’t I?
- Chris Roberson
INFP for me. I do think it fits me fairly well, and I always score that way.
Scratch that. Motherhood has apparently changed me. I just tested as an INFJ.
I actually flip-flop between ENTJ and INTJ (got this neat-o lightswitch mechanism for social situations ;P ). I suspect that there are a number of INTJs running amok (amok!amok-amok-amok!) in the authorial and publishing community—just a hunch…just a hunch.
-=Jeff=-
INTJ for me as well. Hmmm…
Yeah, I really hate the elbow-to-elbow suite parties, actually. I will pop my head in and visit with folks for a little while, but I quickly retreat elsewhere.
When I’m at a con, I know I have something in common with everyone there, and I know (at this point) that I’m well regarded in the genre, and I therefore don’t have the slightest hesitation in introducing myself to new people.
I’ve been pondering whether I have a “con persona.” I haven’t figured it out yet. :-) I’m certainly different at a con than I am in “real life,” but I’m not at all sure that it isn’t just because I’m generally comfortable with the people I’m around then and feel like I can be myself. I feel let out of a cage at cons.
Over the years I have taken various Myer-Briggs profile tests. I have noticed a good deal of variability in my scores. Personally, my profile is often dependent on the circumstances of my life. I am married now, but in my single days my scores fluctuated depending on my relationship status as well as with the “healthiness” of the relationship. On more then one occasion, I have taken a test at work, then several hours later taken the same exam in the comfort of my PJs and living room with significantly different scores. Now, I think this is in part due to my profession. In Human Resources, there are certain expectations and rules that don’t particularly apply to me outside of the work environment. I think it is also a reflection on the natural dichotomy that exists in most of us. While I firmly believe that there are those who are very much a specific type, I think most people own a great deal of qualities on both sides of any given coin. Personally I am one of the most Extraverted Introverts you will ever find, or is that Introverted Extraverts. Thinking/Feeling & Judging/Perceiving, at least for me, are also qualities with a somewhat fluid nature. I can say that I never score as a Sensor. Intuition does seem to be a core component of my personality.
I’ve scored pretty consistently as an INTJ every time I’ve taken the test. (I think with a few of the shorter tests I’ve scored INFJ.) I can understand how those qualities are fluid in most people, though, and I’m sure my percentages of each trait have changed over the years. I’m becoming more extroverted than I ever have been, for instance.