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Default Dec 29, 2019 at 12:52 PM
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I took the Briggs-Meyer personality test. I took it because I read an article about a very rare personality type. When I read that article, I just for the fun of it took that test. Well it turned out that I have that very rare personality type (INFJ - Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Judgmental). Only 1.5% of the people in the world have this personality type.

I wonder if that's a cause of my depression? Supposedly people of that type have a hard time making friends and being able to get a mate. That's been very true for me.

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Default Dec 29, 2019 at 01:46 PM
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I'm that type too, Will. I've verified it by taking the test over and over at different times in my life. And I've never found our combination of traits to be easy.

As for your second point, could it be because we're ultra-picky?

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INFJ here too but sometimes I get ENFJ. But you need to take every assessment invented by a human with a huge grain of salt. Because those assessments are reflections of the belief system of the time period they were created in, and they also are extensions of the personal value system held by the assessment creators. Not perfect, these assessments, because a human created them. Not accurate, either. Not entirely. Sorry to be a downer.

Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless - Vox

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"There's just no evidence behind it," says Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania who's written about the shortcomings of the Myers-Briggs previously. "The characteristics measured by the test have almost no predictive power on how happy you'll be in a situation, how you'll perform at your job, or how happy you'll be in your marriage."
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But the test was developed in the 1940s based on the totally untested theories of Carl Jung and is now thoroughly disregarded by the psychology community. Even Jung warned that his personality "types" were just rough tendencies he'd observed, rather than strict classifications. Several analyses have shown the test is totally ineffective at predicting people's success in various jobs, and that about half of the people who take it twice get different results each time.
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Default Dec 29, 2019 at 03:34 PM
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I'm INFJ also. I didn't realise it was rare. I have noticed that most people find me to be too intense and perhaps too direct or honest. I tend to keep things to myself most of the time. I do think my overly sensitive nature makes it difficulty to stay emotionally stable.
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Default Dec 29, 2019 at 03:56 PM
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That's funny people have told you that you're too intense, too direct or too honest. People have told me the same thing. What people don't like, is I say exactly what I'm thinking. I don't camouflage my thoughts. Better to just be direct.
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Default Dec 29, 2019 at 04:35 PM
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I took the Briggs-Meyer personality test. I took it because I read an article about a very rare personality type. When I read that article, I just for the fun of it took that test. Well it turned out that I have that very rare personality type (INFJ - Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Judgmental). Only 1.5% of the people in the world have this personality type.

I wonder if that's a cause of my depression? Supposedly people of that type have a hard time making friends and being able to get a mate. That's been very true for me.

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Could be because of being ultra pickey

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Could be, Fuzzy. Or maybe just obnoxious and antisocial.

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No offense to people that identify with their Meyers Briggs results but its been proven to not be an accurate way to predict someone's traits or characteristics.

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No idea what I am anymore. Nor do I really care. I am just trying to get by.

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No offense to people that identify with their Meyers Briggs results but its been proven to not be an accurate way to predict someone's traits or characteristics.

I think that you could be correct. I did find that taking that test was not easy to answer some questions. I read an article describing what those people are like. I thought that I could identify with it for myself.

My sister told me that she is that, too. Personally in knowing her, I'm not so sure. As far as the introvert part, I think that she and I are different with that. If I took her to some kind of social gathering, when it's over, I'd have to drag her out of the place to get going because she would talk a lot to others. Also, I prefer to be alone than to be with bad company. She would prefer bad company over being alone if that was her only choice.
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INFJ here too but sometimes I get ENFJ. But you need to take every assessment invented by a human with a huge grain of salt. Because those assessments are reflections of the belief system of the time period they were created in, and they also are extensions of the personal value system held by the assessment creators. Not perfect, these assessments, because a human created them. Not accurate, either. Not entirely. Sorry to be a downer.

Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless - Vox
Interesting article on the MB test, Streetcar Blanche. I never realized it was supposed to match people with jobs; just always thought of it as a personality assessment, period. Thanks for providing the link.

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I think O*Net is a better assessment in general. O*NET OnLine
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I think O*Net is a better assessment in general. O*NET OnLine
Thanks StreetcarBlanche. I believe I'll try that.

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Thanks StreetcarBlanche. I believe I'll try that.


Have fun with O*Net Mopey. There's a ton you can research on there about your career interests, aside from jobs to apply for.
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Default Jan 07, 2020 at 09:54 AM
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I actually really like Meyers-Briggs. There's a lot of depth there, and a lot of good reasons why it can be hard to get an accurate reading. If you dig in to cognitive functions, which underlie the types, there's just... a lot to think about.

That said, I'm finding it hard to type myself. For all of you who tested as INFJ - did you feel like the description of the type fit you?

Years ago, I walked a co-worker through the four dichotomies, and we took our best guess at his type. When we read a random type description on the internet, he was genuinely shocked at how accurately it portrayed him - even things that, to him, seemed unrelated ("how did they know that?!") were spot-on. But, that hasn't been my experience.

BTW - there's also research that talks about how the underlying functions (which define the types) show up differently when you look at brain activity. Dario Nardi did some research at UCLA on this (determined the best-fit type for students, then hooked them up to an EEG machine to watch their brain activity while having them engage in various tasks). He was able to see the differences in how the of an INTJ might approach a problem/task differently than an ESFP, for example.

It's actually really interesting, and he published a (short!) book about it:
Nardi's Book: Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights for All Types of People
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Default Jan 08, 2020 at 10:12 AM
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You can take a test similar to the myers-briggs here: 16 personalities


I am INTJ - some of the stuff fits, but some is way off. Fun to try, but I would not base any kind of decisions off it.
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You can take a test similar to the myers-briggs here: 16 personalities


I am INTJ - some of the stuff fits, but some is way off. Fun to try, but I would not base any kind of decisions off it.
I took this test out of interest, Insomnia, and found that from having the rarest personality type on M/B I had a far more common type on this one.

So long to my one claim to fame.

One thing I'll always test out as: An introvert.

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I get that personality type too. I figured that's why I never pass job assessments, and am an odd duck. Strange to me that so many are struggling with mental health issues, maybe cause were so often rejected by society.

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I got INFJ too in that test. I'm quite interested in it, though I'm not very sure about the result...I don't totally recognize myself in the description, just partially. But I do like this result

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