Myers Briggs

[Deleted member 30522]

Following on from the off topic chat in the "deal breakers" thread, this may be of interest to some, and please take it. Some of you may be surprised, some of you will defeinetly have your eyes opened

https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/the-16-mbti-types.htm

 

[YandaB]

But please add a huge pinch of salt to the answers! https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/19/myers-briggs-test-unscientific (other sources are available but this can be freely opened).

You are unlikely to be one or the other of the 4 choices of characteristics, somewhere on a bell curve, perhaps only just one side or another but possibly on the extreme. These tests are used throughout industry (with the exception of the Phsycology industry!).

 

[Neilds]

I agree that these type of tests are a bit of a lottery - not unlike star signs!
In my military career we did quite a few and the instructors tried to tell us that we needed to know the traits of our team in order to set up a successfully performed group. Only trouble is, in the military you don't get to choose your team, they just get posted in to you and when you mould them into your ways they get promoted and posted away!

 

[Deleted member 30522]

But please add a huge pinch of salt to the answers! https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/19/myers-briggs-test-unscientific (other sources are available but this can be freely opened).

You are unlikely to be one or the other of the 4 choices of characteristics, somewhere on a bell curve, perhaps only just one side or another but possibly on the extreme. These tests are used throughout industry (with the exception of the Phsycology industry!).

Exactly, it's the mix of the 4 that places you where you are. You're not one of the 8 and that's it.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Thanks for this thread @Banchory Buddha.
I wanted to contribute to the part of the thread you mentioned, but didn't know where to start or where it was going.

I studied maths at university, but I had a flatmate doing psychology. I used to read his textbooks as I enjoy factual reading as much as or even more than novels.
Kept this interest up over the years and then a lot more reading when I worked in a prison for several years. Had to deal with and understand some extreme personality types. (And that wasn't merely the prisoners!)

The thing I've always dodged is when someone ON A GOLF COURSE asks what you do for a living.
They never seem to get it that I don't even want to THINK about work - I'm here to get away from work.

Retired now, but I was a type that was very committed to the work. Getting away from it was very important for me.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Elizabeth Holmes will be due for sentencing later this month.
Now there's a very interesting personality type case study.

I saw some similarities with someone in the main spotlight in this country very recently.

Liz Holmes claimed to have invented a solution to a problem and convinced a lot of people in high places to back her. It didn't work and lots of people lost a lot of money.
She went to prison for fraud, however.

But

in this country recently, someone claimed to have a solution...it didn't work...

what happened?