I tried one of those tests, but i find the questions just impossible to answer. I too often recognise myself in both of the answers given.

Yeah, I get the same thing for a lot of the questions, so for those I'll always just circle the middle bubble

^ deep thinking allows for deep feelings of sympathy?

It is about preferences, accents. How did you behave when you were a kid?
..that could shed some light on your nature and nurture preferences about things like I/E, S/N, T/F, P/J

The main point is, i think, that personalities can be roughly categorized. The above categories apply to all personalities but in varying degree, thereby having different sub-dom interactions. The outcomes are the different moods and caracter traits that are more or less expressed and experienced by the individual. Your weak points, your strong points. To know more about the moods, behaviours, caracter traits and their origins, means to better understand what makes us tick, and how we can utilize that information to cultivate win-win situations.

Jung? Never knew he came up with this stuff.
I took the quiz from the first link:
INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

Is that me? I'll take the quizzes on the other links and see how close they are to this one.

(took this somewhere of the web)

INTPs are pensive, analytical folks. They may venture so deeply into thought as to seem detached, and often actually are oblivious to the world around them.

Precise about their descriptions, INTPs will often correct others (or be sorely tempted to) if the shade of meaning is a bit off. While annoying to the less concise, this fine discrimination ability gives INTPs so inclined a natural advantage as, for example, grammarians and linguists.

INTPs are relatively easy-going and amenable to almost anything until their principles are violated, about which they may become outspoken and inflexible. They prefer to return, however, to a reserved albeit benign ambiance, not wishing to make spectacles of themselves.

A major concern for INTPs is the haunting sense of impending failure. They spend considerable time second-guessing themselves. The open-endedness (from Perceiving) conjoined with the need for competence (NT) is expressed in a sense that one's conclusion may well be met by an equally plausible alternative solution, and that, after all, one may very well have overlooked some critical bit of data. An INTP arguing a point may very well be trying to convince himself as much as his opposition. In this way INTPs are markedly different from INTJs, who are much more confident in their competence and willing to act on their convictions.

Mathematics is a system where many INTPs love to play, similarly languages, computer systems--potentially any complex system. INTPs thrive on systems. Understanding, exploring, mastering, and manipulating systems can overtake the INTP's conscious thought. This fascination for logical wholes and their inner workings is often expressed in a detachment from the environment, a concentration where time is forgotten and extraneous stimuli are held at bay. Accomplishing a task or goal with this knowledge is secondary.

INTPs and Logic -- One of the tipoffs that a person is an INTP is her obsession with logical correctness. Errors are not often due to poor logic -- apparent faux pas in reasoning are usually a result of overlooking details or of incorrect context.

Games NTs seem to especially enjoy include Risk, Bridge, Stratego, Chess, Go, and word games of all sorts. (I have an ENTP friend that loves Boggle and its variations. We've been known to sit in public places and pick a word off a menu or mayonnaise jar to see who can make the most words from its letters on a napkin in two minutes.) The INTP mailing list has enjoyed a round of Metaphore, virtual volleyball, and a few 'finish the series' brain teasers.

INTPs in the main are not clannish. The INTP mailing list, with a readership now in triple figures, was in its incipience fraught with all the difficulties of the Panama canal: we had trouble deciding:
whether or not there should be such a group,
exactly what such a group should be called, and
which of us would have to take the responsibility for organization and maintenance of the aforesaid group/club/whatever

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Is that you pau?

so I followed links 2 and 3 to the other "tests". The second one came out INTJ, and the third one (odd, you could see the answers before you read the questions!) was INFJ. One might think that those of us who participate in the Nexus have some similarities that can be described by these traits. There do seem to be plenty of I's and N's here so far. However, as in many organizations, founders do seem to be E's.

Here you have an in depth analyses of ENTP personality. Also nice comparison with INTP, INTJ and other types.
What does xNTP mean? Go figure it out for yourself : )
http://www.typologycentr...e/2928-entp-profile.html

sure.. #13

Amazing just found this topic after replying at someones experience.

One pure INTP here as well


Funny to see there are NTP's here. Makes totally sense though as they're known for always trying to find logic behind things and highly appreciate knowledge. Maybe that's why we are drawn to psychs so much because the insights you get seem so obvious yet the logic is not always there...

Introverted (I) 79.41% Extroverted (E) 20.59%
Intuitive (N) 73.53% Sensing (S) 26.47%
Feeling (F) 61.11% Thinking (T) 38.89%
Perceiving (P) 70.27% Judging (J) 29.73%

INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

The exact opposite of the type most prized by society (i.e. ESTJ). No surprise here

this was a fun time killer I'm a INTJ

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this is about as scientifically valid as "which type of sushi are you?"

in fact, wasn't it jung who said that you cannot analyze yourself?

I'm an INFP

Myers-Briggs type indicator is a tool and, as such, it can be quite helpful under specific circumstances. For someone to take the test, then read the recommendations and subsequently plan their entire life around that would be quite extreme. However (and this applies more to the introverted types, who spend lots of time pondering about stuff), if you have amassed quite a bit of knowledge about yourself and are aware of various conflicts, tools like MBTI can help you deal with that.

Also, the many, many forums dedicated to this topic are very useful for getting a deeper understanding of how much one really identifies with the characteristics of a particular type.

As for not being scientific, that doesn't make them a joke. The psychedelic experience isn't very well suited for a scientific approach by today's standards either. Back to psychology, the DSM itself keeps changing constantly, and can be quite vague and arbitrary (we're all in there, some are just easier to find). As for psychiatry, which supposedly deals with this issues from a more scientific angle, it's mostly a trial and error process, where even the pharma companies often don't have a good idea of how their meds are working.

There are very few minds I respect as much as Jung. In this regard I find his perceptin to be true. To a degree. I think it absolutely vital to ones evolution that they seek to analyze themselves but this I have found in my own journeys to be a tricky path. There is no demon more adapt at deceiving oneself better than the self. You will do whatever is necessary to prove you are 'right'.

It is the subtle art of perception. I have found in life that every demon you fight is a manifestation of a aspect of your self projected upon another. What you hate in this world is often what you hate most in yourself.


xtroverted (E) 53.85% Introverted (I) 46.15%
Intuitive (N) 54% Sensing (S) 46%
Thinking (T) 51.35% Feeling (F) 48.65%
Perceiving (P) 60.53% Judging (J) 39.47%

Your type is: ENTP

ENTP - "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population.

'Non-conformist' yup pretty much explains me.

Extroverted (E) 50% Introverted (I) 50%
Intuitive (N) 55.88% Sensing (S) 44.12%
Thinking (T) 54.29% Feeling (F) 45.71%
Perceiving (P) 57.5% Judging (J) 42.5%

Your type is: ENTP

ENTP - "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population.

INFP for me

Introverted (I) 62.5% Extroverted (E) 37.5%
Intuitive (N) 67.57% Sensing (S) 32.43%
Feeling (F) 51.43% Thinking (T) 48.57%
Perceiving (P) 62.86% Judging (J) 37.14%

INFP are known variously as Idealists, Dreamers and Questers.

The 2nd test revealed INFP as well with fairly similar accenting. the 3rd was similar too though easy to skew the outcome. I find this stuff fascinating, the mind and psyche is an extremely interesting area of investigation (as all us psychonauts know )

It makes me interested in doing a short course on psychology or something, if one even exists at all? I'm not interested in a career but would probably enjoy and benefit from a little bit of higher education on the matter.

I've taken the human metrics web sites test many times. I decided to take all three so I could get a good comparison.

Test 1


Introverted (I) 54.76% Extroverted (E) 45.24%
Intuitive (N) 57.89% Sensing (S) 42.11%
Feeling (F) 52.38% Thinking (T) 47.62%
Perceiving (P) 51.22% Judging (J) 48.78%

Your type is: INFP

INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring.
Emotional face to the world. High sense of
honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of
total population.

Test 2


INFJ
Introvert(44%) iNtuitive(38%) iNtuitive Feeling(62%) Judging(11%)
You have moderate preference of Introversion over Extraversion (44%)
You have moderate preference of Intuition over Sensing (38%)
You have distinctive preference of Feeling over Thinking (62%)
You have slight preference of Judging over Perceiving (11%)

Test 3

INFJ

I believe te human metrics site provides a better question set. Although the first site, by allowing you to choose gradient of answer can allow for pretty accurate results. But this is also why the human metrics site asks the same questions in a different format. Simulating a slightly different setting. I also don't think the first site provides detailed enough type questions. The problem here is that the questions ultimately define the outcome, and people with different personality types will percieve differently and the outcome will be slightly off, IMO.

I really don't think the forer effect comes into play here. There is a pretty strong destinction between extroverted and introverted, as well as with the other 3 categories of personality types. It's not general and if the test results told me that "I felt comfortable in large groups" i wouldnt agree at all.

The third test i believe isnt a very valid one. To say your extraverted if you "Feel deprived when cutoff from interaction with the outside world" is all wrong. That is too general of a statement. Almost everyone would feel that way in that type of situation. It all depends on how the question is asked.