"Jung's typological model regards psychological type as similar to left or right handedness: individuals are either born with, or develop, certain preferred ways of thinking and acting. The MBTI sorts some of these psychological differences into four opposite pairs, or dichotomies, with a resulting 16 possible psychological types."

It's useful as it details your personality and perception, may help establish career options, etc. Whatever you are matched up with, research it and find if it fits you.

It may have skeptical reliability, which creates a paradox considering I am an INTJ. Im curious to know what types are here at the nexus.

Here are a few different free quizzes to allow for diversity..

http://similarminds.com/jung.html
http://humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html

Ineresting...I did the first one and I would say it is pretty accurate...

Introverted (I) 54.29% Extroverted (E) 45.71%
Intuitive (N) 60.61% Sensing (S) 39.39%
Feeling (F) 60% Thinking (T) 40%
Perceiving (P) 87.1% Judging (J) 12.9%

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

ENTP

but there was only a bigger accent (72%) on the intuition. the rest was about half-half

Huh.

Introverted (I) 53.33% Extroverted (E) 46.67%
Sensing (S) 51.22% Intuitive (N) 48.78%
Thinking (T) 50% Feeling (F) 50%
Perceiving (P) 56.25% Judging (J) 43.75%

Your type is: ISTP
ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

I tend to agree with these results (from the 1st test) :

Introverted (I) 83.33% Extroverted (E) 16.67%
Intuitive (N) 53.66% Sensing (S) 46.34%
Thinking (T) 54.55% Feeling (F) 45.45%
Judging (J) 66.67% Perceiving (P) 33.33%


Your type is: INTJ


INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population.

Welcome to the club gibran2! We have our own forum over at intjforum.com/ Other types are welcome, of course.

I too am INTJ. I took this test over 10 years ago.

nice forum you got there
makes me want to go ask about psychedelics

but i will have a closer look first

INFJ here. The first test said INTP (40%J 60%P) so perhaps I'm becoming more percepting and less judging, but this is the first time in nearly 20 years I haven't tested INFJ via Myers-Briggs. I have a lot of INTJ friends though...

Don't buy into it myself, this came up on another forum I use, and I can't remember exactly which type I got, but I remember most people on the forum got the same, despite being claimed to represent 1% of the world population, so seemed strange for about 40 people to get the same result.

I think if it as cold-Reading, whatever result it came up with, I'd look at it and think 'ah yeah, that sounds about right' because I'd identify whatever traits it described within myself.

Methtical

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.


Note: In all the questions, I never chose the far left or the far right answer.

i think i am smart. but it just happens that most of the people think they are smart too..

must say that this MBTI stuff is interesting though. you checked out the wiki?
seems to me like an effort to map some parts of the unconsciousness, and use this map in a pratical, guiding way.
and that is interesting for me as a traveller at least it gives plenty food for thought..

^ well i have been digging into this MBTI stuff time and again for the last few months.. and i am amazed. Very interesting and fun to use for understanding character traits and behaviours.

Not to be taken too absolute though, like some guys at those forums tend to do imo. But when perceived from a wide angle these archetypes can provide nice reflections, to be used for further investigation and understanding of course.

What is your color?

I took the test from the first link:

Extroverted (E) 51.35% Introverted (I) 48.65%
Intuitive (N) 59.52% Sensing (S) 40.48%
Thinking (T) 54.76% Feeling (F) 45.24%
Perceiving (P) 65.71% Judging (J) 34.29%

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


Lots of middle ground I see. Only less on the Perceiving/Judging part.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

I think we're pretty similar Traveler. Here's what I got:

Extroverted (E) 51.52% Introverted (I) 48.48%
Intuitive (N) 56.1% Sensing (S) 43.9%
Thinking (T) 50% Feeling (F) 50%
Perceiving (P) 56.76% Judging (J) 43.24%

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.

INTP "Architect" -> Strong I and N, modest T and P. It says I'm in a <1% group. There seems to be lots of NTPs on Nexus. What's that mean?

ENTP

Extroverted (E) 55.88% Introverted (I) 44.12%
Intuitive (N) 57.78% Sensing (S) 42.22%
Thinking (T) 60.61% Feeling (F) 39.39%
Perceiving (P) 66.67% Judging (J) 33.33%

"Inventor", 3,2% of population, wich I find quite charming. *edit: Did the test three times, always came ou the same.



I guess that if the distribution would swing all the way to one side all the time you'd probably be in therapy. We probably only differ as individuals in those small subtleties.
Ah, the sweet, sometimes maddening subtleties!!!

lol. how surprisingly mostly xNTP's here? Or is such superficial test (not official) biased towards people who use psychedelics? doesnt really matter for me though.

From what i have read one can also do the test the other way around to discover the shadow. Pick the answer that does NOT fit you, to see your weakness, the areas of personality you could develop more in order to be more complete and balanced.

Also i have had lots of fun digging into my memory of previous interactions with people. How did i act? On what grounds? What judgements or lack therefoff? What was the social context? Based on what data or perspectives? What conclusions? How did i or we get to those conclusions?

I now have more respect for the ones i argue with. i realise some caracters simply clash because of their nature, the way they perceive and interact with the outside and inner world. MBTI provides more tools to take opposing perspectives and see and feel how they interact, and more importantly, how they complement.

Mistake would be to take the caracter sets as absolute polarity. I think the sets represent preferences and accents, more or less directed by context. They are archetypes of behaviour. No need for more boxes to live in. That would be morally wrong imo. But i do like some more boxes to play with : ) and some of the stuff is just too familiar.

(from one of those forums)
You know you are an ENTP when you:
- see successfully cheating on tests as a measure of your own cleverness, not as something morally wrong
- created a plan to survive if time travelers kidnapped you
- are so very obsessed with something where you don't sleep for hours or days and than poof its gone
- are an ENTP when you believe that when a car should hit you, you survive and have no damages thanks to the moves you make
- are lost find you way and then decide to go down the wrong road delibratly to see what will happen...
- have several ideas swirling around in your head but if only you had that one missing component to get started
- There is something "important" you should be doing right now besides reading this and you know it but you dont feel like doing it

Are the character traits/sets specific or general?
Or specific/general to a certain degree in a certain context?

I started laughing when I read those four points. I got the ENTP category and the first two I literally did yesterday. The fourth one is happening right now

I got ENFP. But i can definitely relate to those ^_^


Extroverted (E) 60.98% Introverted (I) 39.02%
Intuitive (N) 69.23% Sensing (S) 30.77%
Feeling (F) 54.29% Thinking (T) 45.71%
Perceiving (P) 59.46% Judging (J) 40.54%

Your type is: ENFP

ENFP - "Journalist". Uncanny sense of the motivations of others. Life is an exciting drama. 8.1% of total population.