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My Personality Type

What type of personality are you on the Myers-Briggs test?

On Kerryn's blog, she posted that she had done a personality test and showed us the results.

I went and took the test too. In reality, it tells you only what you tell it, but it's funny how it fills in a few gaps and you think 'that's so me'.

But first, let me tell you a little story. You have to answer 4 questions and each has two answers. I noticed at the top that it is considered that there are 16 personality types. So yeah, 2^4 is 16.

I finished answering them. I knew the answers to Q's 1, 3 and 4 straight away but I wasn't sure about Q2. I answered it as best I could and found out my result. I'm of type ISTP, which is a Dominant Introverted Thinking. You can read what it says about me as an ISTP here.

Now, this is where I hit a problem with the page - it only gives you 8 explanations - but whoa, you said there were 16! I, as an ISTP, is lumped in with INTP, and yes, that happens to be Question 2 so obviously those personalities are quite close to each other.

In my quest for finding things out, there was another link to another page of explanations of The Sixteen Types at a Glance. It turns out that after reading both ISTP and INTP that I am more like the former than the latter - which was my answer to the original question.

Anyways, I'll just point out a few sentences from some of the descriptions I found to be quite interesting:

  • They distrust action taken too quickly without the necessary investigation.
  • They are fiercely independent, seeking input and comments from a chosen few.
  • When reporting to others, they need to establish credibility first: their own and that of the person they are reporting to.
  • They are less interested in running the world as they are in understanding it.
  • They may spend a lot of time defining words, concepts and systems in order to define a problematic solution.
  • Although they do have a spontaneous, even playful side, what people often first encounter with them is their detached pragmatism.

So yeah, a perfect fit for a programmer I think. I particularly liked point 2, the second half of which is exactly what I was talking to Kerryn about yesterday. Very strange.

Labels: planet-geek, personality, myers-briggs

Inserted: 2007-07-20 23:37 (4 years, 7 months ago)