[NuckingFutz]

I was wondering if anyone here remembers taking it and what the results were? I will be taking it sometime this week.

I have taken it several times with different results, neither of which I had any particular argument with.

[Lady_Chaos]

I did an online version which i found here:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

Your Type is

ISFJ

Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:

• distinctively expressed introvert
• slightly expressed sensing personality
• distinctively expressed feeling personality
• slightly expressed judging personality

Strength of the preferences %
Introverted: 67
Sensing: 1
Feeling: 75
Judging: 11

[splitimage]

I took it years ago as part of a work mandated course to improve my communication. It was a 2 day communications workshop based on understanding on how your type and other types prefer to communicate. I tested INTJ which felt like a perfect fit, and found it really interesting.

I think Myers Briggs is pretty accurate.

--splitimage

[perpetuallysad]

INTJ

Rational Portrait of the Mastermind (INTJ)All Rationals are good at planning operations, but Masterminds are head and shoulders above all the rest in contingency planning. Complex operations involve many steps or stages, one following another in a necessary progression, and Masterminds are naturally able to grasp how each one leads to the next, and to prepare alternatives for difficulties that are likely to arise any step of the way. Trying to anticipate every contingency, Masterminds never set off on their current project without a Plan A firmly in mind, but they are always prepared to switch to Plan B or C or D if need be.
Masterminds are rare, comprising no more than, say, one percent of the population, and they are rarely encountered outside their office, factory, school, or laboratory. Although they are highly capable leaders, Masterminds are not at all eager to take command, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once they take charge, however, they are thoroughgoing pragmatists. Masterminds are certain that efficiency is indispensable in a well-run organization, and if they encounter inefficiency-any waste of human and material resources-they are quick to realign operations and reassign personnel. Masterminds do not feel bound by established rules and procedures, and traditional authority does not impress them, nor do slogans or catchwords. Only ideas that make sense to them are adopted; those that don't, aren't, no matter who thought of them. Remember, their aim is always maximum efficiency.In their careers, Masterminds usually rise to positions of responsibility, for they work long and hard and are dedicated in their pursuit of goals, sparing neither their own time and effort nor that of their colleagues and employees. Problem-solving is highly stimulating to Masterminds, who love responding to tangled systems that require careful sorting out. Ordinarily, they verbalize the positive and avoid comments of a negative nature; they are more interested in moving an organization forward than dwelling on mistakes of the past.
Masterminds tend to be much more definite and self-confident than other Rationals, having usually developed a very strong will. Decisions come easily to them; in fact, they can hardly rest until they have things settled and decided. But before they decide anything, they must do the research. Masterminds are highly theoretical, but they insist on looking at all available data before they embrace an idea, and they are suspicious of any statement that is based on shoddy research, or that is not checked against reality.

http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=ke...5&c=mastermind

Believe it or not, that is really accurate. I took it once before when I first started therapy and got the same results.

Hm...are you taking it for a specific reason? (Not to be nosy, just curious)

[catrules]

All Idealists (NFs) share the following core characteristics:

• Idealists are enthusiastic, they trust their intuition, yearn for romance, seek their true self, prize meaningful relationships, and dream of attaining wisdom.
• Idealists pride themselves on being loving, kindhearted, and authentic.
• Idealists tend to be giving, trusting, spiritual, and they are focused on personal journeys and human potentials.
• Idealists make intense mates, nurturing parents, and inspirational leaders.

Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self -- always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. And they want to help others make the journey. Idealists are naturally drawn to working with people, and whether in education or counseling, in social services or personnel work, in journalism or the ministry, they are gifted at helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potentials.

Idealists are sure that friendly cooperation is the best way for people to achieve their goals. Conflict and confrontation upset them because they seem to put up angry barriers between people. Idealists dream of creating harmonious, even caring personal relations, and they have a unique talent for helping people get along with each other and work together for the good of all. Such interpersonal harmony might be a romantic ideal, but then Idealists are incurable romantics who prefer to focus on what might be, rather than what is. The real, practical world is only a starting place for Idealists; they believe that life is filled with possibilities waiting to be realized, rich with meanings calling out to be understood. This idea of a mystical or spiritual dimension to life, the "not visible" or the "not yet" that can only be known through intuition or by a leap of faith, is far more important to Idealists than the world of material things.
Highly ethical in their actions, Idealists hold themselves to a strict standard of personal integrity. They must be true to themselves and to others, and they can be quite hard on themselves when they are dishonest, or when they are false or insincere. More often, however, Idealists are the very soul of kindness. Particularly in their personal relationships, Idealists are without question filled with love and good will. They believe in giving of themselves to help others; they cherish a few warm, sensitive friendships; they strive for a special rapport with their children; and in marriage they wish to find a "soulmate," someone with whom they can bond emotionally and spiritually, sharing their deepest feelings and their complex inner worlds.
Idealists are relatively rare, making up no more than 15 to 20 percent of the population. But their ability to inspire people with their enthusiasm and their idealism has given them influence far beyond their numbers. Princess Diana, Joan Baez, Albert Schweitzer, Bill Moyers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Mikhael Gorbachev, and Oprah Winfrey are examples of Idealists.

This is the result that I got a couple of years ago. Also pretty accurate for me. Not the myers-briggs. Also from Keirsey. Funny to read it now given what has happened in my life recently. I know that all of this describes how I often am, but sometimes I lose sight of it.

[Brightheart]

I've taken it and tested an INFJ. I think the description is really accurate as well.

Gosh, the description above for idealists is practically dead on.

[Perna]

Originally Posted by splitimage

I took it years ago as part of a work mandated course to improve my communication. It was a 2 day communications workshop based on understanding on how your type and other types prefer to communicate. I tested INTJ which felt like a perfect fit, and found it really interesting.

I think Myers Briggs is pretty accurate.

--splitimage

I wonder if you are my twin or part of the course I prepared the materials to give? LOL I worked for an agency that gave a course to medical personnel and then, a couple years later, another agency where the officers took the course. Was interesting as I took it the two times and had professionals grading it and the first time, I had one background but then got married and a couple years later, I'd morphed to be more like my husband!

[NuckingFutz]

Purpetuallysad, taking it mostly out of curiousity as an old friend found me on facebook and he mentions the Myers briggs in the info section and what his results were so I got curious and wondered what mine were. It is also interesting to see what everyone else is.

[Junerain]

I am a complete and utter idealist!!!

[Shangrala]

My results are ISFP

1.Art/Design
2.Childhood Education/Daycare Management
3.Customer Service Specialist
4.Medical Records Administrations

Ummmm....#1 and #3 is the most likely for me...

Shangrala

[Trying & Caring]

Well, for all you people who scored "well" the pdoc who gave it to me many yrs. ago (guy doing the prelim research on Zoloft--that is a LONG time ago) told me he had NEVER seen anyone score as strangely as I did (helped my self-esteem, that remark)! I went to him--prominent pdoc, etc. as I had been suffering from when I was 15 & was maybe 35 at that time.

Anyway, his saying how strange my answers were & that he had never encountered someone like me scared me off. I never returned as my mother was a "bad case" of bipolar 1 & had ECT's, numerous hospitalizations, suicidal attempts & bizarre behaviors so, of course, I didn't relish hearing that remark!

Had tough times, for sure--but STILL HERE & STILL WORKING ON GETTING IT RIGHT! And I'm 55 yrs. old so lived much longer than mother did (suicide at 45) & longer than I expected for myself (1st attempt at 15; last one about 3 yrs. ago).

But doing all I can--indiv. therapy & DBT & meds, as needed...

[Junerain]

What an unprofessional remark, Trying and Caring! My own test proved that I was only the personality of 1% of the population (INFJ..) And it is very evident to me just how different I am namely from the number of jobs I lost because I seemed different..

I once had a psychiatrist say I would never graduate college...but I did..

Psychiatrists are only human, I'm afraid...and you seem perfectly
not strange to me, by your posts....I do not use the word 'normal..' as I learned in a different thread as that does not exist....

I know the feeling, though..

Sounds like you are doing all you can, which is all one can do it seems!

[(JD)]

I took it eons ago as part of my Air War College experience.
Look at it as a fun investigative tool!

[FooZe]

Some years ago at another forum someone linked us to the Keirsey Character Sorter and a whole bunch of us took it. I scored INFP at the time.

According to the Wikipedia article, the Keirsey uses the same coding as the Myers-Briggs -- E or I, S or N, T or F, J or P -- but they're not otherwise the same.

Looks like perpetuallysad is talking about the Keirsey, too.

(Trying & Caring, I'm guessing that your score was "strange" mostly because it suggested that you weren't cut out to be a rogue pdoc! )