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[zoolander]

For most people that I have spoken to the following personality test really opened up their eyes. It did so in such a way that they usually feel motivated to get others to do it as well. Hence, I've finally gotten around to doing it because all those that did were hounding me and telling how accurate it was. I've finished the test and guess what??------it was awesome and now I'm hounding you to do it.

Some people get pissed at how accurate the test is. I think I'm one of them but I'm also delighted with the result

Briggs-Myer personality.

[zoolander]

I'm an ENFJ with the respective values of 1, 28, 35, and 11. Judge me as you will . That's unless your a "P" type.

[Mixter]

INTJ 33/38/12/44

PS: Keirsey reults IMO often vary ~20% each time, but within that range seem to work.

[futureofscience]

It gives me INTJ 33/38/38/11.

Which is really not indicative of me, so no, I don't find it particularly accurate.

[JonesGuy]

I read the analysis for my personality type.

Do the rest of them pat you on the back so much, making you feel like you're awesome?

Or is it just mine?

[zoolander]

The types outlined are not necessarily good or bad however, such peronality types work better in particular environments and situations. Once again, these tests are guides that aim to help you understand a little more about yourself.

QJones the short answer to your question is YES. All personalty types are presented first in the positive and then, when you find the manual, in the negative i.e when your resulting personality type does not work well

[Mind]

INTJ for me 22/88/62/56

Seems pretty close.

[zoolander]

Holy Moly. What is with all the Introverted Intuitive members with extraverted thinking?

You all have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When comitted, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independant, have high standards of competence and performance--for themselves and others.

However, under great stress, INTJs can overindulge in Sensing activities--watching TV reruns, playing cards, overeating-- or become overly focused on specific details in their environment that they normally do not notice or usually see as unimportant (housecleaning, organizing cupboards).

[eternaltraveler]

xNTx (well ENTP, but with a spread of 1/88/100/1, so very clearly xNTx)

If J were separated between the decisiveness aspect and the liking things neat and tidy aspect I would be 100% decisive and 0% liking things neat and tidy ) And fundamentally I'm introverted, however I can have fun in my own little world just fine in a crowd of people.

I'd say the ENTP and INTJ profiles describe me rather well.

[shadowrun]

INTJ...I've been one my whole life
Clearly describes my personality - But with anything I can adapt to suit my needs

Your Type is INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
67 50 62 1

[Live Forever]

ENTJ
11/75/12/1

Interesting link. Thanks for sharing, zoolander.

[JediMasterLucia]

INFJ

22 / 12 / 38 / 11

[sdxl]

INTJ 67/38/100/33

[zoolander]

Ok as there are so many INTJ's out there.

Here's something interesting

Famous INTJs:

Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers)
Susan B. Anthony
Arthur Ashe, tennis champion
Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
William J. Bennett, "drug czar"
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Ironsides)
Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane) (Fletch)
Phil Donahue
Michael Dukakis, governor of Mass., 1988 U.S. Dem. pres. candidate
Greg Gumbel, television sportscaster
Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader
Veronica Hamel (Hill Street Blues)
Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote)
Orel Leonard Hershiser, IV
Peter Jennings
Charles Everett Koop
Ivan Lendl
C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Joan Lunden
Edwin Moses, U.S. olympian (hurdles)
Martina Navratilova
Charles Rangel, U. S. Representative, D-N.Y.
Pernell Roberts (Bonanza)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California
Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh), mystery writer (Brat Farrar)
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
General Colin Powell, US Secretary of State
Lance Armstrong
Richard Gere (Pretty Woman)
Katie Couric

U.S. Presidents:
    Chester A. Arthur
    Calvin Coolidge
    Thomas Jefferson
    John F. Kennedy
    James K. Polk
    Woodrow Wilson

Fictional:

Cassius (Julius Caesar)
Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
Gandalf the Grey (J. R. R. Tolkein's Middle Earth books)
Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' nemesis
Ensign Ro (Star Trek--the Next Generation)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)
George Smiley, John le Carre's master spy
Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs)

[shadowrun]

I also hear that only about 1% of the population is INTJ
- Interesting correlation that so many INTJ's have congregated to this site

I wonder what some possible theories are

[zoolander]

Here's a quote that apparently describes the ENTJ's

"I don't care to sit by the window on an airplane. If I can't control it, why look?"

can you relate?

[Live Forever]

Here's a quote that apparently describes the ENTJ's

"I don't care to sit by the window on an airplane. If I can't control it, why look?"

can you relate?

It said I was an ENTJ, but I love sitting by the window on an airplane. It is much better than an aisle seat, imo, for 1) view, and 2) because the cart doesn't hit your knee or run over your foot as it passes. Of course, I never get up to use the restroom, so I assume if you had to do that a lot, then climbing over someone would be kind of inconvenient.

[eternaltraveler]

I wonder how we got this flock of eagles together

No wonder we can't get any projects going

[zoolander]

I also hear that only about 1% of the population is INTJ

That is correct. 1% of the world's population. Understand though that there are 16 personality types and none opf the types take up a large majority of the population. All 4 Extroverted Sensing (ESFP, ESTP, ESFJ, ESTJ) all represent 13% of the world's population each making up a total of 52% of the population. All 4 Introverted Intuitive types(INFP, INTP, INFJ, INTJ) make up 1% of the population each

[zoolander]

Cool.

[Icie Jennifer]

ISFP
Introverted 78%
Sensing 12%
Feeling 56%
Perceiving 6%

The Portrait of the Composer Artisan (iSfP)

Besides being concrete in speech and utilitarian in getting what they want, the Composer Artisans are accomodating and attentive in their social roles. Composers are just as reluctant to direct others' behavior as are Performers, though they appear even more so, since they are more attentive.

While all the Artisans are artistic in nature, Composers (perhaps ten per cent of the population) seem to excel in the "fine arts," having not only a natural grace of movement, but also an innate sense what fits and what doesn't fit in artistic compositions. Of course, composing must not be thought of as only writing music, but as bringing into harmonious form any aspect of the world of the five senses, and so when an especially gifted painter, sculptor, choreographer, film maker, songwriter, chef, decorator, or fashion designer shows up, he or she is likely to be an Composer.

Composers, like the other Artisans, have a special talent for "tactical" variation, and such talent differs radically from that possessed by Idealists, Rationals, and Guardians (who have their own unique and inherent abilities). As the word "tactical" implies, Artisans keep closely in "touch" with the physical world, their senses keenly tuned to reality. But, while the Crafter is attuned to the tool and its uses, the Composer is attuned to sensory variation in color, line, texture, aroma, flavor, tone-seeing, touching, smelling, tasting, and hearing in harmony. This extreme concreteness and sensuality seems to come naturally to the Composers, as if embedded "in the warp and woof" of their make.

Edited by Neurosail, 17 July 2007 - 07:00 AM.

[zoolander]

Holy Crap Sanjay you're done for. NOt the infamous INTJ. The only thing that you'll be good as is an Agent for KAOS.

Seriously though , it's not good or bad in the labelling sense. Essentially the test is set up so that it can give you insight into your personality type and hence the behaviour or likely behaviours that you are likely to display.

Your 1% of the population.

Here's a full description for you matey

To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know.

INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type: INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake.

INTJs are known as the "Systems Builders" of the types, perhaps in part because they possess the unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability. Whatever system an INTJ happens to be working on is for them the equivalent of a moral cause to an INFJ; both perfectionism and disregard for authority may come into play, as INTJs can be unsparing of both themselves and the others on the project. Anyone considered to be "slacking," including superiors, will lose their respect -- and will generally be made aware of this; INTJs have also been known to take it upon themselves to implement critical decisions without consulting their supervisors or co-workers. On the other hand, they do tend to be scrupulous and even-handed about recognizing the individual contributions that have gone into a project, and have a gift for seizing opportunities which others might not even notice.

In the broadest terms, what INTJs "do" tends to be what they "know". Typical INTJ career choices are in the sciences and engineering, but they can be found wherever a combination of intellect and incisiveness are required (e.g., law, some areas of academia). INTJs can rise to management positions when they are willing to invest time in marketing their abilities as well as enhancing them, and (whether for the sake of ambition or the desire for privacy) many also find it useful to learn to simulate some degree of surface conformism in order to mask their inherent unconventionality.

Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations.

This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation (which most types consider half the fun of a relationship). To complicate matters, INTJs are usually extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense. :-) This sometimes results in a peculiar naivete', paralleling that of many Fs -- only instead of expecting inexhaustible affection and empathy from a romantic relationship, the INTJ will expect inexhaustible reasonability and directness.

Probably the strongest INTJ assets in the interpersonal area are their intuitive abilities and their willingness to "work at" a relationship. Although as Ts they do not always have the kind of natural empathy that many Fs do, the Intuitive function can often act as a good substitute by synthesizing the probable meanings behind such things as tone of voice, turn of phrase, and facial expression. This ability can then be honed and directed by consistent, repeated efforts to understand and support those they care about, and those relationships which ultimately do become established with an INTJ tend to be characterized by their robustness, stability, and good communications.

Functional Analysis
by Joe Butt
Introverted iNtuition

INTJs are idea people. Anything is possible; everything is negotiable. Whatever the outer circumstances, INTJs are ever perceiving inner pattern-forms and using real-world materials to operationalize them. Others may see what is and wonder why; INTJs see what might be and say "Why not?!" Paradoxes, antinomies, and other contradictory phenomena aptly express these intuitors' amusement at those whom they feel may be taking a particular view of reality too seriously. INTJs enjoy developing unique solutions to complex problems.
Extraverted Thinking

Thinking in this auxiliary role is a workhorse. Closure is the payoff for efforts expended. Evaluation begs diagnosis; product drives process. As they come to light, Thinking tends, protects, affirms and directs iNtuition's offspring, fully equipping them for fulfilling and useful lives. A faithful pedagogue, Thinking argues not so much on its own behalf, but in defense of its charges. And through this process these impressionable ideas take on the likeness of their master.
Introverted Feeling

Feeling has a modest inner room, two doors down from the Most Imminent iNtuition. It doesn't get out much, but lends its influence on behalf of causes which are Good and Worthy and Humane. We may catch a glimpse of it in the unspoken attitude of good will, or the gracious smile or nod. Some question the existence of Feeling in this type, yet its unseen balance to Thinking is a cardinal dimension in the full measure of the INTJ's soul.
Extraverted Sensing

Sensing serves with a good will, or not at all. As other inferior functions, it has only a rudimentary awareness of context, amount or degree. Thus INTJs sweat the details or, at times, omit them. "I've made up my mind, don't confuse me with the facts" could well have been said by an INTJ on a mission. Sensing's extraverted attitude is evident in this type's bent to savor sensations rather than to merely categorize them. Indiscretions of indulgence are likely an expression of the unconscious vengeance of the inferior.

[Athanasios]

The descriptions sound very cool and all, but I want to know, What totally sucks about being an INTJ? Could you post something that describes the negative aspects of this personality type?

Now that is an INTJ thing to say, haha. I just scored INTJ, too. [thumb]

[Live Forever]

I think the 1% number for INTJ is a bit low. Most of the people I know would fit in that category I think. (at least a high percent if not a majority) Especially the people I work with.

[zoolander]

Under great stress, INTJs can overindulge in Sensing activities--watching TV reruns, playing cards, overeating-- or become overly focused on specific details in their environment that they normally do not notice or usually see as unimportant (housecleaning, organizing cupboards).

[eternaltraveler]

I think the 1% number for INTJ is a bit low. Most of the people I know would fit in that category I think. (at least a high percent if not a majority) Especially the people I work with.

shhh, intj's like to be uncommon )

Also I don't know how Bush could have won, I don't know anyone who voted for him )

[zoolander]

We need to keep in mind that we're essentially testing a bunch of net geek nerds here. I'm the exception being the social Charismatic king that I am.

We should be looking at % of web users and not % general population