Personality Test
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I found this online.
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
I've taken tests like this before (No, GSTRING, not as any sort of "intake" procedure. After this I was tapped for am advanced position, but family responsibilities prevented me from taking on a 60 hour/week job.) and certain aspects of my personality have been remarkably stable over the decades.
It didn't tell me anything that I didn't know already about myself, but explains why I post the way I do. According to my test results, I'm a harsh logician. A VERY harsh logician. It's far more important for me to follow a bunny-trail of logic than being "nice".
Here are some details of my results:
Quote:Errr... not quite. I have a lot of responsibilities which don't allow me to indulge. Here is where I think out loud.
Introverted/Extroverted 96%/4%
Intuitive/ Observant 54/46
Thinking/ feeling 75/25
Judging/Prospecting 46/53
Assertive/Turbulent 25/75
Logician Personality (INTP, -A/-T)
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
The Logician personality type is fairly rare, making up only three percent of the population, which is definitely a good thing for them, as there’s nothing they’d be more unhappy about than being “common”. Logicians pride themselves on their inventiveness and creativity, their unique perspective and vigorous intellect. Usually known as the philosopher, the architect, or the dreamy professor, Logicians have been responsible for many scientific discoveries throughout history.
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living
Logicians are known for their brilliant theories and unrelenting logic – in fact, they are considered the most logically precise of all the personality types.
They love patterns, and spotting discrepancies between statements could almost be described as a hobby, making it a bad idea to lie to a Logician. This makes it ironic that Logicians’ word should always be taken with a grain of salt – it’s not that they are dishonest, but people with the Logician personality type tend to share thoughts that are not fully developed, using others as a sounding board for ideas and theories in a debate against themselves rather than as actual conversation partners.
This may make them appear unreliable, but in reality no one is more enthusiastic and capable of spotting a problem, drilling through the endless factors and details that encompass the issue and developing a unique and viable solution than Logicians – just don’t expect punctual progress reports. People who share the Logician personality type aren’t interested in practical, day-to-day activities and maintenance, but when they find an environment where their creative genius and potential can be expressed, there is no limit to the time and energy Logicians will expend in developing an insightful and unbiased solution.
They may appear to drift about in an unending daydream
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but Logicians’ thought process is unceasing, and their minds buzz with ideas from the moment they wake up. This constant thinking can have the effect of making them look pensive and detached, as they are often conducting full-fledged debates in their own heads, but really Logicians are quite relaxed and friendly when they are with people they know, or who share their interests. However, this can be replaced by overwhelming shyness when Logician personalities are among unfamiliar faces, and friendly banter can quickly become combative if they believe their logical conclusions or theories are being criticized.
When Logicians are particularly excited, the conversation can border on incoherence as they try to explain the daisy-chain of logical conclusions that led to the format
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I think the website gives an overly romanticized summary of it all, but it's almost scary how on the money they are with both the strengths and weaknesses portion of it.
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Introverted/Extroverted 84%/16%
Intuitive/ Observant 61/39
Thinking/ feeling 59/41
Judging/Prospecting 60/40
Assertive/Turbulent 41/59
Architect Personality (INTJ, -A/-T)
It’s lonely at the top, and being one of the rarest and most strategically capable personality types, Architects know this all too well. Architects form just two percent of the population, and women of this personality type are especially rare, forming just 0.8% of the population – it is often a challenge for them to find like-minded individuals who are able to keep up with their relentless intellectualism and chess-like maneuvering. People with the Architect personality type are imaginative yet decisive, ambitious yet private, amazingly curious, but they do not squander their energy.
Nothing Can Stop the Right Attitude From Achieving Its Goal
With a natural thirst for knowledge that shows itself early in life, Architects are often given the title of “bookworm” as children. While this may be intended as an insult by their peers, they more than likely identify with it and are even proud of it, greatly enjoying their broad and deep body of knowledge. Architects enjoy sharing what they know as well, confident in their mastery of their chosen subjects, but they prefer to design and execute a brilliant plan within their field rather than share opinions on “uninteresting” distractions like gossip.
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
Harlan Ellison
A paradox to most observers, Architects are able to live by glaring contradictions that nonetheless make perfect sense – at least from a purely rational perspective. For example, Architects are simultaneously the most starry-eyed idealists and the bitterest of cynics, a seemingly impossible conflict. But this is because Architect personalities tend to believe that with effort, intelligence and consideration, nothing is impossible, while at the same time they believe that people are too lazy, short-sighted or self-serving to actually achieve those fantastic results. Yet that cynical view of reality is unlikely to stop an interested Architect from achieving a result they believe to be relevant.
In Matters Of Principle, Stand Like a Rock
Architects radiate self-confidence and an aura of mystery, and their insightful observations, original ideas and formidable logic enable them to push change through with sheer willpower and force of personality. At times it will seem that Architects are bent on deconstructing and rebuilding every idea and system they come into contact with, employing a sense of perfectionism and even morality to this work. Anyone who doesn’t have the talent to keep up with Architects’ processes, or worse yet, doesn’t see the point of them, is likely to immediately and permanently lose their respect.
Rules, limitations and traditions are anathema to the Architect personality type – everything should be open to questioning and reevaluation, and if they see a way, Architects will often act unilaterally to enact their technically superior, sometimes insensitive, and almost always unorthodox methods and ideas.
This isn’t to be misunderstood as impulsiveness – Architects will strive to remain rational no matter how attractive the end goal may be, and every idea, whether generated internally or soaked in from the outside world, must pass the ruthless and ever-present “Is this going to work?” filter. This mechanism is applied at all times, to all things and all people, and this is often where Architect personalities run into trouble.
One Reflects More When Traveling Alone
Architects are brilliant and confident in bodies of knowledge they have taken the time to understand, but unfortunately the social contract is unlikely to be one of those subjects. White lies and small talk are hard enough as itNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I wonder why anyone would believe the results of a Myers-Briggs test in this day and age, but sadly way too many do.
There have been multiple studies done that show the test is completely inaccurate, and 75% of the people who take it come up with completely different results on retaking the test in a few weeks. The tests not only fail at identifying a personality, they fail basic reliability and validity standards. And really, there are only 16 different personality types in a world with ~7.5 billion people on it?
One should read Annie Murphy Paul’s book on “The Cult of Personality Testing” and how such tests are being used by schools, career counselors and corporations and not just labelling people, but stereotyping them and in too many instances ruining people’s lives and careers.
And as for taking an on-line version that is not only simplistic but worse, encourages the taker to buy the full results, I'd suspect the motivation is not specifically focused at identifying a personality.
While it may be amusing to take such tests (if one is really bored), it has as much validity identifying a personality type as taking the “Which Muppet are you” personality test.
http://www.zimbio.com/quiz/lhWkmotA2cm/Which+Muppet+Are+You
Oh let the sun beat down upon my face;
With stars to fill my dream;
I am a traveler of both time and space;
To be where I have been
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Scooter's probably an Architect Personality.
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Curiously, I was given a somewhat different personality test about 30 years ago, and got very similar results. The thing that I almost pegged the meter on both times was introversion. That is, according to many studies, a person's most stable personality trait, demonstrated from babyhood onward.
I think other posters in this forum would tend to agree a whole lot with the results of MY test. I DO tend to "think out loud" here. I don't worry a whole lot how people feel about things.
But what this test doesn't tell me is how good I am at being "logical". Maybe I don't visualize well and therefore can't see patterns. Maybe my memory is so fuzzy that I can't access enough detailed data. Maybe I'm not good enough at suppressing my hopes and fears. There could be all kinds of reasons why that might happen.
And of course, given that I'm a chemist by training and that I like to cook I'm ...
That was fun! But totally expected! 
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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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Quote:A link or two would be nice. Thanks.
There have been multiple studies done that show the test is completely inaccurate, and 75% of the people who take it come up with completely different results on retaking the test in a few weeks.
I also have taken that test more than once - in my early 20's, mid 30's, and decades later, and gotten similar results over time.
Of the different categories, introversion/ extroversion are stable in real life over time.
When it comes to other ways to measure personality, extroversion and conscientiousness were more stable over decades, whereas agreeableness, openness, and neuroticism were not. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2247365/
Other studies indicate that the secret to a long, successful life is conscientiousness. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2691806/
If conscientiousness is a stable enough trait to influence lifespan, then two traits - introversion/ extroversion and conscientiousness are stable traits that might represent something fundamental in people.
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"I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago."
G is an avowed Putin-loving, pro-Russian, anti-American troll.
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I see there are no linkies in answer to your request, KIKI. 
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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
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Okay, I can't let that one fly. So I logged in despite some interpersonal awkwardness and even though something weird has happened with the security encryption of the login around here.
Personality tests are about as accurate as Chinese Astrology, and I should know because I used to do Chinese Astrology readings for fun. It's all a combination of having a few varied different possibilities to account for actual population variation and weighed to the interests of the user, then throwing a boatload of generalized ideas that taken together sound like a possible actual description of the whole of a person's personality, when really maybe only a few things actually fit.
I did Chinese Astrology readings because, if you recognize that aspect of them, it can allow you to have various insights on yourself and behaviours based on how you read them from day to day and your emotional states. Some days you're more like an ESTP, Some days you're more like an INFJ. That's just how it goes.
I'm not saying they can't be useful, but definite grain of salt here. A lot of these online quizzes are outright scams, promising people that based on a brief fifty question test they can unscrew people's lives and offer secret information about how they tick. I would not even support one of these sites with a click count to keep them operating. For me a conversation about the validity of personality quizzes is as personally frustrating as if I heard someone talking about how great Amway is.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02686623
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1985.57.2.367
If your test results told you that you guys weren't scientists or told you that you weren't logical thinkers, would you believe them? (I sure wouldn't because you are, but hey, that happens to me every time I take one of these tests. I find them very flawed, and it is my understanding that a significant amount of research supports my position)
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Nice to see ya BYTEMITE
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