Firefly Myers-Briggs

POSTED BY: Shawnee
UPDATED: Saturday, March 5, 2005 05:21
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When I first worked out what I was years ago I was an INTJ but since then I've become more P. I think I'm now somewhere in the middle on that one.

It is interesting that Simon and Kaylee are complete opposites. The book I learned about Myers-Briggs from had a fascinating chapter on relationships. Opposites attract but are also more likely to argue because they don't understand each other.

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I forgot to mention - this personality profiler is much more fun than Myers-Briggs:

http://totl.net/Personality/

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Of course. It never occurred to me, but I'm betting "NTs" make up a much larger proportion of our community than the societal norm. Especially given that we're usually in a small minority.

I remember reading somewhere that NTs usually make up only about 12 percent of a given population. We seem to have that average beat pretty solidly.

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

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I'm not going to take a test right now, but I'll tell you what I've gotten before. I'm always on the fence on two of them, usually it's one or two questions difference

E(S/N)(T/F)P

Note that while the S/N and T/F are right on the fence it is always E, by a lot, and always P, by a lot.

I took a test once designed to tell which section of your brain you are acting out of; I got near dead center, a bit forward, if I recall correctly.

Maybe I’m so screwed up because I’m on the fence, no clear position on logic vs. feeling, and no clear position on the concrete vs. the intuitive. It makes decisions hard when you are being pulled in both directions equally.

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Originally posted by Shawnee:
River INFJ The Protector

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I always felt that the character of River was a hell of a lot like me. As such I was surprised by the fact that you gave her a J. So I read it (INFJ). It describes me as well as the four that I usually get from the test. The fractured-ness of my personality is often annoying.

Well after I read INFJ I was confused. My results for J were always so low, but, as I said, it described me as well as every result I got from actually taking the test. It’s not like I lie on the test, I’m always honest on the questions, though I am often torn on them.

Out of the sixteen personality types five describe me very, disturbingly, well:
INFP
INTP
ISFP
ISTP
INFJ
And one describes another part of me, but that is suppressed and I have no interest in discussing it.

The other ten are nothing like me at all.

The fact that the differences between the types are very descriptive of the contradictions in my personality makes me tend to believe that the various results are all correct.

Why am I always the odd one? Or an odd one, can't take all the credit.

Of course I generally only get four results from the test (they made me take it often in high school), at least that’s only a quarter. I guess you would say I’m well rounded, but that isn’t as good as well adjusted.

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So Shawnee studying psychology, exactly what does it mean when you fit equally well in five mutually exclusive groups?

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Wow! I'm INFJ too and I always empathized with River the most. It was like reading an articulate book of my mind :D

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Originally posted by zoid:

One word of caution, if I might be so bold. I disagree with the site's exhortation to figure out other people's types, in order to better coexist with them. There is a very fine line between such practice -- only wanting a better interpersonal relationship -- and prejudice. I believe human beings are entirely too complex, too unique, to be boiled down into some simple combination of on-off switches, and that trying to seriously do so is high folly. It might be somehow comforting to think that there are only 16 different personality types; but, I reject the notion out of hand. People are individuals, not nibbles (4 binary digits).

I also refuse to pigeonhole myself by any cast-iron system of typing, regardless how apt it appears at a superficial level. It's just a different form of stereotyping: "ENTP's are lazy" or "good with math", et cetera, reminiscent of the late Reggie White's well-intentioned but controversial speech before the Wisconsin legislature. While I'm sure the site's intentions are good, encouraging people to stereotype others (or themselves) in order to get along with them better, is a bad idea.

Labels are limiting.


I agree completely. I think, or hope, that most analysts know that people can't be fit into neat little boxes. Those are the best kind of people, those you can't define. I don't think the tests should be seen as concrete and they really don't tell you your whole personality. Take the test results with a grain of salt. The tests don't factor in family, peer groups, religion, etc., that play a huge part in personality. I'm an INFP myself, and some things fit, some don't. I've just made Firefly a little project. One of these days I'm going to be sickeningly Freudian and try to psychoanalyze one of the characters. Thank you guys for the feedback. You're a good group of people, I'm glad I stopped being a lurker and said hello :)

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