[Fecal McAngry]

It worked for me, although I found some of the attempts to dichotomize poor, and might have answered differently were I an MBTI virgin...

[Frosted]

In Summary:

Your Preferences are:
Introversion (Clear)
Intuition (Very Strong)
Thinking (Very Strong)
Judging (Slight)
Your core Temperament is Intuition (NT)
Your Type is INTJ
(Introversion, Intuition, Thinking, Judging)


I'm surprised I came up as INTJ with some of the answers I chose. It's been a long time since I last tested. To anyone considering, this test gives quite a bit more info than just "INTJ".

Here's my results page I saved:
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---------- Post added 04-28-2012 at 04:19 AM ----------

I like how my J is almost a P

[Distance]

Introversion (Strong)
Intuition (Strong)
Thinking (Very Strong)
Judging (Slight)
Your core Temperament is Intuition (NT)

Your Type is INTJ
(Introversion, Intuition, Thinking, Judging)

It's rare I score my type of eNTJ on any dichotomy tests since extroversion is geared towards socialising on these types of tests.

Te-domness is weird in that if there's no perceived task, not all of us feel the need, desire or even pleasure, to socialise. If there's a task, we're not shy in the least with people.

[Hawkx]

Introversion (Very Strong)
Intuition (Very Strong)
Thinking (Very Strong)
Judging (Very Strong)

Yep it's correct... at least for me.

[Joh02875]

Very excited to see how it compares.

[EdR]

I have always tested INTJ and I consider the INTJ Personailty Profile (
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Your test scored me as an ISTJ and I was reasonably sure that I would end up with a different rating other than INTJ because of the way the questions were phrased. Many of the questions that related to N or S were worded such that both answers seemed wrong to me.

[reckful]

@OP --

I understand what EdR is saying, although it's hard for me to imagine myself actually coming out on the S side of this test. I've noted in other threads that I think INTJs are probably the most grounded of all the N's, and that it's pretty common for N items on MBTI tests to be written in a way that makes the N choice more likely to appeal to NFs (especially) or NPs than NTJs. This is especially true of choices with a mystical sort of flavor (which your test is admirably free of), but it can also be true of choices that have too much of an imagination-at-the-expense-of-facts/results flavor.

In the first edition of Please Understand Me, one of the N/S questions in Keirsey's temperament test asked if you found visionaries "fascinating" (N) or "annoying" (S). I suspect too many of us NTJs chose "annoying" (I did, because to me the word "visionary" has "New Age flaky" connotations) because, in Please Understand Me II, Keirsey changed the wording from "visionaries" to "theorists and visionaries."

In any case, I took the liberty of cutting your N/S items and pasting them in the spoiler and, on selected items, I've bolded the relevant language that I thought might lead a very grounded INTJ to favor the S response (and added a handful of comments).

Again, though, I admittedly chose the N response for most of these.

[HIDE="N/S items"]2. Would you describe yourself as
A. More realistic
B. More creative

6. When dealing with input from others, are you more interested in
A. Well developed theories
B. Facts and hard data

10. Do you trust more in
A. What you can see, smell,touch,etc.
B. What you can imagine as possible

13. Do you think of yourself as more
A. Creative
B. Practical and down to earth

17. Is it more fun to
A. Pursue a skill or hobby that you are very good at
B. Learn to do something brand new

An INTJ is reasonably likely to have a small number of hobbies that he pursues in depth while always expanding his skills, knowledge, etc. So it's not the repetitive performance of a fully-mastered skill that you'd associate more with an S preference, but it's also very much not routinely taking up something brand new.

21. Do you value friends more for
A. Their insights and unusual ideas
B. Their skills and expertise

Beware those flaky NFs with their "unusual" ideas.
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And a friend with "skills and expertise" isn't necessarily an unintellectual S with a limited skills/expertise repertoire who isn't constantly pursuing more skills/expertise.

25. Are you more likely to admire
A. Steady people who make things work
B. Creative people who do unusual things

Again, the "unusual" taint. More NF than NT.

29. Do you think of yourself more as a
A. Theory builder
B. Hard facts person

33. Do you think of yourself more as
A. A practical doer
B. An imaginative thinker

37. Which of the following is closer to your beliefs?
A. Look to the future--dreams do come true
B. Past experience is the best predictor of the future

"Dreams come true" is NF-y.

41. Which is a better guide to life
A. Common sense and experience
B. Imagination and new possibilities

Imagination and new possibilities are fine and dandy, but they need to be tested. Asking what the "better guide" is arguably steers us toward the "experience" response.

45. Is it better to be
A. Clever and inventive
B. Skillful and competent

Both, please! And as Keirsey says, "competence" goes to the heart of what NTs are about.

50. Do you pride yourself more on
A. Your mastery of facts and details
B. Your ability to see the 'big picture'

WORD PAIRS:

56.
A. Good results
B. Interesting explanations
60.
A. Unique
B. Practical
"Unique"? Ugh. That is strongly NF-y to me.
67.
A. Possibilities
B. Past experience
70.
A. Product
B. Idea
72.
A. Factual
B. Theoretical
74.
A. Information
B. Analysis[/HIDE]

[EdR]

Nice analysis reckful.

What I am and what I do often interfere with each other on a test when the choices are phrased vaguely. By profession I'm an engineer, but for the last decade I have been the plant manager of a factory. Both trades require timely, real and substantial accomplishments and achievements, all stemming from organized efforts developed and directed by me.

The responses of this particular test often induced my manufacturing persona to click on a choice. I was quite aware of that occurring during the test, but I am not knowledgable enough to know why. Nor was I aware of my manufacturing side kicking in while taking the test here (
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[Calica]

Your Preferences are:
Introversion (Strong)
Intuition (Very Strong)
Feeling (Strong)
Perceiving (Strong)

Close enough, I think.

[masterpeach]

Your ratings:
Extraversion--Strong
Intuition--Very Strong
Thinking--Strong
Perceiving--Clear
ENTP

Being familiar with the MBTI dichotomies, the results can be manipulated. I didn't find the test different from other free online tests.

I like the naming of the four temperaments, esp. "passionate achievers" for NTs.

[Janae]

Introversion--Strong
Intuition--Strong
Feeling--Slight
Judging--Slight

Quite similar to my results from the official MBTI a few years ago. I liked the test, it seemed relatively free of bias towards any particular function.

[omega2]

It gave me very strong I, strong N, very strong T, strong J.

Pretty accurate, but I have a question for everyone on the forum. Does anyone else get really hung up on the N/S dichotomy? I don't feel like I share much in common with an S, but the fact that I'm practical. I think that being practical is very important, but being imaginative is too. I have much more in common with an N though.

Edit: Damn, I just read Reckful's post and I feel stupid because it looks like he already explained it.

[MysteriousGnome]

Introversion--Very Strong
Intuition--Clear
Thinking--Strong
Perceiving--Clear

Based on how some questions were worded I was expecting it would even peg me as S, but it only got the J/P wrong. The J/P is kind of expected though because it really depends on the context the questions target.

[fokalina]

◦Introversion (Very Strong)
◦Intuition (Strong)
◦Feeling (Clear)
◦Judging (Slight)

So INFJ.

I'm not F.
But it's understandable as I value the things that Feelers do.

[thebrainpolice]

Introversion--Very Strong
Sensing--Strong
Thinking--Strong
Perceiving--Slight

Close enough I suppose. I almost always score close to the center on the J/P dimension.

[RCOEI]

I took all 3 (since I have a fairly photographic memory of my childhood). I came up INTJ for the adult/older child and INTP for the young child (probably because of difficulty with organization/tidiness).

---------- Post added 04-30-2012 at 06:34 PM ----------

Oh, and here's the strength for the adult one:

•Introversion--Strong
•Intuition--Slight
•Thinking--Very Strong
•Judging--Clear

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Not bad..that's the exact order.

[thecase]

INTJ

Introversion--Strong
Intuition--Slight
Thinking--Strong
Judging--Strong

[yoginimama]

INFJ

Introversion--strong
Intuition--strong
Feeling--strong
Judging--clear

[Brenna323]

INTJ.

Introversion--Very Strong
Intuition--Clear
Thinking--Very Strong
Judging--Slight

[Plato]

INFJ

Introversion (Very Strong)
Intuition (Very Strong)
Feeling (Strong)
Judging (Clear)

[illustral]

Somehow I came out as ISTJ on this one. Maybe I'm an IXTJ. Or maybe I was thinking differently while answering the N/S questions. Whatever. I still identify most with INTJ.

Introversion--Very Strong
Sensing--Strong
Thinking--Very Strong
Judging--Clear

[Johnny B]

@nharkey Did you create this test yourself?

[HarleyQuinn]

Scored INTJ. This correlates as I tend to be "weakest"/"lowest" in J/P compared to I-N-T.

I = Very Strong
N = Very Strong
T = Very Strong
J = Strong

[Booko]

Introversion--Very Strong
Intuition--Slight
Thinking--Strong
Judging--Strong

I noticed you aren't collecting data on ages. I know that as I've aged my Intuition score has weakened, which given some things I've been trained to find useful, is not really surprising. My Intuition score has never been so weak as this though.

Also, my Introversion score has always been pretty weak and I was surprised to see it come out as Very Strong on yours.

[DrCiao]

Not sure how accurate this test is, but I got


Your ratings:
Introversion--Clear
Intuition--Slight
Thinking--Clear
Judging--Strong