Venom
Babylon Candle
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2008
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- MBTI Type
- INTJ
- Enneagram
- 1w9
- Instinctual Variant
- sp/sx
Great attitude Jaguar! MBTI actually, is not so well researched as is likely claimed. In psychology, it is recognized as a very limited, but semiuseful tool. The reason is that MBTIs have shown to be fluctuating and therefore only be a temporary snapshot of what might be called personality.
Since personality itself is defined as "characteristics which are stable over time" the MBTI has been shown to not qualify as a real personality test. Often we overlook certain smaller parts that just do not fit all because of a bias function. You can give such a text to a whole class and all of them will be surprised, how everyone thinks that is describes him.
For all those, that want a rather timestable test :
http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/
Big Five of Personality.
I mostly agree. The global 5 test pretty much disqualifies the following MBTI myths:
<> All types are created equal!
<> Your Type Doesnt Change!
<> There are "functions"!
Global 5 tests, using factor analysis, locate 5 traits, that test independently. There are 4 that line up pretty well with MBTI. The traits that dont line up as well (T/F), frankly, kind of suck anyways. The mbti's absence of neuroticism factor is a HUGE HUGE HUGE problem. A neurotic of any "type" will be like night and day compared with a calmer variety. Tests using global 5 are much more time stable, but still show consistent change until about age 25. As people get older, they generally become more agreeable, less neurotic and more organized. . Also, research on big 5 doesnt seem to reveal the concentrations we'd expect from actual mutual exclusive "S vs N" etc. People are gradients between points, as we would expect from a 5 factor test (where each point tests independent). Also, there is pretty solid evidence that certain traits are more likely to be found in "Happy people" and therefore, some types are happier than others. That seems to imply type superiority. In general:
<> social over non social
<> agreeable over egocentric
<> organized over unorganized
<> calm over neurotic
<> inquisitive over non inquisitive is somewhat non essential, but it'd make sense that society would benefit from more inquisitive people... This roughly equates E (sociable), J (organized), F (agreeable), N (inquisitive).
so... ENFJ...
...but I may be biased