Breckenridge Type Indicator

[ygolo]

I've decided I may play in the Enneagram arena for a while. If for no other reason than to break my MBTI stereotyping habbit.

INTJforum had this link:
https://survey.breckenridgeinstitute.com/participantSetup.bi

Anyone else take the assessment?

 

[booyalab]

5, preserving

 

[Bella]

preserving...hehe

 

[booyalab]

The Cultivating description sounded like social activism and Transmitting sounded like romantic twaddle. So laugh away, but I'm much more likely to worry about my finances than world peace or not being loved.

edit: Bella just kindly informed that she was pointing out the pun, with the can and..yeah. I'm slow.

 

[disregard]

How do you take the test? I cannot figure out how to navigate my way to it.

 

[Bella]

Wow...I'm speechless

 

[booyalab]

The link directs you to enter your name and email, then you wait for the invitation. Then you answer 19 pages of questions. Then you wait for your results...all for a glorified enneagram test result.

 

[edcoaching]

I have my whole 34-page report from the Breckenridge. My highest score was 3, and I'm not a 3 (or 9, a close second score). I'm a 7.

Pat Wyman, who does tons and tons of counseling work around Enneagram and MBTI (her book 3 Keys to Self Understanding is a key resource), says there's really no test out there that hushes MBTI noise and gets at Enneagram. She holds to the tenant that one discovers one's Enneagram type through working through processes with someone knowledgeable.

One of my colleagues worked on the BTI and I know it's not a piece of junk, but a) it's totally off for me and b) the MBTI/Enneagram noise when they're supposed to measure totally different things is really key...

 

[Jack Flak]

34 pages? Just write an autobiography.

 

[edcoaching]

34 pages? Just write an autobiography.

I didn't write the pages...the author asked if I wanted to take the official version and that's what got emailed to me. Haven't read it...just flipped through to find the scores, of course...

 

[Jack Flak]

I didn't write the pages...the author asked if I wanted to take the official version and that's what got emailed to me. Haven't read it...just flipped through to find the scores, of course...

I know. YOU'RE RUINING MY JOKE!

 

[Bella]

Some sugar water for Mr Flak!

 

[phoenix13]

It gives me an error message, and when I click "return to the main page," it takes me here: https://survey.breckenridgeinstitute.com/products.bi which lists the online assessments, but none are hyperlinked.

I need a hero.

 

[entropie]

We all do, but heroine would make it for the start aswell

substitute still missing

 

[edcoaching]

I know. YOU'RE RUINING MY JOKE!

I knew it was a joke :steam:

I was kinda wondering if the link produced the same lengthy report for everyone, as in he's giving it away right now to create buzz, or what.

Honest, I do have a sense of humor. At least when I'm rested.

 

[Jack Flak]

I knew it was a joke :steam:

So...You ruined my best joke of the day on purpose, then. I'll be watchin' you.

 

[entropie]

I knew it was a joke :steam:

I was kinda wondering if the link produced the same lengthy report for everyone, as in he's giving it away right now to create buzz, or what.

Honest, I do have a sense of humor. At least when I'm rested.

*takes the broom and repeatedly pokes edo's side*

 

[entropie]

poke

poke

poke

xD

 

[Jack Flak]

Propose confining entropie to "drunk" thread LOL.

 

[ygolo]

I'm having a really hard time getting to the "essence" of this enneagram thing.

I read the descriptions (both from the enneagram institute, and the report I got from Breckenridge. I could commit that information to memory if I wanted. The MBTI comes down to a few small essential things (and those things are arbritrary in the model), but the Enneagram starts with an awful lot of seemingly arbritrary stuff.

Even if this were an empirical model, it doesn't seem fit for human use--maybe a computer simulation, but I don't see direct practical applications for simulation (even is they were accurate).

Supposedly (according to 16-types.com) the BTI has been validated. I don't know what that means.

EDIT: Mine was only 12 pages long.