MBTI/Enneagram friends poll
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beandelphikiTrying this again. And if it doesn't work THIS time, I'm really gonna scream.
I've becomenosy curious enough to ask: What's the MBTI type of the people on my flist? And, heck, what's your Enneagram type? (While I'm asking...)
FILL OUT MAH POLL?
...Please?
IF you're NOT familar with the MBTI/Enneagram: Read the directions first. SRSLY.
(They're short. And I specifically didn't put the poll under a separate cut so the P types wouldn't skip this.)
1. Myers-Briggs is intended to determine your four-letter "type" based on your NATURAL PREFERENCES on four scales (and yes, this is my interpretation, errors are mine):
-introversion (I) vs. extroversion (E) - Whether you get your energy from the internal or the external world.
-intuition (N) vs. sensing (S) - Whether you are a big-picture person or a detail-oriented person in how you take in information.
-thinking (T) vs. feeling (F) - Whether you approach the world from a perspective that is based on harmony between ideas or one that is based on harmony between people. (Note: I hate trying to describe this scale.)
-judging (J) vs. perceiving (P) - Whether you ultimately prefer focusing on the outcome or result, or on the process.
...There is no wrong answer, blah blah. Just try to answer based on what you think you would naturally prefer, rather than what you've been taught to do, what you've been taught is "better," or what you are required to do in your life.
2. In theory, you should take the **REAL** Type Indicator to know your type. But hey - I didn't either! Here's some cheapy (i.e. FREE) online quizzes! (The REAL Type Indicator costs moolah. Unless you can get it for free on your campus/in your workplace.) In approximate order of validity:
-Humanmetrics version. (Supposedly the best online MBTI-sorter available.)
-Similar Minds tests. (Look under "Jung Tests" in the right-hand column, and you know, pick one.)
-Somewhat less vaguely-worded one for programmers, although I don't think you have to be a programmer to fill this one out.
-Star Trek version!
-Harry Potter version!
...I think I'll stop there.
3. If you don't know your Enneagram type, here's the Enneagram Institute's list of tests. (Top ones are free.) There's also some on the Similar Minds page I linked above, left-hand column. I really don't have much to say on the Enneagram...it's just kind of interesting. I don't consider it a true measure of personality so much as a description of how your personality and your environment have combined.
4. By "mixed type" (on the MBTI question) I mean that you have one or more Xs in your type. By THAT, I mean that you have one or more scale that is HOPELESSLY borderline. (Note: if you've never bothered with this before, as far as I'm aware, no test will actually give you an X result - they're designed not to. So you probably don't need this note, but just in case you wanted to know.)
Okay, that's it for directions. (See, I told you they were short!) Now...
The Poll Itself! (Whee, clicky things!)
[Poll #993643]
Th-th-th-th-that's all, folks!
I've become
FILL OUT MAH POLL?
...Please?
IF you're NOT familar with the MBTI/Enneagram: Read the directions first. SRSLY.
(They're short. And I specifically didn't put the poll under a separate cut so the P types wouldn't skip this.)
1. Myers-Briggs is intended to determine your four-letter "type" based on your NATURAL PREFERENCES on four scales (and yes, this is my interpretation, errors are mine):
-introversion (I) vs. extroversion (E) - Whether you get your energy from the internal or the external world.
-intuition (N) vs. sensing (S) - Whether you are a big-picture person or a detail-oriented person in how you take in information.
-thinking (T) vs. feeling (F) - Whether you approach the world from a perspective that is based on harmony between ideas or one that is based on harmony between people. (Note: I hate trying to describe this scale.)
-judging (J) vs. perceiving (P) - Whether you ultimately prefer focusing on the outcome or result, or on the process.
...There is no wrong answer, blah blah. Just try to answer based on what you think you would naturally prefer, rather than what you've been taught to do, what you've been taught is "better," or what you are required to do in your life.
2. In theory, you should take the **REAL** Type Indicator to know your type. But hey - I didn't either! Here's some cheapy (i.e. FREE) online quizzes! (The REAL Type Indicator costs moolah. Unless you can get it for free on your campus/in your workplace.) In approximate order of validity:
-Humanmetrics version. (Supposedly the best online MBTI-sorter available.)
-Similar Minds tests. (Look under "Jung Tests" in the right-hand column, and you know, pick one.)
-Somewhat less vaguely-worded one for programmers, although I don't think you have to be a programmer to fill this one out.
-Star Trek version!
-Harry Potter version!
...I think I'll stop there.
3. If you don't know your Enneagram type, here's the Enneagram Institute's list of tests. (Top ones are free.) There's also some on the Similar Minds page I linked above, left-hand column. I really don't have much to say on the Enneagram...it's just kind of interesting. I don't consider it a true measure of personality so much as a description of how your personality and your environment have combined.
4. By "mixed type" (on the MBTI question) I mean that you have one or more Xs in your type. By THAT, I mean that you have one or more scale that is HOPELESSLY borderline. (Note: if you've never bothered with this before, as far as I'm aware, no test will actually give you an X result - they're designed not to. So you probably don't need this note, but just in case you wanted to know.)
Okay, that's it for directions. (See, I told you they were short!) Now...
The Poll Itself! (Whee, clicky things!)
[Poll #993643]
Th-th-th-th-that's all, folks!
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Date: 2007-05-30 05:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-30 06:06 am (UTC)For Enneagram though, it's honestly better to read the profiles. Not that this doesn't also apply to the MBTI...but the tests for the Enneagram kinda suck more.
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Date: 2007-05-30 05:08 pm (UTC)Hm.
Date: 2007-05-30 02:51 pm (UTC)LOL @ your friends-- almost all of mine are "N"s, too.
Re: Hm.
Date: 2007-05-31 07:23 am (UTC)I always identify as an ENFJ, but I am actually nearly split on the P/J question.
Funny, you're the second person to say your J is wobbly...and the first person is an ADDer, too.
This poll was prompted partially by my becoming interested in the MBTI again (and more intensely). When I took some online tests the first time it was introduced to me years ago, I scored as an INTP, but with a very weak P. Now I'm scoring with a very weak J. (AM I an INTJ after all? Crazy...) I mean, I think it might actually be more accurate, but I doubt I'll ever be anything but nearly 50/50 on the J/P scale.
It's almost too obvious that it's ADD making our J/P scale swing. I think the only reason I'm scoring as a J now is my greater awareness that I don't necessarily LIKE waffling about in the process/not driving to the finish, but I've learned to consider it the lesser evil (as opposed to just not getting things done). And by "evil," I mean "stressor."
Hrm. *seeing potential post about ADD affecting MBTI scores, but there's probably a ridiculously small audience for it*
Jeez...
Date: 2007-05-31 07:54 am (UTC)When I saw your username in my inbox, I was thrilled to hear from you again. Then I kinda got excited about whatever theoretical blah-de-blah popped up in my brain when I read your comment, and promptly forgot whatever other sentiments I was going to send your way. That is my brain to a T.
Anyway. Here they are, plus some more:
I'm so relieved to hear from you, and I missed you! I somehow managed to miss what's been going on with you completely...I was just thinking the other day that I wondered if something had happened to you, because you didn't seem to be posting.
I hope you are okay, or becoming so. I'm sorry about your troubles, and I hope you and D become okay. And I hope D is okay, too.
But mostly, I just really want YOU to be okay. *offers hugs* I probably have no experience on which you can draw, but I offer you my total support.