MBTI/Enneagram friends poll
May. 29th, 2007 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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!
