Myers & Briggs
Myers & Briggs
(OP)
A while back I was in a group of 25 engineers who were all required to take the Myers & Briggs Personality test. I came across the group results this week and found them more interesting now than I did then.
After much grumbling, we all took the test and then had a group meeting to compare results. I find it amazing that in the 16-section box not a single engineer was in the center four boxes. Most were in the upper left or the lower right. About 1/3 of the group was in one of the 8 blocks that aren't in the corner or the center. There were zero boarderline scores. We "was all who we was".
Anyone else want to share any observations about this test, personality tests in general, or their own score (mine was ENTJ)? Are all engineers destined to be locked solidly into a personality box from which there is no escape?
David
After much grumbling, we all took the test and then had a group meeting to compare results. I find it amazing that in the 16-section box not a single engineer was in the center four boxes. Most were in the upper left or the lower right. About 1/3 of the group was in one of the 8 blocks that aren't in the corner or the center. There were zero boarderline scores. We "was all who we was".
Anyone else want to share any observations about this test, personality tests in general, or their own score (mine was ENTJ)? Are all engineers destined to be locked solidly into a personality box from which there is no escape?
David





RE: Myers & Briggs
For what it's worth, though, I just went and took a handful of online ones.
ENTJ ("field marshall")
ISTJ ("inspector")
ESTJ ("supervisor")
ESTP ("promoter"; in the middle 4 boxes)
Uh huh.
Interesting discussion here:
http://skepdic.com/myersb.html
(including reader comments)
Hg
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corus
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The test was a general test and obviously not targeted toward technical professionals.
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xnuke
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I like you was quite polarized. Not on all scales, but the result was not middle of the road by any means.
That said, I don't think taking the test revealed anything to me. I think people who show definitive character traits don't need a test to tell them who they are.
Dave
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