I’ve been meaning to do a thread about this for a while: Myers-Briggs ?

Adventurer. When I saw the title I thought "not me", but it's so accurate. Introvert, don't like structured work.

Protagonist

I am a Campaigner and saw only 3 of us in this category. I was not surprised! I will read further about it.

I’m a campaigner and actually I think that’s quite accurate.

I'm an IFJ Advocate: makes perfect sense the traits and conclusion

I think the answers I gave (I came out as a defender) is because for sociability I gave more negative answers which aren’t really me. DH has a tendency to be quite opinionated, argumentative and abrupt in company which means I often dread social situations. If things were different I’m sure I wouldn’t.

Not that I'm sure what,a,protagonist is, by the way.

I wondered that, too.
I'm a,protagonist at the moment.

I did wonder how much my current life pressures influenced the answers I chose.

Maggiemaybe

I was a Defender 15 minutes ago. Forgot to save my results and hadn’t checked it out properly, so did the test again and now I’m an Assertive Logistician. Split personality, anyone?

I was going to do it again and pretend to be DD ?

FannyCornforth

SD
This page explains the letter codes.
(At the end of the section!)
Each abbreviation in the personality codes refers to the following sections:

Mind
Energy
Nature
Tactics
Identity

And each subsection contains two variables eg. ‘Mind’ can either be Extrovert or Introvert (hence the first letters in the code - Ex or Int)

I saw on another thread that you mentioned that you have found it a helpful resource; I’m pleased that you have enjoyed it.

Thank you.

The test I did before gave the result INFJ for me, which I think is the rarest.

In fact I was one point from being INTJ.

That was what seemed to balance my capability, and I suppose my desire, to analyse a situation precisely, yet apply the result of that analysis tempered by compassion.

Sort of making sure that the legal situation is known, that the other person shall have at least his or her legal rights, now, what better can I give.

But the test was structured differently.

It consisted of about fifty pairs of words and one needed to mark with a ballpoint pen the checkbox for which of the two words one preferred.

When we got the results it was rather clever how the lady administering the test calculated the result.

The test was printed on a sheet of paper, around A4 in size though perhaps not A4, and had a sort of carbon copy system such that calculating the result was by removing the top layer then on the backing sheet there were wide coloured diagonal bands in various pastel colours, and calculating the result was simply by counting the number of 'carbon' marks on each colour.

The test we have been doing here gives seven options for each answer.

Yet back then there were not the words like Mediator and Advocate. I am wondering from where they are sourced.

I think that for my result it was that I would be best suited to work in quality control, not in sales.

Emphasis was placed on the concept of finding the best role for people, not on deciding that one type of personality was better than another.

I am a Defender. Agreed with most of it!!

I was a Defender 15 minutes ago. Forgot to save my results and hadn’t checked it out properly, so did the test again and now I’m an Assertive Logistician. Split personality, anyone?

Waves to Auden - another mediator

I think that anything that aids out understanding of ourselves and each other is a good thing.
I also know that many people have derived more than a degree comfort from feeling more understood themselves.

Very interesting, as mine is Mediator. I have done this kind of test before in a working with groups setting, and got thecsame result. Fascinating, as I can see these traits in myself clearly. Thank you! I enjoyed this.

Urmston - just to clarify I wasn’t upset or annoyed. Personality tests like psychological assessments are often dismissed, despite being accurate. I’ve just been reading about Trump’s behaviour around the storming of the capital. Maybe one of us could complete a MB based on what we know of him ???

My comment wasn’t meant to annoy or upset anyone. Yes Fanny it did just make me question it, that’s all. ? No harm done! I’m inherently lazy. And it’s a lot of deeper reading. It’s just my personal decision. Once someone (academic) gives me an alternative take on things I start to doubt the veracity of this tool. Never mind, I’m not being assessed for a job if I regard it as a bit of fun!

‘Someone I know doesn’t rate M-B assessments’. Ok that dismisses them totally then ?

Someone I know used them extensively in her working life. Found them a real aid to many aspects of her role.

Does my someone rule out urmston’ d someone. Or is it one balanced out the other

Urmstongran

Someone I know doesn’t rate MB assessments. It’s now put me in mind of a bit of fun - like an in depth horoscope. I can’t be bothered reading all the detail now but then again, maybe that’s just because I’m #lazygran!
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Assessments like these are a helpful tool for teachers, when working with children and trying to break down barriers to learning for those pupils..

I’ve just completed the test again.
It was about five years ago that I last did it; and about 15 years since I first did it.
I’ve consistently been an Advocate.

Logistician here too!

I thought mine was pretty accurate. Scarily so!

I am going to repeat the test when I finish this course of steroids (another 42 days to go).

I am interested to see if in a different headspace I will get a different outcome,

Urms there’s always someone ready to pooh pooh anything (usually because they think that they know better)
It sounds like ‘someone’ has made you question yourself!
MB is simply repeating back what you have ‘told’ it, and considering how your answers relate to each other.
To my mind it’s more than a ‘bit of fun’