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| From: James Richmond
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14/05/99
20:58:55
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| Subject: Personality Types |
post id:
11956
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The "IQ" thread set me off on
this one. I discovered a site which groups people fairly accurately
(judging by the people I know who have tried it) into one of 16 basic
personality types.
Now, what I would be interested to know is
whether there is any bias towards a particular type on Dr Karl's site. In
other words, do people who are interested enough in science to post
questions and answers here have a bias towards one or more of the 16
types?
From statistics collected on the test site, it appears that
the web is skewed to towards some types. For example, about 30% of the
people who have taken the test on the web register as "Idealists", but
they only make up 10% of the general population.
If you'd like to
take the test, click on the link below. There are two parts, each of which
involves answering about 15 to 20 multiple choice questions. No
identifying personal data is collected. Perhaps you could post your type
here and we can do an informal survey?
http://keirsey.com/cgi-bin/keirsey/kcs.cgi"
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
JR
PS: And the
first result is - I am an
iNFj
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| From: sam |
14/05/99
21:22:33
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
11961
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Well, I took the test, but I
didn't really understand the result.
My temperament is Idealist :
NF
My variant temperament is Healer : INFP
Is that all I needed
to say?
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| From: sam |
14/05/99
21:29:42
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
11964
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Having gone back and read the
info on the personality types, it seems horribly accurate, at least for
myself.
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| From: Terry Frankcombe |
14/05/99
21:31:51
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| Subject: re: Personality
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post id:
11966
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Oh, you idealists! Apparently,
I'm INTP.
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| From: Lance K |
14/05/99
21:37:31
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
11969
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INTJ
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| From: Alan |
14/05/99
21:57:37
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| Subject: re: Personality
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post id:
11976
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Rational, Mastermind, ho hum.
IQ mid to high 130's I'm told
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| From: Cam
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14/05/99
22:05:21
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
11982
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I haven't tried the site, but
from the letters people are quoting "INFP" etc, it sounds like a
Myers-Briggs personality type test.
Sorry to be a spoilsport (I
thort it was pretty accurate too) but there's a whole lot of info
debunking this test on the sceptics page (don't remember the URL but
somebody will)
I came out INTP, but I forget wot it
means.
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| From: Ian W |
14/05/99
22:45:54
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
11987
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I come in NT, so why am I none of
what they said that I should be sigh !!!!!!! Oh well back to the
spanners.
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| From: steve |
14/05/99
22:58:32
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
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Chris
The Skeptics page is
http://www.skeptics.com.au
It's an excellent page which a lot of
people in this forum should have
bookmarked
Steve
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| From: Cam
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14/05/99
23:15:53
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
11992
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JR and others,
There's some
discusion of the validity of MBTI (Meyers Briggs Type Indicator) or
Keirsley personality test
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/btcarrol/skeptic/comments/mbcom1.html
and
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/btcarrol/skeptic/comments/mbcom2.html
if you're interested.
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| From: jason |
15/05/99
9:55:09
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
12030
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I am rational NT:
Architect
INTP:
The questions were so ambiguous it wasn't funny, and the
definitions were only a hop skip and a jump from telling me my star
sign
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| From: Todd Collins |
15/05/99
15:07:51
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
12057
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The questions are meant to be
ambiguous, Jason... The test looks at how you interpret these ambiguous
questions. Anyway, in the interests of science, I'm off to do mine now...
Stay tuned...
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| From: Todd Collins |
15/05/99
16:04:34
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
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I'm INTP.
I'd say most of
the people here (especially those who tend to be able to answer more
questions than they ask) would be NT ("Rational"). Rationality tends to be
a bit of a prerequisite for scientific-type thinking (i.e. logical
approach to problem solving, etc).
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| From: Lib |
15/05/99
18:11:31
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
12066
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I came out as a Rational (NT) and
Architect (INTP). Scary but true!
Wont tell the other half though
as he already gives me hard time for giving him a hard time when he takes
the longest, most convoluted method to complete a task that I can do in
three moves or less.
Have pity on the man - living with someone like me
can't be a picnic.
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| From: Ails |
15/05/99
19:51:55
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
12071
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I am INFP. I/E means
introvert/extrovert (I didn't see any "Es":) )
N/?- ?
F/T:
Feeling/thinking
P/J:??
I find it interesting, but there are quite a
few feeling people out there...
Luv,
Ails
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| From: Dr Paul
(Avatar) |
12/10/99
9:44:36
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| Subject: re: Personality
Types |
post id:
43588
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Hi Terry, Hi JR,
I am INTP as
well.
P
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