Non-motoring > Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? Accessories and Parts
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 20:06 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - Fursty Ferret
www.16personalities.com

Obviously its not the genuine MB test, but the same sort of thing dressed up in a different way. Spits out the same answer as the two formal ones I've done for job applications so probably fairly accurate to the real thing*.

Oh, and INTJ if anyone's interested.

* which is, I suspect, pretty much utter tosh. But mildly entertaining none the less.
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 20:23 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - Bromptonaut
We've done this before. I'm pretty sceptical of value too. I'm ISTP on this one and always similar on others.

Spent half a week at the Civil Service College c2006 exploring use of Myers Briggs to develop my skills as a Manager. Waste of £2k of taxpayers money.

Others here including those like NoFM who have real management experience though see value in it.

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New Wed 23 Dec 15 20:24 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - sooty123
ISFJ-A which it says is 'defender'.

Ive taken these types of tests before ( mind you who hasn't) can't remember what I got last time.
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 20:41 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - Zero
Trouble is with all these tests its all too easy to slip into a persona and get any result you desire out the other end.
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 22:01 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - tyrednemotional
....indeed. I'm sure whenever I did one it should have come up as DBFR (Devious B*st*rd Fiddled Results), but I always seemed to get away with it.
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 22:37 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - Fursty Ferret
They got round that on the ones I did by having a strict time limit on each question (something like 10 seconds) so you had to react fairly instinctively, and about 300 questions. Though I suppose you could method-act your way through the whole lot.
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 23:04 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - tyrednemotional
...the last (Myers Briggs) one I did was an on-line one much like that, along with two other variations, and an hours telephone evaluation by a "duty psychiatrist". I did the latter sat in a car overlooking beautiful Peak District scenery - went well from my end, but god knows what it felt like from the other.

It was for a Senior Civil Service job (no, I have never before or since worked in the CS), and I must have done something right, as I was shortlisted (1 of 2) and interviewed by a Civil Service Commissioner, the head of department, and a number of flunkeys, all of whom I got on with swimmingly, except the head of department, who I disliked intensely (and the feeling was mutual I suspect).

Anyway, though I was ideally suited to the appointment, the other guy got it (and he did, literally, live round the corner). It was one of those occasions on which I was both annoyed I didn't get the job, and delighted at the same time.

In retrospect, (knowing some of the immediate aftermath) I was even more delighted I hadn't got it.

Still think I "tricked" the MB assessment, though ;-)
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 20:34 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - Manatee
Still INFP, "mediator".
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 21:00 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - MD
Eh!
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 21:44 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - Crankcase
I got

MEDIATOR (INFP-T)

Whatever that might really mean.
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 21:58 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - CGNorwich
The trouble with MB is that everyone gets a nice sounding personality which is not most persons experience of the people they know and work with. Where are work shy skiver, moaner, aggressive bully, stirrer, creep et al who inhabit every office I have worked in?





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New Wed 23 Dec 15 22:48 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - Zero
>> Where are work shy
>> skiver, moaner, aggressive bully, stirrer, creep et al

I retired
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 22:50 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - tyrednemotional
>> I retired


....really...?


;-)
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 22:57 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - mikeyb
LOGISTICIAN (ISTJ-A) - I did this a few years ago on an away day event, but cant actually remember what I got last time.
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 23:05 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - zippy
A previous employer invested a lost in getting staff above a certain grade tested.

I forget what I came out as but I was classed as a technical specialist.

Certain types that fitted the "outgoing" personality traits got promoted to the senior management and the board. They were ALL sales people and the company went from a decent turnover and healthy profit to very high turnover and losses.

Things were changed back to the previous model quite quickly after that.
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 23:11 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - mikeyb
As I recall Duncan Banatyne saying "turnovers vanity, profit is sanity"
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New Wed 23 Dec 15 23:40 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - Armel Coussine
Can't believe I had the patience, but I answered all 100 questions, usually with a neutral or minimally emphatic leaning one way or the other.

When I asked what it thought, it gave me a four-letter personality type and a rather flattering, all-purpose assessment under a lot of headings. Reading it I couldn't help feeling caressed, if a bit ashamed.

Reminds me of the psychometric crap some of my colleagues in market research used to come up with. It needn't have been valueless, put it usually was in practice.
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New Thu 24 Dec 15 00:04 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - smokie
Role is Explorer.

I don'y really see the point fiddling the trest if it's just a bit of fun, kike this one.

When I had to do some for work I thought I understood they could tell from patterns in your answers whether you were being consistent (and therefore honest)
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New Thu 24 Dec 15 00:12 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - Armel Coussine
It's not that straightforward smokie, believe me. You can make an assessment after talking to someone at length and still be wrong.

As for seven-point positive to negative psychometric questions, they won't give you the truth either. They'll tell you something but not much.

All good fun though.

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New Thu 24 Dec 15 09:04 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - tyrednemotional
>>
>> When I had to do some for work I thought I understood they could tell
>> from patterns in your answers whether you were being consistent (and therefore honest)
>>

I understood that from certain patterns in your answers they could tell whether you were being deliberately consistent (and therefore dishonest).
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New Thu 24 Dec 15 10:29 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - Mapmaker
ENTJ

It's all rubbish, of course.

The underlying thought running through the ENTJ mind might be something like "I don't care if you call me an insensitive b*****d, as long as I remain an efficient b*****d".
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New Thu 24 Dec 15 11:36 
 Myers Briggs - whaddya think? What sort are you? - madf
ESTJ THE EXECUTIVE

Correct.
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