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Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless
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| July 15, 2014
| Joseph Stromberg
Posted on 07/17/2014 8:52:34 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: MHGinTN
I favor the ancient Greeks quadrant approach (Galens four types: cholerics, melancholics, phlegmatics, and sanguines). Add that there only two types of humans (conscious and unconscious, relating to recognizing why they do what they do), and you have a very useful sorting system. Sorting system… four types… I know what this calls for:
…I got Hufflepuff.
😒
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posted on
07/17/2014 11:02:26 AM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: OneWingedShark
INTJ here.No, no - you can't be introverted if you volunteered that in public. ;)
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posted on
07/17/2014 11:31:25 AM PDT
by
no-s
(when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
To: NorthMountain
I can, but it’s unreasonable. It should have become burocrat long ago. This would also cause less confusion, since it would separate the buro office from the furniture bureau. See, “Tri-boro bridge” as an attempt to similarly change “borough” to “boro.”
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posted on
07/17/2014 11:38:59 AM PDT
by
dangus
To: no-s
He didn’t. He used an anonymous post.
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posted on
07/17/2014 11:39:29 AM PDT
by
dangus
To: EveningStar
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posted on
07/17/2014 11:42:31 AM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
To: dangus
Well ...
I disagree. A bureau is both an office, and a desk with drawers in said office ... typically a government office.
However ...
I could go along with spelling it “burro-crat” ...
To: NorthMountain
That’s just it... people rarely mean a desk when they say a bureau. Typically, they mean a set-of-drawers for clothes. If you mean a desk, by all means, lump it in with the office.
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posted on
07/17/2014 12:10:09 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: tbw2
>> Some personality types do better in different jobs. <<
I’d even be less direct, and say merely tat some personality types have an affinity towards skill sets useful in certain jobs.
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posted on
07/17/2014 12:11:18 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: EveningStar
INTJ
89,25,50,22
Totally me.
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posted on
07/17/2014 12:13:14 PM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: EveningStar
It is interesting to see the preponderance of admitted introverts using this measure who have posted to this thread.
"ENTJ" FReegards!
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posted on
07/17/2014 12:27:43 PM PDT
by
Agamemnon
(Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
To: no-s
I see.
You must be an
ENFP.
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posted on
07/17/2014 12:51:06 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: dangus
Oh - I thought he’d be an ISTP
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posted on
07/17/2014 12:52:07 PM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: reed13k
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posted on
07/17/2014 12:52:32 PM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: EveningStar
It’s useless because any self-respecting sociopath can fool a bunch of HR people.
To: 1rudeboy
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posted on
07/17/2014 1:57:58 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
To: Dr. Thorne
HEY...I WAS in HR....when it was a legitimate, USEFUL part of the management team....I quit...because it began to feel like I was working for the Government, and I hated it. Babysitting at times, too. Once sat with the Oregon Intel FAB site Director at a 6am meeting of mfg groups....he turned to me and said...”why are we here? to babysit?” Or something like that. That was the beginning of my decline in HR...INTEL had a manual 3 inches thick of “policies”....I once fired someone on night shift (drugs)...without telling my boss till a.m.....I almost got fired on THAT one....but, I did the right thing...and survived.
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posted on
07/17/2014 2:01:11 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods)
To: Veto!
I wish. I stumbled on it some time ago.
To: EveningStar
I’ve taken the test at least a dozen different times over 30+ years. Always come out clearly ISTJ - and the type information fits me pretty well. I think that the author is trying to read more into the test than it is meant for - it just points out personality tendancies, it can’t predict how anyone will act in a specific situation.
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posted on
07/17/2014 7:08:01 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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