Re: CHAT: Myers-Briggs Types and stuff.

Mia Soderquist wrote:

> I am an INFP, for what it's worth. I think that's pretty accurate
> for me.
>
>  I am not sure how much stock I put in any kind of evaluations
> of personality or intelligence. I know some people say that IQ
> tests for kids are good indicators of future success, and that the
> genius working as a janitor is a myth, but that wasn't true for me,
> with very high scores, or my very "average" friends who went on to
> be successful in their fields. On personality tests, I wonder if
> sometimes it doesn't tell more about the kind of person you wish you
> were, rather than who you are... Though I think that it was generally
> agreed by friends and family that my Myers-Briggs results were
> pretty accurate.
The problem is all in how you go about making the test. If the test
is well designed, it should come to some close approximation of what
you act like.  But that's not all:  the person taking the test, whether
IQ, EQ (which are available on the internet, for anyone interested),
or Myers-Briggs, must approach the test with an open and honest
mind, and consciously evaluate him or herself.  If not, it will probably
lead to some error, but I would think that if the test is done well enough,
it might be able to fool those who would like to say what they want
to be rather than what they are.  (those who get X's on the MB tests
are probably (a) people who don't know themselves or (b) people
who want to cheat the test, so to speak.)

For anyone interested, here's a good online testing service:
<http://www.keirsey.com/cgi-bin/keirsey/newkts.cgi>


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