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    Default Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

    For the training I have attended during the last week I also made a rather detailed MBTI test.

    Have any other patrons also takes this test at any occasion?

    What type were you (I am ISFJ)?

    Any opinions on the value of this test (perhaps also from the "Shrink of the Org" )?

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    ohh i remember doing this, forgot what i was.

    Grizz is INTP.
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    ENTJ I am prime management material, baby.
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    INTJ yeah science and engineering! 1% of the population.

    Reading the intj description I'm always amazed by how accurate it is.

    Famoush intj's

    Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
    General Colin Powell, US Secretary of State
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    For those wondering what the letters mean:

    http://skepdic.com/myersb.html

    Boy, they've come a long way from the 70/80's when they used the 4-hours-to-fill-out MMPI (Minnestota Multiphasic Personality Inventory). I once tried to "game" that test, once I detected that they used the same questions, re-worded, repeatedly. Gave different answers each time.

    Didn't work. They caught on and made me take it again. Just goes to show clever does not necessarily = smart. :)
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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan
    For those wondering what the letters mean:

    http://skepdic.com/myersb.html

    Boy, they've come a long way from the 70/80's when they used the 4-hours-to-fill-out MMPI (Minnestota Multiphasic Personality Inventory). I once tried to "game" that test, once I detected that they used the same questions, re-worded, repeatedly. Gave different answers each time.

    Didn't work. They caught on and made me take it again. Just goes to show clever does not necessarily = smart. :)
    Hm ... does that mean people actually use it for hiring/evaluation purposes?

    Just asking because my understanding from the communication training for which we took the test was, that the MBTI should never be used for categorization of people e.g., for hiring.
    It should rather be a help to better understand your own personal approach in communications and problem solving (as compared to other people)

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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan
    Boy, they've come a long way from the 70/80's when they used the 4-hours-to-fill-out MMPI (Minnestota Multiphasic Personality Inventory).
    I work in a psych ward where this is still used. I took it myself as part of training and it said I was slightly paranoid. I'm not taking that too seriously since some of the questions were like, "Do you take news at face value?" or something like that (it's been awhile).

    I forget my MB type, but I remember disagreeing with it.

    I've used it though for an 8 session class on stress management for an ASAP program for the military and the patients typically found it accurate and useful.

    The psych ward where I currently work in now also uses the ACL alot, which I'm not a big fan of.
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