Mutable personality

Mutable personality April 25, 2012

I took a Jungian personality test today. You’ve probably taken one of these at some point – the Myers-Briggs is a popular and rather extensive Jungian types test. You answer a bunch of questions and wind up with a four letter code that tells you what kind of person you are.

I took a lot of these in college, but didn’t find them useful because my results varied each time. Here are the four spectra the test is supposed to measure:
Introverted v. Extroverted
Intuitive (N) v. Sensing
Feeling v. Thinking
Perceiving v. Judging
The only one of the four which I ever had fairly consistent results in was the second – I always test as an Intuitive. My scores on the other three categories were always borderline – so sometimes I would be marginally more Introverted and sometimes Extroverted, sometimes more Feeling and sometimes more Thinking, and I swung between Perceiving and Judging (probably because I was a Judger, but liked to think of myself as a Perciever).
So it was interesting to take one of these tests today, 8 years later, and get some very pronounced results.
YOUR TYPE
I N F P
Strength of the preferences %
78 38 50 11
So…I am still an Intuitive (the N), still borderline Thinker/Feeler, but I now test as strongly Introverted and very strongly a Perceiver. 
If you’re interested, here’s the typically florid set of generalizations these personality tests typically generate, as applied to the INFP type. Here’s the one for the INTP, which might actually fit me better, now that I read it through.
Still…I wonder why my results are so pronounced now? I’ve been told for years that I’m an extrovert (because I’m loud, I guess) and it’s interesting to try on the idea of being an introvert for size. My ‘public apology’ post from a few months back probably encapsulates pretty well why I don’t test as a Judge anymore. 🙂

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