Mary Arline ([info]queen_of_kithia) wrote,
@ 2008-11-16 18:23:00
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Entry tags:ideas, miscellaneous, quizzes, self-analysis

Type and Temperament
I should be working on my seminar paper, but I'm waiting for some materials to become available through Interlibrary Loan. In the meantime, since I know everyone enjoys polls and memes and things, I would like to invite you all to participate in a little experiment:

Poll #1298615 Personality Type and Temperament
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

First, please take the Skeletus Personality Test. When you get your results, please enter the four-letter code for your personality type.

Second, please find the description of your personality type among these portraits. How accurate do you find the description of your personality type as it applies to you?

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Extremely accurate
3 (33.3%)

Somewhat accurate
6 (66.7%)

Not very accurate
0 (0.0%)

Extremely inaccurate
0 (0.0%)

David Keirsey took Myers-Briggs' 16 personality types and organized them into 4 temperaments. According to Keirsey, if your type includes both Sensing and Judging (S/J) preferences, you are a Guardian; if your type includes both Sensing and Perceiving (S/P) preferences, you are an Artisan; if your type includes both iNtuition and Feeling (N/F) preferences, you are an Idealist; if your type includes both iNtuitive and Thinking (N/T) preferences, you are a Rational. Based on your SPT results, please choose your temperament from Keirsey's four categories.

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Guardian
2 (22.2%)

Artisan
1 (11.1%)

Idealist
5 (55.6%)

Rational
1 (11.1%)

For some reason, Keirsey's website won't let me link directly to each temperament description, so please find your temperament among his overview and read its description: how accurate do you find the description of your temperament as it applies to you?

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Extremely accurate
4 (44.4%)

Somewhat accurate
4 (44.4%)

Not very accurate
1 (11.1%)

Extremely inaccurate
0 (0.0%)



I said this was an experiment; my hypothesis is that, while Guardians are the most plentiful temperament according to Keirsey, that they are going to be the least represented group among my friends and/or people who read my LiveJournal.

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[info]eofs
2008-11-17 12:37 am UTC (link)
So of course the first person to come along has to be a Guardian ;0)

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[info]queen_of_kithia
2008-11-17 01:07 am UTC (link)
Well, that's why you do experiments, isn't it?
;)

You know, I wish I'd included a question about people's numerical scores for each individual preference, because sometimes the preferences are very slight, and yet if it's in the right dimension it can result in a radically different temperament result.

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[info]eofs
2008-11-17 01:13 am UTC (link)
Mmm. Mine were +10, +4, +10, +10 fwiw. Dunno what that's out of.

I do think you'll get mostly Is though, with a mixture of the rest of the letters. Might have been interesting to do on the SB back in the day that we had a slightly larger populace.

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[info]queen_of_kithia
2008-11-17 03:43 am UTC (link)
I think that it's out of 50, and then the entire spectrum would be a scale of 100; I'm not absolutely sure, but another version of the test presents each of the results visually on an X-axis, so that's what makes me think so.

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[info]ilyeana
2008-11-17 04:40 am UTC (link)
Actually I cheated and didn't take the test you linked to because I have taken the actual Myers-Briggs multiple times in the past and that is what I got there. Also, hey, we have the same personality type!

I love reading personality type portraits. The first one you linked to (the specific INFP one as opposed to general Idealist one) is a FREAKISHLY accurate description of me on all but a couple counts (but not all, which is why it got "somewhat accurate"). It's just fascinating that something can spit out some typologies that describe someone's personality so accurately.

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[info]queen_of_kithia
2008-11-17 05:54 pm UTC (link)
What up, sister INFP! I had you pegged for an Idealist, but it's usually (though not always) easier for me to figure out a person's type if I've had a chance to observe them in person.

I don't find Keirsey's type profiles very helpful because they're based on behavior rather than cognitive and emotional function (and some people's behavior is radically at odds with who they really are), but I find the temperaments useful for trying to figure out people's Myers-Briggs type because it narrows the field down from 16 down to four. It's interesting, though, because sometimes, like you said, the MBTI type portraits are freakishly accurate for some people, but then some people are so well-rounded (or perhaps I should say even-tempered) that several profiles kind of apply but none of them seem to really fit.

I almost always score INFP, but I've also scored INFJ and ISFP. Interestingly enough, I actually find the Myers-Briggs portrait for ISFP slightly more accurate for me than the INFJ, even though according to Keirsey that throws me into an entirely different temperament (which I don't find very accurate to me at all). I do find both Myers-Briggs' and Keirsey's INFP portraits to be the most accurate for me though.

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[info]hobben
2008-11-17 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Another Guardian here, but that's not terribly surprising, knowing me.
(I(+6) - S(N)(+0) - T(+16) - J(+16))

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[info]nemi_darke
2008-11-17 06:19 pm UTC (link)
I keep taking every one of these that I find (and it's always been INTP) cus you never know, some day that might have suddenly changed, somehow.... but not today :P

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[info]petra_aishae
2008-11-17 09:49 pm UTC (link)
well im an idealist it says- i think they got some of it right but not all. for example ive never started something big or started an idea and never finished it.

but the first one got more right than the second.not exact though....

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[info]nemi_darke
2008-11-17 10:47 pm UTC (link)
Eh, I'd say the auctions and collections you used to do counts as "something big"....

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[info]petra_aishae
2008-11-18 09:40 pm UTC (link)
yeah but i finished them, i didnt start em and forget about them. i might not be able to do it right at this moment but each auction itself i finished i mean.
mind you looking at my desk - i started to sew beads on a neckline of a top and never finished it. i lost the flippin beads i waited too long

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[info]bluealoe
2008-11-18 11:01 pm UTC (link)
I'm an INFJ, which I've always gotten when I take the Myers-Briggs test. I really didn't like the Skeletus test, though, because there were only two options for each question, and for most of them I thought both answers were right, or that it depended on the situation. And I didn't understand half the questions, anyway. It's hard for me to take these types of tests, because they're so simplified; the real world, and real personalities, are most complicated than that.

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[info]queen_of_kithia
2008-11-19 02:51 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I don't remember taking the actual Myers-Briggs, but all the online versions that I've found just have two choices for each answer.

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