Myers Briggs

[Inkubus]

Revisited:

Did you know that everyone, even the blandest and most useless among us, has a personality made up of four components? It’s the differing amounts of these four components that determine who you are, what you value, and what you should have done with your life when you had the chance. Learn more about these four personality spectrums below!

https://sixminutetest.com/test

UPYCs are a diverse group, ranging from inconsiderate social outcasts with no observable emotional intelligence, to toxic instigators who feed off the hostility spread by their own secretive manipulations, to drunken buffoons who take any night on the town as an invitation to perform an impromptu raspberry-vodka-fueled mock striptease next to their Buffalo Wild Wings booth.

[rocinantexyz]

The Soot-Caked Ragamuffin
LPYA (Lovable Parasite Persnickety Antichrist)
Weary, Bedraggled, Sad, Putrid

[Inkubus]

Self-Employed Essential Oils Sales Rep

[Fireball]

UBYC (Unlovable Barnacle Persnickety Christ), though they got the acronym wrong. The Karaoke Vetoer is an apt description of me, though. That shit is stupid. 

[Aliza]

The 46-Year-Old Who Bought DJ Equipment

LBYC (Lovable Barnacle Persnickety Christ)

Adorable
Clueless
Enthusiastic
Pitiable

[brewerb]

I didn't like mine and I took it 4 times. I'm not playing anymore!

[c172]

The Soot-Caked Ragamuffin
LPYA (Lovable Parasite Persnickety Antichrist)
Weary
Bedraggled
Sad
Putrid
While all personality types have their weaknesses, The Soot-Caked Ragamuffin is unique for having by far the most. Commonly found eating alone in the rear booth of a diner, silently spinning around on a tire swing across the recess yard from everyone else, or actively cowering, those with the LPYA personality type tend to exist on the outermost social fringes due to their extreme meekness and disreputable nature.

Feeble, skittish, and likelier than not to be coated in filth, the LPYA would likely elicit sympathy for their overall wretched presence if only they didn’t first elicit disgust and nausea. Soot-Caked Ragamuffins often find it difficult to maintain relationships with anyone other than their fellow Soot-Caked Ragamuffins, as no other personality type would ever be willing to sacrifice social standing by interacting with someone who lacks any idea how to engage in a conversation that doesn’t center around their various allergies, favored fantasy card game, pet snake, or the robot warriors they like to draw in their notebook.

However, despite their lack of any particular talents or prospects for the future, Soot-Caked Ragamuffins maintain an admirable level of determination that helps them eke their way through life. Indeed, although such instances are rare, LPYAs do occasionally succeed in obtaining the meagerest scraps of what others take for granted—be it an entry-level job or a single date with a fellow human being—which instills them with just enough hope to struggle through another demeaning day. While they’re most often seen by others as useless, heartbreaking, or untreatably diseased, LPYAs know deep down that they are scrappy fighters who will make the best of the few miserable cards they were dealt or die alone in their bare studio apartments trying.

Common career paths for LPYAs:

Busboy
Off-Track Bettor
Adjunct Professor
Washington Generals Point Guard
Airport Masseuse
Famous LPYAs


Sylvia Plath


The Cleveland Browns


Slimer


Barry Goldwater


Detroit


Randy Quaid


Sears


Frankenstein's Monster


Gary Coleman


Tonya Harding

[Cavebear]

Revisited:

Did you know that everyone, even the blandest and most useless among us, has a personality made up of four components? It’s the differing amounts of these four components that determine who you are, what you value, and what you should have done with your life when you had the chance. Learn more about these four personality spectrums below!

https://sixminutetest.com/test

UPYCs are a diverse group, ranging from inconsiderate social outcasts with no observable emotional intelligence, to toxic instigators who feed off the hostility spread by their own secretive manipulations, to drunken buffoons who take any night on the town as an invitation to perform an impromptu raspberry-vodka-fueled mock striptease next to their Buffalo Wild Wings booth.

That became really stupid real fast. Most of the questions needed a "not applicable". What drunk frat boy came up with that one? As far as the actual Meyers/Briggs personality test goes, best recollection says I am an INTJ. For a few months, we all had to keep foldy cards on our desks so that others would know how to deal with us. That ended when we all decided 1) Boss was an idiot (Whatever worst intitials a boss could have) and 2) we didn't pay any attention to the initials when dealing with others. We were what we were.

There was also a red/green/blue test. Red was controlling, green was analytic, blue was loyal. You took it imagining the normal workday. Then you took it imaging a stressful day. The point was to see the difference. The instructor met with each of us afterwards. He told me I was the deepest green in regular situations, but also almost the deepest red under stress. And showed the greatest change. I could have told him that without the test, LOL!

There was a circle in the center of the triangle. Some people stayed there in regular and stress. I'm not sure I understand people who can't change like that. But it was interesting...

[Inkubus]

Cavebear, it's satire. As for the validity of the real Myers Briggs test, it was discredited many years ago. It's bollocks.

[pattylt]

When our laboratory had to do the MB test, our lab manager excitedly announced that Lisa was the best for planning our parties.

Lisa has been doing the lab parties for about 15 years at that point. Everyone’s initials became a sincere case of Captain Obvious. After the week was up, we went on our merry way working together as we had since day one. When you have to work closely with people every day, figuring out how best to work with them happened long before MB had its moment of fame.

[Inkubus]

I got a PM informing me of that post from MyBB Engine.

Whoever they are.

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A ghost in the machine.

[Cavebear]

Cavebear, it's satire. As for the validity of the real Myers Briggs test, it was discredited many years ago. It's bollocks.

Maybe not. I noticed that the coworkers I understood best had the closest initials to me. INTJ people were the ones I considered "not idiots". The ones with the most initial differences were always the ones who seemed to come "from Mars". I could never quite understand their approch to life.

My opposite initial coworkers had some "vague view" of math, or rational writing, and I'm sure I confused them all to hell and back.

One opposite didn't understand "weighted averages" and that was basically what her job was to measure (people per square foot). When I was Acting Branch Manager, I discovered her error and reported it upwards to correct it. She went nuts! I was of course mathematically
correct, but her main scream was that I was "disloyal". She was my opposite in the initials.

[Inkubus]

Maybe yes.

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a pseudoscientific self-report questionnaire that claims to indicate differing "psychological types"

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[Cavebear]

Maybe yes.

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a pseudoscientific self-report questionnaire that claims to indicate differing "psychological types"

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Is "self-report" necessarily inaccurate?  I ask because I am very honest on stuff like that.  I want to get a good answer to personality tests.  Oh sure, I could make any personality I wanted, but I really do try to be honest hopiNg for useful information.

I just took a Myers-Brigg  online test, and it gave me an INTJ (no surprise there).  If I am being honest (and I think I am). how inaccurate can it be.  Results for me have been very consistent for over 30 years.

[pattylt]

I got a PM informing me of that post from MyBB Engine.

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Inkubus,

pattylt has just replied to a thread which you have subscribed to. This thread is titled Myers Briggs....

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A ghost in the machine.

Seriously?  First, I didn’t use the reply feature and second, I said nothing about a ghost in the machine!  WTF?

[Inkubus]

Have you read the article?

Despite its popularity, it has been widely regarded as pseudoscience by the scientific community. The validity (statistical validity and test validity) of the MBTI as a psychometric instrument has been the subject of much criticism. Media reports have called the test "pretty much meaningless", and "one of the worst personality tests in existence". The psychologist Adam Grant is especially vocal against MBTI. He called it "the fad that won't die" in a Psychology Today article. Psychometric specialist Robert Hogan wrote: "Most personality psychologists regard the MBTI as little more than an elaborate Chinese fortune cookie...". Nicholas Campion comments that this is "a fascinating example of 'disguised astrology', masquerading as science in order to claim respectability".

Accuracy and validity

[Inkubus]

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Inkubus,

pattylt has just replied to a thread which you have subscribed to. This thread is titled Myers Briggs....

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A ghost in the machine.

Seriously?  First, I didn’t use the reply feature and second, I said nothing about a ghost in the machine!  WTF?

Opps sorry. That was cut from the pm I received It wasn't intended as a reply to your post. I bunged it in for curiosity sake.

"A ghost in the machine" was my comment on it.

Sorry for the confusion.

[pattylt]

All’s good…

I think the test is bunk, too. Someone made a great pitch to managers about it though and probably made a bunch of money.

[Inkubus]

All’s good…

I think the test is bunk, too.  Someone made a great pitch to managers about it though and probably made a bunch of money.

Aye, managers are great ones for fads, bollocks and bullshit. Remember the team motivators in the 80s? When bullshit took over

Over the course of 10 two-day sessions, staff were instructed in new concepts, such as “the law of three” (a “thinking framework that helps us identify the quality of mental energy we have”), and discovered the importance of “alignment”, “intentionality” and “end-state visions”. This new vocabulary was designed to awake employees from their bureaucratic doze and open their eyes to a new higher-level consciousness. And some did indeed feel like their ability to get things done had improved.

But there were some unfortunate side-effects of this heightened corporate consciousness. First, according to one former middle manager, it was virtually impossible for anyone outside the company to understand this new language the employees were speaking. Second...

Same with polygraphs:

Despite claims that polygraph tests are between 80% and 90% accurate by advocates, the National Research Council has found no evidence of effectiveness.Wiki

[brewerb]

I love when I hear the christian polygraph argument that claims to prove all atheists believe in god. Lets me know just how ignorant and/or desperate they are.