Myers-Briggs claims another victim

[dreamshark]

I've always figured I was an ENTP, and this latest test confirms it. I'm not sure I ever took an actual MBTI before. I just read a book called Myers Briggs in the Workplace with great attention, and by the time I was done with that I had very little doubt where I fit on all the scales. At the time I figured I was a high N, a very high T, and pretty close to the middle on the other two scales. This was shortly after I had been transferred from Software Development to System Test. I've been in Test ever since, and as the years have gone by I've felt myself slipping further and further down the scale from N to S (from abstract to concrete, more or less). I still LIKE theory, but when you're a tester you get really tired of hearing theoretical reasons why the bad behavior you're reporting isn't really a bug, and the next thing you know you're snapping, "Look, it either works or it doesn't. I don't care why you coded it that way!" Sure enough, I seem to be much closer to the middle of that scale than I used to be. There is, I believe, some controversy in Myers-Briggs circles about whether scores can change over a lifetime or whether they should represent inborn, unchangeable temperament. I believe that basic temperament is inborn, but personality changes over time, and the MB measures both.

Anyway, here's my score:

ENTP - "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 5% of the total population.

Extroverted (E) 52.78% Introverted (I) 47.22%
Intuitive (N) 52.94% Sensing (S) 47.06%
Thinking (T) 75% Feeling (F) 25%
Perceiving (P) 58.06% Judging (J) 41.94%

And here's the link: Take Free Myers Briggs Test

Incidentally, what I REALLY want everybody who takes this test to report is: how did you fill in that field on the first page asking you to "Write a uniquely relevant test question which would identify someone with your personality?"

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[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Doh?