Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Are the Myers-Briggs Personality Tests B.S.?

I am a planner and the tests support that observation. I went on a family vacation to Disney some years ago. I bought a Disney guide book. I laid out a game plan for the entire 5 day visit. I got called everything from "militant" to "anal" leading up to the vacation, but afterwards everyone was amazed at how smoothly things went.

I hope you worked that taco buffet in Frontier Land into your itinerary

Stripper's can guess your "sign" within five minutes of meeting you.

I am a walking personality test.
Like Randall Murphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I will always wind up with everyone's cigarettes.
I can tell exactly what kind of person I am dealing with, and what they are thinking and feeling.


I believe this trait comes from medieval European Jews having more children if they loaned money only to those who were low risk.

Sweetness did part of her masters on Myers-Briggs and has done national and international lectures on the subject. All her research is published and at Florida State University in Gainesville, so no, it isn't BS. Being in industrial sales having that kind of background was a tremendous aid to understand how people make decisions. We had a pretty interesting off shoot of MB that divided personality types into four squares. Driver, Expressive, Analytical and Amiable. You could subdivide those four squares into four smaller squares showing people who had tendencies more like those other personality types like an expressive amiable. No one square is better or smarter than another one, but knowing for instance that the guy across the desk is a driver driver corner case, (think a Vince Lombardi type) you had best skip the small talk or you will get thrown out on your ear. Dealing with an analytical engineer and you had best show up with a bunch of documentation to support your case. Knowing how people are likely to arrive at a decision sure gives you a leg up on how it will be best to deal with them.

As I posted in the other thread, after the first 30 minutes I ever spoke to the lady who now is my fiance, she told me that I was an ENFJ. A what? She then explained. I took the test, and she was correct. It's not the end-all, be-all, but I don't think it's BS either.

My older boy, for his HS psych class, tested as an INTP on two sites, but the P was inconsistent with what I knew about him. I asked him to try the 16P site, and he tested definitively as an INTJ, which clearly is what he is.