Myers-Briggs personality types -- and quiz

[Carol the Dabbler]

With me, it depends somewhat on who it is. If it's a family member, for example, I'm more likely to give emotional support, including hugs. If it's someone I'm not close to, my support is likely to be only verbal and fairly logical.

[T.o.b.y]

I got 54. Still not very high. I thought some of the questions were interesting; I wondered what they had to do with empathy. Would love to know more about the test and its design.

[Pseudonym]

Wow, you got way higher than the rest of us! 

[Carol the Dabbler]

No wonder you have trouble telling that leech at your office to do his own damn work!

[Arcadia]

 

Interesting how no one got much over 30. Makes me a bit suspicious.

Me too. Admittedly there don't seem to be a lot of touchy-feely people here on the forum, presumably because they're all out somewhere touching and feeling.

 

Ewwwwww. No wonder I prefer to stay home....

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Are Thinkers always presumed as heartless?

 

Not that I mind, at all, it's just that caring is not always showing, if that makes sense.

[Artemis]

INTJ.

 

I took the test in high school (19 yrs ago) and got I N/S T/J F/P...yes that is an I and everything else and the I was near 100% back then.

 

I tried as sherlock & got INTJ  67% 62% 75% 22% (respectively) & the first 2 paragraphs definitely describe Benedict's Sherlock.

 

 

Taking the test now, I come up as an INFP although the NFP are 12%, 25% and 33% respectively still making me essentially an I and everything else and the I is at 67%.  I process my feelings by thinking.  The Sherlock photo that's tagged with "I'm having an emotion" has my own caveat, "and if I figure out what it is, I might let you know some year." (Yes it can take me over a year to figure out an emotion or emotional state in a situation.)

 

^ Sounds a lot like me, except I am consistently INTJ.  I wouldn't say it's a dead-on description of me, though.  I relate to a few other types, like INFJ and INTP, and I come out moderately balanced in all the traits save Introversion, which is almost 100%.  My N/S percentage is always the closest to being even, though I don't see an overwhelming reflection of myself in ISTJ.

 

 

[Artemis]

http://www.psychology-tools.com/empathy-quotient

 

44.  Conflicts with the "above 30" rule, seeing as I'm on the Autistic Spectrum.  Perhaps I understood the questions in a way I wasn't meant to.

 

 

[Artemis]

BORED!!!

 

So: Enneagram Personality Test

 

What are yours?

 

I didn't retake this particular test (I took it a long time ago and have the results around somewhere), but I'm a type 5 (aka The Observer, The Thinker, The Investigator), 5 wing 6 (aka The Problem Solver, The Scientist), and my tritype is 512 (5w6, 1w2, 2w1).

 

 

Some stuff about my type:

 

"I need to understand the world."

 

Observers have a need for knowledge and are introverted, curious, analytical, and insightful.

 

How to Get Along with Me:

- Be independent, not clingy.

- Speak in a straightforward and brief manner.

- I need time alone to process my feelings and thoughts.

- Remember that if I seem aloof, distant, or arrogant, it may be that I am feeling uncomfortable.

- Make me feel welcome, but not too intensely, or I might doubt your sincerity.

- If I become irritated when I have to repeat things, it may be because it was such an effort to get my thoughts out in the first place.

- Don't come on like a bulldozer.

- Help me to avoid my pet peeves: big parties, other people's loud music, overdone emotions, and intrusions on my privacy.

 

What I Like About Being a FIVE:

- standing back and viewing life objectively

- coming to a thorough understanding; perceiving causes and effects

- my sense of integrity: doing what I think is right and not being influenced by social pressure

- not being caught up in material possessions and status

- being calm in a crisis

 

What's Hard About Being a FIVE:

- being slow to put my knowledge and insights out in the world

- feeling bad when I act defensive or like a know-it-all

- being pressured to be with people when I don't want to be

- watching others with better social skills, but less intelligence or technical skill, do better professionally

 

FIVEs as Children Often:

- spend a lot of time alone reading, making collections, and so on

- have a few special friends rather than many

- are very bright and curious and do well in school

- have independent minds and often question their parents and teachers

- watch events from a detached point of view, gathering information

- assume a p0ker face in order not to look afraid

- are sensitive; avoid interpersonal conflict

- feel intruded upon and controlled and/or ignored and neglected

 

FIVEs as Parents:

- are often kind, perceptive, and devoted

- are sometimes authoritarian and demanding

- may expect more intellectual achievement than is developmentally appropriate

- may be intolerant of their children expressing strong emotions

 

 

Some words that describe you: principled, moralistic, perfectionist, self-critical, generous, helpful, selfless, loving, intelligent, cerebral, questioning, perceptive, innovative, secretive, isolated

 

Type Five in Brief:

Being a Five means always needing to learn, to take in information about the world. Fives are alert, insightful, and curious. They are able to concentrate and focus on developing complex ideas and skills. Independent, innovative, and inventive, they can also become preoccupied with their thoughts and imaginary constructs. They become detached, yet high-strung and intense. They typically have problems with eccentricity, nihilism, and isolation. At their Best: visionary pioneers, often ahead of their time, and able to see the world in an entirely new way.

 

Basic Fear: Being useless, helpless, or incapable

Basic Desire: To be capable and competent

Key Motivations: Want to possess knowledge, to understand the environment, to have everything figured out as a way of defending the self from threats from the environment.

 

 

Scores (the highest score in any type is 8):

Type 1: 4

Type 2: 2

Type 3: 3

Type 4: 4

Type 5: 8

Type 6: 4

Type 7: 2

Type 8: 0

Type 9: 5

 

 

[Arcadia]

I recognize a lot of myself in that last one ... turns out I'm a type 5 too.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Hi Artemis,

Welcome fellow INTJ , apparently we are very rare outside but quite abundant in internet world.

I suspect it's because we don't really enjoy too much people interaction but enjoy discussions with like minded. At least that's me.

[Surelock]

Don't know if this belongs here but since our Speedy's thread is occupied for now ;)

 

Empathy test.I got 25 out of 80 :S

http://www.psychology-tools.com/empathy-quotient

 

Doesn't give you an in depth result unfortunately but still interesting to see the score.

 

I got 70 out of 80.

 

The funny thing is that I'm a pretty antisocial person. I don't go out much but I'm still good at reading people's mannerisms, behavioural patterns, vocal patterns etc. Maybe it's just because I analyse a lot of TV shows, movies, books etc?

[Pseudonym]

Wow, that's high compared to the rest of us. :D

[Surelock]

Maybe people here will do better in a straight out IQ test since we're all Sherlock fans.

 

When I google free IQ test, this is the first one that comes up:
http://www.free-iqtest.net/

What are you getting in it?  I got 138. 

 

I think it's funny how different online IQ tests can give you very different scores from one another. It makes me wonder how accurate these tests really are.

[J.P.]

Didn't take the ennagram test, but this:

How to Get Along with Me:
- Be independent, not clingy.
- Speak in a straightforward and brief manner.
- I need time alone to process my feelings and thoughts.
- Remember that if I seem aloof, distant, or arrogant, it may be that I am feeling uncomfortable.
- Make me feel welcome, but not too intensely, or I might doubt your sincerity.
- If I become irritated when I have to repeat things, it may be because it was such an effort to get my thoughts out in the first place.
- Don't come on like a bulldozer.
- Help me to avoid my pet peeves: big parties, other people's loud music, overdone emotions, and intrusions on my privacy.

sounds so like a user manual to me. It's so accurate, I might print it out and give to the people I meet for the first time.

 

[Artemis]

I think it's funny how different online IQ tests can give you very different scores from one another. It makes me wonder how accurate these tests really are.

 

Not at all accurate, to my understanding.  Moreover, "real", administered IQ tests are much different than online ones.

 

 

[Arcadia]

I got 136 on the IQ test, but I'm always suspicious of IQ tests. That one doesn't seem to be particularly in depth.

 

I wish they would explain some of the answers.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I've been all over the place on "real" IQ tests. So I wouldn't downgrade the online ones just on that account.

[Artemis]

I don't put much stock into any kind of IQ test, personally. I don't think it's a very good measure of intelligence, because intelligence by nature is very ambiguous and difficult to measure. To a large extent it's up for interpretation. I just meant that they're really two very different types of tests. Administered tests tend to be more expansive, covering a wider range of knowledge and abilities, while online IQ tests tend to only evaluate one type of logical reasoning.

 

As for myself, I've ranged anywhere between 126 and 158 (if I'm remembering correctly), depending on the type of test and period of my life. I suffered some brain damage in college, which dropped me to my lowest (it also tends to drop a bit with age). With some time I've managed to climb back up into the high 130's, but I'll never again be where I was at my best. In a sense I've had to relearn how to think; my brain processes differently now. Slower. It changed me.

 

But I've probably said too much, lol.

[Surelock]

Lucky you. Webbed fingers are quite handy for swimming. Unibrow on the other hand creates a bit of drag. So you are even, I think that is the only reason you are not in Olympic then.

 

I get 24, so less that sub human?

I don't have webbed fingers or unibrow though, just tremendous amount of scales.

 

Scores of 30 or less indicate a lack of empathy common in people with Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome.

Sounds good.

 

 

I got 26 and the possible ASD is quite accurate knowing some of the factors that are used to determine Autism (& related) Spectrum Disorder & that fact that I'm probably on it even though not formally diagnosed like my son johnspec.

 

 

Interesting how no one got much over 30. Makes me a bit suspicious. 

 

 

I got 30, so I guess I'm barely human.

 

 

 

Interesting how no one got much over 30. Makes me a bit suspicious.

Me too. Admittedly there don't seem to be a lot of touchy-feely people here on the forum, presumably because they're all out somewhere touching and feeling. But who's to say what constitutes "normal"?

 

I thought I was very empathetic when I answered the questions. Apparently not.

Yeah, me too! I was thinking, wow, I better not post my score on the forum, because it might make the others feel bad. (Isn't that empathetic?) And then they rate me a lousy 24.

 

Y'know, I think that may be partly because I rarely give a "strong" answer. I'll usually agree somewhat or disagree somewhat, because there are always exceptions. Maybe the graders are people who see everything in black and white. Must be so boring!

 

 

 

I got 54. Still not very high. I thought some of the questions were interesting; I wondered what they had to do with empathy. Would love to know more about the test and its design.

 

 

 

http://www.psychology-tools.com/empathy-quotient

 

44.  Conflicts with the "above 30" rule, seeing as I'm on the Autistic Spectrum.  Perhaps I understood the questions in a way I wasn't meant to.

 

 

 

As you all got fairly low on that emotional intelligence test, I have to ask: what kind of love life have you had?

 

Personally I'm terrible with women. I always end up saying or doing something that offends them. I also don't know how exactly you 'start' a relationship. In fact I don't even understand how many relationships 'end'.

 

I always try to find a logical approach to conducting activities but love is one of the few exceptions. It's like love doesn't have any logic. It's all random and nothing ever makes any sense. I always thought love was like an emotional drug. It's all fun and games until you snap out of it and find out what kind of unfortunate circumstances love can lead you to.

 

So yeah I've never been in a relationship and I'm like 23. My friends tell me I should 'start' but I don't even know how you start. 

 

[J.P.]

26. Honestly, I cannot imagine people above 50 being even functionable from all that feeling. :P

 

Surelock, welcome to my world. :D And I'm twice as old as you.

 

Have you ever asked yourself if you WANT a relationship?

 

Everyone, including therapists, were telling me, there must be something wrong with me because I didn't seem to want it. Without Sherlock, and where it took me on my search for sense in my life, I would still think they must be right.

[Van Buren Supernova]

157 but I think it's bluffing.

 

As you all got fairly low on that emotional intelligence test, I have to ask: what kind of love life have you had?

 

Personally I'm terrible with women. I always end up saying or doing something that offends them. I also don't know how exactly you 'start' a relationship. In fact I don't even understand how many relationships 'end'.

 

I always try to find a logical approach to conducting activities but love is one of the few exceptions. It's like love doesn't have any logic. It's all random and nothing ever makes any sense. I always thought love was like an emotional drug. It's all fun and games until you snap out of it and find out what kind of unfortunate circumstances love can lead you to.

 

So yeah I've never been in a relationship and I'm like 23. My friends tell me I should 'start' but I don't even know how you start.

 

I personally don't think you should start just because your friend suggest so. I'd like to think that those processes are natural, therefore I adapt lazy system that normally appears in those fancy scented paper with those mushy quotation: If it happens, it's meant to be. XD

 

I guess I'm very lucky because I barely tried. I don't think about those much. When peers around me busy falling or thinking about those, I was doing something else; pursued unusual hobbies, study or seizing up chances to go unusual places to do unusual thing for my age back then. When other dress to attract or having awareness, I don't. :p

The fact is, I was so clueless that beside not searching for it, I also wasn't aware with other's attentions and intentions, until they made it way too obvious, and then I ran. Quite literally. It's just weird to know others think of me that way when I don't. Maybe that is where I fail to empathize or understand.

 

But when it happened, it's kind of natural, we both equally bad in that area, maybe that's why it works and quite effortless. Even so, we don't lead 'normal' lives, stay apart to pursue our own things, but since we are so similar in our ways of thinking, it's not a problem.

 

But generally I am a solitary person, always hate to think that regardless what I have, I'll lose it one day. So I embrace Sherlock's solitarily, and keep hoping selfishly that it's always the case so that I know it's fine and always fine.

[Arcadia]

I don't think anyone in my family got into a "serious" relationship before we were 25 or so. Even my parents, back when. Just the way we're built. I always thought it was weird when 18-20 year olds were already married with kids! But I guess it was natural for them. Anyway, I'm kind of with VBS on this one ... it happens when it's supposed to.

[Surelock]

26. Honestly, I cannot imagine people above 50 being even functionable from all that feeling. :P

 

Surelock, welcome to my world. :D And I'm twice as old as you.

 

Have you ever asked yourself if you WANT a relationship?

 

Everyone, including therapists, were telling me, there must be something wrong with me because I didn't seem to want it. Without Sherlock, and where it took me on my search for sense in my life, I would still think they must be right.

 

So you're asexual? Your teenage years must have been easy for you.

 

I don't know if I want a relationship. Being attracted to someone doesn't necessarily mean you want one if you can't commit right?

 

I asked some of my friends on why people fall in love and they say it's because of the instinct to breed. However I'm not sure how that works with homosexuals.

[Surelock]

157 but I think it's bluffing.

 

As you all got fairly low on that emotional intelligence test, I have to ask: what kind of love life have you had?

 

Personally I'm terrible with women. I always end up saying or doing something that offends them. I also don't know how exactly you 'start' a relationship. In fact I don't even understand how many relationships 'end'.

 

I always try to find a logical approach to conducting activities but love is one of the few exceptions. It's like love doesn't have any logic. It's all random and nothing ever makes any sense. I always thought love was like an emotional drug. It's all fun and games until you snap out of it and find out what kind of unfortunate circumstances love can lead you to.

 

So yeah I've never been in a relationship and I'm like 23. My friends tell me I should 'start' but I don't even know how you start.

I personally don't think you should start just because your friend suggest so. I'd like to think that those processes are natural, therefore I adapt lazy system that normally appears in those fancy scented paper with those mushy quotation: If it happens, it's meant to be. XD

 

I guess I'm very lucky because I barely tried. I don't think about those much. When peers around me busy falling or thinking about those, I was doing something else; pursued unusual hobbies, study or seizing up chances to go unusual places to do unusual thing for my age back then. When other dress to attract or having awareness, I don't. :P

The fact is, I was so clueless that beside not searching for it, I also wasn't aware with other's attentions and intentions, until they made it way too obvious, and then I ran. Quite literally. It's just weird to know others think of me that way when I don't. Maybe that is where I fail to empathize or understand.

 

But when it happened, it's kind of natural, we both equally bad in that area, maybe that's why it works and quite effortless. Even so, we don't lead 'normal' lives, stay apart to pursue our own things, but since we are so similar in our ways of thinking, it's not a problem.

 

But generally I am a solitary person, always hate to think that regardless what I have, I'll lose it one day. So I embrace Sherlock's solitarily, and keep hoping selfishly that it's always the case so that I know it's fine and always fine.

 

 

 

I don't think anyone in my family got into a "serious" relationship before we were 25 or so. Even my parents, back when. Just the way we're built. I always thought it was weird when 18-20 year olds were already married with kids! But I guess it was natural for them. Anyway, I'm kind of with VBS on this one ... it happens when it's supposed to.

 

'If it happens, it's meant to be.'

 

I hear people say this at the start of a relationship. However they seem to forget all about it if their relationship ends. Have either of you experienced a breakup?

 

This is one reason I avoid relationships. It's a risky investment. So much time, money etc. If it all goes to hell in the end then it's all been for nothing. That's why I prefer logical scientific information on how to succeed with a relationship but people, therapists etc never provide that. It's always a bucnh of cheesey B movie quotes that can mean anything.