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07:29, 2008-Mar-4 .. Posted by jeremy

I get these tests, but I am always suspicious that they're intrinsically deterministic; in the sense that you have to arrive at a preconceived destination. There is no "don't care" option, or even better an option for 'yes' 'no and 'I don't accept the premise of the question.

I am suspicious because it seeks to categorise and create sets which isn't much the case in human life. It is a problem then because very often I find myself not really agreeing with either option but being forced to choose one anyway which is evidently going to push me into one of the sets rather arbitrarily.

It is like (for example) the question that "you trust reason rather than feelings", because I cannot say with confidence that I do or that I don't, I guess I use a synthesis of the two, but since I must choose one over the other I am determined to be of a particular typology. At least half the questions I found to be highly ambiguous in this way.

Or the question "you often do jobs in a hurry" which is all very well, but if I am in a hurry, I do jobs in a hurry, if I am not, I don't, so which do I choose. I cannot imagine that when the majority of the questions are of this deterministic type then my result cannot be particularly reliable.

Or, how about "You frequently and easily express your feelings and emotions", I can easily express them, but I don't do it frequently, so which is it?

That said, I am an INFP apparently, which I am sure means that I'm an annoying git :)

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07:34, 2008-Mar-4 .. Posted by heidiland

I like the "short & sweet" generality of it. It doesn't encompass the entirety of the spectrum, but it's a nice little snack.

And I LOOOOOVE snacks! Yay!

Pay me no mind. Too much cold medicine.

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06:58, 2008-Mar-12 .. Posted by bitzky

There is actually quite wide criticism of Meyer-Briggs.

Our employer organized such tests for us. I answered B on all 76 questions. I wonder what they are thinking of me...