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31 Mar 2012, 7:45 pm

Alexender wrote:
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the ennegream test is supposedly more accurate

That's what I've found to be true for myself. I've taken the MBTI multiple times and have come up with different answers each time, so I have found it to be unreliable. But with the Enneagram test, I get the same answer each time: 4w5, aka The Bohemian. I was floored when I read the description of this type, because it described my strengths and shortcomings with frightening accuracy. Additionally, I discovered that my favorite actor, Johnny Depp, allegedly shares my type, so that might explain why I feel so drawn to him and his work.


The only forsure thing on the myers briggs for me is the I and the T

Luckily myers briggs made it so all personality types fit everyone :lol:

Yeah, I agree. I don't understand why so many people on the autistic spectrum place so much faith in the Myers-Brigg test when it seemed so faulty to me. The Enneagram needs to be utilized more, in my humble opinion.



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31 Mar 2012, 8:26 pm

http://www.personality-and-aptitude-car ... tests.html

^^^ maybe why

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Well I took one of the enneagram & got a type5. Some strange questions though. One was about spelling & grammar.

Well I read THE OBSERVER & it sounds exactly like the one on MBTI INTJ. Just different wording.


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01 Apr 2012, 5:37 am

http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html

"Jung seems to have realized the limitations of his work and may not have approved of the MBTI had he lived to see it developed in his name. “My scheme of typology,” he noted, “is only a scheme of orientation. There is such a factor as introversion, there is such a factor as extraversion. The classification of individuals means nothing, nothing at all. It is only the instrumentarium for the practical psychologist to explain for instance, the husband to a wife or vice versa” (305)."

In other words for Jung this only a useful shorthand or mnemonic for remembering his patients features.

I'll post my usual line "MBTI is slightly more useful than a horoscope"

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