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10 Jan 2019, 3:31 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
I think the diagnostic power of a lot of tests breaks down when applied to us, because they're not designed for us. I've not messed with the Myers-Briggs thing much so I don't know what my type is, for some reason I've not been able to work up much faith in its ability to help me.


In the broadest sense, all 7+ billion people on Earth can fall into one of the categories, varied as well all are. (Is the individual more extroverted vs. introverted; more judgmental or perceptive, etc.)

That said, you raise a good point if such a test is truly applicable to the Aspies mindset, or if it was designed by NTs for NTs.



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10 Jan 2019, 6:42 pm

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I have an official ASS diagnosis.

On MBTI personality tests, I consistently come up as an INTP.

When I read a book about the INTP personality, I actually recognize myself much better than when I read a book about Autism. With this, I don't mean to say that I don't have ASS. Rather, I mean that the former gives a more detailed picture of what makes me tick than the latter!

So if I were you, I'd just take the test and verify if I recognized myself in the result.

I have a strong feeling it won't work for me, but maybe it won't waste too much time to find out.

Hmm......these are the only free versions I've found. Anybody know which (if any) of them are valid versions of the proper test?
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
https://www.truity.com/test/type-finder ... y-test-new
That last one isn't playing nicely with my browser, in that the headings don't line up with the response fields - I presume clicking the 3rd of the 5 possible response would indicate "neutral" ?

The first test doesn't allow a neutral response, which is one of the things I have against the AQ test, it's been said that such a forced-response approach compromises the quality of the result, and that seems very plausible to me.

I've noticed that some of these reductionist questionnaires, although they may give options to answer "yes definitely" or "yes a little" etc., giving the impression that they take into account the degree to which the client is saying yes or no, the scoring actually ignores that. If I remember right, the AQ test is an example. Does anybody know whether these tests are like that also? Not wishing to rain on the parade here, and I get that the idea is to take the test and see if the result sounds like me, so in a sense it doesn't matter what I think of its diagnostic power, it's just that I'd rather pick a version that doesn't put my back up too much from the start.



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10 Jan 2019, 7:04 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
Hmm......these are the only free versions I've found. Anybody know which (if any) of them are valid versions of the proper test?
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
https://www.truity.com/test/type-finder ... y-test-new
That last one isn't playing nicely with my browser, in that the headings don't line up with the response fields - I presume clicking the 3rd of the 5 possible response would indicate "neutral" ?


I'm familiar with mostly the first one (https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test).

I would very much recommend it.

ToughDiamond wrote:
The first test doesn't allow a neutral response


Yes it does :

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It does recommend to try to not to leave any neutral answers, though, because the more neutral answers you give, the harder it is to give a reliable picture. But if you really can't choose between "disagree" or "agree" whatsoever, there still is the possibility to pick the neutral grey dot in the middle.



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10 Jan 2019, 10:52 pm

^ Thanks. There is no grey dot when I view either the web page or the picture of it that you posted. But I persevered and noticed that when I moved my mouse pointer over this invisible grey area, it turned into a hand just like it does when it's over the coloured circles. Best guess, my computer screen is showing the grey dot as white which naturally fooled me into thinking there was no response in the centre.

So, neutral answers can be given. The problem now would be to actually answer them without giving "too many" neutrals. Not exactly a forced-response test, maybe a nudged-response test would be a better description. I guess the test must assume that nobody is ever neutral in any of the four traits, and could reveal nothing about a client who was. So let's hope that won't happen.

A cursory glance at the questions suggests I won't find them easy to answer, as they seem to be just the kind to elicit a neutral response from me as the only honest answer, yet I'm urged not to do that and to rush the test. The AQ test wouldn't allow neutral answers at all, so for those questions that honesty dictated I give one, I would err first on one side, and then on the other, in order to cancel out the obvious differences between the answers I felt were accurate and the answers I gave, though of course I had to know what the questions were probing in order to know which side was which, if you see what I mean. I can't do that here because I'm not familiar with the constructed traits, but it allows neutral answers, so I can but give it a try. I suspect it'll take me longer than the prescribed 12 minutes though. I might have to make some inquiries to decide how to answer some of them precisely enough for them to be of any value.



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11 Jan 2019, 12:21 pm

Sometimes I'm, sometimes I'm not. I'd just tend to conclude that I'm lucky and hitting the right times and places, than intuitive and had been on the 'right track'.


I'm definately an 'I', but the rest can become less clear.

I might as well have a 40/60 odds of N/S. 50/50 with T/F, 40/60 with J/S... Rounded. A/T is 60/40.
And there were only 2 neutral answersat most, fewer 'slightly' agree/disagree or 'weaker' answers...


Without any tests, I may conclude myself 'formless'.


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