Poll HN: What is your personality type?

Take note that the Big five, the other major personality typology, though more empirical, is not without problems either. http://differentialclub.wdfiles.com/local--files/personality...

I mean, as a generalization, as a very introverted person I sure as hell won't get along too well with a very extroverted person unless I really have to. Of course exceptions exist.

It's rather interesting though if I might add, to see how those insensitivities carry over to a logical environment like a weighted survey. The test is really simple, it's four weighted boolean elements, and a result.

That seems to engage people.

Are you also upset that there are only 2 genders for people? I mean, who is Biology to pigeon-hole us like that?

Joking aside, it's just a loose classification.

P.S. If you spend some time among people, it becomes clear there really aren't a million different "types" of people.

N=abstract thinker, likes ideas and concepts and big picture S=concrete thinker, likes real things and details

J=likes rules and systems and binary partitions P=thinks in terms of guidelines and heuristics and rules of thumb and grey areas.

Most programmers are Ns, but I have met quite a few DBAs who are Ss. I'm a P (could you tell) although close to the middle. I like to make the joke that Ps are always 5 minutes late, but don't think of that as being late ;)

Hope this helps.

J's are to-do list sorts of people, they enjoy finishing tasks, tend to "get a lot of stuff done", but can be stressed if there isn't a plan. P's prefer starting projects to finishing them, they tend to work off-the-cuff, probably appear to get less done, but are more capable of dealing with changing circumstances and priorities.

J/P: Judgement is about planning, making concrete decisions. Perception is leaving options open, doing things on the fly.

All joking aside, definitionally feelers are going to place higher weight on their personal feelings, which makes discussing technical subjects difficult, because they're less willing to evaluate different things on their merits alone.

We're going to need a ?N?P coalition — INFP, INTP, ENFP, ENTP — to retain a little space for some poetic truth and beauty on HN.

There are barely enough ?S?? here to be worth courting. They're probably out dancing and drinking themselves to death during prime HN submission/comment hours, anyway. But just in case any S are reading this, all I have to say to you is: herd immunity and antibiotic resistance are real things! Use some protection! (Ah, damn, that was a little J of me. Sometimes I put on a J or E mask, but it's just for laughs, honest.)

They are perfectly described by Miguel de Icaza in this article: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html

What is happening is that you can think of a personality profile as a vector in very high-dimensional space. MBTI presents a basis in a 4-dimensional subspace of that. How well it works for a particular person depends on how her personality aligns with that basis.

A lot people will test near the middle on the MBTI characteristics, and say that the test does not work for them. If most of the population is near the middle, statistical studies won't show much validation for MBTI either.

Now, none of that means that the test has little value -- it actually has a lot of value, but only for people who test at relatively high scores. For example, I generally test as either ENTP or INTP -- and since I'm near the middle of E/I scale, it does not tell much either way. my N, T, and P, however, are quite extreme (I've done quite a few of these, and not once have I had a case when my N or T score was not at the end of the range, P nearly there too) -- so the descriptions and advice for these types that I've seen have been quite relevant and helpful.

e.g.

http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/

(Not sure if this is a good example but... Google)