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fandomsecrets2014-02-10 06:55 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2014-02-10 06:55 pm
[ SECRET POST #2596 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2596 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]
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03.
[The Croods]
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04.
[Elementary]
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05.
[Final Fantasy XIII]
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06.
[SCP Foundation]
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07.
[Philip Seymour Hoffman]
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08.
[Twin Peaks]
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09.
[Richard Armitage]
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[Reign]
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11.
[The Hobbit]
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[Hunger Games]
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[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]
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[Teen Wolf]
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[Panic! at The Disco/Dallon Weekes]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 063 secrets from Secret Submission Post #371.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: sort of reliable Myer Briggs test?
Almost no one is perfectly "in" their MBTI type - everyone has at least one letter where they're closer to the middle than the end. For me, that's the P/J bit there. These are not meant to be absolutes, but merely a general indicator - they are a nudge in a helpful direction, not a compass or a map. (Or, for another analogy - most people are dominant in one hand, even as they generally use two/both...though some people are also ambidextrous).
However, most people do fit more firmly into the overall four temperaments, which are the Rationals (NT, or _NT_), Idealists (NF, or _NF_), Artisans (SP, or _S_P), and Guardians (SJ, or _S_J).
I wouldn't pay too much attention to the tests - they're a good place to get you started, but honestly once you start to learn the traits attached to each 'place'/letter, it's easier to effectively just 'self-diagnose' and go from there.
In terms of getting started or quickly dipping your toes in, this is a good place:
http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/
This is a more solid but quick run-down of the two sides of each of the four categories:
http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologicaltesting/a/myers-briggs-type-indicator.htm
And to help with the "self-diagnosing":
http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t-articl/mb-simpl.htm
If you want some grossly oversimplified questions to help you get onto the right direction...
For the Information category (N/S, or the first blank): When trying to gather information for something, do you like to focus on what is right in front of you ('hard data', the obvious, etc), or do you tend to extrapolate a lot and 'fill in the blanks' with your imagination? If you lean towards the former, that's S-heavy, but if you lean towards the latter, that's N-heavy.
For the Structure category (P/J, or the second blank): Do you prefer to plan ahead extensively and settled details, or do you prefer to leave your options open and go with the flow? The former is J, the latter is P.
Re: sort of reliable Myer Briggs test?
(Anonymous) 2014-02-11 02:35 am (UTC)(link)Re: sort of reliable Myer Briggs test?
If you are a Sensor - you work best with hard data, facts, and "what's right in front of you" - then more relevant to your personality will be what you do with the data you get, which is what the last category (P/J) is about. Because you focus on 'hard data', how you arrive at conclusions is not as important, so for SP/SJ types, that T/F in the middle is not as important.
If you're an Intuitive - you like to extrapolate things, explore ideas, etc - then a lot of the information you intake is 'imagination' (re: filling in the blanks with stuff from your own mind rather than looking primarily towards hard data). In that case, how you arrive at those ideas is more important, which is what the third category (T/F) is about. Because you are more theoretical, how you arrive at those conclusions is more important than what you end up doing with those conclusions.
In short, the last three categories are more about who you are as a person (how you generate ideas/how you think/"how you do", etc.). The first category, I/E, is more about how the personality derived from the other letters applies to the world and interacts with other people, so it's not all that relevant to the temperaments.
Re: sort of reliable Myer Briggs test?
(Anonymous) 2014-02-11 03:47 am (UTC)(link)