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[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

I'm curious...do any other systems find the online "personality profiles" completely bizarre? I'm always wondering, who was this talking about?

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[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Online personality profiles? I'm not sure I've heard of this...

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

they are usually run around LJ as meme-type things...a common one is the myers brigg personality profile, which is also an actual paper test that can be administered, usually by companies when they are hiring.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, those. We took one of those out of a book back when we were in high school, though I don't remember what result we got. As a rough guide to someone's general tendencies, I guess they can be useful, but they shouldn't be taken (IMO) too seriously.

[karma-silenced.livejournal.com]

We all take them separately and then SPAM our lj with them! MUAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
J/K
Seriously... those things aren't very accurate. They ask the wrong questions! Haha...

[familiasystem.livejournal.com]

We did one 3 times... once for Alixx, Ali, and myself... it's just silly fun, no one should take them seriously.

-Rana

[withfangs.livejournal.com]

Max loves them, mostly because they're usually inaccurate where he's concerned.

He has a strange sense of humor, what can I say?

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

They're completely incorrect, but what do you mean by, "Who was this talking about"?

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Just before I acknowledged definitely that what I was sensing around me was not imaginary but actual people, I had to take a series of career tests including a Myers-Briggs. What I remember is trying to be fair to my "feeling-images" and count their preferences as well as my own. I have my records somewhere, I don't remember what profile I got, but the career test gals weren't put off -- didn't act as if the profiles looked weird or anything.

[etana.livejournal.com]

i hate those becuase I have so many answers to them. I am usually (as a collective) an INFJ or an ENFJ but somethings and INFP or an ENFP or something.....and there are other combinations. People are always saying "but you're so shy" or "but you are sucha people-person" it makes it hard for us to get close to anyone.

We hate them. Hate em. Strong feelings on these :)

[idianshire.livejournal.com]

Oh I have such an issue with the 'serious" personality tests like that. As if who you are can fit into neat little boxes and be examined quantatively. Although I admit, since I am training to be a qualitative researcher I do have a bias.

With that said people here like taking those online tests, they are fun (esp ones with neat pictures *giggle*) but hardly anything more than a bit of fluff to waste away the hours when we are meant to be studying

[manifold]

We've found them useful only in the sense that we can all take the same Myers-Briggs test, separately, with different questions if necessary, and our individual scores will be different-- which, for some reason, did help with some in our immediately family coming to acknowledge our separateness. For instance, the fact that Potega came up as ENFP while Milgram is scored as INTJ seemed to give them permission to accept that Potega is not the withdrawn inflexible workaholic that Milgram can be at times, that he is a different person who will act differently.

On the other hand, that might be because of the near religious authority "psychological tests" hold in this family. And it's terrible at acknowledging that the behavior of individual people can vary widely without them becoming completely different. I may be less social some days based on my mood than on other days, but I'm still the same person.

It also doesn't allow for any grey area, as well. Someone In-System Who Will Remain Anonymous once took the test in an online version that showed point-for-point how each answer tallied, and was only on one side or the other of all four sections by two or three points. God forbid if there was a tie; what would the answer be then? "I'm sorry, you have no personality! Game over, try again"?