I'll be checking this out. Being an INTP I may not talk to everyone about it...Kidding!

I took one of those 4 letter personality tests at work. My main objection was that there was no "you are a miserable little prick and impossible to work with" description. We had several on the team who would fit that , but yet they came up with some upbeat little picture of themselves as "challenging".

There are as many personality types as there are individuals. The groupings never made sense to me.

Appropo to any "test" that might guide singles towards "compatible" mates here has not worked so far for me.....my fantasy is to be "chosen" for marriage like Jane chose Bernie on election night victory party Mayor in Vermont. ....all my posts herein have merely entertained a few none chasing my spread of Atheist Peacock Feathers

I tend to agree. When purported psychological instruments are used, we need to take real care that they really measure what they claim to and that the descriptors they use have merit.

For the ex-churched, this reminds me of the usefulness of Spiritual Gifts inventories. It's amazing how people's spiritual gifts always turned out to simply be the things they enjoyed doing already...

HAAAhAAA. Basically, I am an average (right in the 50's, give or take 10) in just about everything, except neuroticism, which is high. Well, I guess that's where my diagnoses come in it was fun though

58 - Extraversion/50 - Agreeableness/40 - Conscientiousness/54 - Neuroticism/94 - Openness to Experience

It's an interesting test.

Personally, I like the MBTI because taking it every few years has lead to a valuable insight into myself. It constantly tells me that I am supposed to be an introvert, but that's not what it is really saying. It says I act like an introvert and I'm miserable and I need more people in my life and when I can honestly take the MBTI and it says I'm an extrovert, I'll probably be happy, because I'll be just a little extraverted like this test says.