Curiosity got the best of me after reading the comments so I took the test--it says I'm a Mediator & we are only 4% of the population so often end up being (or feeling) misunderstood. The letters it gave me are INFP-T.

@Carin could you phrase that differently? I'm not following you!

@Pete66 The test results they gave me included those letters but I don't know what they mean. Mediator seems to be one of the names that they assign to the various categories of people. I never heard about this till today so you'd get a way better understanding of it from a quick computer search.

@Carin Oh dear! That was British humour based on your post about feeling misunderstood!

@Carin no problem I work in a team of mainly Eastern Europeans at the moment and find myself having to explain almost every joke I tell!

@Pete66 I'm sure it wouldn't have gone over my head face to face.

@Carin yes a lot is in the facial expressions!

Personality type is not a singularly defining attribute, i agree. Much more should be on a persons profile, but I have not personally come across this as a problem. Have you seen examples of this very often that you say this?

That's what INTJ means.
Introversion + Intuition + Thinking + Judging
Vision oriented. Quietly innovative. Insightful. Conceptual. Logical. Seeks understanding. Critical. Decisive. Independent. Determined. Pursues competence, improvement.

@BABSDAGGER yes. I would say roughly half of the profiles I've seen on ok cupid have this, usually preceded by the words "super rare". Sorry, but a self administered test taken on the internet doesn't mean all that much.

@SleeplessInTexas I believe this is what my test revealed these letters

Thirty years ago, the employees of the department I worked all took the Meyers Briggs as a team building exercise. My results determined me to be an ENTP. A couple years ago,, I was curious. It's said ones personality type never changes; but so much has changed in my life....in fact, nearly everything has changed., it seemed unlikely the results would be the same.if I retested at this stage of the game. I went online & also found the site "16 Personalities" and took their test. Results? ENTP.- The Debator. I guess it makes sense. No matter what experiences one has over the years, the heartwarmers and heartbreakers alike; no matter how circumstances change, an individuals core being remains. (or something like that...lol) I thought it interesting and read more about it. I watched a You Tube Video made by a young woman , who is from Finland. I felt like that girl, from the other side of the plant had been following me around my whole life, as she described to a T exactly the things that I hate....and have openly talked about forever. She described me to a T. It was freaky. I got a few of my friends to take the test. My friend Chuck was visiting me for a few days. He took the test. I printed his ESTJ results, and he declared, "I'm not interested. I don't care about that mumbo jumbo BS. It's all crap...and I am not wasting my time." I said, "Fine. No big deal." I put the papers in a folder, put the folder in my desk and I went to bed. I got up the next day. went to get something else from my desk and noticed the folder was gone. I saw it on the coffee table near the couch he had slept Amused, I asked, "Did you read that stuff?" In a bored voice, he said, "Yeah. It was just a bunch of BS." I said, "Okay." He looked at me and quickly said, "No. not okay. OMG...it was crazy. It described me totally. I could't believe it. How the hell do you do that?" I laughed & told him that ENTP described me as well...and I wasn't sure the formula used. I was seeing, for a time, a INFP male. When we first got together, he stated "The most important thing in a relationship is open, honest, communication. Then refused to talk to me. The Meyers Briggs laid out the problems that ENTP's & INFP's can encounter when trying to communicate. I thought that might help in resolving the conflict, but two people have to both make some sort of effort to have it work out. That didn't happen. I do feel it can be used to help to help people understand others.

Much in the popular realm is, just as you might as well blame dinosaur eggs for global warming, in the eyes of the ignorant masses. Original drafts not made up tho.

@neutralite The original made up documentation relies entirely on observations and memories. Fails even the most basic control.Cannot predict a result with accuracy. And,as it relies on the honesty of the subject interviewed, can't be proven.
I'm pretty strict with crackpot stuff. I fail it on first invalid piece to save wasting time on it.

Tests have false positive rates but the underlying psychology...a science...is real and actually quite advanced this century. There are competing methodologies like hexaco that are also quite credible at all.

If everything were poorly defined nothing would be distinguishable from anything else, labels give meaning and permanence to the world.

@BABSDAGGER "Meaning" is subjective, and there is NO "permanence" to anything, to this world, or anything related to it. All life is finite on this rock.

@KKGator I agree with you there are too many labels and they are so inaccurate I feel that labels are just a lazy way of dealing with things so you don't have to think for your self

@AmmaRE007 I think you are exactly correct. Slap a label on it and then you don't have to bother with any more examination.

Ditto!

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