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Fucking Myers-Briggs, The useless piece of shit that everyone loves....

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by ZombieSquirrel, May 28, 2015.

  1. ZombieSquirrel

    ZombieSquirrel Brrrrrrrains

    Location:
    Oregon by way of "Oh-hi-ya"
    There are only 4 letters that I care about F.U.C.K. Is that a personality label? Fuck yeah.

    Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless - Vox

    I have been saying this for a long time now. I had nothing to back it up besides, some days I was an I and some days I was an E. It just all depended on my mood and how I viewed myself in social situations. The only thing that was consistent was when people refer to themselves as whatever random 4 letters the test spewed on them, I still wanted to stab them in the throat with a spork. Sorry if I hurt your INFU personality, but you sound like a douche. "Well, I'm an INTJ and that means I like being fisted while eating pineapple." You're not cool because you took the test like 2,000,000 other people. You are not unique. There are only 16 categories you can be and that means there are a shit ton of people just like you and nobody likes them either.

    I'm going to go read about how to get into heaven.

    XOXO,
    ZombieSquirrel
    Introverted Extrovert Extraordinaire
     
    ZombieSquirrel, May 28, 2015
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  2. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    I haven't read the article yet, but I have a question?


    Can you please drop the ambiguity and tell us how you REALLY feel?
     
    Borla, May 28, 2015
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  3. ZombieSquirrel

    ZombieSquirrel Brrrrrrrains

    Location:
    Oregon by way of "Oh-hi-ya"


    Fuck you Borla. That's how I REALLY feel.
     
    ZombieSquirrel, May 28, 2015
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  4. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member


    Girls are so confusing.

    I'm going to start calling them GASCs just to make @ZombieSquirrel rage.
     
    Borla, May 28, 2015
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  5. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

    Location:
    North


    It's not your fault, @ZombieSquirrel is well known as the mistress of understatement and subtlety.
     
    redravin, May 28, 2015
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  6. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    Persons of the F.U.C.K. type are naturally ambiguous. That's why everybody likes a good fuck, nobody like a dumb fuck.
     
    Lindy, May 28, 2015
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  7. Daniel_

    Daniel_ The devil made me do it...

    Location:
    The United Kingdom, naturally
    I love pinapple, but I've never been fisted.

    Thanks for the tip
     
    Daniel_, May 28, 2015
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  8. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    I think I understand how @ZombieSquirrel feels about this. Hard to tell at times with people like her who are so peaceful and understa.........erg.......grabs scissors from neck as he falls to the ground, wonders briefly before passing out why he is surrounded by an army of squirrels with hostile looks in their in beady little eyes chanting something about their queen.

    Not even sure what the Myers-Briggs thing is personally and that not interested in finding out. My social type is normally "everybody can fuck off, leave me alone" wherever that falls on that silly thing. Of course this is not the best attitude to have to attract paying customers so I pretend I am social enough when necessary.
     
    Speed_Gibson, May 28, 2015
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  9. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

    Location:
    Mars
    I always thought Myers-Briggs bore an eerie resemblance to astrology. Vague and kind of silly. But I just tend to keep my opinions to myself for the most part. People believe all kinds of silly things.
     
    martian, May 28, 2015
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  10. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    Hey, I found it useful for understanding myself. And the toddler version helped me see where my daughter was coming from so I could make more informed decisions about her care. I do agree it is vague and not necessarily the best personality test out there.
     
    genuinemommy, May 29, 2015
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  11. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    just another perspective and a bit of fun

    in the end, nothing can define me. :cool:
     
    rogue49, May 30, 2015
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  12. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

    Location:
    Mars
    I'm a little surprised nobody else is coming out in favour of Myers-Briggs. I know I've seen discussions about it around here.

    I can see how it would be a sort of aid for understanding someone else's perspective, since it gives you a kind of scaffold in which you can construct mindsets that aren't really your own.

    At the same time I tend to reject out of hand any system that suggests that all of humanity can be sorted into a discrete series of personality boxes. That seems a bit too inflexible to be credible.

    Sometimes I'm introverted and sometimes I'm extroverted. Why can't I be both?
     
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  13. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Every personality test I take says suggests that I turn myself in to the authorities.
     
    Chris Noyb, May 31, 2015
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  14. ZombieSquirrel

    ZombieSquirrel Brrrrrrrains

    Location:
    Oregon by way of "Oh-hi-ya"
    I'm kind of scary......
     
    ZombieSquirrel, Jun 1, 2015
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  15. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    My ex-husband was consistently an ESPN.:rolleyes:
     
    Lindy, Jun 1, 2015
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  16. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    Hehe.
     
    genuinemommy, Jun 1, 2015
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  17. Japchae

    Japchae Very Tilted

    The MB really is more based on a snapshot of how you're feeling on a given day. To get into more pervasive personality patterns, you have to do an MMPI or a PAI. You can get consistently different results if you take it in times of stress versus more relaxed moods. It is what it is and shouldn't be interpreted as anything else. It frustrates me when companies use it to place people in positions, rather than in team building to identify others' strengths and less strengths. But as a personality type inventory? Nah.
     
    Japchae, Jun 1, 2015
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  18. Daniel_

    Daniel_ The devil made me do it...

    Location:
    The United Kingdom, naturally
    The basic concept that states you can create four axes on which to score atributes then create a four dimensional conceptual phase spase to use to navigate and empathise with other mindsets is fine.

    The thought that you can get any fine definition when in that phase space you use binary addresses for each axis is simplistic at best, and misleading most often.

    The sugestion that a list of simple questions can yeild that answer reliably and accurately is daft.

    The thought that your 4D address is fixed is laughable.

    In other news, i took it again three times on different websites today, and i got "Fozzy bear", "Billy the Kid", and "a pale suffusion of yellow" so don't trust me...
     
    Daniel_, Jun 3, 2015
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