Myers-Briggs personality types

[pauraque_bk]

I recently changed my userinfo to mention that I'm an INFP, which is really a very accurate description of my personality. Quite often, I find myself wanting to explain my actions by saying "it's an INFP thing".

So, in the interest of fostering understanding (and that's an INFP thing), I've put together a poll. I added the Hogwarts question on a whim; if a lot of people respond, I'll collate the two and see if the same types end up in the same houses.

If you don't know your type, there are tests here and here.

EDIT: For collating the results, I'll use all responses received within 72 hours. (That means before 10:30am Pacific Time on Tuesday, 3/23.) If you show up after that, feel free to take the survey anyway; it's just that there's a limit to how much data I can process.

EDIT2: The 72 hours are up. You're still welcome to take the survey, of course. The last respondent to make it in under the wire was izmeina. I'll let quickquote know when the results are prepared.

EDIT3: The results are here.

[Poll #265921]

Comments

[pauraque]

Your passion for lovely detail comes through in your fiction and your journal entries (the way you talk about your physical surroundings), and strikes me as very INFP. The typelogic.com description notes that INFPs like to paint word pictures, which is certainly true for both of us.

[spican.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- it really is a passion, you know. :) I did recognize both of us in that aspect of how we use language, and I definitely identify with the "looking-glass" view of the world and, less positively, the uncertainty around context and proportion, which often tends to trouble or puzzle me. I tend to be anxious about my own judgment of situations and second-guess myself a lot.