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talkpoliticsSince the dawn of time we've felt the urge to sort and classify different types of people. As science has marched on Zodiac signs, blood type, and cranial measurements have given way to more subjective forms of psycho-analysis. These catagories are usually framed in terms of the given subject’s strengths as this makes the astrologer's psychologist's services easier to sell. Unfortunately this approach is of little use to those of us who need to know how to deal with such people in our daily lives.
In the interest of promoting understanding and lulz, I present a more useful guide to Meyers-Briggs personality types courtesy of The Atomic Nerds.
ISTJ- Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Rock-headed loners who achieve any goal by beating a horse regardless of its current state of life. Will relentlessly order every aspect of their lives and that of those near them into something most closely matching their deeply felt beliefs of what reality ought to be.
ISFJ- Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Quiet, cooperative, and dull as paste. Equally concerned with order as the ISTJs, but far more concerned with creating harmony. Nice, responsible people who are absolutely unmatched as doormats.
INFJ- Introverted iNtuiting Feeling Judging
Seek meaning and connection among ideas, relationships, and possessions regardless of whether or not there is any whatsoever. Interested in people, prone to visions of better realities, and interested in inflicting their visions upon people. If you see one of these people coming up your front walk holding any kind of written material, lock the door.
INTJ- Introverted iNtuiting Thinking Judging
Seek meaning and connection between a broad range of ideas and outcome and will explain them to you until you can find some means of escape. Determined to apply and test their ideas no matter how dubious. These people are disproportionately represented among bloggers and blog commenters, and generally tend to regard this as evidence of their superior reasoning skills.
ISTP- Introverted Sensing Thinking Percieving
Quiet, flexible problem-solvers generally unnoticeable until one of them is using forty slides of Power Point to explain something to you you never knew was a problem and don’t care about. Tireless combers of data and analyzers of cause-effect relationship with a powerful wish to make both processes more efficient if not more desirable. Rumor has it all of them work for corporations, agencies, and institutions usually abbreviated into some alphabetical combination.
ISFP- Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Good-natured people who like to live in the moment and are utterly allergic to conflict. Loyal and sensitive, they make excellent greeters, cruise directors, and cocker spaniels. Give them their own space, don’t demand deadlines, and possibly a set of finger-paints would go over well.
INFP- Introverted iNtuiting Feeling Perceiving
Idealists with a ridiculously concrete set of values and equally strong belief that these values and external reality should match at all times. They look to understand people and what motivates them within this context, so as better to motivate them into compliance. Most harmless manifestation is as a life coach. Most likely to vote to ban gay sex, smoking, trans-fats, adultery, motorcycles, or anything else that sinners get fun out of.
INTP- Introverted iNtuiting Thinking Perceiving
Interested in explaining the entire universe or at least those bits of it that they consider to be relevant to them. People are largely not relevant, and mostly exist to ruin ideas that were perfectly good when they remained in the abstract. Can eventually analyze and unpack anything with the notable exception of why technocratic solutions persistently fail.
ESTP- Extroverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Energetic, disinterested in the abstract and conceptual, determined to act immediately and boldly to solve problems. Learn by doing, and will try to do it in style. Do not ever let these people try to fix your car unless the insurance company has already declared it totaled.
ESFP- Extroverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Outgoing, interested in trying new things and meeting new people. Anything you sign up for at any community center on earth will be primarily occupied by ESFPs. The rest of them are too busy writing books whose title contains the words “chicken soup”.
ENFP- Extroverted iNtuiting Feeling Perceiving
Warm, enthusiastic, imaginative, seeking patterns and connections constantly. These people are the biggest suckers on earth. They will warmly applaud you whether you’re talking about being fourteen days sober, your coffee enemas, chi, aura, autistic child’s progress with chelation therapy, or sexual stamina.
ENTP- Extroverted iNtuiting Thinking Perceiving
The outwardly-focused cousin of the INTP, these people are more likely to be in a meeting with you exhorting you to synergize and leverage your problems rather than explain to you that you are the problem. Likely to be in junior management. Less likely to be in senior management as something shiny will have distracted them by then.
ESTJ- Extroverted Sensing Thinking Judging
These people exist to find problems, improve efficiency, and herd people into being more efficient and less problematic. They’ve made a list and are checking it twice, and somewhere at the top are the words “quality”, “process”, and “time”. If you see one of these people coming toward you with a cup of coffee and a clipboard, run and don’t stop until you’re out of the zip code.
ESFJ- Extroverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Warm-hearted, cooperative, conscientous, and interested in organizing everyone else for their own good. Enjoys working with others, notices needs and potentials. Likely to have a martyr complex the size of the sun. Never, ever forget to send them a Christmas card, as the slight will be remembered until the Second Coming.
ENFJ- Extroverted iNtuiting Feeling Judging
Empathetic, cooperative, responsive, and group-oriented. These people pick up every emotion and ripple in their social circle and will reflect it back at you twice as large. Good at group workshops. Less good at working in prisons.
ENTJ- Extroverted iNtuiting Thinking Judging
If you thought INTJs were insufferable, these people believe themselves to be natural leaders in the bargain. These peoples’ to-do lists include you, and come in day, week, month, year, and five-year-plan iterations. They DO have a rationale for their plan, and it will take at least three hours or a book or two to explain them. They enjoy procedures. If you have ever read a military protocol manual, you probably have an ENTJ to thank for the experience.
In the interests of full disclosure the on-line tests consistently classify me as either INTP or INTJ. Where do you fall in?
In the interest of promoting understanding and lulz, I present a more useful guide to Meyers-Briggs personality types courtesy of The Atomic Nerds.
ISTJ- Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Rock-headed loners who achieve any goal by beating a horse regardless of its current state of life. Will relentlessly order every aspect of their lives and that of those near them into something most closely matching their deeply felt beliefs of what reality ought to be.
ISFJ- Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Quiet, cooperative, and dull as paste. Equally concerned with order as the ISTJs, but far more concerned with creating harmony. Nice, responsible people who are absolutely unmatched as doormats.
INFJ- Introverted iNtuiting Feeling Judging
Seek meaning and connection among ideas, relationships, and possessions regardless of whether or not there is any whatsoever. Interested in people, prone to visions of better realities, and interested in inflicting their visions upon people. If you see one of these people coming up your front walk holding any kind of written material, lock the door.
INTJ- Introverted iNtuiting Thinking Judging
Seek meaning and connection between a broad range of ideas and outcome and will explain them to you until you can find some means of escape. Determined to apply and test their ideas no matter how dubious. These people are disproportionately represented among bloggers and blog commenters, and generally tend to regard this as evidence of their superior reasoning skills.
ISTP- Introverted Sensing Thinking Percieving
Quiet, flexible problem-solvers generally unnoticeable until one of them is using forty slides of Power Point to explain something to you you never knew was a problem and don’t care about. Tireless combers of data and analyzers of cause-effect relationship with a powerful wish to make both processes more efficient if not more desirable. Rumor has it all of them work for corporations, agencies, and institutions usually abbreviated into some alphabetical combination.
ISFP- Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Good-natured people who like to live in the moment and are utterly allergic to conflict. Loyal and sensitive, they make excellent greeters, cruise directors, and cocker spaniels. Give them their own space, don’t demand deadlines, and possibly a set of finger-paints would go over well.
INFP- Introverted iNtuiting Feeling Perceiving
Idealists with a ridiculously concrete set of values and equally strong belief that these values and external reality should match at all times. They look to understand people and what motivates them within this context, so as better to motivate them into compliance. Most harmless manifestation is as a life coach. Most likely to vote to ban gay sex, smoking, trans-fats, adultery, motorcycles, or anything else that sinners get fun out of.
INTP- Introverted iNtuiting Thinking Perceiving
Interested in explaining the entire universe or at least those bits of it that they consider to be relevant to them. People are largely not relevant, and mostly exist to ruin ideas that were perfectly good when they remained in the abstract. Can eventually analyze and unpack anything with the notable exception of why technocratic solutions persistently fail.
ESTP- Extroverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Energetic, disinterested in the abstract and conceptual, determined to act immediately and boldly to solve problems. Learn by doing, and will try to do it in style. Do not ever let these people try to fix your car unless the insurance company has already declared it totaled.
ESFP- Extroverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Outgoing, interested in trying new things and meeting new people. Anything you sign up for at any community center on earth will be primarily occupied by ESFPs. The rest of them are too busy writing books whose title contains the words “chicken soup”.
ENFP- Extroverted iNtuiting Feeling Perceiving
Warm, enthusiastic, imaginative, seeking patterns and connections constantly. These people are the biggest suckers on earth. They will warmly applaud you whether you’re talking about being fourteen days sober, your coffee enemas, chi, aura, autistic child’s progress with chelation therapy, or sexual stamina.
ENTP- Extroverted iNtuiting Thinking Perceiving
The outwardly-focused cousin of the INTP, these people are more likely to be in a meeting with you exhorting you to synergize and leverage your problems rather than explain to you that you are the problem. Likely to be in junior management. Less likely to be in senior management as something shiny will have distracted them by then.
ESTJ- Extroverted Sensing Thinking Judging
These people exist to find problems, improve efficiency, and herd people into being more efficient and less problematic. They’ve made a list and are checking it twice, and somewhere at the top are the words “quality”, “process”, and “time”. If you see one of these people coming toward you with a cup of coffee and a clipboard, run and don’t stop until you’re out of the zip code.
ESFJ- Extroverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Warm-hearted, cooperative, conscientous, and interested in organizing everyone else for their own good. Enjoys working with others, notices needs and potentials. Likely to have a martyr complex the size of the sun. Never, ever forget to send them a Christmas card, as the slight will be remembered until the Second Coming.
ENFJ- Extroverted iNtuiting Feeling Judging
Empathetic, cooperative, responsive, and group-oriented. These people pick up every emotion and ripple in their social circle and will reflect it back at you twice as large. Good at group workshops. Less good at working in prisons.
ENTJ- Extroverted iNtuiting Thinking Judging
If you thought INTJs were insufferable, these people believe themselves to be natural leaders in the bargain. These peoples’ to-do lists include you, and come in day, week, month, year, and five-year-plan iterations. They DO have a rationale for their plan, and it will take at least three hours or a book or two to explain them. They enjoy procedures. If you have ever read a military protocol manual, you probably have an ENTJ to thank for the experience.
In the interests of full disclosure the on-line tests consistently classify me as either INTP or INTJ. Where do you fall in?
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Date: 17/6/11 17:56 (UTC)I don't know what that list is talking about. I have a detailed systemic explanation for why technocratic solutions fail. Let me tell you about it ....
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Date: 17/6/11 18:04 (UTC)Oh, and I score highest on the Feeling part, which should be no surprise around here.
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Date: 17/6/11 19:12 (UTC)"Interested in explaining the entire universe or at least those bits of it that they consider to be relevant to them. People are largely not relevant, and mostly exist to ruin ideas that were perfectly good when they remained in the abstract. These people are disproportionately represented among bloggers and blog commenters, and generally tend to regard this as evidence of their superior reasoning skills. Likely to be in junior management. Less likely to be in senior management as something shiny will have distracted them by then."
Sounds like a pretty apt description
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Date: 17/6/11 20:13 (UTC)I'm usually INTP and sometimes INTJ or ISTP. I might have gotten ISTJ once.
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Date: 17/6/11 21:24 (UTC)I'm an INFP and I call bullshit on this sentence. =\ I know this list is meant as a joke, but still, this part just isn't funny because there isn't any truth to it.
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Date: 18/6/11 00:54 (UTC)I think I would make a horrible interior decorator, though.
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Date: 18/6/11 04:27 (UTC)Interesting, but not surprising, almost all of us are introverts.
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Date: 18/6/11 07:34 (UTC)67% distinctively expressed introvert
75% distinctively expressed intuitive personality
25% moderately expressed thinking personality
01% slightly expressed judging personality
INTJ
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Date: 19/6/11 02:06 (UTC)E and F were moderate. The S was low. The J was very high.
Interesting since I've always scored SFJ, but occasionally deviate from E to I. I think that fluctuates with me over time and based on other circumstances I'm in.
The J. Butt descriptor of ESFJ fits me almost to a T. The Atomic Nerds descriptor, let's see...
"Warm-hearted, cooperative, conscientous, and interested in organizing everyone else for their own good. Enjoys working with others, notices needs and potentials. Likely to have a martyr complex the size of the sun. Never, ever forget to send them a Christmas card, as the slight will be remembered until the Second Coming."
Actually that last sentence is pretty off, UNLESS it's someone who I'd consider a very, very close friend. lol. The martyr complex thing...maybe sometimes but not "the size of the sun". The rest is pretty good, though. haha
And I really enjoyed reading this post ;) very lulzy, thanks for posting.
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Date: 19/6/11 08:45 (UTC)Anarcho-technocrat with Fabian Socialist Leanings. Bohemian Discordian/Wiccan neopagan.
I'd love to see someone try communism as an economic system, and democracy as a political system. In the meantime living in the corpse of Australia's socialist experiment isn't too bad.
Seriously considering becoming a member of The Australian Sex Party...