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What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

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What is your Myers Briggs Personality type, and do you believe in Peak Oil?

INTJ - Peak Oiler
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INTP - Peak Oiler
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1 letter difference from INTJ/INTP - Peak Oiler
61
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2 letter difference from INTJ/INTP - Peak Oiler
10
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INTJ - Non Peak Oiler
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INTP - Non Peak Oiler
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1 letter difference from INTJ/INTP - Non Peak Oiler
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2 letter difference from INTJ/INTP - Non Peak Oiler
0
0%
Other - Peak Oiler
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Other - Non Peak Oiler
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No votes
 
Total votes : 234

Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby FairMaiden » Thu 20 Oct 2005, 17:10:05

ENTP - and even tho I took it for "fun" the description really fit me. I showed my fiance and he had to laugh its so much like me. I bore easily with everything so I'm researching/reading/analyzing everything and anything - and thats exactly how I found PO.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby Dezakin » Thu 20 Oct 2005, 19:26:23

ENTJ

Not sure what the peak-oiler thing means. Sure it will peak, but my position is that it wont matter, cornucopian, so I voted non-peak oiler.

Apparently non-peak oilers make about 1% of this poll.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby crapattack » Wed 14 Dec 2005, 00:19:03

I am an INTP, if by Peak Oiler, you mean that I have studied the subject and have come to the conclusion that it is likely we will see the effects of Peak Oil in this generation, then I guess I would be one. It is not so much a belief as it is a best conclusion based on all the facts. Should data emerge or other mitigation arise that challenges the validity of this conclusion I would be more than willing to revise my thinking.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby Blueberry » Wed 14 Dec 2005, 22:27:28

INFP
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby Wrencher » Mon 19 Dec 2005, 13:41:15

INTP/INFP depending on the day. Very balanced on that score. I have been doing Briggs/Myers typing for about 15 years, and I think it is a good tool for explaining why we all see the world a little different. It has been helpful with my wife, kids, co-workers, parents and friends - but more as a way of understanding them then anything else, and that is enough for me.

Concerning Peak Oil, it is really consistant that so many NT's (and maybe the T part of the NFs) recognise this problem as NT's are given to analysis and have a gift for taking seemingly random data and fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. Also, they are very much not impressed by authority figures, and the 'official story'. INTJs are the most independent of all the types with the INTPs and INFP's not being too far behind.

Very interesting observation. Good thread. NT's also have this obsession with being prepared and are interested in skills and tools for the security that they provide in terms of 'being able to' do what needs to be done. They also tend to have a need or want to own land for the same reasons.

Funny world isn't it?
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby AnniCat » Mon 19 Dec 2005, 17:07:28

ENFP
Extroverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
56 75 25 33
moderately expressed extrovert
distinctively expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
moderately expressed perceiving personality

I've tested as an ENTP previously, but can see how today's mood would shift my answers to an F. In my day to day comings and goings I'm far more T.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby crapattack » Tue 20 Dec 2005, 05:50:21

Wrencher:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')oncerning Peak Oil, it is really consistant that so many NT's (and maybe the T part of the NFs) recognise this problem as NT's are given to analysis and have a gift for taking seemingly random data and fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. Also, they are very much not impressed by authority figures, and the 'official story'. INTJs are the most independent of all the types with the INTPs and INFP's not being too far behind.


As an INTP as well, I would have to agree with your analysis of us :) and the reason why there's so many of us NT bastards around here, but then, you've got it good with your FP half - you can get along with the 'feelings' if you know what I'm talkin' bout y'all.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby abbcampbell » Tue 20 Dec 2005, 17:58:34

INTP

I - 89
N - 100
T - 62
P - 44
Unless someone, like you,
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby coyote » Wed 21 Dec 2005, 13:43:20

INFP, Healer Idealist
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
78 88 38 78

A few years ago i was an INTP, one of those 2% architect types. But then again, I was reading a lot of Ayn Rand at the time...
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby Raxozanne » Mon 09 Jan 2006, 13:40:07

Any bored new members want to take the test and help prove/disprove the theory that the majority of Peak Oilers have INTJ/P personality types? See first post for link to personality test.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby Wildwell » Mon 09 Jan 2006, 16:05:54

INFP chuck
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby BlueGhost » Mon 09 Jan 2006, 20:52:26

ENTP.

It's interesting in that its classifying behaviours. But I don't see what it tells you beyond that a group of people share behaviour 'types'.

Given all classification is totally arbitrary any classification which doesn't even suggest a useful progression seems pointless.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby Hermes » Thu 19 Jan 2006, 03:07:23

ENFP: 78 62 38 56

Hah. I've never done this test before, and didn't know what the letters stood for, but as I was reading the various descriptions of the ENFP type I couldn't stop chuckling.

It's me on the bullseye.

And Damn...the rest of you are some STUFFFY SOB's!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

(kidding of course... Mostly anyways...)

It is interesting to think that there's such a huge concentration of the populace of this board towards those few areas of the spectrum. I wonder how that grouping will change as PO gets more mainstream... IF it gets more mainstream...
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby Doly » Thu 19 Jan 2006, 04:36:59

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hermes', '
')It is interesting to think that there's such a huge concentration of the populace of this board towards those few areas of the spectrum.


Somebody said somewhere above in this thread that it's more to do with liking forums than being into peak oil. When this same question appears on other forums, they usually get the same results.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby crapattack » Sun 22 Jan 2006, 05:37:55

My partner, and INFJ finds the forum excruiatingly stressful. I try to explain that I like a good debate and learning what others are thinking. I think Doly is right, it has to do with the structure of forums in general, and our particular types enjoying this format.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby jdmartin » Mon 23 Jan 2006, 13:44:21

Well, I took the test and I'm INTP:

22-62-12-22, which says slight on everything except intuitive.

Some stuff I think it would kind of depend on the day and the mood, so I'm not sure if it's 100%. And besides, some of the questions themselves need more detail for me to really answer good. I find some of my questions would probably be answered "sometimes".

Nonetheless, interesting and I think it generally fits my way of thinking.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby seahorse2 » Fri 27 Jan 2006, 11:54:14

My score was 56-38-25-67 (INFJ type)
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby Wrencher » Sun 29 Jan 2006, 17:52:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kochevnik', ':')The evidence is right here in front of your nose in this thread and the other MBTI threads. 'Normal' people don't get it because they CAN'T. They (with some exceptions) are incapable of understanding PO.


I would submit that the Sensing Judges (SJs) won't see PO because they are very traditional in their outlook, generally, and show support for 'official' sources of information - such as the USGS. SJ's are some35-40% of the population. They believe too strongly in the institutions, company's and countrys that are spining the data. Very big blind spot.

Sensing Percievers are action people and not given to analysis much at all. But they might well be the ones that you might want to befriend. Their knowledge of tools and building and great adaptability will make them valuable in a PO world. SPs make up about another 35% of the population.

So that leaves NFs and NTs . A distinct minority to begin with. Personally, I think there are many different types of intellegence, and that we will need them all before we are done'

Very interesting statiistics on the likelyhood of having a high IQ by type. I'm no expert on tests and testing but do feel that sometimes results of a test are skewed by the test designer. There really are no tests where you have a pile of yarn and have to make a sweater in three hours, or replace an alternator, or hang a door etc. Or get a messed up box of invoices and have to come up with a good filing system etc. Or diffuse a complex and heated arguement, bringing both sides as close to the middle as possible. These are talents that we don't measure but that are very important in life - other kinds of intellience.

As much as I would like to think that good analysis is the most desirable trait, I have to look at my life are admit that while I am pretty good at it (INTP) it really hasn't made me a very effective person.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby BlueGhost » Sun 29 Jan 2006, 18:30:11

The three traits we should test are:

Goal setting.
Time Managment.
People skills


If you cant decide what to do, you'll might aswell not try.
If you never make time to do it you'll never get it done
There are very few tasks which require no human interaction.

IQ tests are, in my view useless as practice improves performance without improving your 'intelligence'.

That said I belive most people can learn to do anything, its just a question of nutrition and effort.
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Re: What Myers Briggs Personality Type are you?

Unread postby Odin » Mon 06 Feb 2006, 04:26:25

INTP
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