Meyers-Briggs Personality Classifications (Jung Typology Test)

[stovebolts]

I"m in agreement with [MENTION=8274]Nick[/MENTION]
IQ tests only shows what others think you should know. The biggest problem with basing intelligence on IQ is that many people only know what they know in a rote manner which means they don't really have a working understanding of the material they know. For example: pi = 3.14159 . Many people "know" this, but not many understand what it represents. Because they don't understand what it represents, they are limited to how it can be used.

What's important is aptitude because aptitude shows the capacity at which somebody is able to learn. Somebody with a high aptitude and a low IQ only shows that either they havn't been taught something, or it's being taught in a manner that doesn't work which is why learning needs to be on a gradient. If somebody isn't "getting" something they are trying to learn, then the problem isn't in the problem, it's in the problem before the problem. For example, if somebody doesn't understand what a variable is, but has been rotely using them in algebra formula's, then they will have difficulties in Geometry because they don't understand what those variables were supposed to represent.

When I was programming, I always struggled with arrays because I misunderstood and thought they were a data type. Where the problem really came into focus is when I started creating array's of pointers. The teacher struggled to teach me about pointers and I just didn't get it.... and then I found it... Once I realized that an array was a data structure, and not a data type all my problems went away and pointers were a mute issue. All that to say we thought my issue was with pointers, but it was actually with arrays.

 

[Sparkey]

Hey Ed, we are very similar. I tested as an INTJ.

Sugested fields.........Science Teacher and Computer Programmer. XD

I would like to report that I too have tested INTJ but... and although that his been true for most of my life, my most recent testing that was taken during a Business class Spring QTR 2013 showed me as a auditory / visual learner with a Kiersey Temperament result of ENFJ (also classified as 'Idealist Teacher'). Not sure what to make of that. I know that a change in the first quadrant is doesn't happen that often even over a lifetime but that could be due to my "student personality" being given so much practice over the preceding years.

There are official standards for administering the test and I've been evaluated previously (the company paid for it) to the INTJ classification. It suited me then and actually helped me understand how to deal with others and for those that were clued in to the quirks of my 'type', how to best deal with me (at the time).

The last testing was just a relatively simple 100 questions from a site the instructor had pointed us to. Some of the tests that I've taken that give identical 4 letter result ask that the responder answer according to how they suppose they are viewed by others, other tests ask that others are enlisted to record their actual view. Various testing methods seem almost haphazard to me which decreases their credibility in my view.

Will your brain explode as soon as the first ENFP guy shows up?

I came close, but I doubt that I'll test again, or if I did, that I'd put very much trust in the result. The basic idea is that there are a limited number of "types" classified as dichotomies.

[(Black or White)² x (Black or White)²] = People ? There's probably a better way to express that but this isn't a Right-brain and Left-brain discussion/topic. There are older classifications (ancient?) that would include thoughts about the 'Four Classical Elements': Earth, Water, Fire & Air too. That discussion might not be too far adrift from this one.