Personality Tests

The Meyers-Briggs personality sorter tests are fun to take, but the results change with my mood, it appears. I would have to question their value as hiring or dating tools. Some corporations swear by them.

I took the Keirsy Temperament Sorter back in October of 2001, when it was free. I was a ENFJ. I took it again in early 2003, and came out one of the Artisan types. See what the letters generally mean.

Most recently, I tried the Jung Typology Test:

Theoretically, my Type is ENFJ, the "Teacher" sort of Idealist..

• moderately expressed extrovert
• moderately expressed intuitive personality
• slightly expressed feeling personality
• moderately expressed judging personality

The Idealists called Teachers are abstract in their thought and speech, cooperative in their style of achieving goals, and directive and extroverted in their interpersonal relations. Learning in the young has to be beckoned forth, teased out from its hiding place, or, as suggested by the word "education," it has to be "educed" by an individual with educative capabilities. Such a one is the eNFj, thus rightly called the educative mentor or Teacher for short. The Teacher is especially capable of educing or calling forth those inner potentials each learner possesses. Even as children the Teachers may attract a gathering of other children ready to follow their lead in play or work. And they lead without seeming to do so.

Teachers expect the very best of those around them, and this expectation, usually expressed as enthusiastic encouragement, motivates action in others and the desire to live up to their expectations. Teachers have the charming characteristic of taking for granted that their expectations will be met, their implicit commands obeyed, never doubting that people will want to do what they suggest. And, more often than not, people do, because this type has extraordinary charisma.

The Teachers are found in no more than 2 or 3 percent of the population. They like to have things settled and arranged. They prefer to plan both work and social engagements ahead of time and tend to be absolutely reliable in honoring these commitments. At the same time, Teachers are very much at home in complex situations which require the juggling of much data with little pre-planning. An experienced Teacher group leader can dream up, effortlessly, and almost endlessly, activities for groups to engage in, and stimulating roles for members of the group to play. In some Teachers, inspired by the responsiveness of their students or followers, this can amount to genius which other types find hard to emulate. Such ability to preside without planning reminds us somewhat of an Provider, but the latter acts more as a master of ceremonies than as a leader of groups. Providers are natural hosts and hostesses, making sure that each guest is well looked after at social gatherings, or that the right things are expressed on traditional occasions, such as weddings, funerals, graduations, and the like. In much the same way, Teachers value harmonious human relations about all else, can handle people with charm and concern, and are usually popular wherever they are. But Teachers are not so much social as educational leaders, interested primarily in the personal growth and development of others, and less in attending to their social needs.

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Other fun tests
All of these sites had at least some free tests last time I checked.

Emode.com
Lots of Cosmo-type tests

Purity Tests
Test your "experience" level on a variety of topics, the most popular being sexual.

Intelligence Tests
Has some free tests and a "credit" purchase system for more involved tests.

Off-Beat Tests
Like "Are you a Mutant?" I scored 71% on the Slut Test.

Geek Test
Oddly, I was only about 23% geek, even with the extra points for being a female geek. Hmm.