I never finish Meyer- Briggs personality tests

[misterx]

Ok, so this morning I started (for probably the dozenth time) to take a quiz based on Meyer-Briggs. I'm going through the questions, and then as inevitably happens, I get to a question I can't answer. In this case, it was "Are you more likely to be logical or sensitive?" ... as if they were exclusive, or opposites. I am both logical and sensitive... brilliant! :) They might as well ask "are the tires on your car round or rubber?". To pick an answer would be entirely arbitrary. And since there is typically more than one of these impossible questions per test, why complete it? The results would be meaningless.

So what's the big deal? Because people think they know something about you, based on the result. Furthermore, its like an excuse to stop listening. Oh, he's ABCD, I know what he's like. Its the same as any label, once you're labeled you're not an individual, nuance is lost, and any personal magic with it.

Morcheeba has a song, "What New York Couples Fight About", that sums it up well...
"Once a label is on something
It becomes an it
Like its no longer alive.
Its like a loss of vision
Or some dark impression
Or a black spot on your eye."

So here's what you know about me: I'm the guy who doesn't finish Meyer-Briggs tests. I'm the guy who hates labels.

Comments

[tn-grrl.livejournal.com]

The first time I took the Myers-Briggs was in a library school management class, and it was the full ~200 question quiz.

I'll never forget the last question.

Some version of - "Was answering these questions difficult?"

*wink*

[misterx.livejournal.com]

They probably have a secret set of letters for people like me who refuse to take or finish Meyers-Briggs.

[tn-grrl.livejournal.com]

I have my suspicions about what type (or types) you may be, but then you'd have to complete a test to confirm them. *big wink*

I believe your Myers-Briggs probably starts with an IN, and you can check what you think here: http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/

[tn-grrl.livejournal.com]

this one might be easier to take.
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

[misterx.livejournal.com]

From my viewpoint, stick the initials on the dartboard and give me a blindfold. It's the same thing.

[tn-grrl.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* take what you can use, leave the rest.

that's my motto for this and pretty much every other way of looking at things. ;)

[ianlyzu.livejournal.com]

...which in turn, provides you a label. ;)