Split Personality?

[livingdeb]

llcoolvad introduced me to the Typealyzer which analyzes blogs for personality type. Here are the results for Note of the Living Deb:

ESFP - The Performers

The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don't like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.

The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.

That's the exact opposite of the results I get by taking the test the normal way: INTJ.

How would my journal be the opposite of me? Don't any of my brains show up in here? I am all about thinking and analyzing and planning.

The explanation above is giving me some ideas, though. I do plan ahead, but I don't like to write about my plans in my journal too much because it feels too much like accomplishing something by itself and thus makes it less likely that I will actually do what I am planning. It's better to write about it after I have seen how the plans worked out.

And writing for an audience limits me some. Of course I try to avoid conflicts and confrontation because you never know who's going to find your journal.

But surely I don't turn into happy fun party girl? (Hey, check out this lampshade! Woo hoo! There are enough lampshades for everyone!)

Another possible explanation is that the application is still beta.

Comments

Re: N vs S, in Myers-Briggs

[fraeuleinchen.livejournal.com]

For some reason, this seems the easiest for me to understand, but then, my comprehension is subjective, in a way... I'm not a psychologist! For me, sensing means relying more on data and sensual input from the world which is processed on a more conscious level and the influence of which on our own behaviors can be explained; and then intuition is just a less 'fact-based' way of understanding the world, by 'feel'. I realize that intuition may actually be just very quick reaction to actual sensory input (ever read 'The Gift of Fear' by Gavin de Becker? It addresses this notion.) but the fact that it's not conscious and not explicable (thus the 'gut reaction') is unique.

After writing all that, I realize that you may think/know/get all of the above yourself but still not, as you say, _totally_ understand, and that makes me think that I may be satisfied with a less scientific understanding of things than you. Yes, I'm not an engineer :-)

And of course, there are explanations on the web (maybe at triple w dot humanmetrics dot com).

Re: N vs S, in Myers-Briggs

[fraeuleinchen.livejournal.com]

I meant that the N vs S was the easiest of the four, uh, slots to understand. I vs E I also get, but the T/F and J/P are tougher. So if you have any insight into those, please share!

Re: N vs S, in Myers-Briggs

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

"I'm not an engineer." But you are a medical practitioner, and though you are not actually a human engineer (from what I understand), you at least are a cartographer or surveyor and understand about good, solid data and its interpretation.

Re: N vs S, in Myers-Briggs

[fraeuleinchen.livejournal.com]

You're right. And I probably don't give myself enough credit, in some ways. I will point out, however, that my job, as with all medicine, actually, involves not just science, but also a good deal of art. I think some people think it's a black and white thing, but really there are so many ways to do things, and even with technology advanced as it is today, it's sometimes impossible to get a solid answer. We have to be okay with unknowns. I read a very interesting article on this in the New England Journal of Medicine... I posted it (link below) as it requires sign-in to view:
http://www.talisman.org/~fraulein/sharedocs/NEJMarticle%20Living%20Unlabeled.odt