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Old 07-09-2002, 09:50 AM   #3
Tobiasly
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Jeffersonville, IN (near Louisville)
Posts: 892
I'm an ENTP. Back when companies could afford to throw money away, mine sent me to an "interpersonal communications" seminar that started by giving everyone a Myers-Briggs test. Then we spent the next two days talking about the scores, and how people from certain categories should try to communicate with people from other categories.

I'm not usually hip on this kinda thing but it was a great session. For each of the four scales, the instructor would separate us into the two different groups and had us do some activity that accentuated the difference. For the intuitive/sensing scale, she said to both groups, "You must get to Los Angeles for a business meeting. You have three days and unlimited resources. Now, plan your trip." Each group had a whiteboard that the other couldn't see to take notes.

She came to our (iNtuitive) group, and asked if we had any questions. We said no. Then we started planning how we would make a trip with unlimited resources.. renting an airplane, skydiving into Nevada, gambling in Vegas, buying a Ferrari, etc. The instructor, meanwhile, was spending a lot of time with the other (Sensing) group. Apparently they had more questions than we did. She came back after a while and asked again if we had any questions, and we told her no.

After we were finished, we compared our whiteboards. When we saw the other group's, we all just started busting a gut. They had nothing but questions; they never started planning! "What kind of meeting is this? What will the weather be like? How long will we be there? Is anyone going with us? Do we have accomodations when we get there?" And on and on and on.

The thinker/feeler discussion was even livelier. Apparently men tend to fall into the former, and women the latter. We got into this huge argument about the proper response to "how does this outfit look on me?" I tried to point out to these crazy women that if I ask a question like that, and you think I look silly, but you lie and say "you look fine" to stroke my ego, I'm gonna be pissed. If I ask a fucking question it's because I want the answer, not because I'm looking for warm fuzzies. If I look ridiculous, I wanna know before I go out in public and everyone sees me looking ridiculous.

BTW Nic Name, that test you linked to was pretty piss-poor. I feel I can tell you that because you're a Thinker . Unfortunately, I can't find a better one right now (the "authentic" tests are copyrighted), but it's supposed to ask several dozen one-or-the-other questions that aren't as difficult to answer.
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