MBTI - What's your personality type? (ANDROGYNES)

[Pica Pica]

I think we probably realise that, but it gives us something to talk about.

[Elspeth]

Yet another INFP here

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This is really remarkable. Maybe it goes to explain, at least somewhat, why despite my strong feeling of identifying female, so far in my life I have really acted more as an androgyne? Or maybe not. My circumspection comes back again to add to the pile of doubts.

I have noted a pretty high frequency of INFP types (way more than the very low frequency they are in the general population) whenever I've seen MBTI questions posed to more general groups of trans folk too.

[Elspeth]

The Meyers Briggs personality test is a variation of something in psychology called the forer effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect

The personality type definitions are so vague that if they were jumbled one could pull different ideas from a different personality type and equally say the same things about themselves. The results are no more accurate than the generalizations that are found in horoscopes.

So my therapist said. However, I did Myers-Briggs typing on myself long before I ever saw this asked among transfolk. Do you have a good explanation for the much higher frequency of INFPs here, and in other non-random polls I've seen among transfolk?

I have some of the same reservations about many areas of psych theory, (especially those relating to trans* identities) for what it's worth, areas my former therapist seemed to have little skepticism about, despite the fact that many of them have also been challenged and seemingly discredited in the intervening years.

[DrillQuip]

INTJ

[Huggyrei]

Out of interest, Keirsey game me ENFP, and (apparently!) the last time I took it 12 years ago, I got INFJ. Lik I said, I suspect I'm acually somewhere in the middle with a lot of these, as I tend to do a mix of both given options in all situations.

[Fitz]

I'm breaking the pattern of iNtuitives, I guess, I'm an ISTP. I'm not a huge fan of most online type indicator tests, though I've probably taken all of them out of curiosity and to find patterns, I found my type mostly through studying the typing systems of MB, Keirsey, and Jung.

[Rita]

ENFP - The "Advocate"
Temperament: NF (Visionary)

Extraverted 58%
Intuition 68%
Feeling 79%
Perceving 63%

ENFPs are introspective, values-oriented, inspiring, social and extremely expressive. They actively send their thoughts and ideas out into the world as a way to bring attention to what they feel to be important, which often has to do with ethics and current events. ENFPs are natural advocates, attracting people to themselves and their cause with excellent people skills, warmth, energy and positivity. ENFPs are described as creative, resourceful, assertive, spontaneous, life-loving, charismatic, passionate and experimental.

I am not androgyne but its still a fun quiz  , most of life is androgynous as is personality type(noticed the topic subject and forum eheh)

[SonadoraXVX]

I took the the test and am a ISTP. I'd venture to say I'm mechanical to the max(ie. took auto/diesel/small engine mechnanics/carpentry/welding in my younger years  , so hmmm, lol), i am extremely curious to known why things work, yea I know these tests are tentatively accurate, but well, it kinda resembles me. I'm mostly reasonable and logical(ie. that is changing due to the hrt I'm on, more emotional nowadays at times, lol).

Lucia, eh, at least it got everybody chatting 

[ativan]

INTP
introverted 95%
intuition 95%
Thinking 79%
perceiving 63%
Engineer

I use seemingly unrelated stuff to build things or develop ideas or systems. I see the stuff that others miss.
Ativan

[Just Kate]

This is really remarkable. Maybe it goes to explain, at least somewhat, why despite my strong feeling of identifying female, so far in my life I have really acted more as an androgyne? Or maybe not. My circumspection comes back again to add to the pile of doubts.

I have noted a pretty high frequency of INFP types (way more than the very low frequency they are in the general population) whenever I've seen MBTI questions posed to more general groups of trans folk too.

This is an internet phenomenon mostly.  INXX tend to dominate the internet.  It almost doesn't matter the subject, if you do an internet poll, you'll get mostly INXX types that respond.