Interestingly, this test puts me in the INFJ camp, or "advocate". Actually, it places me as INFJ-T, with the following breakdown:
- 95% introverted/5% extroverted
- 55% intuitive/45% observant
- 42% thinking to 58% feeling
- 59% judging to 41% prospecting
- 11% assertive to 89% turbulent
Advocates tend to see helping others as their purpose in life, but while people with this personality type can be found engaging rescue efforts and doing charity work, their real passion is to get to the heart of the issue so that people need not be rescued at all.
Not bad either. There's another part of the results that mention many people tend to think of advocates as quiet extroverts rather than introverts and I think that's probably fairly accurate too. Many people are surprised if I mention that I am an introvert.
Might go back and do the other tests again and see if the results of those have changed as well. I wonder if these tests are getting better, I'm changing, or if I'm just being more honest (in part due to not being as stressed since leaving my old job perhaps?) in my answers. Psychology may be one of the least accurate sciences (at least that's what the biologists I tend to hang out with these days often think :-) ) but it's certainly one of the most fascinating to me.
Edited to add: Just did the political compass test again. I do have a list of the results I've gotten from this somewhere I think but no idea where so it's just as easy to make a note of it here for now.
I'd be very happy to come out with an 'Advocate' assessment. Very interesting in terms of setting a course and direction.
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough, my 12 year old found a Myers-Brigg test online two weeks ago and was quite obsessed. He kept saying over and over, 'Why don't we do this at school...this is really useful...' etc. etc. He's talked about it a great deal ever since.