completereject
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 Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:06 am Post subject: Myers & Briggs in relation to ASD |
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All opinons and thoughts about the Myers & Briggs' personality testing model in relation to Aspies would be welcome.
Has anyone done any research in this area or have an interest in this?
Does it relate to the aspie quiz that I found on this forum?
I am yet to be diagnosed but have a doctors appointment on Friday this week so I am doing some research 
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completereject
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ChrisP
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:25 am Post subject: |
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Although I'm a practitioner, there isn't the same user community in Europe that there is in the States. If anything has been done, your best contact in the US would be Consulting Psychologists Press.
I'll do a bit of digging round, because as a practitioner with ASC I'm certainly interested! |
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completereject
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| Many thanks for your help...i am after all just curious so a shared curiosity will at the least be shared confusion if nothing else lol! |
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Jtuk
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Myers Briggs is slightly more useful than horoscopes.
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arko5
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Before I'd even considered aspergers I stumbled upon the myers briggs test, and was evaluated as INTJ (and have done every time I take the test, normally >90% for the first 3 and about 60% for 'J'). Whilst it's accuracy or relevancy may be questioned, it was the first time I found validation that I'm not the only one with such a weird personality (although supposedly INTJs are only about 1% of the population I think). I ended up reading quite a few discussions on the intjforum before later discovering aspergers and realising it tied up the loose threads the personality description couldn't cover (attention/eye contact stuff etc).
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I cannot understand the questions on the personality tests. They need to give five eggsplicit eggsamples per question for me to decide if I am X bullshit answer or Y bullshit answer. |
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arielhawksquill
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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This question has come up in threads and polls on this site many times. You could find them by searching the forum for terms like MBTI, Myers-Briggs, INTJ, etc.
Although I don't know of any formal published findings on the subject, there seems to be a greater representation of xNTx types among people here (funny, since "NT" usually stands for neurotypical in this context.). |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| The only for sure answers I get is that I have an ixt and usually j. The Myers Briggs test is nit very reliable. Studies havve shown out of personality tests the anagrams test is more reliable. |
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TPE2
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Jtuk wrote: | Myers Briggs is slightly more useful than horoscopes.
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Well, the description of INTP sounds like a 99.9% pefect description of me; the Lyon horoscope, not so much... |
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TPE2
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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| By logic, people with ASD should be close to IxxJ - "I" because of social impairment, "J" because of the restricted interests and behavior. |
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TPE2
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Alexender
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| TPE2 wrote: | | By logic, people with ASD should be close to IxxJ - "I" because of social impairment, "J" because of the restricted interests and behavior. |
What about thinking comapred to feeling? I think that is more significant than p or j.
And the Myers Briggs personalities are made to fit you as long as you don't answer opposite. Any of the personalities that have I and t could fit me. |
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Jtuk
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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The original Jung types were intended as a short-hand / mnemonic to document patients. Each practitioner will catagorise people in different ways. They are not that useful, except for that original purpose.
Every test I've taken has given very different results (routinely 4 different types), which shows that I'm either on the margins, crazy or these tests are flawed. I'm tempted to go with the latter, I do not believe that the entire population of the world can be classified into 16 meaningful types.
The skepdics dictionary as ever has some nice background on myers-briggs: http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html
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completereject
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| arielhawksquill wrote: | This question has come up in threads and polls on this site many times. You could find them by searching the forum for terms like MBTI, Myers-Briggs, INTJ, etc.
Although I don't know of any formal published findings on the subject, there seems to be a greater representation of xNTx types among people here (funny, since "NT" usually stands for neurotypical in this context.). |
That really did make me giggle..so true  |
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