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Myself as well! INFP every time I test. I relate to being deeply intuitive, sensitive, daydreamer, strongly avoid conflict, big picture thinker, private and self-reflective, driven by my personal values, and individualistic.
I recall reading that INFPs are not that common, lol.
Maybe this forum is a bit skewed then
I am an INFP in an ISTJ job
The INFP description fits me pretty well. I am also very much a big picture thinker and not given to being open with very many people. The readers at City Data probably know more about me than people IRL since I'm anonymous here...
I recall reading that INFPs are not that common, lol.
Maybe this forum is a bit skewed then
I am an INFP in an ISTJ job
The INFP description fits me pretty well. I am also very much a big picture thinker and not given to being open with very many people. The readers at City Data probably know more about me than people IRL since I'm anonymous here...
Yes, it looks like INFP makes up 2-4% of the population? There are a lot of introverts on the internet lol. I thankfully work in a balanced INFP career as a preschool teacher, although the energy expended each day to be upbeat and social with so many families, children and staff is tiring for an "I" type.
I don't remember exactly what mine was, but it was so accurate it was scary.
I took the full test (not an abbreviated version) and when I went back to get the results, the first thing I said to the tester was, "Aren't these things sort of like horoscopes? That you can read anything you want into them?"
All she did was hand me the summary and the very fist sentence was something like, "This type of person will likely question everything...".
When I took the test a long time ago I was an ENTP and I remember thinking it was uncanny how well the character profile matched me. It's a very interesting test but personality tests are notorious for their low validity.
I think it really depends on how people answer...sometimes people believe they are responding honestly but it is more in an aspirational or "idealistic self" manner. For example:
INTJs form just two percent of the population, and women of this personality type are especially rare, forming just 0.8% of the population – it is often a challenge for them to find like-minded individuals who are able to keep up with their relentless intellectualism and chess-like maneuvering.
And yet soooo many people say they are INTJs...it just doesn't ring true. So is the test not valid? Are people not responding about themselves objectively?
Even amongst psych professionals, there is no reaL consensus about the legitimacy, usefulness, validity, or accuracy of the MBTI. Even though many are administered and evaluated by psych professionals.
It's generally mostly used by career counselors, in helping people narrow down potential fields and subcategories of careers. It's also pretty entrenched in business culture, but so are a lot of pseudoscience-y categorizing tools.
Another thing to remember is that the actual MBTI and the free online versons are not the same. I've worked with the actual full assessment, and it's more indepth than the freebies.
I have found it, for me, to be very consistent, if nothing else.
I have nearly always gotten INFP, but my introversion/extroversion balance is very borderline, definitely not strongly one way or the other, so occasionally, I will test ENFP. My N, F, and P are fairly strong, though.
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