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Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by Bartweiss on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:56AM (#12685575)
I've flipped at least two letters over time, and at least one letter on next-morning retest. J/P in particular has never seemed clear or significant to me.

I think this is actually the most common experience. The data I've seen says that scores on all four 'axes' are normally distributed. So it's actually fairly exceptional to have strong, predictable positions for every letter; cutting a bunch of normal distributions down the middle means most of us are on a boundary.

And yes, it's probably those silly E folks saying they never change. God forbid we wake up tomorrow testing as E, we'll have a paradox on our hands.

Re:The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless by mgkimsal on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:00PM (#12686850)
:)

The folks who have argued that point with me over the years all happened to be strong E. I'm talking perhaps 3-4 people over 20 years - not a huge number to go on, but it was the only consistent I saw (male/female/old/young/etc).

Me: "Wow, I took this a few years ago and was a moderate F, but now I'm a slight T".

Them: "That's just not possible. It doesn't work that way. You just don't remember what you had before. It doesn't change".

Me: "WTF??"