Myers-Briggs Personality Types
 

This thread discusses the use of personality type testing when assigning team roles and positions. Rather than hijack the thread, here is a simple poll to find out how CD users classify.
Take the quick (<10 minute) test here, then post your results - or if you already know your type, go ahead and put it in the poll.

I'm INTP. Just like Randall Munroe.

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I really don't know the answer for a sizable number of the questions they ask...so I don't expect the results to tell me much.

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Though I am INTP, I don't believe I was always that way. Perhaps the fact that so many in FRC are INTP or because INTP works well for FRC is the reason I was sort of molded into this personality trait. Especially since outside of robotics stuff, I hang out with engineers and engineering students.

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Wait...engineers have personalities?

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Took one of these while procrastinating. Interestingly accurate stuff, but then again, most people try to rationalize their results anyway.

Mine is supposedly ESTP-A, and is apparently a "rare" one? Like a shiny Pokemon card or something.

Funny enough, Donald Trump is ESTP. (Someone shoot me now)

It says I am persuasive, which is probably why I lean towards practicing law in the financial industry. (I've also been called 'manipulative', so who knows which is which?)

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Wow, it's been awhile since I've seen Myers-Briggs typology pop up.

While I have some amount of skepticism for the 16 categories they sort people into (specifically the general claim that peoples' types are somehow fixed, and the cute titles they give all the types), it's very interesting to note changes in the ratios from one side or another-- the last time I took one of these, I self-assessed to much more introverted and "thinking" than I did when I just retook it, which is what I would have said if you asked me. It's interesting to note some pseudo-objective "proof" that I'm more extraverted and weigh "feeling" more in my decisions than I used to.

Personality tests are funny.

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I got a ESTJ-A

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Yeah, these do not seem to be the most accurate indicator of personality. For example, a weakness of mine was listed as:
This is probably because I responded as agreeing to having a plan and continuing it. That said, I'm probably the biggest advocate of figuring out ALTERNATE ways to do things on my team, and iterating designs until you've implemented some of the pros of other ways to do a single action.

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I straddle the ISTJ/INTJ line, more often falling on the S side.

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INTJ-T. I think it describes me, or at least it describes what other people have told me about myself. It'd be interesting to ask different people to do this test for me and see what they get.

It'd also be interesting to see if FRC outside of CD has so many INTP/INTJ types. If I had to guess, I think most of my team would be ISTJ.

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INFP, just like my father. :) Definitely pretty accurate!

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I've tested as INTP in the past and I consider that to be fairly accurate. People do change, though, as some of alluded to above. It's always interesting stuff. I think it's important to remember that one doesn't necessarily fit perfectly into a category, with only 16 options it's hard to truly classify as one. I've found it most often pretty close though.

For those of you familiar with the Enneagram personality system, I am generally considered a 2.

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ENTP-T and pretty darn accurate too.

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ENTP-T

Thirty+ years ago a similar MBTI tool showed me as ENTJ. Maybe I have mellowed just a little with age. Trying to judge less and explore differences more...

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INTP-T

That procrastination question.... should get back to some stuff I want to finish before build season. :ahh:

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ENFP-A. I had to take one earlier for one of my school and then I got the same thing from this one as well; consistent!

I was actually surprised I got extroverted. But after talking with some friends, they seem to see it...so I guess it checks out.

Edit: Wow, my favorite actor (Robert Downey Jr.) is also an ENFP.

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I am an ESTP-T.

It would be neat to see how personalitis spread across diffrence subteams.

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This would be so much more interesting if it was a public poll. I would be very interested to know what the personality types are of more than a few people here on chief.

edit: ISTP here.

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ENTP type for me. My favorite actor (Rowan Atkinson) is an ENTP, which is pretty cool. Taylor, would you mind explaining what team roles best suit each type?

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I'm ISFJ-A, but all the dualities were really close except I/E. 81%, 54%, 54%, 57%, & 58%:

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I'm an INTJ-T, which seems accurate since I've taken this test a few times before and I've gotten similar results.

It's interesting to see the spread of personalities on CD; the most prominent category at moment I'm writing this is the "NTs": INTJ, INTP, ENTJ, ENTP. Additionally, there appears to be more introverts than extroverts overall.

I guess it shows what kind of people have the tendency to be attracted to something like building robots and those that are invested enough in robotics to discuss it with others on an online forum.

It's still important to not get too invested in generalizing people, since the poll also shows that there still is a variety of different personalities on CD, with at least one person per personality, and Myers-Briggs isn't always accurate on its assessments. The apparent trends are cool to see though.

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INFP-T reporting in... this thing is creepily accurate.

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On second thought...maybe it works better than I think it does. Interesting.

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That they are. The scales are inherently subjective, and the classifications can be taken way to seriously, but it can be interesting to see how groups self identify, how the proportions in a community like this vary from the world at large, or how a single persons self-perception changes over time.

Personally, I have tested as an INTP in the past. This one I ended up INFP-T, with a very close split (53-47) between Feeling and Thinking, so I identified as using more emotion in decision making than I did a year ago. Which sort of fits :rolleyes:

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ISTJ-T

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Same here, mellow is a good word. I'm ENTP-A. Now get back to work.

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I would defer that question to the original thread about M-B in roles.

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Took it twice to make certain - once yesterday afternoon and then this morning.

Both times I ended up with the ENTP-A. I am not surprised.

"The Debater"
-Analyst (My Role)
-People Mastery (My Strategy)

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surprised that it says 2% of the population is INTJ yet nearly 20% of the people in the poll are INTJ myself included.

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INFP - T. Mediator. Interesting... it makes sense. I feel like I'm always the guy saying "But wait, we have to consider the other guy's perspective".

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Comparing the distribution from this poll vs the US as a whole:




Sources:
CD poll at noon on 12/15
http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-p...is-my-type.htm


I wonder how the graph will shift if it was for all of FRC, not just those on CD.

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I wonder the same.

Over 60% of CD responders are NT (Analyst) role, about five times the US average. Are NTs more likely to respond to a CD thread poll? I think we are.

Even so, 5x is a pretty big bias. NTs are probably more at home in a community like FRC than we would be in many others.

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After 10+ years in the FIRST Robotics Competition, taking on various leadership roles and finally returning as an engineering mentor, I am now a very different person from who I was when I first joined my local team as a freshman.

Once upon a time, I was an INTP-T; today, I count myself an ENFJ-A. :ahh:

There's really nothing like FRC to make an introverted geek feel comfortable and secure in your shell, and then to crack that shell wide open and drag you kicking and screaming into the light!

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The highest correlation for CD denizens appears to be T vs F; (Thinking vs Feeling). Of T, only ESTP is below 7 responses, whereas among the F only ENFP and INFP are over 7 responses so far. Looking at two attributes, NT is definitely in the lead, at 57.5% (vs 10.3 of the population, according to the Myers and Briggs Foundation). As noted before, this is over 5x the general population, suggesting that CD posters are a significantly self-selected group.

Also, let me note variations among my scores over the years. Among a few dozen trials, I did once score an INTJ, and recently (on the most recently suggested test commended by Dan Eiland) scored a marginal INFT, which I attribute to some of the question wording which specified (for instance) "as regards teamwork", and which perhaps includes some intentional direction of my energies towards mentorship vs personal achievements, both due to FIRST involvement and as I realize that I am closer to the end of my career than the beginning. At the same time, I have become more assertive as the years pass.

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I find it very interesting that proportionally CD has ~1/3 as many individuals as the US average with the Sensing characteristic.

Every type with an "S" scores less on CD than the US average.

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My intuition tells me you have an interest in that. Want to debate about it? :D

So here is my question: are designs led by people who are sensing more or less likely to revolve around robot mounted sensors than driver intuition?

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ISTP-t for me. A lot of it actually made sense to me, but I my have rationalized some of the stuff they said... :P

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Which brings a tangential question; what is the breakdown of team roles by personality type (ie drive team, pit crew, PR, scouting, leadership, etc)?

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I think this question is better suited for the parent thread.