On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:39:43AM -0600, Tsarren wrote: > I've done Meyers-Briggs and/or Keirsey (it was several years ago and the > results seem to be in the same format); they are the only personality tests > I've ever found of any worth - because they told me something about myself > and human nature that I didn't already know . . . I've taken both M-B and Keirsey as well, and was quite surprised to find radically different results. I had occasion to discuss this with a professional in the field, and she said it's uncommon but not unusual. In one set of tests I was an 'individual contributor', ie, a person who worked largely on his own doing self-contained technical tasks (software development). In another, I was the director of R&D at a rapidly growing company. Her opinion was that I'd taken the tests 'in the role' of the position I was performing, and the results reflected my ability to play the role as much as any native personality traits. So take your own results with a grain of salt. Which, come to think of it, is a good idea with any personality inventory. Including simple introspection. -- "In my darker moments I consider creating the eeyore fan club with a theme song by Leonard Cohen, logo by Edvard Munch and costumes by Tim Burton." -- anonymous, forwarded by Ellen.