Gyroscopic Investing

Phalanx wrote: I usually test as ISTJ, although I'll test as INTJ every now & then.

When comparing a list of famous ISTJs vs INTJs, I strongly self-identify with the ISTJs.

Tortoise wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:44 am I was originally going to start a poll on this, then decided just to make it a thread since it's probably kind of a niche topic.

The Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator is a questionnaire, heavily influenced by Carl Jung, that determines which one of 16 personality types is most dominant in the person completing the questionnaire. Naturally, this is just one particular model of personality types, and some people's types change over time. But the idea is that most people tend to land in one of the 16 Meyers-Briggs categories most often, and that is roughly the person's "type."

Each of the 16 personality types is denoted by a string of four letters: E (extroverted) or I (introverted), S (sensing) or N (intuition), T (thinking) or F (feeling), and J (judgment) or P (perception).

I'm interested in finding out whether one or two of the 16 Meyers-Briggs personality types are disproportionately represented among the Harry Browne and Permanent Portfolio fans on this forum.

I have a definite guess as to which type(s) is (are) most common on this forum, but I didn't want to skew the results by saying it at the outset.

What's your type?

Bob wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:27 am ESJT.  First took the Meyers-Briggs in the mid-1970s.  Was ESTJ.  Took again in the late 1990s - still an ESTJ.  I guess I'm incapable of change.  For what is worth, the majority of military officers in the late 1990s registered as ISTJ's.