There is no "A" in Meyers-Brigg parlance.

It's out there. I do know that marriage partners who share N (intuitive) can survive lots of ups and downs because they understand people and social dynamics on a deeper level than those that lack intuition. I can vouch for that as my wife of 29 years is an ENFP and we have a great marriage!

I saw the test on line. It looked so easy to cheat so that it could be made to turn out any way you wanted it to, either consciously or subconsciously. Plus the version on line wanted too much information after the test.
"I'd call you ladies and gentlemen, but you know what you are." -- Milton Berle

I'm an INTP although a few time INTJ has been the result. Personally I'm very logic driven almost to the exclusion of emotional input. I completely agree that the Objectivist may be more inclined toward the logical given our focus on facts and reality over the emotional "everyone's keeper" mentality in my humble opinion.

Are you saying I have no self-confidence?

Dangit! (LOL)

This conversation took a completely different tack though. Interesting. For the record I took the test and I was an INT A.

I think you are still pretty hardcore, blar-buddy ;)

Agree, situations do change ones behaviors. As you note, in the office, I do naturally end up in a leadership role, even if not through position. However, in many day to day circumstances, I do not. Framing a house, yes. Organizing a party, no.

I appreciated both systems: they both helped me to learn about myself. I also noticed that the three times I have taken it over the years show me to have developed. I used to be as hardcore I as one could get - literally 16 of 16. Much of that was because I had no self-confidence and so being around people was terribly uncomfortable for me. N and T have always been solid, but I have waffled back and forth on P and J - mostly depending on the circumstances.

I have also taken the DISC, as well as red-yellow-blue-white, which is more of an organizational behavior test. I really liked that one (sometimes yellow is substituted for green) where Red is Driver, Blue is Analytical, White is Amiable, and Yellow is Creative.

I think that is an axiom.

I am an INTJ as well.

I agree with your judgement DISC allows for more flexibility. While we have core personality, we vary it depending on circumstances: you tend to present differently to your lover/spouse then you do to your boss or your subordinates. DISC allows for that and when administered suggests that you think of a situation while selecting your answers. With your results, I'll guess you are in charge even when you are not officially so ;-)

Thanks. I found DISC much simpler and less accurate..

ENTJ here.
I have found that personality model extremely useful in understanding others better, and to learn more about myself!

I would think that research would be out there somewhere. And if so, I would love to read it!

I am definitely a Ragnar. I am about fed up with where this country is going.

If I remember correctly, I was split between E and I NTJ.

I've always vaguely suspected that we Objectivist types tend to be INTJ. I suppose it also explains why I find few people I can relate to.

Has anyone done research on relationships and marriages between Myers-Briggs types?

Maybe we should program robots with the characteristics best suited to the job at hand.

Yes, same with me. I think I got it from watching my parents and my interest in science and engineering. THINGS dont work on feelings, they work on facts only.

Hence the popularity of socialism !! THEY arent INTJ's.

another interesting question...back in the late 60's, i attended a number of NBI lectures in NYC...in casual conversation i asked Ayn about pretty much what you are asking...Nat and Barbara jumped in and answered steering the conversation to one's psycho-epistemology...

in later years, i was out in L.A. on a layover as a pilot with American Airlines...i met Nat for lunch...the subject came up that Ayn had commented in a taped conversation that she did not trust the psycho-epistemology of pilots...i asked Nat to comment...he said that she was very distrustful of putting anyone in charge of her life unless she knew them very well...Nat said he would trust his life to fly with me as the pilot in charge...

i have found many pilots with a similar personality type as mine...we are obsessive compulsive and find great certainty in a very step-by-step approach to life in a logically structured order. Yet other pilots were also religious...some would profess that if the rapture came while we were flying, that they would be lifted up and the rest of us would be left alone on this earth (oh yeah)...i would play with their mind by telling them that if i was in the lav during a rapture and he was lifted up and the plane crashed and the rest of us died that he would go to hell for not staying with us...most of them would have an existential crisis and worry themselves no end (what else do you have to talk about at 35,000 ft on autopilot from L.A. to Miami on the red-eye)....but i found that Objectivism and flying fit my personality desires naturally and logically...

Interesting, I never took the test until now, but my personality type letters are INTJ also. Makes sense that Objectivists would fall into this category.

INTJ/INTP. J=P. Through the years, J was slightly greater than P until last test circa 2007. As I recall, INTJ is associated with military officers and high risk judgment.

I've taken the test a few times over the past 30 years and moved from a P to a J in that time. My take on that is I was more comfortable with ambiguity in my youth than I am at 68!

Great question cadalyyn! Having cut my teeth on Objectivism and then moved on to small "l" libertarianism some 45 years ago, I always suspected most of us were INTJs. Did not realize we were such a small % of the population though. Although my wife (ENFP) always kids me that I am in the 10% bracket of any personality characteristic ever defined.