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[cdave]

Spacetime anomaly in Herne Hill!

Via ruudboy

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According to a Myers-Briggs blog analyser these postings are by an ESFP, aka The Performers type.
Via amuchmoreexotic

In a previous online test I scored as a ENTP, aka Mad Scientist type.

I wonder if it's because I only present a certain part of myself online? Am I deliberately on making posts of a frivolous, entertaining nature? I I being flippant at the expense of my intellectual side?

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On a not entirely unrelated note, this evening I'm going to try and dye my (very dark) hair to blonde for a costume party tomorrow.

Comments

[drplokta]

Another anomaly in Bristol.

[cdave]

Oh, I like the Bristol one. Lots of lines radiating out, and a pair of foci.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

It thinks that my LJ is in Filipino...

But if I put in the other version at http://www.beeblebear.net then it tells me that I'm an ESTP. Interesting, considering that I reliably test as INTJ, aka The Mastermind/Scientist/Strategist.

Clearly one of several things is going on here:

a) This analyser is crap
b) MBTI is crap
c) I have a radically different public face and inner self.

I'll go for a) or c), reserving judgement on b) until I've read more of the original papers. Or does that merely confirm my INTJ-ness? :)

[cdave]

Personally I think a) is by far the most likely to be causing the effect, but that doesn't make for a short snappy silly post.

Which means that c) is actually true too.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

It makes for a great post - after all, it encouraged me to try it. :)

[raven-mocara.livejournal.com]

Yay party!!

[cdave]

I'm planning on wearing the same thing next weekend. Having just read your last post, you may get to veto my costume for the ball, and insist I just wear my Tux and Bowtie. Maybe try and borrow a tophat and cane our friendly neighbourhood Chaps.

[raven-mocara.livejournal.com]

Urgh, tbh, if its not a bubble head nurse then its fine XD I have a feeling I know what it is anyway ;)

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

My hair is reasonably dark, and to get it to a proper light blonde it has to be bleached twice or left for a very long time, or else it stops at orange. So you might want to buy a double lot of bleach.

[cdave]

I did indeed double bleach it. And went quite orange between the goes. It's golden now.

[blacktimberwolf.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'm not totally convinced by the analyser, since pointing it at my journal but at differing-but-recent points through the archive seems to come up with a large proportion of the different MBTI types.

(And certainly displays both of the available options for each letter.)

Slightly more amusingly, the one type it didn't give me is INTJ - my "tested" type - and it tended to identify things about 67% 'E', 33% 'I'... despite my last MBTI test putting me as 'I' with 91% confidence!

[sarahdotcom.livejournal.com]

Don't dye it! I sense a disaster approaching!

I got ESFP too, when I'm actually ENTP too. But I thought ENTP was the lawyer type, not mad scientist!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I got ESTP when I'm invariably N and borderline F/T

I suspect

(a) t's crap
(b) it can only see unlocked posts..

[sarahdotcom.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My whole blog's unlocked though (I only use my lj to read other people's ljs now, my blog is actually http://fingersandtoes.wordpress.com). I'm always NT, which it got wrong, and more borderline on the other two (I'm about 55/45 extravert/introvert, so if I'm in an introverted mood it sometimes comes out in the test)