There's soemthing about....
A couple of years ago, the trendy "team building" activity where I work was to make everyone take Myres-Briggs personality tests. These categorise your personality in a four character code, made up from a series of alternatives: you are either an internalist (I) or an externalist (E), you are either judgemental (J) or perceptive (P) etc.

Note that all these are named to avoid negative connotations, but basically J means you jump to conclusions and P means you can't make up your mind. Why people think that having it scientifically proven who's a chatty mess and who's an anally retentive geek will build team harmony I don't know, but we played along... One of the interesting (in the very loosest sense of the word) findings was that our team was mostly Ps with only two Js out of 20-odd.

Anyway, after the big day we're looking through the results in the office and one of our directors comes over. He quickly scans the screen, looks thoughtfully for a moment and says: "you know, there's something about your P-ness...".

Cue the whole office rolling about laughing (if you don't get it, try saying it out loud)
(Inchworm, Wed 18 Jun 2008, 21:07, 2 replies)

I did that test.
I'm an INFP, a Healer.

What good knowing this does, I have no idea.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 18 Jun 2008, 22:23, closed)

Myers Briggs caught me out
I'm always sceptical of anything related management or team-building, so I was naturally very dubious when asked to fill one of these in. I can't remember my result, but I do remember the detailed feedback telling me that my sort of personality type "was likely to be sceptical of these sorts of tests."

HOW DO THEY KNOW??? FROM WHERE ARE THEY WATCHING ME??
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 9:20, closed)