Home | WebMail |

      Calgary | Regions | Local Traffic Report | Advertise on Action News | Contact

Posted: 2016-11-03T16:52:41Z | Updated: 2016-11-07T01:28:41Z

This article first appeared on QuietRev.com

Robert Benchley once remarked that there are two kinds of people in the worldthose who divide people into two kinds and those who dont.

We are the former. If youre a reader of Quiet Revolution, you probably love personality tests as much as we do. Weve got the list youve been looking for!

1) The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most famous. Based on the typological theory described by Carl Jung, it was created in 1943 by a mother-daughter team, Katherine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers. Neither Katherine nor Isabel were trained in psychology, although Katherine was a devoted reader of Dr. Jung.

Today, its used for evaluating job candidates, executive development, and even marriage counseling. The test looks at four dimensions of personality, allowing the test-taker to indicate a preference for either of the two choices on each dimension. The dichotomous dimensions are introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving.

Each preference is coded by a letter, and the resulting personality type will have four letters, describing a persons preference for the way they perceive the world and like to make decisions. Two examples of 16 possible personality types are ISTP: The Analyzer Operator or ENFJ: The Envisioner Mentor.

Take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test here (at a cost of about $50).