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Other
Sorters (Free)
Other
Sorters (Not Free)
Find Links to Funny Personality Tests at Net Links > fun(ny)
These are the places I know of so far to
take the official MBTI® instrument online. None of them
are free, and all should include some amount of counselling
or guidance on the results (that's what you pay for). Click
on the organization name to go to the Net Links page for
website where you can get pricing, if
available.
The
Delta
Associates
Dragonstrike
Systems
KnowYourType.com
Paladin
Associates, Inc
Quick Quiz to Get an
Idea of Your Type
(added 20 Sep
2000)
QuizStop has mainly "just for fun" quizzes on a large range
of topics, including a fast and fun intro to finding your
type. The principal wrote the questions for this
online
Myers-Briggs™ - based quiz.
Company Provides
Version of Sorter Online
(added 26 Apr
2000)
In
The Mood "supplies knowledge
workers, multidisciplinary teams, management and OD training
professionals with the online tools needed to create
effective learning and communications strategies." On
their Power Tools page, they provide several on-line
personality profilers, including one based on the Keirsey
Sorter.
Find out your
Communication
Style (added 12
Apr 2000)
Straight
Talk provides a free online
survey to allow you to determine your communication style.
It appears based on Myers-Briggs™ type, but I couldn't
confirm it from the site alone. They distinguish between
your communication style at work and in other environments,
like at home. I came out as a "Persuader", with my highest
scores on the Director and Harmonizer scales. Sounds ENFJ to
me. In one of last year's articles, What
Type is this Site, I mused that
this site may come across as ENFJ. Perhaps the survey
measured the communication style I have when putting
together this site every week?
On-Line Sorters and
Profiles (added 5
Apr 2000)
Great
Inca's Personality Corner has two
on-line tests based on the MBTI® instrument, links to
profiles, as well as other online personality tests,
including the Grace Gift Test, Heroic Myth Index, Enneagram,
and others. The reference page includes a great deal of
summary information, arranged in tables, about the types,
including one-liners and facts.
Functional Preferences
Instrument (added 26
Jan 2000)
The editors of The Enneagram and the MBTI
-an Electronic Journal (link review at Net Links - epubs)
have a web based instrument focusing on functional
preferences - that is, the N vs S and T vs F pairs. It does
not attempt to determine I vs E or J vs P. Optionally, you
can submit your results to them to help in the development
of this instrument. It is at: Fudjack/Dinkelaker
Functional Preferences Instrument - Short Form
1.1(experimental).
And the Smalley Site
Is ... (added 15 Dec
1999, updated 29 May 2000)
When I checked it on 29 May 2000, the site
was renamed Smalley
Online, and the home page address
was slightly different.
The
Smalley Relationship Center Web Site provides a very
quick "indicator" that gives you a list of attributes by
temperament (identified by beaver, otter, lion and golden
retriever).
Word Association to
Determine Type
(added 15 Dec 1999)
The Watchword
Technique is defininitely *not* a
quick method to determine type. By filling out word
associations and analyzing where they fall on a matrix, you
can determine your type, although I wasn't able to. Since I
already know my type, it was hard to avoid reading that
knowledge back into the matrix. The word associations are
also supposed to give you insight into issues that are
concerning you at the time you fill it out - I found that to
be more helpful in my case.
Instrument like
MBTI® sorter for Visually Impaired
(added 1 Dec
1999)
"CogStyle
is measure of core personality characteristics using stimuli
selected to minimize, if not eliminate, the influence of
visual experience on the response." The four traits
measured are attitude (extraversion- introversion); approach
(data-ideas); focus (things-people); and process
(detailed-contextual). Follow the CogStyle link to find a
page where you can request access to the instrument from the
Neuropsychological Assessment Lab at the University of
Nevada in Las Vegas Nevada.
Chiasson Temperament
Indicator (added 24
Nov 1999)
"This new type of indicator uses
psychologist, Carl Jung's, Psychological Types as its
theoretical model. It employs the now familiar temperament
descriptors made famous by Isabel Meyers and Katharine
Briggs." Take the CTI,
and compare it with what you already know about your type.
An interesting aspect of this indicator is that the
succeeding questions differ depending on your previous
answers. Read the theory pages to find out why the author
has structured the indicator in this way, and what MBTI®
problems she hopes to avoid by doing this.
Lenore Thomson's
Questionnaire (added
17 Nov 1999)
You can take a version of Lenore
Thomson's indicator online. Pat
Marr has adapted it, with her permission, from her book
Personality Type: An Owner's Manual online.(*
Buy
it at Amazon * Read
My Review *) The type
descriptions are not completely finished, but you can go
through the questions and get the resulting
type.
The
Keirsey Temperament Sorter II
(updated 9 Aug
1999)
Temperament
Sorter copyrighted by David
Keirsey in 1998. 70 either-or items, scored immediately at
the end of the test. Determine whether you are a Guardian
["SJ"], Artisan ["SP"], Idealist
["NF"], or Rational ["NT"]. Keirsey also has
descriptive terms for each four-letter type. For example,
I'm a Designer. The
sorter is also available online at this site in German,
Spanish, Portuguese and Norwegian.
The Keirsey Character
Sorter (added Fall
1998)
The Keirsey
Character Sorter is copyrighted
by Keirsey in 1997. In Part I, there are 16 items, and each
item includes four choices, each of which you are to rate on
a scale from 1 to 4. In Part II, there are 20 either-or
items, and you are told to skip any hard ones. This also
sorts you into the four temperaments above, but there are
more statistics, and a bar chart. For example, I'm an NT,
with my next closest temperament being SP, then NF, lastly
SJ.
Hale Storm's
Test (updated
31 May 1999)
Hale
Storm's test is a four part
personality test. In each part, there are two columns
listing characteristics. You pick column A or column B for
each part. Then you get your four-letter
type.
Duniho and Duniho Life
Pattern Indicator
(added Fall
1998)
The Duniho
and Duniho Life Pattern Indicator
(DDLI) is a computer program you
can download that measures for the same 16 psychological
types as the Keirsey-Bates Temperament Sorter and the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument. It asks you
lots of questions in order to determine your life pattern.
"Besides asking questions about E-I, S-N, T-F and J-P
preferences, as the MBTI and KBTS do, it also cross-checks
by asking questions on IS-ES, IN-EN, IF-EF, IT-ET and
Rational-Arational preferences."
Integrated
Psychological Type Indicator
(added Fall
1998)
The Integrated
Psychological Type Indicator is
from the Socionics
site, which calls Socionics "a relatively young and
dynamically developing branch of psychology".The items
weren't numbered and I didn't count them, so I don't know
how many there were. They were all either-or items. The
interesting aspect of this test is that it gives a
reliability rating. When I took it, my reliability rating
was low.
Mental
Muscle Diagram Indicator
(added Fall 1998,
updated 10 May 2000)
The Mental
Muscle Diagram Indicator can be
downloaded or taken on-line. "Currently, the program is a
research edition, so it does not provide any interpretation
of results, although some brief feedback is available on
request. It aims to reflect the extent to which you use each
of the Jungian function-attitudes, and those who have some
knowledge of Myers Briggs and/or Jung may find it
interesting." This is currently
my favorite free online sorter.
Metamorphosis: Explore
your Destiny
(added 1 Mar
1999)
Metamorphosis
is an on-line game to determine type. You are a newly minted
android trying to determine who you are. On a series of
screens, you are placed in various social situations where
you have to make choices. Each page takes a while to load,
and there are not enough pages and choices to do a really
good job of determining your type, only about two questions
per type dichotomy. Although I'm an INTP, I came out as INFJ
and INFP: not surprising since those are the two preferences
where my preference is less clear. Still, it's a wonderful
concept. With more situations and faster download time, it
could be a great way to determine type.
Online
Psych (added
8 Mar 1999)
includes this online test under Mind Games,
and also maintains forums on various mental health topics.
There is forum dedicated to Jung's psychology (the person
who came up with the concept of types), but I could find
little there dealing with personality type. The
Personality
Type Test is much like other
online tests, but I thought the questions were better
written. Instead of asking generally which you prefer
(although the test includes some of that kind of question),
there are a lot of questions which give you specific
situations to answer.
Canadian Career Site
has On-line Sorter
(added 26 Apr 2000)
At the TypeFocus
on Careers site, there is not
only an online sorter to take: there are also a series of
screens to help you decide whether the four letter results
are correct. "TypeFocus Internet wants to change people's
lives through the power of self-discovery using personality
type insights. We bring this information into practical
career-focused applications by providing on-line personality
assessments and personalized career reports at affordable
prices."
The Personality
Profiler™
(added 15 Sep
1999)
Renewal
Publishing, which is part of ORA
(see link review in Net
Links > companies) offers The
Personality Profiler™, which may be taken online for a
fee of $29.95 as of 15 Sep 1999. This profiler is not the
MBTI® instrument: "Using Jung's Type Theory as a
foundation, the Personality Profiler unites Psychological
Type, Temperament, Trait, and the Five-Factor Model of
Personality into a comprehensive survey and Feedback
Report." You will get a four letter type, where the J/P
preference has been replaced by Z/A, with certain changes in
the understanding of what that preference means. Also, each
preference pair is further broken down into "facets". For
example, T-F facets include Rational-Empathetic,
Autonomous-Compassionate, Analytic-Warm and
Competitive-Nurturing. Thus it is possible for someone with
a strong T preference to still have a score for the
Nurturing facet - or for someone with an F preference to
have a high score for the Analytic
facet.
The Personality
Page (updated
1 Sep 1999)
Note: The Personality Page has changed its address from
http://www.meyers-briggs.com to
http://www.personalitypage.com/
The
Personality Page is a very
attractive site with the primary goal of creating and
maintaining an on-line questionnaire which will determine
Myers-Briggs™ type with a good degree of
accuracy. So far, one person (besides the webmaster) has
given me feedback on this site, and recommends it,
especially if you have had problems determining your type in
the past. Interestingly, his problem was in differentiating
N vs S. Others seem to think other Myers-Briggs™
sorters have a tendency to over select N, so it will be
interesting to see if this test avoids that. This page is
maintained by Brenda Muller (ENFP).
The Personality Page has now compiled
statistics
on the people who have taken their questionnaire online.
They have information on education level, income, and
marital status as well as the frequency of various types.
Remember, this data only includes those who took their
questionnaire, and doesn't reflect the population at large.
Lots of data on people with S function preferences - which
is often missing on-line.
Humanmetrics
(added Fall
1998)
Humanmetrics
offers a free 72 question yes-no test to determine your
Myers-Briggs™ type on-line. This test provides degree
of each preference: thus, I am a very expressed introvert, a
moderately expressed intuitive, a distinctly expressed
thinking, and a distinctly expressed perceiving personality.
For $3, you and your mate each take the test, and then
receive matching indices, and proposals on the best behavior
in marriage for your particular pair. Symon
Kerbel from Humanmetics tells me
"The test has been validated by Family Consultants and
[is] especially valuable for match-making
services." I haven't done the for-pay
analysis.
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