My LJ is the tempermental opposite of my personality!

[davidfcooper]

In a recent post anotherjen reports that Typealyzer confirms that her LJ matches her personality type, ESTJ. Well it turns out that Typealyzer thinks my LJ is also ESTJ even though numerous personlity test indicate that I am an INFP. I ran it again for my LJ profile which Typealyzer considers an ISTP, the same result it generated for my website and my blogspot blog, though it reads my myspace as an INTP. I next ran it for bethr who considers herself an XNFP and has tested as an ENFP, and it turns out that Typealyzer considers her LJ an ESTJ and her LJ Profile an ISTJ.

How often does a Typealyzer result for one's blog match one's Myers-Briggs Personality Type? Does your Live Journal or other blog match your personality type?

Comments

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I've tried it a couple of times now and just keep getting this message: "Detected language Not enough data to determine language.. The only supported languages are English and Swedish. But stay tuned, we are expanding." The hell?

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

I'm also disappointed since we're both INFPs (yours is not the only LJ they can't read; anaisdjuna's LJ is also undecipherable). I have one other INFP LJ friend that I'm aware of: her LJ is ESFP and her profile page is ESTJ. quietann has tested and self identifies as an INTJ, but her LJ is ESFP and her profile page is INTP.

I suspect that Typealyzer cannot read locked posts and bases its computation on posts that are intended for the public, which might explain some mild introverts being read as extroverts.

[bethr.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed? ST? Throw it out. If I had a shred of S in my body it would toss my sorry N meta-consciousness out on its ass.

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

It's not a measure of our personalities but rather of the content we post in our LJs. I'm not surprised it rates my LJ as an E, since my posts tend to be outer focused (I rarely post about myself). I'm not surprised it's a T since my posts tend to be more objective than subjective. S? Well, most of my posts are not very deep or thoughtful, especially since I started microblogging on Twitter.

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

Other ways our LJs are more S than N include foci on the present and recent past rather than the future or distant past and on immediate rather than delayed gratification.