Self-typing tips

This article is more about how to type yourself partially using theories or quizzes I had developed!

First, there is the ‘self-report consistency’. As the name of the website suggests, I like to use and connect different typology systems – although we might need to cut or ignore a few parts of theories in order to achieve coherence. This is the front of connection between different systems (and this is where my converter quizzes enters); You must not look an entirely different person in one system or another, the vision of yourself has to be consistency without different systems. So, just a raw and obvious example, a person cannot say that he/she is a INFP 835, or a INFP on Big 5 with a very High Extraversion, very Low Openness to Experience and very High Conscientiousness – its impossible to the same person to have these traits at the same time because they do require opposite traits in different systems. With these in mind, it is really recommended for the MBTI typing to take Enneagram and Big 5 tests. I do recommend this enneagram test and this Big 5 test, and this is the link to the Enneagram test I had made myself on Quotev (there is no support to put quizzes on the website unless I have a expensive subscription). As for MBTI, I do recommend Truity or 16 Personalities for dichotomy, and Typology Central test, Sakinorva cognitive functions test or keys2cognition cognitive functions test for the cognitive functions. The first thing to pay attention to is to the enneagram impossible combos with MBTI:

The impossible Enneagram and MBTI combos:

Type 1: ESTP, ESFP, ENFP, ENTP.

Type 2: INTP, ISTP, INTJ.

Type 3: INFP, ISFP, ISFJ.

Type 4: ESTP, ESTJ, ENTJ, ESFJ.

Type 5: ESTP, ENFJ, ESFP, ESFJ.

Type 6 (phobic): ENTP, ENFP, ENTJ.

Type 7: INTJ, INFJ, ISTJ, ISFJ, ESFJ.

Type 8: INFP, ISFP, ISFJ, ESFJ.

Type 9: ENTJ, ESTJ.

The reasoning is on this blog post.

So, for example, if you get INTJ on ones of the reasonable MBTI tests I had listed and Enneagram 7 in one of the enneagram tests I did recommended, then you definitely have a two different you’s while you are doing these tests, and your self-typing is not consistent. This list is for the CORE types; On my example, a INTJ can have 7 out of core enneagram type, but the other enneagram types must be consistent. Also, unusual combinations (such as INTJ 4) requires other enneagrams on a specific order that are compatible with types. So, another example, a INFP 2 is ok, but it does require 4 and/or 9 to come right by. I do know this is complex and I do have a calculator quiz just for that, so you can go to the enneagram to MBTI converter (here) and insert the 4 top results on the enneagram test and verify if it the result from the calculator matches the first 2 MBTI types (or 3, depending if there is a draw). Link for the Enneagram to MBTI converter. The same process can be repeated on Big 5, except that Big 5 does not really have much forbidden combinations – actually, unless complete opposites. The Big 5 does have some strong correlations of MBTI, but even though most of these correlations are not strong enough for a conversion. You can be Extroverted in MBTI and Introverted on Big 5 because the E/I concepts changes a little bit from one or another. However, a deep version connecting facets with MBTI and cognitive functions can do a good conversion because there is actually some good overlap between MBTI and Big 5,and the overlap is not that obvious. So, there is my Big 5 with facets to MBTI converter as well, in this link. Since it isn’t that precise, your imminent MBTI type is one of the first 3 results and the first 2 are quite likely.

Another trick is related to the Big 5 facets for people who knows the basics on spreadsheets (like LibreOffice Calc and MS Excel); You can do one Big 5 test with facets per month (or per week if you are so willing to rush, I recommend monthly), then archive the results. You can archive something like 3-6 results. After you did that on a spreadsheet, you can ask the sheet to calculate the standard deviation for each facets and the averages as well. You can mark on red on the facets with the highest standard deviations,that are basically the ones that are the most unstable facets of your personality, and press ‘skip’ on the calculator for them, so only the non-unstable aspects of your personality are considered for the conversion to MBTI. Pay attention to keep at least 10, if not 15, facets for the calculator (22 of 30 are used on the calculator). This approaches imminently increases the test-retest ratio for the MBTI on the calculator side – I say imminent because a experiment was never made.

For E/I, I have a very specific quiz (link) that uses wide E/I definitions that are quite indirect as well, and focus more on the environment-immune questions and does also feature detection for Repressed Extraverts and Social Introverts. Without the ambivert result, it might even get a better test-retest rate as well. I do think this one speaks higher than the Big 5 converter on the E/I dichotomy, but this E/I really goes off on the social E/I scale, since a Repressed Extravert is supposedly quite reserved (due to many likely reasons) and Social Introvert is outgoing.

These are my recommended resources for self-typing, hope they cast some light for some people.