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Typical ESFP response....

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised at all if those who jump in to denounce Myers Briggs have similar personality types.

Among all those I know who've taken it, myself included, it's been strongly indicative of their personality. And as I noted in another comment, three different tests have yielded the same results for me.

my results have been similar over the years, but have varied a bit. I was a bit more surprised that my IQ percentile didn't budge one bit over 30 years (tested as a kid, teen and adult).

When I first discovered this test, I made all my friends take it. Out of them, two stood out as highly skeptical to the whole concept, and disagreeing with the resulting type.

Somewhere at the bottom of the description for their type, and only for their type out of the 16, it mentioned specifically that this type 'hates these kinds of things' (or something like that).

Is this a reference to something? I have a vague memory of a show/movie where someone said that same thing about someones refutation of astrology. Something like: "typical aries" or whatever. I just can't remember what it was.

It's more of a meme (in the original sense) or trope than a specific reference.

Typical Model-D kafkatrap [1] :-)

    [1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122

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