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Funny comparison

I dont think we can map or put personality into "categories", but there are often interesting guidelines to help you grow as a person or understand yourself better.

Maybe you have heard about the Keirsey test* or Briggs Meyr test* and the temperamental sorter. The basis is Jungian psychology, which operates with different modes for perception :

Extroverted / Introverted
Intuitive / Sensing
Feeling /Thinking
Perceiving /Judging

These ways of perceiving are again divided into wetter they are extroverted or introverted, meaning weather you are mostly focusing and directing it inwards on yourself or outwards on the world. Then again they are divided into which of they perceiving ways that are dominant for you and which are not.

In the Jungian analysis this "sketch" for understanding the personality is seen through the combination of these modes of perception

An example: Taking the test this time, I got the score:

ENFP -

which means:

Extroverted (E) 70.97% Introverted (I) 29.03%
Intuitive (N) 66.67% Sensing (S) 33.33%
Feeling (F) 56.76% Thinking (T) 43.24%
Perceiving (P) 75% Judging (J) 25%

Or it could be said in an other way:

Dominant: Extraverted Intuition
Auxiliary: Introverted Feeling
Tertiary: extroverted Thinking
Inferior: Introverted Sensing

further the different temperaments are divided into several groups where out from their dominant features. These groups are called: Artisans, Guradians, Idealists and rationals

I found a littel cute site making a funny comparison about that matter:


Slytherin is the house for students known as being 'resourceful...with a certain disregard for rules,' also 'shrewd' and 'cunning folk [who] use any means to achieve their ends.' Sounds suspiciously like Keirsey's Artisans.

Hufflepuff is home to students who are 'hard workers,' also 'just and loyal,...patient...true, and unafraid of toil.' Who but Keirsey's Guardians?

Gryffindor welcomes those students known for their 'chivalry,' and who are willing to fight for what is 'right and good.' Very much like Keirsey's Idealists.

Ravenclaw is the 'wise old' house, reserved for only the 'cleverest' students, those of 'ready mind...wit and learning. Definitely Keirsey's Rationals.

I found a very simple and short version of this test

and here is an even shorter and super quick version, for those in a hurry

The very quick one has also a link to a really, really great page, where there are an in depth explanation and analysis of your type (which for me was strikingly accurate) and also tips and advises for personal growth. Here´s an example from that page. It is really worth a look

If you want to ead more about the Keirsey test you can also visit this page

* These are not the original Briggs Meyer and Keirsey test, but similar ones that are free. The original ones require payment. The one I have linked to the Briggs Meyr test is a longer version witha more in depthexplanationn and results than the first link