Is it normal that i am obsessed with the myer briggs personality test?

I agree, it's interesting. It's a clever way of itemising personality, so long as you take it with a pinch of salt since it's clearly reductionist. There's an easy way to logically prove it's reductionist: just find lists of historical figures described as (for example) ENFP, and you'll find obvious differences in their personalities despite them being the same type.

I don't know if it's quite normal to take tests every week. To me that seems excessive, and if you take it that often any change you see is probably going to be reflecting your mood at the time, not a genuine personality shift.

I also think that the more you are conscious of the point of the test and the meanings of each type, the more your result is likely to be skewed by your own bias (in psychology we call the effect self-report bias, and self-report bias increases the more the reporter - i.e. you - knows about the test). I don't trust myself to take a Myers-Briggs test without imparting bias any more, so I just describe myself using the result I got when I first took it when I was 15 which was INFJ, even when I tested myself most recently (last week, by utter coincidence) I was INTP but I can't prove there was no underlying bias. I had ENFJ one time, and many other combinations - INFJ was just my most common result and my first result.

What type are you, OP?

I just did this little test an I'm ISFP. Then of course I read the big long description of that type and it describes me pretty much exactly. Whoa man.

It's sad you are obsessed by such an unimportant and trivial thing. These tests are nothing more than modern day astrology, palm reading or any number of other bullshit ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their own actions.
You are who you are; accept it and make the best of it.
You only get one shot at life, don't waste it on this kind of hokus pokus.

Love love love the Meyers-Briggs personality test. It's one of the best ones out there, I think :)
I'm ISFJ.

The Myers-Briggs test has one big fatal flaw: It doesn't account for the personality types "moron" or "douchebag"

I don't know about you, but I come into contact with those people every day.

I have NO idea why people take it seriously. Except for the first item, the categories are hopelessly vague and overlapping.

It's just zodiac signs with scientific trappings.

Nope. I freaking hate psychiatry. Who the **** do they think they are labeling and judging people.

Surprisingly, Psychologists don't use Meyers-Briggs, they use the Big Five. I still like Meyers-Briggs better though. I'm INFP by the way.

INFJ - At your service.

I'm an INTP according to the test anyway. All my friends seem to be quite introverted as well, i guess that's a good thing for me. Being interested is normal, after all, the test is telling you about yourself, why wouldn't people be interested.

There was a poll about it on here a while back, that was actually the first time I'd heard of it. Mine came out INTJ, which is supposedly one of the rarer ones, but according to that poll, the majority of users who voted were INTJ! :)
Sadly they seem much more difficult to find in reality, that or it's because I have trouble connecting with people in general.

I was obsessed with it myself for a little while, seeing what kind of personalities the characters in my stories would have.

I'm ENTP!

It's normal that you love to learn about these things. I've never taken the test I think, but I would be interested in hearing what someone thinks I might be.

I got INTJ. It doesn't describe me perfectly, but it's getting close. Haha, I like how Hannibal Lecter is one of the famous fictional INTJs.

I test either INFJ or INFP (more often INFP). Rather than the categorization itself, I do tend to be interested - like you - in how people of various types interact.

I've often been accused of trying to save the world and the motives that have been attached to that are:

a, to be trendy
b, to impress people
c, to show off
d, to get sex
e, to be controversial
f, to put people down

They are the opinions of people who aren't INFP and I think, oddly, they're describing their own motives for completely different things. This is where it gets difficult because its not part of their personality type to be empathic and so while I (partially, of course) understand them, they don't understand me and think I'm exactly like them, but just pretending not to be.

My problem is that the types only highlight the problem. How people communicate better and understand better is another matter and one I haven't yet come close to dealing with in a quarter of a century.

Finally: isn't INFJ the rarest type? How odd there is a congregation of them on this thread. I wonder what that says about the site or this story.

Its good to like to learn stuff. One think I don't like about psychology though is it tries to categorize people when nobody is the same. Personally I've never fit into any predescribed psych profile. I don't like that they categorize people.

Also why is this blocked from safe mode? I once asked IIN I don't understand why the mods censor nonoffensive posts but they didn't approve it.

It's pretty interesting, I guess. I've took it a few times. Some of those times the description is pretty off, even though I took it! Plus I don't like how it's either one or the other. Like dom180 said, it's massively reductionist. I can't quite remember why, but a couple of friends ended up taking it for me (and answering based on what *they* thought fit me best) and vice versa, and the result was surprisingly accurate.

It changes, especially as with some I'm on the cusp. I'll take it again now and see what I end up with.

Edit: Heh, another INFJ! We should start a club or something. Apparently with the first two it was only a slight difference. Plus I skimmed and found some difficult to answer *because we real answer was "it depends" or just because I wasn't sure).