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An Introduction to Myers-Briggs Personality Typing
Myers-Briggs personality typing splits personalities into sixteen archetypes, based on where a person falls in four categories of preferences. The preferences are:
Extroversion and Introversion (preferring to focus on the outer world of people and things [E] or your inner world of ideas and

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Wow, this is amazing. I love Myers Briggs and this basically made my day! Thank you :)

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thank you so much! i hope you find it useful =D (i'm quite a fan of myers-briggs myself, obviously! xD)

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This is AWESOME.

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thank you so much! I HOPE YOU FIND IT USEFUL ♥

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You know my thoughts on this, seeing as I saw the draft - but again, I'm impressed at how much work you put into this, and it should come in handy as a quick resource. Reducing people to only 16 types is always going to be imperfect, but I do find personality typing handy when I'm trying to get a handle of someone for fic.

It's also interesting seeing which personality types have more characters - I'm just trying to work out now if that's because those are more common, or if it's only more common among the sort of people who'd volunteer to go to war.

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hahaha, dude, i obsessed over this so much and i still have so many characters i'm unsure about or didn't manage to get sorted - there just isn't enough information! and yes, i agree, but i think it does definitely give good guidelines for a character (and it also can help with super minor characters. like, i didn't put christenson on here because we really don't see enough of him to know much about him other than that he's probably more on the introverted side and seems reasonably willing to go with the flow, but i totally have him as an INFP in my head canon /going to be writing him, soon. AND BILL KIEHN AS AN ESTP EVEN THOUGH WE ONLY SEE HIM IN A COUPLE SCENES

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You're writing Christenson! I AM EXCITED FOR THIS. I keep meaning to draw him (especially him and Alley - they don't have much/any interaction but for some reason I view them as friends. Maybe that's just because they're both very tall and pretty) but Michael Fassbender's face is surprisingly hard to capture as a drawing. I look forward to what you make of him in fic, though!

You make a good point about the difference between the WWII 'citizen soldier' types and the more modern career soldiers - I did note that a lot of the INTJs were career military/early volunteers, but at the same time, generally quieter and less-than-typical leaders. That's something I think I might make a note of for future reference. (Actually, I just realised it perfectly fits the protagonist of one of my original fiction projects. Must've picked up on the trope without even realising.)

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i totally see alley and christenson as friends! mostly because in the scene where bill kiehn dies, he'd been stealing potatoes w/ alley, and alley is saying 'i just left him for a moment, i was just coming back...' and is completely shutting down -- so i get the sense of them having been good friends, and christenson & kiehn were a machine gun team since toccoa so they're obviously close, SO IT's EASY TO MAKE THE JUMP THAT CHRISTENSON AND ALLEY ARE ALSO CLOSE.

yes, intjs are definitely a certain type of leaders/career military! there's also definitely a portion of SJs who go far in the military, because of the structure/rules and their ability to adhere to this easily, but they are a different kind of leader o: i think we see a significant portion of SFs in the paratroopers because SFs tend to be the most risk-taking of the preferences xD (and a surprising amount of NFs are around, too! but NF types tend to believe in the idea of a 'cause', so i can see how that plays into it.)

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it's definitely useful! someone else said this in their comment, but obviously with only sixteen types to sort people into, not everything about each type is going to apply to each person -- but it definitely helps give you some nice guidelines (especially when it's a character you don't see enough of to really get the chance to full flesh them out in your head from just what you see on screen.)

myers-briggs also works on a scale system --- like, you can be all the way over on the introverted side of the line, or you can hit right in the middle, or you can hit on 3/4ths introverted, etc, and i agree that webster isn't a super strong introvert (and usually, the way that i work it, is that when someone is close between two types, i read each type through and see which one the general feel of it more accurate xD) and does hit close to the middle of the line! (i'm actually the same way myself -- actually, i'm an ENFP! but i'm pretty much the most introverted extrovert possible, haha, though i definitely always score as an extrovert.)