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#GetSorted results

Jul 19 - HeddaGab.  I think you’re an ESFP!  Your first test came close - EF with Se and Ni, but I definitely think you’re a P not a J.  I was laughing when you got to the bit about direction - you’re the first person who’s shared my exact problem of coming out of a store and going the wrong way (every time!!!).

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i waved at a bus driver from a bus stop and he pulled over and i got on because i felt bad and honestly i just wish i had more control of my life

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#GetSorted 07 21

I. THE MBTI-SORTED VIDEO CHALLENGE

What I need from you:

Record a 10-min. video; don’t worry if it’s not exact, but try to be within a minute or two. Answer as many or as few questions from the list below (Section B)  as you’d like, plus the four at the bottom (Section  C).  Don’t over-edit the video!  I really want all your weird long pauses, and your rambling.  If you make a 20-min. video and need to cut out some questions to make it back to 10, that is acceptable.  

Upload your video to a platform like YouTube, or Google Drive, and send me the direct link using this Google Form. Either a public or unlisted video is fine, whatever you’re comfortable with doing - just make sure it’s not set to private so I can still watch it.  If you want to make it easier to find, you can tag your video under #GetSorted.  

Make sure you are well lit from the front, not the back so I can see your face.  Sit far enough away from the screen that I can see some of your body language. 

If you’d like, you can use an interviewer or camera operator, so you are  interacting with another person. Make sure to face the camera wherever  possible, though.  If they want to answer questions, too, they must  submit their own video (this is an interview, not a conversation!).  

You must be 18 years of age or older to participate.  

Please submit your videos by July 23rd, 2021. Results will go live by July 30th.

What You Get: I will try and type you! I might not be able to, but I can probably narrow it down.  

II. Video Content

A. INTRODUCE YOURSELF: What is your (first/screen) name? MBTI results will  be shared via a post on mbti_sorted, so please make sure you only share  information that you are comfortable with being used publicly on Tumblr.  You can also introduce your interviewer or camera person.

B. PICK SOME QUESTIONS TO ANSWER (for approx. 9-minutes 30 seconds):

 What was your favourite subject in school and did you pursue it as a career?

Have you ever tried your hand at matchmaking and how did it go?

Are you a good cook or a baker?  Do you prefer one to the other? What food do you enjoy making and why?

What languages do you speak?  If you are not a native English speaker, answer a question in your first language (and then summarize it after in English).

What is one thing you find weirdly fascinating?

Which is the better pet: cats or dogs?

Tell us about a recurring conflict with a family member.  

Do you believe in any supernatural phenomena?  

Do you collect or gather people?  (ie. do you like to host or organize social gatherings and outings (even if just for two people at a time), and do you regularly invite new people along?  Do you actively cultivate friendships with people you find interesting?)

What character do you identify with the most and why?    

Do you have a good sense of direction?  Describe how you go about navigating (when you can’t rely on GPS).

Do you have a good sense of time?  Is your sense of time better or worse than your sense of direction?

Can you describe a memorable dream?

Are you a heartbreaker or a heartbreak-ee?

The Temple Grandin inspired question: if I tell you to think of a clock tower, what’s happening in your head?

Tell us about a teacher or a coach who left a big impression on you.

What is your dream car?  Or if you aren’t into cars, what piece of technology do you dream of owning?

Tell us about the last piece of media you felt really engaged with.   (Music, art, dance, writing, video, presentation, game, etc.)  Was it a typical representation of what you usually enjoy?

Are you passionate about your career? If yes, tell us about it. If not, do you wish you had done something different?

Do you collect anything?

Would you be unable or unwilling to answer any of these questions? Which?

C. ANSWER THESE FOUR QUESTIONS (30 seconds):

Tell me which is your dominant hand and foot i.e. are you right-handed and right-footed?  Are there any fine-motor control activities that are easier with your non-dominant side? (Like if you write and throw with your right hand, but catch with the left hand.)

How much preparation did you do before making this video?  If you have an interviewer, did you pick the questions or did they?  Who decided to do it that way?  

What type do you think you are?  

In 1-3 adjectives, describe how you think others see you. 

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#GetSorted

I. THE MBTI-SORTED VIDEO CHALLENGE

What I need from you:

Record a 10-min. video; don’t worry if it’s not exact, but try to be within a minute or two. Answer as many or as few questions from the list below (Section B)  as you’d like, plus the three at the bottom (Section C).  Don’t over-edit the video!  I really want all your weird long pauses, and your rambling.  If you make a 20-min. video and need to cut out some questions to make it back to 10, that is acceptable.

Upload your video to a platform like YouTube, or Google Drive, and send me the direct link using this Google Form. Either a public or unlisted video is fine, whatever you’re comfortable with doing.  If you want to make it easier to find, you can tag your video under #GetSorted.

Make sure you are well lit from the front, not the back so I can see your face.  Don’t sit too close to the screen, so more of your body language can be seen.

If you’d like, you can use an interviewer or camera operator, so you are interacting with another person. Make sure to face the camera wherever possible, though.  If they want to answer questions, too, they must submit their own video (this is an interview, not a conversation!).

You must be 18 years of age or older to participate.

Please submit your videos by February 28th, 2021. This is an experiment and I have no idea how many videos will be submitted, so I appreciate your patience!

What You Get: I will try and type you! I might not be able to, but I can probably narrow it down. 

II. Video Content

A. INTRODUCE YOURSELF: What is your (first/screen) name? MBTI results will be shared via a post on mbti_sorted, so please make sure you only share information that you are comfortable with being used publicly on Tumblr. You can also introduce your interviewer or camera person.

B. PICK SOME QUESTIONS TO ANSWER (for approx. 9-minutes 30 seconds):

Tell us about a teacher or a coach who left a big impression on you.

What was your favourite subject in school and did you pursue it as a career?

Do you have any athletic injuries and how did you get them?  

Do you believe in any supernatural phenomena?

Tell us about a recurring conflict with a family member.

What character do you identify with the most and why?

How many languages do you speak?  Is English your first language?  If it isn’t, answer a question in your native language (please summarize it after in English!).

What advice would you give to your younger self and what would they think of where you are now? Would you warn them about anything?

Do you people-gather?  (If you’re unsure, ask others in your group(s) if they’re there because of you.)  How many groups do you belong to, and what do you think of this?

Are you passionate about your career? Tell us about it.

Which holiday brings you the least joy?

Are you a heartbreaker or a heartbreak-ee?

What is your dream car?  Or if you aren’t into cars, what piece of technology do you dream of owning?

Would you rather make a lot of money at a job you hate or do a job you love that keeps you below the poverty line?

Do you collect anything?

Have you ever had any alternative career paths/life gameplans?  Do you wish you had taken another path in retrospect?

Do you have a good sense of direction?  How do you navigate (when you can’t rely on GPS)?  Do you navigate new places/buildings the same way you navigate your home town/familiar buildings?  Is your sense of time better or worse than your sense of direction?

Credit to Temple Grandin for this question: if I tell you to think of a church steeple, what’s happening inside your head? (You could also talk about a clock tower, or a water tower, or a minaret - something you are familiar with, but have less personal connection to works best.)

Would you be unable or unwilling to answer any of these questions?  Which?

C. ANSWER THESE THREE QUESTIONS (30 seconds):

How much preparation did you do before making this video?  If you have an interviewer, did you pick the questions or did they?  Who decided to do it that way?

What type do you think you are?

In 1-3 adjectives, describe how you think others see you.

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#GetSorted 07 21 results

Christien: Very weird to watch!  You are like me-through-the-looking-glass, where all our answers start or end in the same place but go somewhere completely different in the middle.  Really highlights what a slight change in function stack will do.  I kept thinking of Jason Ralph, but I’m not sure if it’s just the hair...??

awkwardisoverrated: Mostly found myself thinking that you were extremely personable.  Also, your favourite things about your job are talking to people and finding number-related drama!  Always great to find more math-loving SFPs.

Anna: You have some ISFJ-ish mannerisms, but you are definitely an ESTP.  A little bit Julia Stiles-ish, perhaps?  You are continuing on the tradition of ESTs knowing exactly which cars they want!

carto_writer: I am pretty sure about ENTJ, but I can’t think of clear enough examples to prove it to myself.  Enjoyed listening to you talk about books, and am curious about your organizing - are you a subject -> author, with all books upright?

Erin: You remind me of someone I know, actually.  Had a wonderful career making glasses for people to wear, if you are looking for ideas for a new job!  Always cool that even when I get two of the same type, you’re very different people (although I’m starting to wonder if ENFPs liking cats more is a universal thing...).

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Any ideas as to when you'll be doing the Get Sorted challenge again? Would love to know your thoughts on my type!

I was thinking of making it annual, so next February.

However, I will consider doing a semi-annual challenge in July if there are enough people willing to participate.

So... like this post if you want to submit a video in July.

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#GetSorted Round-up

The #GetSorted Challenge is over, and I’m still kind of absorbing everything.  Here’s some of what’s been going on from my perspective:

i) I had 19 participants, 14 women and 5 men.  Only 3 were NJs, only 3 were TJs, and only 4 were introverts.  I said before that I thought introverts would be unlikely to enter, and I guess I can stand by that.  If my typings were right, no INFP, INFJ, ISTJ, ISFP.  If wrong… missing an ENFJ, and got an INFJ?  Other than that, there was nothing particularly noticeable, demographically, by mbti.

ii) Sometimes I get the feeling some of you still don’t have a great idea of how my ‘process’ works, such as it is.  Hopefully this gives you a better idea.  Bold is when I settled on a type.  Red is for mistakes.  Purple italics is for partial typing.  (Typings subject to change upon future waffling, but probably only the less than 100% ones in this case).

I had 14 people typed in the first 5 seconds (73%), although one was wrong, and I had the remaining 5 narrowed down to either two or four types.  By end of video I had 15 typed (84%), with four narrowed down to 2-3 types.   After waffling post video and/or talking to my typing team of sisters I had 18 typed  (94%), with one wrong.  After time to reflect (and more consulting), I cleared up the two I’d gotten wrong, so now I’m pretty sure about 17 of the typings (89%). The two left are one of two types.

iii) What made me unsure about types?  Not having good examples for comparison, primarily.  There was only one first impression I had (complete or partial) that felt wrong by the end.  Having a team with other experiences and examples mostly helped fill in the gaps.  Also defending my typings makes me defensive and less objective, which I’m aware of, so I’m willing to give the two in question the benefit of the doubt.

iv) Were the questions effective?  I generally type people with media training who give canned answers, so content is helpful, but secondary for me if things are going well.  I had very few expectations for the content going in - I was mostly trying to give people something to talk about that was not specifically about mbti.  Watching the questions be chosen and interpreted was the interesting part, more so than the actual content of the answers.

Intro questions: for context, what are you up to?

    1. Teacher - a lot of people answered, which was good.

    2. Subject - This one was good for context, but I would combine it with #10 and 16.

    10. Job Passion - mostly ENs said yes!

    16. Other paths - combine with #2

    7. Language - This did what it was supposed to - establish a baseline for non-English speakers, which was great, because there were 7!  Also interesting to hear about all the polyglots.

Personal:

   5. Conflicts - If you were willing to answer this, how personal were you willing to get?  Mostly EFs and then ETJs shared personal strife in remotely any detail.

   8. Younger self - not specifically useful (tended to confirm whatever I was thinking already, but not divulge anything new), but a lot of people answered

Fun:

   4.Supernatural - this was the most answered question (everyone but the ITPs), and I can say that so far there’s not much of a pattern to people’s beliefs.

   6.Character - this turned out to be super useful! People identify with characters who share either 2 or 4 functions and/or 2+ (mostly 3+) letters.

Negative: had the idea that the questions I was asking were mostly positive and I should flip the ‘What’s your favourite-’ thing on it’s head.

   (5. Conflicts)

   11. Holidays - This turned out to be not very useful and kind of a downer.  People who want to be negative are capable of doing so without prompting!

Random:

   3. Sports injury - useless!  Tumblr mbti people are apparently not into sports (go figure!), and all it did was make @enfjpuppettheatre want to hunt down a coach and give them a talking-to.  If I actually wanted to look at this, I’d have to pair up with a physio.

   14. Broke or $$ - nothing conclusive.

   19. Unanswered ?s - not the most interesting, but sort of useful for context, again.

Aimed: trying to see if I could get some specific reactions.

   9. Collect/gather people (E/I, ENTJ, ESFs) - I forgot that ENTJs collect people!  I have a lot of ESFs in person I know who collect people and wouldn’t consider that that’s what they’re doing, which seems to pan out.  (Although not every ESF does).

   12. Heartbreak (ESFP) - I was thinking of my friend who reminds me of CuppaJasmineTea when I put this in, and she was the one most excited to answer, so that was cool!

   13. Cars & tech (T-types) - A lot of these were personal or feelings oriented, so this one was just about the shiny objects.  4/8 T types answered it. Two ESTs and an ESFP picked out a car.  The ESTP’s choice was for story reasons!

   15. Collect Things (Si?) - interesting what people considered collections!  I don’t think this worked as expected, but it was interesting.

   17. Direction & time (Si vs Se) - Si tends to navigate by steps/landmarks/street signs.  Se tends to orient themselves to a landmark/other that I don’t entirely understand.  This is a fascinating question to me that I wish I could ask more about in follow up.  I once spent about an hour quizzing @enfjpuppettheatre on which direction she thought things were.

   18. Steeple (Se vs Si) - Se tended to have more 3d, or cinematic experiences, happening over time.  Si tended to have more 2d, postcard image experiences. STPs were the anomaly, having story/symbolism/metaphor associations.

Exit questions

   1. Prep - more context.  Most of you put a lot more work into these than I was expecting!

   2. Mbti type - the only people who said they were the type I thought they were gave me a couple of types to work from.  My opinion of the mbti test continues to be low...

   3. Description - tended to work as confirmation rather than anything revelatory.

v) Are there any patterns by type as far as content goes?  There were not enough people entering to really make much of this.  Some things were interesting, particularly the STPs leaning into story associations.

vi) Are there any patterns that were not content-oriented?  The time limit gave some interesting results.  Three quarters of the shortest videos were by TPs, but the remaining TP had the longest video.  Also the number of questions answered fell into a pattern:

vii) Would I revise the challenge in any way? 

-As far as content of questions, I would remove the sports injury, joyless holidays, broke or $$ questions, and combine subject/job into one question. Changing the order of questions might lead to different results since most people answered in order and a lot people didn’t have time for some of the ones at the end (I just posted them in the order I came up with them).  I would maybe add some that aimed at functions other than Si-Se.  I would also rewrite the direction question, the people gathering and the steeple questions for clarity.

-Ask about which hand and foot are dominant... I have a theory in progress.

-As far as format of responses, I think I was well-intentioned in replying to everyone as their videos came out, but I would be better off replying in a chart like the one at the top of this post.  Partly it’s easier to keep objectivity and partly because it takes me a while to write out responses, and if there had been greater volume of videos, I might have been in trouble.  The volume was pretty low, though, overall, so I think I’d make it a 2 or 3 week challenge... 2 weeks for video, one for responses?

-I would also ask to keep videos up for however long the challenge is open.  As you can see, the waffling is an ongoing thing, and it helps to refer to the source material!

viii) Anything happen I wasn’t expecting?  Some of the most interesting aspects turned out to be watching people deal with all the instructions (only 9 people out of 19 managed to follow them to the letter) and the time limit.  Everyone was incredibly earnest about the project which was very sweet!  I had a really great time watching them all.  I think the general age and experience of the people typed was a little more varied than I expected, but it seemed to work ok, anyway.

Your questions:

Anonymous said to mbti-sorted: Will you open another video challenge!

Maybe as an annual or bi-annual thing.  We’ll see.

Anonymous said to mbti-sorted: Have you been able to notice any differences in muscle tension in the #getsorted challenge? Was 10 minutes enough to type people using that method?

Yes, for 66%, it was instant recognition, so 9:55 too long!  For the remaining 33%, it was ok.

Anonymous said to mbti-sorted: From the top of your head, which type has the most 100% tag?

Not really a #GetSorted question, but I started re-watching everyone in the tags and giving them about 10 seconds apiece, and if I could tell they were right immediately, they got tagged as 100%.  Working through ENTP, ENFP and INFP still, but the other N types are done.  ISTJ is also done. 

(It’s gonna take me a while...)

Thanks to everyone who submitted videos!  You’re amazing, and this couldn’t have happened without you!

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#GetSorted Masterpost

Introductory post  - instructions, list of questions.

Google Form - for entering your video.

mbti-sortof podcast - @enfjpuppettheatre and I answer every question.

@infj-zen answers all the questions in a text post. (Ok, but which one of us called you scrappy?  Pretty sure it wasn’t me...)

Results - Feb 4, Feb 4: Part II, Feb 5, Feb 6, Feb 7 , Feb 7: Part II, Feb 8, Feb 9, Feb 10, Feb 12, Feb 13, Feb 14, Feb 15, Feb 20, Feb 22, Feb 22: Part II, Feb 23, Feb 27, Feb 27: Part II

#GetSorted Round-up - I make some sort of conclusion.