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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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[bigboobedcanuck]

This is so interesting! The Visionary is especially apt for Nix, I think.

I'm not sure about Dike being a Thinker, since the only thing he seemed exceptionally capable of was hiding out away from the line! ;) But possibly I'm not giving him his fair due. I'm just glad Speirs the Mechanic (which is SO him) was on the scene to save the day at Foy.

Thanks for sharing! :)

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nix is one of the ones i knew right off the bat, he really is a strong representation of that type!

i mentioned this briefly in the post (particularly this line; Plus, getting a snapshot of a character - especially in an extreme situation such as a war (and even bootcamp!) - will not always lend to a portrayal of their best traits; each personality type has positive and negative traits and behaviors.) and i think dike kind of falls underneath this category -- i don't think we really saw a good representation of his best traits, there, you know? and INTPs can tend to be stuck in their own heads/have trouble making things into concrete reality, and aren't always interested in being a leader. we only see little snapshots of each character, so it can definitely leave room up to interpretation! (:

thank you so much for commenting!

[bigboobedcanuck]

i don't think we really saw a good representation of his best traits, there, you know?

Oh, totally! Tons of room for interpretation. I just have such a strong kneejerk negative reaction to Dike that I'm likely very unfair to him.

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definitely! there's a lot of minor characters that i'm pretty sure about one or two of their preferences (ie: christenson is probably an introvert, etc etc) but am not sure how to properly characterize them because we see so little of them that we really do have to make wide assumptions from what we do see. and haha, yeah, i wanted to definitely note in the post that we're not always seeing a good representation - and also that EVERY personality type has good and bad traits (because, people who know their own myers-briggs types may go, WTF I HAVE THE SAME TYPE AS SOBEL/DIKE/ETC?!, when really, that doesn't mean it's a bad type at all, haha), and each person has developed different aspects of their personality (:

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there's still so many characters that haven't been sorted, but, i feel like it's a good start! and helpful to understand myers-briggs in general for writing (...and well, real people. xD) ♥ i hope it does help you out, bb!

[pommederis]

This was very interesting, thanks for putting it together!

I particularly liked the classification for Nate Fick. "Protector", and how! Perfect.

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thank you for taking the time to comment, i'm really glad you find it interesting!

yes, nate's definitely a perfect example of the INFJ personality type (: not everyone fits the little type label (like the protector) perfectly, even when they fit the type, but it really does fit for him!

[alethialia]

Heh. I actually disagree quite strongly with the notion of Nate as The Protector (INFJ).

Interesting notion to look at characters in terms of Myers-Briggs. I love Myers-Briggs, personally. Have taken it several times. Think I have the book with the full test around here somewhere. But can I ask why you didn't use the personality descriptions from the Myers-Briggs website? They're more complete and actually give a little bit more dimension (which is likely why I found myself questioning some of the categorizations above).

Generally speaking, I expected these categorizations to skew more heavily toward the STs, especially for the guys in the military for the long-haul. As the M-B website notes, STs are often found in business, management, banking, applied sciences, construction, production, police, and the military.

But back to Nate and why I don't think he's an INFJ. From the M-B site: Seek meaning and connection in ideas, relationships, and material possessions. Want to understand what motivates people and are insightful about

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The backing behind Nate being an NF (idealist) comes from his reasons for joining the marine corps ("a Dartmouth graduate who joined the Marines in a fit of idealism" [from Wright's Generation Kill] - definitely an NF idealist thing) and the fact that he has strongly held values -- and I really didn't see him, on screen, being a bad judge of character (or ever feeling like his men's feelings weren't important). His position and ability to see when plans don't work/look at the bigger picture is an 'N' type quality, and the combination of these things definitely suggests an NF type. (coupled with his ability to be structured/attempt to follow rules as best he can -- except when it goes against his values -- and his definite leaning toward introversion, lends to INFJ.) And yes, as characters, they're definitely open to our individual interpretations of them

[rivlee]

Such an amazing thing you've done here, bb! So much thought and hard work went it to it. It's def. getting linked for my own personal resource page. I am going to come back and read everything in detail when I am not, you know, working on that damn fic that ate my brain.

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Thank you! You know this has pretty much been eating up my brain for a week now (and the character collages have been eating up my brain the rest of the time :| ) so it's so satisfying to have it - sort of - done. EVEN IF I STILL HAVE A LIST IN MY HEAD OF ALL THE CHARACTERS THAT NEED TO BE TYPED STILL. ♥!