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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
