Myers-Briggs, redux

[Frelga]

I think that still adds you to the group. If you want to retake the quiz, either delete the cookies, or use the group link from a different phone or browser (but then I think you'll be there twice).

[WampusCat]

Openness to experience
100 out of 100
Agreeableness
100 out of 100
Conscientiousness
25 out of 100
Negative emotionality
29 out of 100
Extraversion
25 out of 100

So I’m a flexible, agreeable, irresponsible, yet emotionally stable introvert. Sounds about right.

[Sunsilver]

I was amazed by this. I'm an INFP, a rare MBTI type.

This quiz nailed me with just 4 questions!

Sooo, now I'm curious to know if it works for other people!

[Frelga]

Ok, but my answer to all these questions is, it's complicated.

Possibly why I often test at 50% on each letter.

[N.E. Brigand]

Do many adults "play sports"?

[Maria]

Judo is a sport. Participants are called players. We refer to it as playing judo.
So, yes, over 20 million people in the world play the sport of judo. I don't know what the breakdown of adults vs children is, but that's still a lot of people.

edit: And the short version of the test doesn't work for me.

[N.E. Brigand]

There are 5.5 billion adults, so 20 million is 0.036%. There are lots of other sports adults play, of course, but I wonder if the total comes to even 1%. If the question asked how many people get regular physical exercise, it would be much higher.

[Frelga]

Do many adults "play sports"?

Define adult. Anyway, my husband was on the softball team this fall.

But I suspect this is aimed at a slightly younger demographic.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Do many adults "play sports"?

Perhaps it is not intended to be, but that is quite insulting.

[Sunsilver]

I have quite a few adult friends who play tennis, squash or pickle ball. Others have played pickup basketball, floor hockey etc. My niece's husband plays in an adult hockey league, as does the husband of a friend. He also plays flag football in the warmer months.

[Maria]

Do many adults "play sports"?

And the answer is : one in four play sports.
https://media.npr.org/documents/2015/ju ... thpoll.pdf
Or at least that was the percentage in 2015

[Frelga]

I would imagine that quite a few adults play some sport, even if just for fun. Tennis, volleyball, soccer, basketball, badminton, pickleball, bowling, various softball and baseball leagues. This is not counting sports that we usually don't think of as playing, like running, swimming, biking, etc. Our cousin runs Iron Man, does that count?

I may have continued doing martial arts, if I didn't break my foot back when.

Speaking of, Mr. Frelga's employer has a skeet shooting team that is open to spouses, but he talked me out of trying it. He says recoil would break my shoulder. Granted, it's been about 30 years since I shot a rifle, but is it really that bad?

X-posted with Maria

[N.E. Brigand]

Do many adults "play sports"?

Perhaps it is not intended to be, but that is quite insulting.

No perhaps about it: it was not intended to be insulting. Ignorant perhaps, but as I will note: ignorance from experience. I'm sorry it reads as insulting to you, but I don't see how it's any different than asking, for instance, "Do many adults 'fly airplanes'?" if there had been a question on the quiz about that. Only about 0.042% of adults are pilots. I don't know anyone who is currently a pilot. (My former boss used to be a pilot, but he gave it up.) I don't know anyone who currently plays sports, unless we're counting golf (I don't play golf), and even there, the few golfers I know do so perhaps four times a year. Does that count? I play wallyball once a year, the sum total of my personal adult sports experience since college. (I did some intramural sports like flag football then.) That doesn't count, right? My experience is just one person's perspective, but it's not nothing. I was trying to get at why a four-question test meant to identify different personality types would ask about something for which almost all respondents, as far as I can guess, would answer "no."

Edited before posting to note the information provided by Maria: 25% of American adults play sports. Maybe I have a very unusual circle of family, friends, and coworkers filled only by the other 75%? But that 25% includes fishing. I ride my bike or go for a hike once or twice a week. I wasn't counting that as "sports" when asking my question. Should I have been? Because it certainly seems more like sports than fishing! "Sports" to me means competition. Are most people who fish engaged in tournaments?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I could respond further, but I don't think it would be productive to do so.

[RoseMorninStar]

The term 'play sports' is pretty broad. When I hear the word 'sports' I think competitive rather than activity for exercise &/or pleasure. A lot of adults I know are on leagues; tennis, bowling, darts, softball, baseball, hatchet throwing (yeah, I guess that is a thing). Personally I hike/walk, bike, and pre-COVID I used to swim a lot. While I consider swimming a 'sport' I wouldn't consider my mile 3-5x per week a sport because I do not compete.

[Frelga]

On this topic, I just walked by a pub-type place where people played that bag toss game. They were maybe in their 40s/50s. I would say that counts as playing sports.

[Sunsilver]

The local Legion has a league for that sport (Corn hole.) There's also a darts league and, during warm months, people play horseshoes.

[Maria]

Speaking of, Mr. Frelga's employer has a skeet shooting team that is open to spouses, but he talked me out of trying it. He says recoil would break my shoulder. Granted, it's been about 30 years since I shot a rifle, but is it really that bad?

This product helps a lot with that.
https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/past-fi ... oil-shield

And I don't think fishing counts as exercise, even if lots of people call it a sport.

I don't play any sport, btw. I do a lot of things that count as exercise, but it's always something that needs doing, not something I'm playing at.

Maybe there's a spectrum of games----> hobbies ----> work and the differences are a sliding scale of necessity vs fun?

[Maria]

I take that back. This looks like a whole lot of exercise!

[RoseMorninStar]

Dictionary entry:

sport | spôrt |
noun
1 an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment:

By definition, I don't think 'it' (playing sports) has to be exercise or exertion so much as it needs to be competitive. I wonder if that is what the (shortened) MBTI test is getting at (competitive or no). However many people who participate in such sports (such as bowling, etc..) do so more for the social aspect.