Your actual voice my differ

What got me to thinking, however, was the results I got from Typealyzer was not the same as the one I typically get from an Myers-Briggs test. So, I through my old personal blog at the Typealyzer and got not the expected results, but rather a repetition of the first results. Paper personality tests always had me pegged as an INFJ whereas this test, using a broad sample of my writing on a multitude of topics and a over a broad time, declared my written voice an ISTP. The differences here are rather substantial, but what caught my attention wasn’t the difference but the fact that there was a difference.

Yes, I am taking this test at face value, and yes, it’s safe to assume that is a mistake. But the question being begged is still valuable. When a writer is asked to find their voice, how often do we stop and consider how close that voice is to our actual personality? Furthermore, is that potential divorce a good thing?

It’s certainly a question I’ll have to get to at a later time.