Research has found that the Big Five personality traits are significantly related to Jungian Typology (e.g. the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). This is a popular alternative personality framework regularly used for personal development, in which Types are used rather than Traits. Based on your Big Five trait scores, your estimated Type is shown below (if you have already taken a Jungian Typology test and got a different result, this can be changed from the More Options section).
 

INTP
Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

 

INTPs are quiet, thoughtful, analytical individuals who don't mind spending long periods of time on their own, working through problems and forming solutions. INTPs tend to be less at ease in social situations and the 'caring professions,' although they enjoy the company of those who share their interests. They also tend to be impatient with the bureaucracy, rigid hierarchies, and politics prevalent in many professions, preferring to work informally with others as equals. INTPs' extraverted intuition often gives them a quick wit, especially with language, and they can defuse the tension in gatherings by comical observations and references. They can be charming, even in their quiet reserve, and are sometimes surprised by the high esteem in which their friends and colleagues hold them.

Trait Explanations
In order to interpret your raw trait scores, they were compared to the first 350,000 people to complete the full MyPersonality Big Five questionnaire. This allows the way that you described yourself to be put in the context of how other people respond to the questionnaire. You should remember that there are no fundamentally good or bad personalities, as each trait description has potential advantages and disadvantages. To help you reflect on these, you have also been given some questions which ask you to consider the implications of your trait descriptions. Other people viewing your personality profile will not be able to see these.

Openness
This trait refers to the extent to which you prefer novelty versus convention. Approximately 91.9% of respondents have a lower openness raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is far more intellectually curious and sensitive to beauty than most. You might say that your beliefs are individualistic and frequently drift towards the unconventional, and that you enjoy your imagination and the exciting places it takes you!

Reflective question: What place do you think that tradition has in society (if any)?

Conscientiousness
This trait refers to the extent to which you prefer an organised, or a flexible, approach in life. Approximately 34.5% of respondents have a lower conscientiousness raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is spontaneous and fun, and that you like to do unexpected things that make life that bit more interesting. You might say that you aren't completely unreliable, but you've been known to slip up on occasion.

Reflective question: How do you go about tackling a new task?

Extraversion
This trait refers to the extent to which you enjoy company, and seek excitement and stimulation. Approximately 0.8% of respondents have a lower extraversion raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is quiet and somewhat withdrawn. Your answers describe you as someone who doesn't need lots of other people around to have fun, and can sometimes find that people are tiring.

Reflective question: How do you like to spend your spare time?

Agreeableness
This trait refers to the way you express your opinions and manage relationships. Approximately 1.5% of respondents have a lower agreeableness raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is willing to make difficult decisions when necessary, and will point out when something is wrong no matter what other people might feel. Your responses suggest that you would say that you can be tough and uncompromising.

Reflective question: When others are experiencing problems, what do you do?

Neuroticism (Emotional stability)
This trait refers to the way you cope with, and respond to, life's demands. Approximately 69.2% of respondents have a lower neuroticism raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is generally calm. Based on your responses, you come across as someone who can feel emotional or stressed out by some experiences, however your feelings tend to be warranted by the situation.

Reflective question: Which situations make you feel under pressure and which situations do not?


 

Laws and Ethics of Journalism

She takes pride of being a writer of the Business section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. She just won the “Reporter of the Year” award for banking beat for the 17^th annual  Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines (EJAP)-Globe Telecoms Business Journalism Awards last year, proving her excellence in her craft. In an interview via phone, Ms. Doris C. Dumlao shares her background as a journalist.

Taking up BA Political Science degree in University of the Philippines- Diliman, Ms. Dumlao said she planned to enter law school first, but then because of her so much exposure to school publications (She was the editor-in-chief of their college journal in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy) and having so many campus journalists friends on other universities, she gladly joined the pack. Her desire for journalism first sparked when she was invited for a meeting in the College Editor’s Guild of the Philippines (CEGP).

Before entering the Inquirer, she had her first job in an investing company which became bankrupt, so she transferred to Business Daily with a help from a friend from UP Manila. She had her stint as a reporter there for two years before finally joining the Philippine Daily Inquirer in 1997. She said her first assigned task was to cover the Central Bank beat, and every now and then they would have a reshuffling of beats so that, according to her, they would have a “fresh perspective” about all the fields.

When asked if she had any experience on ethical dilemma experiences, she said there was none because she always follows the strict policy found in their rule book. She said that if there’s a certain occasion, they can accept gifts, provided that it never surpasses this certain amount. She also stressed this statement: “Never accept something in consideration for something to be published.”

However, she also noted that in particular situations dealing with the “tainted news story”, some publicists she know have this list of people they can go to whenever the need for such arises.

She reminds today’s budding journalists that this field is entered “not to make money but for passion for writing and help for the people in need for decision-making.” She also adds not to be tempted to use the “considerable power” vested in the hands of a journalist and to do well and work hard for opportunities for growth. She wishes that these young writers to find an institution that have excellence, strict standards, a clear set of ethical guidelines and a good pay so that these young reporters would avoid temptation.

If there’s one thing that I’ve realized after reading the essay of comparison between Light Yagami and the late President Marcos, it would be pity for the latter. Yes— it’s the same pity that I felt when I have finished the Death Note series to Light Yagami. Perhaps, it was just transferred.

Though it was just short-lived, the fascination about the Great Dictator never stopped there since we were discussing it in the class. I even chose the Martial Law era for my research paper. As usual, it all led to the fact that he was this cruel guy and everything. He suppressed press freedom, jailed and killed lots of journalists, resulting to the depravation of living for families then.

As a journalist, I empathize with all that has happened before, even if I was not yet born then. Of course, I had my own share of press freedom suppression— in somewhat a milder way. Yet, it is also because of my profession I’ve learned to appreciate and see the good side of his regime.

In my journalism class, we are taught to look at the two sides of the story always. Be fair. Balance it. It is also because of this continuous inculcation why I saw the beauty of Martial Law.

Yes, I know—I’m too naïve to make such a hasty generalization. Some might even say I was not born then, so I don’t know the hardships that the people encountered then, so why make such comment?

Well, let me respond to that. First, I’m not saying I know everything about Marcos. I’m not really a history buff. It’s just something in the modern setting was compared to him, and I got what he envisioned.

Second, I’m a Beatle fan, and it is probably a basic knowledge that the Marcoses are the main reasons why the boys stopped touring here in the country, or probably, contributed to the deterrence of their touring as a whole. 

I’m saying I saw the beauty of Martial Law because I got an empathic grasp of what he wants to achieve: A peaceful and orderly society, which is ideal for all the good people — such, is the same thing which Light Yagami envisioned— and through him, I was able to understand it.

However, I know that though that the two of them had such kind of vision, their ways are still wrong. Whether a person’s good or bad, killing people isn’t just right. This is where I despise them for having such ways. But still, I do admire their intelligences. Going back to the Philippine setting, Marcos could have been the country’s best leader if he hadn’t just been that harsh and if he had just had a full control over his wife. His vision was futuristic— he was already preparing the Philippines for the modern age.

Admittedly, because of my continuous meditation upon the former president and Light, I can say that I was already influenced by their philosophies. Actually, I do have the potential to have their ideologies even before because I’m slowly becoming a perfectionist, and when I realized they are in synchrony with my thoughts, I just became more and more critical about things.

I was born on the fourth anniversary of EDSA Revolution, but now it seems that my mind is already going for Marcos’ ways. I do respect and adulate the late President Cory’s humility and compassion for the welfare of the Filipinos, but then as stressed by my professor Sir Gil Santos, President Aquino was the reason for the brownouts in the whole Philippines then. With my scanty facts on head, I just formulated my own belief: Lenient leaders are popular, but if they don’t have the techniques and strategies, they are ineffective; autocratic leaders, however, though unpopular but knows how to plan for the future are quite close for effectiveness. I’m saying this because I’m balancing things up knowing that Marcos was not able to provide the people their entire needs.

Going with the extremes sides, I’d rather be Marcos. I’d rather think critically and plan effectively for my subordinates as I handle them with severe strictness than be the gentle leader who does not effectively rule over the people. At least the people are exercised to think and act critically rather than just sit there, relax and do nothing, and that’s not the character that a Filipino should imbibe, especially in this critical times.  I believe that the more hardships a person encounters, the more he becomes better— and through a semi-autocratic leadership, I believe it can be achieved.

But, of course, I’m trying my best to exercise my journalistic skills again as I balance my leadership ideology. However, in being a leader, we can’t always stay in the middle. There will be times that you have to step one or two blocks to one side. And with this theory in mind, I know where side to step always.

This mindset could just probably be now, and I’m not hindering my mind for change and growth, so don’t judge me instantly. You know that we all have our own beliefs— and this is my viewpoint today: I’d rather be Marcos than Cory, and I’m not joking about it.

Tila ibinalik sa nakaraan si Isagani noong tumungtong siya muli sa lugar na iyon. Nawala ang kanyang pagod matapos makita ang nangyari matapos umalis ang bagyo sa nayon dahil walang pagbabago ang naganap, maliban s apagbagsak ng sibi ni Aling Barang at ang pagdagsa ng tao sa labas para malaman ang pinsalang idinulot ng bagyo. 

Si Isagani man ay walang pagbabago nang matapat siya sa bahay na bato. Pinilit niyang buksan ang bintana at doon niya narinig na tinawag siyang “Insan” ni Dodoy, ang kanyang kaibigan. “Insan” ang kanilang tawagan sapagkat magpinsan ang kanilang mga dating kasintahan: Si Minang kay Dodoy at si Iday kay Isagani.

Nang matapos magyakap ang dalawa ay tinanong ni Dodoy kung bakit napadpad sa nayon si Isagani. Kumukuha ng balita’t larawan ang binata nang dumating ang bagyo kaya’t nanatili na lamang siya sa nayon. Nagyaya si Dodoy na umakyat sa itaas, ngunit tinanggihan ito ni Isagani. Ikinwento rin ni Dodoy na ansira ang tulay sa Sabang kaya mahirap pumunta sa kabayanan. Nabahala si Isagani na mahihirapan siyang makabalik ng Maynila ngunit isinantabi na lamang niya ito.

Nabulalas ni Dodoy na tinamad siyang manligaw buhat nang mag-asawa ang dating kasintahang si Minang, kaya maswerte raw si Isagani sa Maynila sapagkat, ani Dodoy, mas madali raw makalimot doon. Batid ni Dodoy sa mga kwento ni Isagani na hindi pa nito nalalaman ang totoong nangyari kay Iday kaya’t isinalaysay niya ito. Sinabi ni Isagani na mayroon pa raw ba siyang kailangang malaman bukod sa sobrang karupukan ng puso ng isang babae.

Dito ikinwento ni Dodoy na may nangyari sa Puktol nang bumisita rito si Iday. Dahil sa ito ang baryo ni Kadyo, ang manliligaw ng dalaga, hindi malabong may maganap matapos manood ng moro-moro ang mag-anak ni Iday at tumuloy sa bahay ng amain. Sinamantala ni Kadyo ang panahong ito kasabwat ng dalawang kaibigan upang dakpin si Iday ngunit siya’y nanlaban pati ang mag-anak ng dalaga kaya’t hindi nagtagumpay si Kadyo.

Ngunit nakapagnakaw ng isang halik si Kadyo na siyang dahilan upang manlumo si Iday na para bang nawasak ang kanyang buong pagkababae. Ipinabatid ni Dodoy kay Isagani na noong ang kaibigan at si Iday pa ay hindi pinipigilan ng ina nito na magkalapit ang dalawa. Ani Dodoy, lalong lumungkot ang bahay na bato dahil na rin sa pag-aayos ng kasal ni Iday at Kadyo bunsod ng pamamagitan ng tinyente na kababata ng ama ni Iday upang isaayos ang gulo.

Seloso at brutal si Kadyo kaya naman lagi niyang pinagbubuhatan ng kamay si Iday. Lubos na nagalit si Isagani sa kwento ng kaibigan. Nagpatuloy si Dodoy sa pagkukwento nang sabihin niyang lumipat sina Iday at Kadyo sa bahay na bato nang mamatay ang mga magulang ni Iday. Nasimulan ang kwentotungkol rito sapagkat nakita ng magkaibigan si Doktor Fronda kasama ang isang kapit-bahay nila Iday na pumasok sa nasabing bahay.  

Napagtanto ni Isagani na hindi pa namamatay ang pag-ibig niya sa dating kasintahan. Gusto niyang pumunta sa bahay na bato upang masilayan si Iday at ginawa niya ito. Nang matapos magtanong ay nakita niya si Iday na payat na payat katabi si Kadyo at ang mangagamot. Gusto niyang suntukin si Kadyo nang bigla niyang marinig na kailangan ng swero ni Iday.

Dahil walang pagkukunan nito kundi ang botika sa bayan, hiningi ni Kadyo ang reseta at nagsadyang suungin ang nangangalit na tubig. Sinundan siya ni Isagani na siyang nagpaalala na baka hindi siya tumagal pagkat wala siyang tulog. Nang nasa katubigan na ay maraming bses na tinangka ni Kadyo na sagupain ang galit ng tubig, ngunit siya’y nabigo habang pinanuod ni Isagani ang nangyari. Ani Isagani, isa itong magandang kamatayan ngunit nawala ang kanyang saya nang maalala niya ang kanyang asawa at anak, ang magkaibang daigdig nila ni Iday at ang bulag na pag-ibig ni Kadyo na maari pang mamulat.

Gumawa ng isang napakalaking alimbukay ang isang matipunong katawan nang bumagsak ito sa tubig.

“Hindi nasusukat ang kakayahan ng tao sa pamamagitan ng kung ano ang nasa pagitan ng kanyang mga hita.”

Iyan ay isang pahayag na aking natatandaan sa tuwing mapupunta ang talakayan sa kakayahan ng bawa’t kasarian. Ngunit kung opinyon ko ang tatanungin, higit kong papanigan ang babaeng anak.

Una sa lahat, ang mga kababaihan ay mas marunong makiramdam. Sa pamamagitan ng pakiramdam na ito ay mas alam nila ang hirap na dinaranas ng kanilang mga magulang para sa ikabubuti nila. Dahil dito, mas nagkakaroon sila ng malasakit.

 Pangalawa, ang malasakit na nabanggit kanina ay nagsisilbing dahilan upang sila’y mas ganahan sa kanilang ginagawa. Ito’y nangagaling sa pagnanais nila na mapagaan ang buhay ng kanilang mga magulang.

Pangatlo, mas lalo silang nagaganyak na pagbutihin ang kanilang mga gawain dahil alam nilang sila ang minorya. Kung hindi sila kikilos, hindi nila ito mapapatunayan sa kabilang kasarian.

Sinasabi ko ang mga ito hindi upang libakin ang mga kalalakihan. Sadyang mas emosyonal lamang ang mga babae at mula sa nakikitang kahinaan sa kanila ay roon nag-uugat ang kanilang lakas. Subukan ninyo minsang magbasa ng mga aklat pangkasaysayan at bilangin ang laksa-laksang babaeng nagpakita nang katapangan at mapapatunayan ninyo ang aking sinasabi.  

Nasa kalagitnaan pa rin tayo ngayon ng isang krisis pampinansyal. Marami pa ring tao ang natatanggal sa kani-kanilang mga trabaho. Marami pa ring naghihikahos sa buhay. Ano ba ang maaring lunas sa sakit ng ating mga bulsa?

 Kung babalikan natin ang ating kasaysayan, maalala natin na magmula noon bago pa dumating ang mga Kastila ay marunong nang magtanim ang ating mga ninuno. Tila iginuhit na ng Poong Maykapal ang ating tadhana alinsabay ng pagtatanim sapagkat likas na matataba ang ating mga lupain.

 Makakatulong ang pagtatanim sa ngayon dahil pareho itong nagsisilbing paraan ng pagtitipid at uri ng negosyo. Isipin nating mabuti: Maari tayong magtanim ng laksa-laksang uri ng gulay at prutas sa ating mga bakuran basta’t saliksikin lamang natin kung ano ang maaring mabuhay sa klima ng ating mga kinaroroonan.

 Kung ito ang sining na iginuhit sa atin ng ating Panginoon, bakit hindi natin ito subukan? Linangin natin ito. Maaring ito na ang solusyon upang tayo’y umunlad.

Sa ngayon, mas dumarami ang mga mag-aaral na hindi nagpapahalaga sa kanilang pag-aaral. Higit na umaakyat ang bilang ng mga estudyanteng mas nanaising uminom sa loob ng mga “ beer house”, mag- “bar hopping” o ‘di kaya’y maglaro ng “online gmes” Kung mayroon din namang mga “website” rito sa Pilipinas na maaring bilhan ng sulating-akda kagaya sa Estados Unidos ay siguradong tubong-lugaw na ang mga ito.

Bakit nga ba may mga ganitong uri ng estudyante ngayon?

Maari natin itong isisi sa napakaraming laro at libangan sa “Internet”. Sa laksa-laksang “websites na nagbibigay ng libangan, ang pagkahumaling ng kabataan ay hindi mababawasan; bagkus, magiging kapara nito ang isang gulong na walang tigil sa pag-ikot.

Maari rin itong isisi sa sobrang dali ng pagkuha ng kaalaman. Hindi na pinagkakaabalahan ng mga mag-aaral ang pagkuha, pagbabasa at pag-intindi sa mga datos. Sa halip, tumitigil na sila matapos gawin ang unang bahagi.

Maari rin itong isisi sa napakaraming “tambayan” ng mga mag-aaral na siyang pinupuntahan nila matapos ang klase. Sa sobrang lapit ng mga pook na ito sa kanilang paaralan ay di-mapigilang matukso ang mga kabataan upang dayuhin ito.

Ito ay pawing mga hinuha lamang, ngunit ano ba talaga ang tamang sagot?

Nasa mag-aaral mismo ito, ngunit nariyan rin sigurado ang tulong ng guro at kapwa mag-aaral, ng ama’t ina at ng buong pamilya. Subalit ang mga tulong nila ay pawang mga payo lamang—payo na maaring sundin o hindi.

Nasa mag-aaral ang kasagutan dahil walang iisang sagot para sa lahat maliban dito. Sa kalagayan ng bawa’t mag-aaral ito nakabatay. Siya lamang ang tanging makakapagganyak sa sarili at wala nang iba pa, kahit na sabihin nating humingi na siya ng tulong sa Kanya. Ang Diyos ay gabay rin natin kagaya n gating mga magulang. Sa parehong paraan, gabay rin niya ang Diyos. Ang mag-aaral lamang ang makakasagot kung susundin niya ang Panginoon.

Nasa mag-aaral magbubukal ang pagpapasiya. Siya ang may isip upang pagdesisyunan kung anong landas ba ang dapat niyang tahakin, tama man o mali. Sa huli, siya at siya lamang ang matitira upang kumilos para sa kanyang sarili.