On IDRlabs Typings

By S. Kim

Firstly, I want to acknowledge that I am well aware of the extensive research that IDRlabs typically conducts for their celebrity typings. I believe many people underestimate the amount of research IDRlabs did with regards to most of their typings, as they go above and beyond compared to other typological websites. Whether it was through studying biographies, books, interviews, or speeches, their approach to typing people is clearly more exhaustive than any other site I have come across. Even to this day, I have not found another website that comes close in terms of their thoroughness. When reading their articles or watching their videos explaining a celebrity's type, one gets the impression that their process is by no means flippant like most of the internet. Instead, it is comprehensive and thorough. The amount of work that IDRlabs (then CelebrityTypes) went into typing people was actually quite astounding, all things considered. As they themselves said, "the assessment process employed by this site relies on multiple information streams and cues to arrive at a type."

However, that doesn't mean, even within their own framework, that I have to agree with all of their typings (although I generally trust them, as most of their typings are at least supported by more substantial reasoning and evidence than most of the internet). Throughout its history, IDRlabs has made revisions to their typings. For instance, they initially typed Stephen Colbert as an ENTP for years until he took a test and identified as an INFP, and while test results are something we should always be skeptical about with regards to a person's type, this prompted them to reconsider and ultimately modify his typing to INFP after reviewing his interviews, which ultimately appeared more fitting (and I agree with them that Colbert is INFP after watching many of his interviews myself). So even if their methodology is arguably the best I've come across from a typology site, they are still susceptible to occasional mistypes. Here is a list of my opinions on IDRlabs typings of the people I am familiar enough with:

• In agreement with IDRlabs:

Richard Feynman: ENTP

Barack Obama: ENTP

Terry Gilliam: ENTP

Stephen Fry: ENTP

Camille Paglia: ENTP

David Cronenberg: INTP

Bill Gates: ENTJ

Penn Jillette: ENTJ

Ted Kaczynski: INTJ

Osho: ENFP

Milo Yiannopoulos: ENFP

Fidel Castro: ENFP

Orson Welles: ENFP

George Carlin: ENFP

Oliver Stone: ENFP

Ricky Gervais: ENFP

Jack White: ENFP

P. J. O'Rourke: ENFP

Robert Smith: INFP

Tori Amos: INFP

Thom Yorke: INFP

Morrissey: INFP

David Lynch: INFP

Louis C.K.: INFP

Stephen Colbert: INFP

Neil deGrasse Tyson: ENFJ

Zack de la Rocha: ENFJ

Richard Nixon: ISTJ

Robert De Niro: ISTJ

Gerald Ford: ESFJ

Alicia Keys: ESFJ

Theodore Roosevelt: ESTP

Andrew Jackson: ESTP

Franklin D. Roosevelt: ESTP

Donald Trump: ESTP

George W. Bush: ESTP

Lyndon B. Johnson: ESTP

Sasha Grey: ESTP

Steve Jobs: ISTP

Frank Zappa: ISTP

Stanley Kubrick: ISTP

Eminem: ISTP

Karl Pilkington: ISTP

Ronald Reagan: ESFP

Richard Branson: ESFP

Mark Cuban: ESFP

Tony Robbins: ESFP

Tyler the Creator: ESFP

Frank Ocean: ISFP

Audrey Hepburn: ISFP

• IDRlabs typings I'm skeptical of:

Elizabeth Olsen: ENTP

Matthew Perry: ENTP

Joe Biden: ENFJ

Jerry Seinfeld: ENFP

Jennifer Lawrence: ENFJ

Dana White: ESFP

Will Smith: ESFP

Hugh Hefner: ESFP

 

• In disagreement with IDRlabs:

Gwen Stefani: ENFP –> ESFP

Carly Rae Jepsen: ENFP –> ESFP

Björk: INFP –> ISFP