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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2017-11-05 10:07 am

Battle of the introverts

When I first met Jane I told her that I was introverted. And about two weeks later she laughed at me, pointing out how many friends I have, and how much I socialise.

Last night, when I couldn't sleep at 5am, I did a Myers-Briggs test* (to check that I was still INTP - I still am). And then this morning I got her to do it too.

Turns out that I'm 61% introvert/39% extrovert. And she's 94% introvert/6% extrovert. So to her, I look all the same as those extroverted people who leave the house, and talk to other people. And to me she looks like a tiny dot, fleeing into the introverted distance.

Preempting some of the comments - if you want to claim that MBTI is just a horoscope then you'll have to explain its correlation with the Big Five.
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[personal profile] mountainkiss 2017-11-05 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
Addendum: initial comment not meant to challenge *your* preference or result. It's just that it should be a starting point for your thinking, not the finish. If one (for example) tested as INTJ but identified strongly with the descriptors of INTP, it makes more sense to work with INTP than to assume INTJ because test.