Battle of the introverts

[andrewducker]

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.

Comments

[marrog]

Agreed about reading the descriptions and checking them against your more marginal characteristics. There's no question I'm E, N and P, in any test, but my T/F is super marginal (yesterday it was 51:49 F:T). I usually come out ENFP, but not always. There's no question that I'm close to being ENTP, but I have a core of idealism and a belief in compassion - even though I sometimes struggle to show it - that means I will always identify more closely as ENFP, no matter how argumentative and analytical I can be at times.

[marrog]

(That as an 18 year old leaving high school I tested - and identified with - INTJ is testament to just how unhappy and far from myself I was during my teens.)

[mountainkiss]

That makes sense. if you're ENXP then your dominant function is the perceiving function (intuition) anyway, so the difference between ENFP and ENTP is less than it would be for ENFJ / ENTJ when it would be the judging function (thinking or feeling).