Battle of the introverts
Nov. 5th, 2017 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerWhen 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.
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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Date: 2017-11-05 06:05 pm (UTC)Which is why I find the test literally impossible to take. There's not a question on it to which my answer isn't one of "Compared to what?" or "Depends what you mean by that" or "Sometimes one, sometimes the other."
I'm introverted. I know that without the stupid test. When I was young, and hadn't heard of introversion, I thought I was shy. Then I met genuinely shy people, and hearing what they went through realized that no, that's not me at all. But before that, I would have answered "yes" to the question, "Are you shy?" That experience taught me to be wary of stupid tests like this.