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edit: The below text is not true, I didn't read the chart correctly - they are all different. (Inverse introversion/extraversion, but in the same order.) ENFP

by johnmaguire2013 6y ago

edit: The below text is not true, I didn't read the chart correctly - they are all different. (Inverse introversion/extraversion, but in the same order.) ENFP and INFJ are actually very similar - if you believe in the personality test. Despite the difference in letters, they share all the same cognitive functions, just in a different order. https://www.typeinmind.com/nefi https://www.typeinmind.com/nefi (ENFP) https://www.typeinmind.com/nife https://www.typeinmind.com/nife (INFJ)

dragonwriter 6y ago
If you have a system of four binary indicators, and swapping position on two of the four makes little difference, you probably have a very poor system.
- johnmaguire2013 6y ago
  Not to be snarky, but this is spoken like someone who hasn't tried to understand the system at all - not that I believe in it either. Typically MBTI personality tests measure you based on four indicators: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/iNtuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving Each combination of indicators is given a "type." There are 16 possible types. The MBTI personality test also defines 8 cognitive functions, believing that everyone must absorb information (perceiving) and turn it into actions/decisions (judging). It states that there are four ways of perceiving, and four ways of judging... extraverted/introverted sensing/intuition and extraverted/introverted thinking/feeling. Each personality type has four cognitive functions associated with it: primary, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior. You will have both an extraverted and introverted perceiving function as well as an extraverted and introverted judging function. Your primary cognitive function will match your introversion/extraversion trait, and then will flip back and forth between introversion/extraversion for the rest of your functions. Since there are only 8 cognitive functions, and each personality type has 4, it's not surprising that they will often share cognitive functions - it also means that types can behave more similarly than one would expect based on their indicators.

dragonwriter 6y ago

If you have a system of four binary indicators, and swapping position on two of the four makes little difference, you probably have a very poor system.

johnmaguire2013 6y ago
Not to be snarky, but this is spoken like someone who hasn't tried to understand the system at all - not that I believe in it either. Typically MBTI personality tests measure you based on four indicators: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/iNtuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving Each combination of indicators is given a "type." There are 16 possible types. The MBTI personality test also defines 8 cognitive functions, believing that everyone must absorb information (perceiving) and turn it into actions/decisions (judging). It states that there are four ways of perceiving, and four ways of judging... extraverted/introverted sensing/intuition and extraverted/introverted thinking/feeling. Each personality type has four cognitive functions associated with it: primary, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior. You will have both an extraverted and introverted perceiving function as well as an extraverted and introverted judging function. Your primary cognitive function will match your introversion/extraversion trait, and then will flip back and forth between introversion/extraversion for the rest of your functions. Since there are only 8 cognitive functions, and each personality type has 4, it's not surprising that they will often share cognitive functions - it also means that types can behave more similarly than one would expect based on their indicators.