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I'm aware of this effect and I never cared for horoscopes, Harry Potter houses and what not. But INTP description is very specific. > Chief among Logicians’ i

I'm aware of this effect and I never cared for horoscopes, Harry Potter houses and what not. But INTP description is very specific. > Chief among Logicians’ interests is exploring and building models for underlying principles and ideas, even going so far as to find these concepts, in their own way, beautiful – this makes them natural mathematicians, systems analysts, and career scientists, especially in more abstract fields such as physics. Maybe 5% of population would identify with this? > Logicians are known for their brilliant theories and unrelenting logic – in fact, they are considered the most logically precise of all the personality types. They love patterns, and spotting discrepancies between statements could almost be described as a hobby, making it a bad idea to lie to a Logician. Maybe 20% of population would identify with this? [0] https://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality https://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality

Smaug123 6y ago
Can you distinguish yourself from the INTJ description? This was my main problem with the personality types: I agreed wholeheartedly with the (rather long!) descriptions of maybe five of the sixteen.
- andrewingram 6y ago
  Anecdotally, whenever I’ve read all 16 descriptions on a site, only one has ever “felt” like me. I’ve never done it blind (reading the descriptions without knowing the types), but each one does come across as distinctive enough that they can’t just be accused of being Barnum phrases. Another quirk is that the only people who are going to advocate for these tests are those for who felt their own results were highly descriptive and meaningful to them. So they’re useful in that personal sense, one can point to a few paragraphs of text and say “look, this describes how I think and see the world, read this if you want to understand me better”. To me that undeniably has utility, even if it’s only for a minority of the population (assuming most people sit somewhere in the middle of the bell curves and therefore don’t identify that strong with any of that types).

Smaug123 6y ago

Can you distinguish yourself from the INTJ description? This was my main problem with the personality types: I agreed wholeheartedly with the (rather long!) descriptions of maybe five of the sixteen.

andrewingram 6y ago
Anecdotally, whenever I’ve read all 16 descriptions on a site, only one has ever “felt” like me. I’ve never done it blind (reading the descriptions without knowing the types), but each one does come across as distinctive enough that they can’t just be accused of being Barnum phrases. Another quirk is that the only people who are going to advocate for these tests are those for who felt their own results were highly descriptive and meaningful to them. So they’re useful in that personal sense, one can point to a few paragraphs of text and say “look, this describes how I think and see the world, read this if you want to understand me better”. To me that undeniably has utility, even if it’s only for a minority of the population (assuming most people sit somewhere in the middle of the bell curves and therefore don’t identify that strong with any of that types).