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Old 09-10-2008, 11:03 PM   #30 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Haight View Post
Who said that one's personality is 100% innate?
In the "are you born with it?" thread

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Originally Posted by edcoaching
The research done so far shows that type is innate; culture, family, workplace, environment influence our expression. That's why typing others is so difficult. We have a type but we learn behaviors (or end up OCD or psychotic or a robot or somehow dysfunctional or ostracized...)
So if types are innate then modal types only show the expressed behaviors favored by a culture, and not the true types. If the MBTI were more accurate in determining the true type, the percentages of, say, INTPs in every culture would be the same... once you factor in suicides, witch-hunts, and whatnot.
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