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Originally Posted by Merkw
When I first took and MBTI test, I scored as an INTJ. I then took several other MBTI tests, only to receive identical results. However, approximately 6 months later, I took one MBTI test on which I scored INTP. After that, I began to score INTP on many tests. Right now I am having quite a lot of trouble settling on whether I am INTP or INTJ, and to be quite honest, it has been irritating me quite a lot. Also, for the record, I believe that I am an Oldham Idiosyncratic, 5 sp/sx (wings are relatively balanced, but I am still pretty sure that I am w4).
I think the INTJ description might fit be better than INTP except for one thing. In comparing several INTP and INTJ descriptions, I have found that INTPs are perceived as more absent-minded and impractical. Can an INTJ be absent-minded and/or highly impractical?
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I would not get too hung up on this one thing. Motivations are generally more important than the quality expressed. Many types can be absent-minded or impractical, just for different reasons.
Note that types separated by a J/P factor really are much further away / different from each other than types separated by a T/F or S/N factor.
INTP = Ti + Ne + Si + Fe
INTJ = Ni + Te + Fi + Se
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no functions are the same in the Conscious Self. INTP and INTJ are very different in terms of what functions are used most easily. INTP is actually more similar to ISTP (Ti similarity) in how it thinks, and more similar to INFP (Ne similarity) in what it envisions in the outer world.
See my signature -- I am very clearly INTP, not INTJ, especially if you know me in real life you'd see that there is no WAY I am a J... but my Oldham and enneagram scores are very similar to yours. (I do not know what that means for you exactly.)