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Originally Posted by Jennifer
With most of these either/or style MBTI tests, the percentages don't signify much at all. 100% says there's a strong J/P preference, ~50% says the preference is weak... and that is about all that can be said. (And the same for the other function pairs.) For some reason, though, people still put percentages in their profiles.
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Right... The test answer gives you a set of four metrics that
indicate type, but don't necessarily
define it. The score of I N T P
indicates a person of the type that prefers Ti Ne Si Fe, which is what we call a true INTP. But you don't know for sure until you've assessed those directly, which is a rather tricky and introspective process.
Basically the thing is we're measuring a surface phenomenon with these four letters, not directly measuring the reality that causes the phenomenon. So mistakes and goofs are inevitable. But it's very handy as a starting place, as it is right more often than not. Chances are at least
some of the letters are correct for you. Once you've got a score to work from, you can successively check and double-check against the predicted order of trait-preference. Sometimes you even get lucky and get all the letters correct the first time!
