Would you mind explaining how this one-question test is actually going to do anything in terms of determining functional preferences?
Yeah, I get what it's supposed to do. Si-ers are supposed to say "GOSH THE STANDARD MEANING IS THAT THIS FAMILY IS SELLING THEIR HOUSE LOL" and the clearly superior Ni-ers are supposed to say, "Well it could mean that the family is for sale, or that the family doesn't own the house but enjoys gazing together at houses that are for sale, or..."
blah blah blah. It's one question in one situation that doesn't offer enough data (or even provide enough context) to say anything meaningful about Si vs. Ni preferences in real people.
How about Si-ers who have seen this kind of "test" before and already understand what it's supposed to do?
Just another illustration of the problem with one-size-fits-all type testing.
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Sim, this whole response is just so defensive. You make so many assumptions here about the op's intent (which may or may not be true), not to mention assumptions about the fallacy of the test. You just (seem to) jump way ahead without really thinking about if this test has any validity.
Not to mention it's just disrespectful to me (and others) who might have come before you and stated that this was a pretty cool way to test cognitive functions. The best insight I've gotten into Si, for example, has been when I conducted a little visual test among the different perceivers in my family. I blogged a bit about it. I'll quote the pertinent part here:
I was discussing typology with my kids last night. Poor kids--it's always what I want to talk about and they just cringe but indulge me as the good kids they are. I was reading from Solitary Walker's awesome book about each of their profiles (intj, istj) and we all found Si to be fairly confusing. So I asked my daughter to look at the light over the table and tell me what she sees when she regards it. We had read about how with Si, a person subjectifies the object, filtering it through their personal mind and seeing it in a unique way, but I didn't quite get it.
So the light fixture is a primitive chandeliere with 5 faux candle looking sconces set in a circle with very bright pointy lightbulbs that resemble flames on top of each one. When I look at it I see uncomfortably bright white light (i don't really like unnatural light) and that's pretty much it.
She said, "I see a candle light, which reminds me of candles, which reminds me that I want to watch 'Sixteen Candles,' which reminds me I can't because youtube won't play it."
Hah! How about that. Then my intj son said he saw candle lights too, but he didn't elaborate. I think he has an Ni/Si divide in the 70/30 range. Then I asked my husband to tell me what he saw (Ti/Se) and he said, "I see 4 lights, and one is burnt out." (meaning he should replace it--always looking through the fixing Ti function).
So, you see, your sarcastic response about Si was totally off the mark; no where near what I've observed, nor what other members of this board have described. I know you to be an open-minded person in other ways, but when it comes to something you think you know, you appear very close-minded. But that is part and parcel of being an extraverted perceiver, according to SolitaryWalker.
Furthermore, since a picture is worth a thousand words, asking a question about a picture is a very open-ended, and therefore potentially unbiased way, of finding out about a person's thought processes. That's why I've been thinking for quite a while that developing cognitive functions tests heavy on pictures, would be much more illuminating and accurate than tests that rely on verbage.
And I never thought, and the OP never said, this was one-stop shopping for a cognitive test to determine Ni vs Si. I perceived it as a sampler, just to get a taste of some of the difference between the two. So, kudos to musttry for starting this thread! Obviously, more pictures and more analyses would lend more information for drawing conclusions about the functions as they relate to mbti type.