ever hated is automatically that type? I'm just wondering if there's some truth to this theory or if i'm just speaking out my bunghole.
Given a lot of the feedback on ESTJs and ESFJs that you see on this forum and others - I'd say yeah, that's spot on.
Sort of, but I think it's more specific than that. Like, they'll pick up on a stereotype, like xSTJs are bossy and have sticks up their asses and insist on sticking to stupid rules for no good reason, or ExFJs are phony and meddlesome and want the entire world to behave as if we're in Pleasantville, and then whenever they see these traits in someone they'll assume the person must be a certain type.
They do it plenty for positive and neutral traits as well as negative ones.
God, yes, people do this all the time.
They type a person in their heads. If they don't like that person, then that draws them away from that type. They then get drawn away from any else who they believe has that same type and make generalizations about the type itself.
It's magical, circular, and a convenient but terrible heuristic.
Also N/S and T/F scales have yet to be shown to have any scientific accuracy.
Not that it means the theory is useless, but, well... it certainly has its limitations.
How would you go about showing how they are accurate using a scientific method? Bear in mind the inherent flaws in tests.
Im not saying you cant of course, id love to see a scientific study on this stuff, one that really delved into it, rather than being based around group studies that basically hinge entirely on the test that the individuals took being 100% right in the first place.
I did wonder about neuroscience as in Dario Nardi.
I''m the same way, actually. I wasn't saying everybody does what I describe in the OP, so stop being all offended when there's no need to be offended.i like all the types, and i can think of at least one person from every type that i hate.
go figure that shit out, purple!
Yes, all of this.Well, exactly. It's pretty hard to establish that validity. You could get internal validity by having people do self-assessment over and over again, and checking if from year to year they still believe they are the same type, but testing external validity would be hard. INTP brother and I can agree that he is more logical than me, but how do we establish empirically how logical we are? And then compared to everyone else. Everyone involved would have to learn the MBTI inside out and agree on one interpretation of the theory and then we could still only have a cross-sectional, because assuming some people would change their idea of their type at some time it'd be hard to establish external validity at all... ahhhh... an INTx should figure this out.
I like the neuroscience route too, but you'd have to wire up a LOT of heads. Sounds like a project for some budding neuroscientist on TypeC....
We may as well come to grips with the notion that, right now, we're clustering people in our own heads in a way that makes sense to (and is useful for) us, but probably doesn't make a lick of sense when thrown out there into the outside world. One consequence of that is this whole business of striving for an 'objective' measure by which to classify other people, sometimes in unwarranted and unfortunately negative ways.