Woah there... BIG leap.
Process A, know basics about person. Probably things which are clear now are preferences as according to MBTI. Know a person REALLY well, know the contradictions and label the person by name first. The first case you've possibly picked up enough to type them, second case you may get confused with the presence of contradictory information.
I completely disagree with the bolded sentence. Even if it were true, you're going to communicate with them holding certain assumptions -- you WILL be a victim to confirmation bias unless you don't apply it at all, in which case it's pointless. It's true that if they happen to fit the archetype extremely well, you'll gain some insight, but if you go around assuming that, you'll underweight information when people don't fit their supposed type well.
The only accurate way to apply MBTI is to hold out on assessment until you know the ins and outs of their personality quite well, but at that point...well, you know their personality quite well.
No matter what, applying the system means applying black and white judgments to a grey reality. Unless you account for the greyness... which takes a lot of information.
It's not the type defining me but me using the type to communicate that habit in shorthand.
This is the one point I agree with, which I've stated multiple times throughout the thread.
Really? You don't get a warm vibe from Fs that Ts tend to lack unless you get really close? Odd.
I do
in general. But if I type people based on that correlation, I'll mistype a lot of them. Straight up.
The truth is, Xander, making a mistake on just one person's type leads to consequences that far outweigh the benefits of typing 80% of others correctly.
Congrats you're developed... what's the problem with being an exceptional person?
The truth is, I'm not actually very well developed or mature. My Feeling is quite
underdeveloped. The F in my type just led you to a false conclusion. See what I mean?
So your gripe is that people are more diverse than the system allows for? Correct. What's your point? Throw it out? Why? Have you gotten rid of mental arithmatic because you bought a calculator?
So would it be fair to say that your problem lies not with the MBTI but in how it is used... sounds like you should correct the problem and not it's symptom. Just remove their heads... stops the problem immediately.
In reality, though, I don't know anyone who correctly applies the system to the standards I hold (including myself, which is the point of this thread). Just one mistype has far more consequences than the system has to offer. Just one misapplication does the same.
Have you not been listening to me? If you use the system in the correct way, you need to account for the grey. In order to account for the grey, you need tons of information. To get that information, you already
get the person in question. So why do you need MBTI?
Either you gain insight from applying the system in a black in white way, or it's pointless. I'm arguing that you don't gain enough insight from the black and white system to outweigh the problems with applying it that way.