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No, no... you see, sensors ARE supposed to BE the mob. We intuitive types are the victims of the mob.
That's the way the picture has been painted.
I disagree utterly with your assessment.
Well, I noticed that when I would talk to people on here about sensing, the traits you see described on typical MBTI websites somehow got twisted into negative forms, and a bunch of emotional baggage (mostly from INPs who believe their parents were SJs) got added into the mix.
Most of the "stuff" posted on this site is a factor of maturity level, and has little to do with type.
So please refrain from lumping all of us INP's into your agenda.
So essentially, we're stuck with a flawed picture painted in a way that favors Intuitives, because that's what ended up being the most comforting and useful for the majority of the systems users. Sometimes truth has nothing to do with what people see, or even what they need to see.
You're making broad, over-arching generalizations here. Most NF's, once they type accurately, realize they're not ALONE. Do you grasp that? MBTI, in my opinion, has nothing to do with appealing to a mass market of NF's (or NT's) for that matter. How do you see the "picture painted" in favor of intuitives? Read the descriptions again and you'll realize very quickly that there's much to recommend against intuitives.
Okay, I don't think MBTI works as well as people think it does. I think it's meant to be a self-development tool only, and doesn't work well when applied to other people, or otherwise used in an objective way. It especially shouldn't be used to describe groups, because it's not designed for that at all. It doesn't hold up to that kind of pressure.
Of course MBTI is not meant to "cookie-cutter define" each person in the world! Anyone who sees it as such is abusing the intention of the entire system of categorization. MBTI is broad brush-strokes, not fine detailing. But is does have application to help people at least appreciate that we are all unique and all the same in some ways. It can help to foster appreciation and understanding in many different settings. You're missing the whole point if you think that MBTI cannot describe groups of preferences, that it can't "hold up to that kind of pressure". That's EXACTLY what it does do.