Clegane
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"The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions."
We don't use MBTI here on PersonalityCafe. We use a bastardized MBTI theory mixed with Grant's, Nardi's and Beren's theories. For example, Myers thought that the non-dominant functions are extraverted for a dominant introvert.
Most of the tests don't even distinguish between introverted and extraverted functions. Not even the OFFICIAL MBTI test and the most famous ones, like the 16personalities.
Let's make a stupid example. Let's say that there are 40 questions, 10 each for Fi, Fe, Ti and Te. You test 9 points on Fi, 1 on Fe, 6 on Ti and 5 on Te. The test only considers these results: 10 points for F and 11 for T, so you're a thinker.
If you look at videos on YouTube of MBTI experts doing some kind of workshop, they never talk about introverted or extraverted cognitive functions. They always use some kind of stereotype. They always do that stupid thing where they ask two people two describe a thing, like a glass. The dude that says "it's a glass, we use it to drink" is a sensor. The other dude says "glass is better than plastic because dolphins die in the oceans and blablabla" is an intuitive. Well, I think that none of us uses these stereotypes.
We use Grant's functional stacks, the ones used by Berens and Nardi. In fact, Nardi's test is also the most famous one which distinguishes between the cognitive functions. The "MBTI" theory that we mostly use in this forum evolved. I can't say if it improved or if it became worse, but it definitely is different from the official MBTI theory and test. We should give it a different name to refer to it, because saying that this is MBTI causes a lot of confusion, especially for newcomers.
MBTI is a bad name anyways. A name like "Socionics" sounds way cooler. We could name it Cleganics.
We don't use MBTI here on PersonalityCafe. We use a bastardized MBTI theory mixed with Grant's, Nardi's and Beren's theories. For example, Myers thought that the non-dominant functions are extraverted for a dominant introvert.
Most of the tests don't even distinguish between introverted and extraverted functions. Not even the OFFICIAL MBTI test and the most famous ones, like the 16personalities.
Let's make a stupid example. Let's say that there are 40 questions, 10 each for Fi, Fe, Ti and Te. You test 9 points on Fi, 1 on Fe, 6 on Ti and 5 on Te. The test only considers these results: 10 points for F and 11 for T, so you're a thinker.
If you look at videos on YouTube of MBTI experts doing some kind of workshop, they never talk about introverted or extraverted cognitive functions. They always use some kind of stereotype. They always do that stupid thing where they ask two people two describe a thing, like a glass. The dude that says "it's a glass, we use it to drink" is a sensor. The other dude says "glass is better than plastic because dolphins die in the oceans and blablabla" is an intuitive. Well, I think that none of us uses these stereotypes.
We use Grant's functional stacks, the ones used by Berens and Nardi. In fact, Nardi's test is also the most famous one which distinguishes between the cognitive functions. The "MBTI" theory that we mostly use in this forum evolved. I can't say if it improved or if it became worse, but it definitely is different from the official MBTI theory and test. We should give it a different name to refer to it, because saying that this is MBTI causes a lot of confusion, especially for newcomers.
MBTI is a bad name anyways. A name like "Socionics" sounds way cooler. We could name it Cleganics.
