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What type is House?

What type is House?

  • INTP

    Votes: 72 18.0%
  • INTJ

    Votes: 120 30.0%
  • INFP

    Votes: 2 0.5%
  • INFJ

    Votes: 2 0.5%
  • ISTP

    Votes: 4 1.0%
  • ISTJ

    Votes: 4 1.0%
  • ISFP

    Votes: 2 0.5%
  • ISFJ

    Votes: 4 1.0%
  • ESFJ

    Votes: 6 1.5%
  • ESFP

    Votes: 5 1.3%
  • ESTJ

    Votes: 3 0.8%
  • ESTP

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • ENFJ

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • ENFP

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • ENTJ

    Votes: 25 6.3%
  • ENTP

    Votes: 148 37.0%

  • Total voters
    400

NewEra

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This must be the 10th House thread. Anyway, I'd say ENTP.
 

Oaky

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He isn't an F.
 
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Riva

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He says he's always absolutely rational, not realising absolute rationality is unexistant in the first place unless he believes he is omnipotent, which he doesn't. :p . Quite frankly, his rationality lacks rationality. He openly uses his sarcasm whatever the cause of his outbursts and does not regulate his inner thoughts. He's contradicting himself more than once. His introverted perks appear to be enforced by thought. He doesn't seem to come close to INTP rationality. Every aspect of his supposedly INTP like state are pretty much unhealthy outbursts.

Quite frankly. I think he's an unhealthy ENFP addict in pain trying to hide, and not an INTP.

Could he not be a INTJ who is not in touch with his Fi?
There is a pretty big thread on this topic. :)

http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/popular-culture-type/2701-what-type-house.html

He isn't an F.

Yes he is. Even I am. :)
 

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^ He isn't a J
 

bighairything

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Most people seem to type him as INTP. And if you watch him for a moment, that does seem likely.

But there's some things about him that just don't match him with me, type related.

He says he's always absolutely rational, not realising absolute rationality is unexistant in the first place unless he believes he is omnipotent, which he doesn't. :p . Quite frankly, his rationality lacks rationality. He openly uses his sarcasm whatever the cause of his outbursts and does not regulate his inner thoughts. He's contradicting himself more than once. His introverted perks appear to be enforced by thought. He doesn't seem to come close to INTP rationality. Every aspect of his supposedly INTP like state are pretty much unhealthy outbursts.

Quite frankly. I think he's an unhealthy ENFP addict in pain trying to hide, and not an INTP.

It's a wonderful theory that solves a lot of the problems with typing him, but ultimately I just don't buy it. No F could so completely and utterly out of touch with Feeling. It just makes no sense, however damaged he may be.

I like the INTJ theory because it does seem as his dominant function does seem to be Ni. But the manifestations of P-ness are just to extreme for him to plausibly be a J.

So through a process of elimination, I reckon ENTP. I'd choose that over INTP because he seems more like an anti-social extrovert than a true introvert. Apart from the solving of cases, his thrills mostly come from external stimuli -- particularly messing with other people.
 
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Riva

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I'd probably get my but kicked for mentioning this.

Using MBTI he cannot be clearly categorized. He is more of a xNTP according to it. But there are loop holes in the xNTP theory. But if socionics is used he is clearly an INTJ (ILE).

The perceiving functions don't work the same way in MBTI and Socionics. And the introverts have different functions. Read the INTJ description of socionics and tell me House isn't one. No can do.

Logical Intuitive Introtim - Wikisocion
 

Aleksei

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House is an obvious INTP. It frankly amazes me so many people voted ENTP, given about 90% of the plot revolves around how he hates people.
 

digesthisickness

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House is an obvious INTP. It frankly amazes me so many people voted ENTP, given about 90% of the plot revolves around how he hates people.

show me the proof that entps can't be people-haters.

and, please, don't confuse my comment with me caring about house's type. i don't. at all.

i do care about misinformation being spread, and this thread is full of this reason. which shouldn't be one.
 

Aleksei

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show me the proof that entps can't be people-haters.
They can be people haters, but that's more likely to make them into sociopaths (And charismatic sociopaths at that) rather than recluses, since extroverts feed on human contact. House, on the other hand, has one fucking friend and spends the vast majority of his day lurking in his office. Not exactly the profile of an extrovert.
 

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House is not a dom Thinker.

Ne reigns as the primary.
 

digesthisickness

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They can be people haters, but that's more likely to make them into sociopaths (And charismatic sociopaths at that) rather than recluses, since extroverts feed on human contact. House, on the other hand, has one fucking friend and spends the vast majority of his day lurking in his office. Not exactly the profile of an extrovert.

wow. so much wrong information in one post. one doesn't have to be a friggen sociopath in order to hate the stupidity in the world (people). that's ridiculous.

he has plenty of 'friends' and one close one. if you could even call that close. it's more like the guy knows him and still sticks around despite knowing him.

and, finally, house is constantly 'feeding off of people'.
 

Craft

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I don't think Ne is right. He doesn't seem to entertain as much possibilities as you would expect an Ne would. Especially when he's facing new cases.

Ne vs. Ni is the real problem.

Te is very right there. How he tell's people what to do is quite systematic yet somehow certainly playful.

Fe vs. Fi. I've never seen the guy Fe his feelings. It's all inside.
 

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Not too many people arguing against ENTP seem to know what they're talking about in this thread.
 

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I think he is fuc**ed up enough that he has more than one personality and that is why it is so hard to type him.

One side is brilliant ENTP doctor and the other one is really unhealthy and cynical INTJ persona. (or perhaps it is the other way around)
 

digesthisickness

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I think he is fuc**ed up enough that he has more than one personality and that is why it is so hard to type him.

One side is brilliant ENTP doctor and the other one is really unhealthy and cynical INTJ persona. (or perhaps it is the other way around)



:yes:
 

Aleksei

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one doesn't have to be a friggen sociopath in order to hate the stupidity in the world (people). that's ridiculous.
Other way around. An ExTx who hates people would become a charismatic, ruthless and guiltless manipulator -- A sociopath.

he has plenty of 'friends' and one close one. if you could even call that close. it's more like the guy knows him and still sticks around despite knowing him.
He has one friend, and a bunch of people he tolerates simply because he can't work without them.

and, finally, house is constantly 'feeding off of people'.
By feeding off human contact (not people), I mean extroverts are energized by human contact. Being around people clearly annoys House, and he spends the majority of his time hiding from them.
 

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By feeding off human contact (not people), I mean extroverts are energized by human contact. Being around people clearly annoys House, and he spends the majority of his time hiding from them.

No he doesn't, he often seeks them out.
 
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