Could be. But, for example, I'm pretty sure I recall hearing that MBTI as it stands today doesn't have an equal number of questions devoted to each dichotomy. Something about Myers-Briggs legacy + modern statistical research = some questions are known to be more revealling and some less so thus some have been kept and some junked and what's left is effective but still a mishmash.
Interesting. Never knew that about the MBTI, but it makes sense.
I'd assume, though, that this test is much younger, and thus hasn't been manipulated as much and has a better chance of being straight 6 questions / FA.
It felt that way while I was taking it and identifying which FA each question was referring to...
And if those levels were accurately targettable by suitable prompts... it's remains a damn shame that it's still up to the user to interpret the prompts.
I mean, until we get to the point where we're strapping ourselves up to something that reads brain waves, I don't think we're gunna get the level of objectivity we'd like...
Well I figure I must have been doing something wrong. I was able to give half a dozen definite "Not me"s but really only one definite "Exactly me". Seems like a sure sign of mixing up positive concepts.
Yeah, I took it a week or two ago, so my memory's already starting to fade a bit, but I do remember thinking for a couple of the functions that the prompts seemed to accentuate certain aspects of those functions while possibly neglecting other aspects of them. I remember Ni seeming very much about mysticism, symbolism, spirituality, and what not, and not as much about context-shifting, meta-perspectivizing, and what not.
Plus, given that some functions are semi-conscious, it seems likely that even for normal people being moderately conscientious about the test, there'll still be false-positives and -negatives at least from people over emphasizing or under emphasizing.
Yeah, no test is perfect...
It'd be interesting to know which prompt is which...
I'm pretty sure I could pick them out -- I felt as much while I was taking the test.
The couple prompts I know that I mistaked had to do with Ti (I thought they were referring to Se), and talked about "leverage".
I was thinking of "leverage" from more of a social power perspective, somewhat a la Socionics' description of Se, but, apparently it had to do with Ti...
My Ti score ended up coming out lower than on any other cognitive function test I've taken... (it's usually close to the top for me)
The ones I knew weren't making much sense to me were Si (and, by that, I mean that I just don't consciously think in the way the prompt described -- I knew they were pointing to Si, though), and so Si ended up coming out my lowest score of all...
All in all, I thought it was a pretty well-designed test.
...and what relationship if any between various prompts is being supposed.
Wait, are you questioning whether, in calculating your results, the test may figure that you mistakenly answered high on one prompt, when it was really due to you thinking it was referring to a different function than it actually was???
If that's what you're questioning, it would seem a bit difficult for an online test to handle, I would think...