badatlife
Member
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2014
- Messages
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- MBTI Type
- IxFx
- Enneagram
- 9
- Instinctual Variant
- sp
I did admit the last was speculation. Regarding MBTI, I have seen evidence that links E/I to brain physiology, and more limited evidence regarding qualities related to the Big 5 "conscientiousness" factor, which seems related to J, or perhaps Je. MBTI is supposed to describe cognitive processes, which seems more likely tied to how our brains are wired. Enneagram relates more to motivations, which seem more open to influence by our experiences.
Theoretically that makes sense, but neither have actually been proven. I'm just going off popular descriptions and the way they're applied. Enneagram descriptions tend to be more indepth and go deeper into the psyche while mbti descriptions are more shallow (even the official mbti is very shallow). It's the core/instinctive motivations which is what makes it deeper than mbti-and also there's no poles/spectrums in the enneagram, there's 9 distinct types. I think this is less likely to be nurture, because you can't teach someone to have core motivations; maybe everyone can be raised to want the same thing, but the way they go about it is instinctively different
The thread talks about T vs F for men and women, I think this could be influenced by nurture. 60-40 is not a big difference at all, and there is a lot of social pressure when it comes to emotions and expressing or suppressing them, or whether we should value emotions or logic. I'm sure a lot of men mistype as T as well. I actually know this from experience-one of my friends took the test in high school and got ENFP and he is clearly an F, but a few years later he thought he was INTP. It wouldn't surprise me if the actual split is closer to 55/45 or 50/50
But I don't feel the same way about the enneagram. Although I think it's very likely a lot of women mistype as 2's because they are helpful haha. But still, especially with types 2 and 8, I find the gender imbalance there to be interesting. The only explanation I can think of is mistyping though