Joehobo
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- Dec 29, 2009
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The article is not talking about MBTI introverts. If only you would simply click the link where it says "introvert." http://www.livescience.com/6291-study-sheds-light-people-shy.html
Wow look at that, even the link to the other page has the word "shy" in it.
It pisses me off to have to explain this after mentioning it above once already.
"Socially shy" is not an acceptable definition of "introvert" IN MBTI TERMS. You know this to be true. And yet you continue to berate the author of that page on the basis of your OWN idea of what an introvert is.
And in fact, your (or our) idea of what an introvert is really isn't generally accepted by psychologists.
Your frustration is unreasonable. I've only seen two people before you made this comment who mentioned something MBTI related, and that was in the form of a (/ *comment* *insert type here.*)
I think most people on this forum would have an understanding of what the general accepted view of an introvert is. I did not see the need to click a stupid link to educate myself on what the definition of an introvert is because I already understood this meaning way before I discovered MBTI.
I'm an Introvert by MBTI's theoretical standards, and by societies standards. As the "studies" suggest, I fit the definition because of the following: I'm a recluse, I'm shy, I'm slow to open up, I like to read and do activities which don't involve other people, cry easily, ask wierd questions, have thoughts which people find to complicated to care to listen, and considered sensitive.
I wouldn't be surprised that other introverts can relate to this, and would agree that this notion that introverts value people at the same level as objects would feel a little insulted.