Another way for people to answer according to their own deluded self-image and then have this reflected back to them in a comforting reworded sense, allowing them to fool themselves that they have discovered something profound about themselves and that they are therefore, by extension, profound.
/Cynical bastard.
Well there are four parts to the perception of a personality: what is known to the individual but not to others, what is visible to the individual plus others, what is visible to others but not the individual, and what is unknown (usually these are repressed or rejected characteristics).
That's like Communications 101. So I made sure to collect a lot of feedback from people on forums when typing myself, especially people who were sincere, knew me somewhat (like knew me as an individual person and not as the forum Marmonator), and didn't have some lingering personal vendetta against me (like the ONE GUY on the ENTIRE FORUM who kept saying I was ESFJ. Right. OK. That totally makes sense, one guy on the entire forum projecting one's own anima issues, n'est-ce pas?). Which is why you have to be careful in collecting this objective feedback that is visible to others and not to yourself, you have to ask a wide variety of people, including people who like and are simply neutral toward you, or who may even dislike some things about you, but aren't personally hostile toward you.
There's this one chick where I have been living, and everyone keeps telling her she's irrational, and she's got this false self-image like "I'm a nice, important person" and I'm not saying she's never nice, but its rehearsed forms of "niceness" like giving people gifts, otherwise she's really rude, self-absorbed, and kind of a bully. Finally she's getting kicked out, she has to leave in two days. I wonder if she'll finally understand, or continue her life utterly unexamined. She's in her 40s, btw, not 20s.