So you are asking why a group of individuals who are likely to have a personal bias concerned in their understanding of you, and are only privy to that small section of yourself that can be seen through the standard social mask we all wear, nonetheless can't be as good as understanding your personality than an unbiased test based around many questions that require divulgence of inner meanings as asked by qualified psychologists?
Yeah. OBVIOUSLY the test is the lesser of the two.
*edit* Oops. I realised I might be a little misunderstood here. I want you to know that the funny thing I actually probably agree with you that the test is often flawed. I just objected to your logic.
You mistake my point entirely. I was arguing neither thing. Nor was I making a
logical point per se. I was demonstrating/explaining a feeling/experience/perception that is common to INTJs; I was not arguing that MBTI has no merit. Moreover, your logic has flaws.
"Standard social mask?" INTJs don't have a standard social mask: we are obviously strange, people try to understand us, try to
apply a standard social mask, and fail. INTJs are largely WYSIWYG (as long as you don't open that black box with the big red button called "emotions"). There is no social mask that INTJs project, really, and certainly not consciously.
It's because INTJs don't try to project any particular mask that we're easily misunderstood. The "real us" just doesn't behave in any predictable way, because people will read in the random white noise of not-quite-emotion, attribute emotion and motivation to it, and be completely wrong. It is this
experience that is common to INTJs (and also to a degree with a different emphasis common to INFJs), that we are simply used to being misunderstood. Even you misunderstood me, assuming that I intended to be strictly logical.
I think you can remove the X from your declared MBTI type and go with INTP. INTPs and ENTPs tend to do the "social mask" thing, and think of it as a mask. No, not everyone does that.
Also, an INFP would have totally gotten what I said and not complained about the logic, but might have said something about how it feels differently to him/her.