simulatedworld
Freshman Member
- Joined
- Nov 7, 2008
- Messages
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- MBTI Type
- ENTP
- Enneagram
- 7w6
- Instinctual Variant
- sx/so
Huh.
Well, I wrote the quiz and got a 50/50 split on the J/P thing, so that's why my last letter has a nice little 'x'. I didn't really think of the mechanics overmuch, and I intentionally did not research the meanings at length beforehand, because I did not want to project any bias onto the results.
The quiz questions were quite simple everyday things, and didn't hint at a deeper meaning.
The quizzes are garbage. They're akin to those little "What kind of music do you like?" quizzes; they don't actually prove anything because they depend entirely on self-report. They only test how you see yourself, not how you actually are.
The best they can do is point you in the right direction so that you can do research on your own and discover for yourself which archetype fits you best.
If we go back to starting with just four functions (S, N, T, F), and that an ego uses them in an inner or outer orientation, choosing in an alternating fashion which to use where. It becomes clear that Xe and Xi are not the totally separate animals that we have made them out to be. So it is hypothetically possible for someone to be close in J/P. We do normally choose one and reject the other, but still, however it develops, they can be close where it is hard to tell.
I completely disagree with this. It may be hard to tell in children who have not yet formed clear functional preferences, but once most people reach adulthood their value systems are very clearly defined and not really that difficult to discern. Xi and Xe are very, very opposed because they disagree completely on where the source of the decision should be--internally from the self, or externally from the environment.
-irrelevant whining-
Who the hell invited you into this thread, anyway?