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TypicallyMindful wrote:Hah, you just convinced me I'm INTJ. I do pick sides, I can't help it. It's a conscious choice on my part not to voice my opinions or let them influence anything outside of my personal life, because they are just that - opinions - and as such I don't see why they would hold any value to anyone else. I absolutely have opinions, I just hate people who go around blathering useless biased crap, so I try to make sure that when I'm dealing with other people, my actions and statements remain objective, even if my feelings are not.

To put it bluntly, I do pass judgement, I just do it silently.

So you only pretend to be understanding, thoughtful and detached?

IceBlock wrote:So you only pretend to be understanding, thoughtful and detached?

Maybe.

Really though, the problem is that "understanding" tends to carry connotations of compassion. In general, I understand, would like to think I'm thoughtful, and am reasonably detached - if only because the judgement I pass on most issues is that they are of little importance. There are certainly some cases where I'm a lot less impartial than I seem, but they're pretty few and far between.

The thing that gets most often wrongly assigned to me is compassion. I help mostly with problems that I find interesting, or because there's no reason for me not to help. I really don't care if these people ignore my advice and go break up/give up on life/some terrible thing. People tend to associate a willingness or aptitude to provide aide with a genuine investment in the outcome, which I lack.

TypicallyMindful wrote:Really though, the problem is that "understanding" tends to carry connotations of compassion. In general, I understand, would like to think I'm thoughtful, and am reasonably detached - if only because the judgement I pass on most issues is that they are of little importance.(...)
The thing that gets most often wrongly assigned to me is compassion.

Oh, don't worry. I used this word in a strictly non-compassionate meaning.
It's more like: " I understand that it's important for you, and you care, but I don't".

ISTJ
Strength of the preferences %
Introverted 78%
Sensing 25%
Thinking 100%
Judging 33%

I got this:

Your Type is:
INTJ

Strength of the preferences %

Introverted - 100
Intuitive - 25
Thinking - 88
Judging - 56

i wonder how many of us mistyped? it looks like many people scored near the middle between judging and perceiving. i scored INTJ, but after reading a bit more, i think i'm really an INTP, and i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other people mistyped, too...

i'm not P for sure.

Viinasu wrote:i wonder how many of us mistyped? it looks like many people scored near the middle between judging and perceiving. i scored INTJ, but after reading a bit more, i think i'm really an INTP, and i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other people mistyped, too...

I think it's a pretty fine line between the two. I can say with certainty that I have qualities from both, and I imagine that for some people it's hard to distinguish at all.

INTP and I'm a cluster B... Watch out!

This was mine: INTJ

I-100%
N-25%
T-88%
J-45%

I concur with this analysis. I am a biologist and I teach biology. the 45% in Judging makes perfect sense to me. I have to make judgments all the time when deciding which observations are relevant or anomolous, designing an experiment, etc. The relatively low score of 45% seems to indicate to me that I am not completely judging and I am also open to other perspectives as long as they are substantive. The 25% Intuitive also makes sense as connecting and comparing data to theory requires the ability to intuit the relationship and possible outcomes of the relationship. This is also a relatively low score which also indicates that intuition may lead to the question but fact will decide its veracity.

Yep, that's me in a nutshell.