via Mari Harmon

via Mari Harmon 

I am an INTP and this is so true:

INTPs are analytical and thoughtful individuals who prefer to work alone and who are often ill at ease in social situations. They are impatient with hierarchies and politics and would prefer that leaders prove their worth with merit, rather than with charisma and influence. Although they are not particularly social, they do have razor sharp wit (and claws), and are often surprised to learn that people do enjoy their company.

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Jonathon Barton said…
I'm an INTP, too.

How do stack up on a standard Five Factor Personality Inventory?
http://www.personal.psu.edu/j5j/IPIP/ipipneo120.htm
Chris Reece said…
I usually scan as an INTJ, but that last bit about being surprised when people enjoy my company is absolutely spot on for me as well.
Liz Kimber said…
what does INTP stand for, cos its sounds like me.
Liz Kimber said…
Yep yep I wave that flag good and true
Jason ON said…
I can't attest to the accuracy of this test (http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp) but here's an online one to take. I took the test in Psych class years ago.
Liz Kimber said…
It decided I was more judgemental, yeah about 12% so, not much.. but the INTP sounds just like me, to me at least.
Jason ON said…
I sometimes fluctuate between *I*NTP and *E*NTP depending on my mood when I take the MB test. No matter which one I score with I'm usually somewhere near the 50% mark.
Liz Kimber said…
I guess in someways I am judgemental, in that I find people I named as a group the "deliberately stupid" those who ask you stuff, and you show how to, and they say they understand and all but turn round and claim no one helps them or that they didnt understand..
Jonathon Barton said…
J is **NOT** Judgemental.
It is Judging versus Perceiving

This fourth preference pair describes how you like to live your outer life--what are the behaviors others tend to see? Do you prefer a more structured and decided lifestyle (Judging) or a more flexible and adaptable lifestyle (Perceiving)? This preference may also be thought of as your orientation to the outer world.

Everyone takes in information some of the time. Everyone makes decisions some of the time. However, when it comes to dealing with the outer world,
People who tend to focus on making decisions have a preference for Judging because they tend to like things decided.
People who tend to focus on taking in information prefer Perceiving because they stay open to a final decision in order to get more information.

IMHO, it's the worst named and least intuitive (HA!) of all of the pairs.
Liz Kimber said…
Hmm, sort of, I can be impatient when it comes to making decisions, but thats more impatient for wanting the information that making the final decision, for example, if your doc sends you to have a blood count, and says "phone me in a week", I get testy because I know in the place where you go, the machines right in front of you they litterally put the vial in one end and it spits out the numbers immediately the other end.. why wait a week ??
Jonathon Barton said…
That sounds an awful lot like preferring to have things decided to me.
I'm a pretty strong Perceiver, and my way to look at that is that the actual number, by itself, interpreted by the lab tech on the spot is meaningless without the larger context of my health picture that my doctor has, and the lab tech doesn't. While I like knowing the actual number, and I like being an informed consumer of medical services, it doesn't bother me at all that I have to wait to get "the answer" from my doc later in the week. That gives my doc time to get the results back (officially) from the lab, and examine that piece of evidence within the scope of all the other information that my doc has about me

Perceivers remain open to the final decision in order to get more information. =)

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