It would be interesting to know whether people on either side of this here debate correspond to Myers-Briggs Thinking/Feeling supertypes.
Do people know their Myers-Briggs types? Mine is INTP. We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
That seems to make me a champion idealist ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
Then again, I'd also have to take it purely sober, I migh turn out otherwise...
Seriously, I shift a lot on these self-tests, sometimes I turn up introverted. The only constants are the N and the P. I have never been sensing, or judging, as a Jungean trait of my general, idealised personality.
Then again, I never bought much stock in Jung or Freud...
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
But Myers-Briggs is my top example for why I can't take personality tests too seriously. These tests try to hammer people's personalities into crude stereotypes. The result in the case of Myers-Briggs and me is that at least a third of my choices aren't better than throwing dice, as the question is loaded or underdefined for me. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I haven't done one in decades and I was ENFP. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
INFJ
As for the question I posed (Thinking vs. Feeling), we have:
T: migeru, poemless, dodo, colman, Jerome, JakeS F: fran, metavision, ceebs, turambar, sven
Draw your own conclusions. We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
