I went to Personality Hacker (http://www.personalityhacker.com/about/)and took the test again, yep, INFJ. There's also an article about how INFJ's and INFP's often get confused, but actually are very different types, and provides 7 differences.
My difficulty with it though is it is still attempting to index the human being, and well there's just some things that don't quite fit. Or slip through the cracks. It tells you who you are based on generalizations and assumptions, but doesn't seem to take into account exceptions. (shrugs). I think this has always been my innate difficulty with psychology as a science, it's horribly inexact and dangerously inaccurate at times. There's so much we don't know about how our minds work and how we think.
And each individual person is unique. None of us think the same. We may have a few similarities here and there, but we think and perceive so differently. And there's so many variables that come into play. I remember having a discussion ages ago with a college friend about whether environment or DNA had more affect on influencing behavior patterns and thinking. Nuture vs. Nature. She came at from a sociology perspective, while I was convinced it was a bit of both. I mean you and I could both be INFJ's for example, but, we live in different places, one of us may have a learning disability or a digestive ailment, one may have kids, one may not...all of these are vital factors.
I think human beings like to over-simplify things sometimes so they can put a label on it and put it in a box. Sort of like Riley does in the episode of BTVS entitled Restless.
I'm not saying there isn't a great deal of value in the Myers-Briggs personality tests or that they aren't useful, but I think they can be dangerous if someone relies solely on these tests to figure themselves out or solve their relationship issues. A personality test taken on the internet can only tell you so much.
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Date: 2016-09-01 01:51 am (UTC)My difficulty with it though is it is still attempting to index the human being, and well there's just some things that don't quite fit. Or slip through the cracks. It tells you who you are based on generalizations and assumptions, but doesn't seem to take into account exceptions. (shrugs). I think this has always been my innate difficulty with psychology as a science, it's horribly inexact and dangerously inaccurate at times. There's so much we don't know about how our minds work and how we think.
And each individual person is unique. None of us think the same. We may have a few similarities here and there, but we think and perceive so differently. And there's so many variables that come into play. I remember having a discussion ages ago with a college friend about whether environment or DNA had more affect on influencing behavior patterns and thinking. Nuture vs. Nature. She came at from a sociology perspective, while I was convinced it was a bit of both. I mean you and I could both be INFJ's for example, but, we live in different places, one of us may have a learning disability or a digestive ailment, one may have kids, one may not...all of these are vital factors.
I think human beings like to over-simplify things sometimes so they can put a label on it and put it in a box. Sort of like Riley does in the episode of BTVS entitled Restless.
I'm not saying there isn't a great deal of value in the Myers-Briggs personality tests or that they aren't useful, but I think they can be dangerous if someone relies solely on these tests to figure themselves out or solve their relationship issues. A personality test taken on the internet can only tell you so much.