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[scrdest]

The thing is, a ton of the questions are really stereotypical and discard other possibilities as to why someone might be the way s/he is. Like, say, you have a question like 'I'm a very shy person' - and it's interpreted as pointing to being introverted, when in fact the person is a perfectly normal extrovert who just had a slew of bad experiences in his family/school/circle of friends/whatever.

Or, say, a question that measures how are you on the judging/perceiving axis that happens to ask about something you happen to be VERY concerned about, biasing the results towards J.

Also, I think that every person expresses all sixteen combinations in particular situations, and as such the personality type is not a measure of 'what type you are', but more your most likely/frequent personality type.

As for me, upon reading the summaries and remembering the past results, I'm a mostly standard ENTP, with the first and the last being slightly on the fence in tests.

[Greiger]

I (100%) S (1%) T (38%) P (22%)

I've taken the test before but don't recall what I got back then, I know I was high on the Introverted scale back then as well.  I don't mind socializing with people online when I'm physically alone, but I hate being near other people.  I'm usually ok with my small circle of friends but even with them I get to the point eventually where I really want to be alone.

No idea what a 1% On that S means.  Does that mean I don't do either? Or maybe I screwed it up and it has no idea?

I'm also not so sure about that T there.  Sometimes I want to think things out before committing, other times I just want to get it over with and go with my gut, I figure that should probably be a lower percentage.

Not sure what the perceiving over judging is even supposed to mean.

Funnily enough I clicked on the career choices thing and the first thing that came up is computer science and software engineering.  Well whaddaya know that's more or less what I just got a degree in.

[Glloyd]

INTP

Introvert(11%)  iNtuitive(38%)  Thinking(38%)  Perceiving(11%)

    You have slight preference of Introversion over Extraversion (11%)
    You have moderate preference of Intuition over Sensing (38%)
    You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (38%)
    You have slight preference of Perceiving over Judging (11%)

It's all pretty slight preference though. I prefer to think of myself as an introverted extrovert, because while I do prefer to be alone, I don't have any troubles interacting with larger groups of people, and I'm very energetic and enthusiastic when in situations like that. I would just much rather be alone, or with a small group of people (1-3).

The rest seems more like me, especially reading the analysis. I have trouble making decisions, but I'm also pretty relaxed about how those decisions end up.

To quote:

The open-endedness (from Perceiving) conjoined with the need for competence (NT) is expressed in a sense that one's conclusion may well be met by an equally plausible alternative solution, and that, after all, one may very well have overlooked some critical bit of data.

Which is how I am, to a degree. However, I'm less inclined towards math than the analysis says is average. The games part applies, except that word games bore the hell out of me, but I love all things strategy. The rules thing doesn't really apply for me though, I HATE following rules, and doing things by the books. However, that may just be the ADHD part of me

[MetalSlimeHunt]

No idea what a 1% On that S means.  Does that mean I don't do either?

A low score in a letter means you encompass traits of both letters and do not have a strong preference of one over the other. As such, your result would be better shown as IXTP.

[Remuthra]

Introvert(44%)  iNtuitive(62%)  Thinking(100%)  Judging(11%)

    You have moderate preference of Introversion over Extraversion (44%)
    You have distinct preference of Intuition over Sensing (62%)
    You have strong preference of Thinking over Feeling (100%)
    You have slight preference of Judging over Perceiving (11%)

Well that's certainly a thing.

[Vector]

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[MorleyDev]

Personally, I always had trouble identifying as an INTJ because I don't feel especially competent. I realize that I apparently radiate competence and authority, but I very much don't feel that way; I'm easily intimidated by most authority figures. The systems I enjoy building are theoretical more than practical, I fantasize rather a lot, and I typically find real-world application boring. Ah well. The particulars may not be accurate, but the shoe fits.

I doubt there are that many competent people in the world who actually feel competent. And there are many utterly incompetent people who are completely convinced of their own competence. One of the things about truly being competent is that it requires you to know how much better you could be, which makes you feel less competent because there's always something else you could do better.

Especially since everybody is comparing the inside of their head to the outside of the people they see, and inside a persons head is a scary place to be in comparison. I know, I'm in one right now There's a reason that a lot of the people who you'd think of as being calm and controlled will often suffer from a lot of stress-related illnesses.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Vec: It's probably worth keeping in mind that the INTJ brand of confidence is expressed through Extroverted Thinking. The certainty of one's own knowledge and skill in a focused area, expressed to others. A particularly confident INTJ is just somebody who learns to apply this in a social context, thus literally being as confident about other people liking them as they are that the entropy of a closed system will always increase.

For example, you may find yourself cowed by authority figures, but I doubt you'd let them get away with stating blatantly false mathematical principles or claiming that Russian poetry is always terrible.

[penguinofhonor]

I'm INTP! The description thingy is 50% spot on and 50% kind of similar to how I act. I feel like those things are written vaguely and broadly like horoscopes, anyway.

[Vector]

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[TD1]

Just read up on INFP.
Yep.
It's eerily accurate, too.

Still, they don't explain a lot of things about me. It's just that the little parts they explain are really accurate.

It suits me down to the ground. Even the bit about getting riled up about a cause.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Oh, is that how that works.

Indeed, and while it has probably happened at least by chance to you at some point, if it hasn't you should give shifting Extroverted Thinking to socialization a shot. It's pretty hard to do intentionally or unintentionally, but it's an amazing feeling when it does happen. If you've ever had a time in which everybody seemed to fall in line and obey you while you expressed simple certainty of something, that's that.

And yes, you're absolutely correct on the latter point.

there are people who actually don't do that, aren't there ._.

Indeed there are. I've gotten "you can just let people be wrong [MSH], why do you have to cause so much trouble" more than once. Earlier in my life those comments made me anxious, but now they just make me angry.

[SalmonGod]

J thinks things out, P makes snap decisions. 1% S means that you tend slightly more towards experiencing sensation, rather than sitting in your head and thinking about stuff that's not going on right now.

Really?... it's been a few years since I read deep into this stuff, but this is the opposite of what I remember.  What I recall is that J is a preference for decision-making over information-gathering, and P is the opposite.  Someone who is 100% P will just gather information and categorize hypotheticals forever, and never make a real decision until forced... like me.

The T/F split is about using cognitive vs. emotional decision-making processes.

I've seen this one described as subjective vs objective style thinking, and that made a lot of sense to me.

[Parsely]

Extravert(28%)  iNtuitive(12%)  Thinking(1%)  Perceiving(28%)
You have moderate preference of Extraversion over Introversion (28%)
You have slight preference of Intuition over Sensing (12%)
You have marginal or no preference of Thinking over Feeling (1%)
You have moderate preference of Perceiving over Judging (28%)

[Remuthra]

Oh, is that how that works.

Indeed, and while it has probably happened at least by chance to you at some point, if it hasn't you should give shifting Extroverted Thinking to socialization a shot. It's pretty hard to do intentionally or unintentionally, but it's an amazing feeling when it does happen. If you've ever had a time in which everybody seemed to fall in line and obey you while you expressed simple certainty of something, that's that.

Yep, at a certain point you can be certain enough that something is so that it suddenly becomes that way. I wrote a bit of a paper on the effect a while ago.