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by InTheArena 2078 days ago
Not even close for me. Every result I have ever had is a insanely strong ENFP. This tool came up with INFJ (.23). That said, I work really hard when I write something to advocate for a position and to examine how it could be interpreted (something that has burned me badly in the past), and it may be that behavior that is throwing it off.

ENFPs can be "fake extroverts", but I don't think anyone my entire life has accused me of being introverted.

Personality Probability INFJ 0.230443 INTJ 0.163436 INFP 0.149911 INTP 0.134871 ENTP 0.066254 ENFP 0.056532
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radlad 2078 days ago
edit: The below text is not true, I didn't read the chart correctly - they are all different. (Inverse introversion/extraversion, but in the same order.)

ENFP and INFJ are actually very similar - if you believe in the personality test.

Despite the difference in letters, they share all the same cognitive functions, just in a different order.

https://www.typeinmind.com/nefi (ENFP)

https://www.typeinmind.com/nife (INFJ)

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dragonwriter 2078 days ago
If you have a system of four binary indicators, and swapping position on two of the four makes little difference, you probably have a very poor system.
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radlad 2078 days ago
Not to be snarky, but this is spoken like someone who hasn't tried to understand the system at all - not that I believe in it either.

Typically MBTI personality tests measure you based on four indicators: Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/iNtuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving

Each combination of indicators is given a "type." There are 16 possible types.

The MBTI personality test also defines 8 cognitive functions, believing that everyone must absorb information (perceiving) and turn it into actions/decisions (judging). It states that there are four ways of perceiving, and four ways of judging... extraverted/introverted sensing/intuition and extraverted/introverted thinking/feeling.

Each personality type has four cognitive functions associated with it: primary, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior. You will have both an extraverted and introverted perceiving function as well as an extraverted and introverted judging function. Your primary cognitive function will match your introversion/extraversion trait, and then will flip back and forth between introversion/extraversion for the rest of your functions.

Since there are only 8 cognitive functions, and each personality type has 4, it's not surprising that they will often share cognitive functions - it also means that types can behave more similarly than one would expect based on their indicators.

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