[evincarofautumn]

Yeah, Myers-Briggs seems only worthwhile if you’re an outlier on a particular trait. It’s almost misleading to report which side of the mean you’re on if you’re only a few percent to one side.

For example, I’m near the average on thinking vs. feeling and judging vs. perceiving, so I don’t consider those traits terribly important or informative. However, I am moderately more introverted than extraverted and significantly more intuitive than sensory. Then again, I don’t need a personality quiz to know that!

Any time you try to reduce people to a few traits—Myers-Briggs, the Enneagram, whatever—you lose so much information that the exercise becomes nearly futile.

[philh]

If someone asks, I say that I'm ITP. I deliberately forgot whether the last test I took showed me as slightly S or slightly N, and introspection doesn't reveal a preference between them.

[frandroid]

- The notation for that is IxTP. - Introversion doesn't reveal the preference between the two values of the second letter because it measures the first letter. :)

[philh]

- Thanks, that makes sense.

- Introspection, not introversion.