How many types of people

DangZagnut · 2020-09-23T18:33:45+00:00

Myers Briggs is unscientific astrology.

ItsTheHardCockLife · 2020-09-23T18:16:19+00:00

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usa_foot_print · 2020-09-23T18:28:13+00:00

If you think you can be summed up by one test in which you rate yourself then you really are not a person. The Meyers Briggs test is about as worthless as can be. If you are happy your answers will be different than if you are sad. Its pretty much as worthwhile as horoscopes in determining who you are.

Only you determine who you are. Taking feedback from others (not just randoms, actually worthwhile other people) is good to get a better understanding of your strengths and short comings, but don't take an arbitrary test or random internet opinions to determine who you are.

rosephase · 2020-09-23T19:30:58+00:00

The big five personality traits is a lot better than Myers Briggs, which is garbage.

But it’s still five different variables that can move along a gradient. And acknowledging that peoples personalities manifest in different ways around things as different as say work, love, sex, arguments, play...

Helmet_Icicle · 2020-09-23T19:44:45+00:00

MBTI is garbage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator#Criticism

The idea of an easy button for self-reflection and mindfulness in general attracts a lot of indecisive, alexithymic people in this current generation of egosyntonic or egodystonic aimlessness.

The only arguable "benefit" of MBTI is that it puts the person onto a path of progressing their pursuit of self-knowledge. But this is entirely unnecessary when people could just get to it without all the hassle. It's not even a helpful stepping stone since it promotes the idea that you can somehow know yourself from someone else's perception of your bland answers to vague questions. The only veritable method is hard work and lots of it, just like any other avenue such as love, fitness, wealth, existential serenity, etc where lazy people fall for easy buttons scams.

Edit: spelling

AdolfGandi · 2020-09-23T21:28:56+00:00

There are infinite types of people because "types of people" is a subjective saying based entirely on context. The only two concrete groups of people are probably alive and dead, and even then you must factor in fictional people as a type. There is an infinite number of positive and negative traits that every individual can have.

BlackPorcelainDoll · 2020-09-23T20:45:44+00:00

Well I have studied MBTI for years (because I'm INTJ - duh) and MBTI is an advancement to Carl Jungs' Psychology Types - but analyzing Jung is best done in regards to talking about extraversion/introversion energies - to where he spent more time emphasizing on this than discussing the dichonomies or psychology types.

McCrae and Costa — the leading Big Five psychologists have agreed that MBTI sufficiently passes validity tests and taps into the Big Five dimensions.

Comparing Astrology to MBTI is a fallacy in so far as Astrology has no validity unlike MBTI (Myers Briggs - dichonomies), not Jungian - or - posted Cognitive Functions has validity that corresponds heavily The Big Five: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2709300/ || https://www.researchgate.net/publication/20447534_Reinterpreting_the_Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator_From_the_Perspective_of_the_Five-Factor_Model_of_Personality

MBTI and Big Five will be the most accurate personality-typing systems to date with multiple years of research that strengthen it's validity.

"Cognitive functions," (the model 16personalitytypes.com) uses - https://similarminds.com/ (actively tests for the dichonomies) making it the most reliable personality test for MBTI and Big Five, unlike 16personalities and "KeyCongition" - that posed in the Harold Grant stack have been sufficiently refuted and are unrelated to MBTI: https://www.capt.org/research/article/JPT_Vol69_0109.pdf Regardless of that online "tests" are least reliable way to get your MBTI type, and to get your most accurate type requires months maybe years of psychological observation/self-analysis and introspect hence: rampant amount of mistyping - specifically those in adolescence or those that have complex mental disorders that may skew or making results difficult (see lazy correlations between INXX's and autism spectrum disorders).

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Most people here are obviously INTPs/INTJs/INFPs/ISTJS/INFJs - and the women obviously INFPs/ISFPs/INTJs/INTPs. Reddit is skewed toward INXX types - MBTI especially, which seem make the most of "pill mindsets" on Reddit regardless of color. With this area of internet the men being skewed toward Ti-heavy debates and/Ti-dominants.

But "red pills" that function in the real world that innately do not go "by the book or strategy," like NTs - would be (Se)-dominants with high (Fe) - i.e. SF in dichotomy language, with a high conception of xSFJ's and dom/aux (Fe) for the women. Gender reversals seem more common in (Ne)-dominant ENTP women in spite of popular belief.

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DBOLandDECA · 2020-09-23T18:35:54+00:00

I just think my answers would vary wildly depending on my mood, and you're vastly overthinking things if you take your results seriously. The main problem I face when taking the test is I have to ask myself, "Is this when I'm socially lubricated or after I've been sitting in front of a computer screen all day." I'm going to have the opposite results depending on where I'm at.

mensahi41 · 2020-09-23T18:53:23+00:00

Not sure what to think of this test. Got ISTJ-T as a result. Interesting I guess? I mean what does this now tell us?

Edit: You could say that they are wrong? Idk. Maybe they catogorize a specific type of people as failed. Those people are probably fundamentally different from the RP mindset so will probably be failed in their eyes

TheBookOfSeil · 2020-09-23T19:19:14+00:00

I wouldn't take these ways to gauge someone's personality as "fact." They're just someone's interpretation of categorizing people into boxes to be better understood, and there's a lot of individual ways to do that - astrology being the first. Everything else follows a similar path even if it focuses on a single aspect of someone's personality/being rather than multiple or the whole.

stats135 · 2020-09-23T20:11:08+00:00

TBP and TRP use "type" to refer to two different things. TBP focuses on the means, whereas TRP always focuses on the results. There are near limitless types of personalities, but they all only ever end with two types of results, successes and failures.

Its a matter of perspective. Lets say we look at dine-in restaurants businesses. How many types are there? A consumer might say there are thousands of different types of cuisine to choose from. This would be how the blues look at things. But an investor only ever sees two types, the profitable one and the unprofitable ones. Of course now that we are in lock-down, every dine-in restaurant is unprofitable. Basically this would be analogous to TRPs AFBB and AWALT

The Myers-Briggs fails on both fronts. Its a poor measurement of personality looking at it from the blue side and its a poor predictor of success and failure rates looking at it from the red side.

medlabunicorn · 2020-09-23T21:01:31+00:00

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Suck-Less · 2020-09-23T21:23:35+00:00

I’m not a fan of the alpha/beta model. I think men either have self respect or they don’t. I have a lot of sympathy for those that can’t and no sympathy for those I think won’t.For fun, my wife and I took the big 5. She thought it was really accurate about me.

My results had a warning that if I wasn’t raised right, I could easily be a predator (not to be read as a sexual predator to be read as a criminal).

Now does this amount to 16 personally types? Maybe on a superficial level.

``` My Agreeableness: Exceptionally Low 0 Compassion: Exceptionally Low 0 Politeness: Exceptionally Low 0 Conscientiousness: High 88 Industriousness: Exceptionally High 96 Orderliness: Moderately High 60 Extraversion: Typical or Average 50 Enthusiasm: Moderately Low 25 Assertiveness: Moderately High 73 Neuroticism: Exceptionally Low 0 Withdrawal: Exceptionally Low 0 Volatility: Exceptionally Low 2 Openness to Experience: Exceptionally High 97 Intellect: Exceptionally High 97 Openness: Very High 90

```

``` Wife Agreeableness: Moderately Low 26 Compassion: Moderately High 72 Politeness: Exceptionally Low 3 Conscientiousness: Very High 95 Industriousness: Moderately High 73 Orderliness: Exceptionally High 98 Extraversion: High 88 Enthusiasm: High 79 Assertiveness: High 88 Neuroticism: Moderately High 72 Withdrawal: Moderately Low 36 Volatility: Very High 91 Openness to Experience: Low 15 Intellect: Moderately Low 35 Openness: Very Low 10

```

Lacuna-Foil · 2020-09-23T23:33:26+00:00

Most simplistic personality quizzes or presumptions are going to fail because while most people are probably not complicated, that doesn't mean they can't be somewhat complex. People aren't numbers, boxes, statistics, etc when you take the whole person into account.

A person can fail miserably in one arena, and soar to great heights in others. I've taken the Myers-Briggs (for a lark) multiple times for well over a decade, and I've always gotten the same result. My dad's done the same and he gets something different dependent on his mood that day. But I'd argue I'm way more temperamental between the two of us, and my dad's one of the most consistent human beings I've ever met.

Just about everyone falls under a stereotype in some manner or another, but that's not the whole sum of the human, that's just the lazy categorization.

psypD · 2020-09-24T17:38:55+00:00

There are no types ....AWALT & AMALT

2020-09-23T18:18:19+00:00

I am INFP too, but I think I may be turning into INFJ in my old age? I am super responsible now.

I think there are infinite types of people by typing helps us understand and tolerate people who think differently than us, so it's helpful.

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