Tag: roseblight

roseblight said: I would have put money on [Aaron Tveit] being a T but I suspect you’ve put a lot more thought into this than I have

Never suspect that! 

I also had the impression (pre typing attempt) that he was a T from my limited exposure to him, so I ended up watching a couple more interviews. I think he’s an ENTJ that shadow functions a lot more in some interviews than others, and I just happened to catch only the shadow function-y ones the first time around.

Hey ♥ I have a question (but feel free not to answer it): do your ideas about the types of people you know in real life shift around as much as for celebrities on your Tumblr?

Um… sort of.

I think in real life, I don’t really go around typing everyone I know – it makes it difficult to sit and talk to someone if I’m trying to analyze them at the same time.  I sometimes get Si telling me immediately what type they are – even just walking around in a mall, say, I occasionally bump into random strangers who remind me of someone I’ve already typed.

For people I’m not really sure about, they often just stay not typed (since I don’t actually have to organize them into tags) until I figure it out later – or not.  Having to keep tagging people helps figure them out faster, I think, but it also means that the decisions I’m pushing myself into making about them are wrong a lot more often.

So sometimes real life people will influence my typing and sometimes the celebrities inform my typing of people I meet, but generally I make more changes to the site since I just have more people and more variation within type on here to juggle.

Very sorry I think I’ve already asked but it’s been a while so I’m not sure if you got the ask or whether you just have a very long list of people to type, I was wondering if you could type Ricky Wilson from Kaiser Chiefs? Thank you ^-^

mbti-sorted:

Yep, I got that one.  🙂 

Between my drafts and my inbox, I have about 200 unanswered asks, but a bunch of those are group asks, so I think I’m probably closer to 250.

roseblight said: 200 wow! Hope you’re OK 😛

Well… I am kind of avoiding them to type figure skaters right now.  They’re a pretty good representation of almost every MBTI type.  I’m just looking for an INFP, an INTP and an INFJ.

If one is interested in confirming their type (eg. I’ve tested Infj on most tests I’ve taken and can identify with the description), by what means would you say is the most accurate?

roseblight:

Oh my gosh. ♥ I hope it’s OK if I comment.

ENFJs mistyping as INFJs are probably early twenties or younger and don’t realize that they are sociable yet – their day-to-day activities aren’t helping them reflect accurate results.  Try this.  Go have a conversation with someone. When you stop talking does your brain kind of hibernate?  ENFJs brains are crazy active when interacting with people and then not so much when not.

My personal experience is that my mind _is_ very active in social situations but more in like a panicked all-systems-go way under a very calm gentle exterior. Then when it’s over I’m super exhausted.

mbti-sorted:

Yeah, no, you’re not an INFJ.

Okay, being brutally honest with yourself, are you angry, upset, shocked or otherwise unhappy with me?  Stop and think about it.  Does having your identity denied give you an emotional reaction?  Do you feel the need to defend yourself?

If so, you really aren’t an INFJ.  I would look at ISFJ, ENFP, or ESFP, which are three types I see mistaking themselves for INFJs most often.  Also maybe INFP and ISFP.  The thing that gets hurt at being questioned is Fi, and it is not a significant part of the INFJ personality.  (ISFJs don’t have Fi either, but they do get similarly threatened by what they perceive as a personal attack.)  I think a lot of these types enjoy that INFJ is a rare type, and they also enjoy the “psychic” description.  If that’s part of why you think you’re an INFJ, you need to re-evaluate.  INFJs aren’t happy to be rare – they know they are; they’re not happy to be psychic – they know they aren’t.  Stop here, go look at some other profiles,  Sorry about the emotional manipulation.

If, however, your response to my statement was to wonder why I’d think that you weren’t an INFJ and what that says about me, you might actually be an INFJ.  INFJs have Ni as their dominant function – they are analytical first.

ENFJs mistyping as INFJs are probably early twenties or younger and don’t realize that they are sociable yet – their day-to-day activities aren’t helping them reflect accurate results.  Try this.  Go have a conversation with someone. When you stop talking does your brain kind of hibernate?  ENFJs brains are crazy active when interacting with people and then not so much when not.

I haven’t really seen any INTJs testing as INFJs, although they have the most similar body language.  I guess it probably happens.  Take a look in your closet: are all the clothes organized by season and colour?  Are all the hangers pointing the same direction?  Are your bookshelves similarly hyper-organized?  Does this give you tremendous satisfaction? You might be an INTJ, not an INFJ.

There are probably other types who commonly mistype as INFJ (maybe the odd ENTP – quick, are you having an existential crisis?), but those are the ones I’ve seen on youtube.

All this to say, I don’t know enough about the available tests to rank their effectiveness.  Personally, I took the humanmetrics test, and it was right the first time about me and three of my family members, but wrong about the other two the first couple of times they took it (the descriptions never fit very well).  Not the greatest odds, but it got there eventually.  If you read through this post without any creeping doubts, then you probably are an INFJ.

Take a look in your closet: are all the clothes organized by season and colour?  Are all the hangers pointing the same direction?  Are your bookshelves similarly hyper-organized?  Does this give you tremendous satisfaction? You might be an INTJ, not an INFJ.

This might be an Ni thing. My wardrobe is grouped into season, colour and textile and my library is in the DDC I’m so embarrassed.

Yes please do!  All my information is second-hand, obviously 🙂

I think the ENFJ thing was that they’re still in conversation, just not talking and their brain still shuts down a bit.  I was talking to enfjpuppettheatre about this, and I got kind of worried about what it’s doing when she’s not using it.  The way she described it was really shocking to me (like being confronted by the reality of the vast emptiness of space shocking).  I think with dominant introverted functions, you get a more or less steady stream of moderately active thought, and that doesn’t seem to be the case for dominant extraverted functions.

Re: your organizational prowess, I don’t think the INTJs are feeling any shame about it, though.