![]() ![]() but it assumes that people are capable of greater personal insight than they actually are. Ignore this advice, and it’s pretty obvious that your results won’t bear any resemblance to your true personality. ![]() Not as you wish to be, and not as the persona you take on at work to get the job done. When you take a personality test in a professional setting, you are warned to answer truthfully as you really are. Who doesn’t want to be rare and ethereal and have flashes of superhuman illumination? If I were a linear, logical, specific, boring ISTJ, would I keep taking the test until I tipped over into Intuition? Would I? 3. In many ways, it’s still seen as the little brother to Intuition which, being both rare (30 percent of the population) and “extrasensory,” is imbued with all sorts of mystical powers. Sensing hasn’t received the same renaissance. Now, the pendulum has swung the other way. Not so long ago, it was desirable to be Extraverted over Introverted since Introverts were perceived as shy, underperforming and standoffish. Most of the aspiration here focuses on Intuition over Sensing. So, they keep taking the test until they get the preferred result. In an era where weirdness is cool, INTJ looks fifty shades of enigmatic compared to the other types and let’s face it, being rare is a bonanza for the ego. Unfortunately, a lot of people game the system to claim the “rare” or “cool” type they most want to be.įor some reason – and I assume it’s because they want to feel special, intelligent, rare or gifted and have somehow forgotten the robotic, nerdy, heartless and socially awkward part – INTJ is a type that people want to be. Since the 16-type system (based on Myers and Briggs' theory) is a self-reported test, it’s only accurate if people answer the questions truthfully. It just looks that way because they’re all hanging out in one place. So, it’s not that people are testing wrong, and it’s not that there are more INTJs than the data suggests there are. Online, if not in life, we come out of hiding. ![]() The internet is a safe space for the socially awkward and INTJs surely find a community there. If I might go a step further, and this is totally anecdotal evidence, the more relieved someone is to discover that he’s not “weird” and just INTJ, the more likely he is to shout about it from the online rooftops. That’s a massive number! I don’t know where these figures come from but even if they’re wildly inaccurate, it gives you some sense of the magnitude of the discrepancy. How disproportionate? Well, there’s a guy on Quora who reckons that 28 percent of all personality test-takers are INTJ. It’s no secret that INTJs are programmed to be analytical and naval-gazey, so there’s a fair chance that INTJs who’ve heard of personality typing disproportionately take a personality test. So let’s take a look at why someone – even the most unlikely candidate – might think he’s INTJ. If I told you that 20 percent of the population were INTJ and every piece of research ever conducted was completely wrong on this issue, could you stomach it? Clearly, there’s something else going on here. Now, these hypotheses are vague and irritating answers, and logically inconsistent. Or, there are way too many INTJs – far more than the statistics reckon there are, which is around 2 percent of the population. And apparently, they’re all written by INTJ authors.Įither, that a handful of super-productive bloggers are churning out an ungodly amount of articles about their type. Something I've noticed: there are more articles for INTJs out there than for any other type.
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