spudtater | Jungian Typology Test (Reply)

Memed from ramakesava.

Your Type is
INTP
Introverted	Intuitive	Thinking	Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
100	56	33	22

Jungian Typology Test

From http://typelogic.com/intp.html:

INTPs are pensive, analytical folks. They may venture so deeply into thought as to seem detached, and often actually are oblivious to the world around them.

As anybody whom I've walked straight past without noticing can attest. 8^)

Precise about their descriptions, INTPs will often correct others (or be sorely tempted to) if the shade of meaning is a bit off. While annoying to the less concise, this fine discrimination ability gives INTPs so inclined a natural advantage as, for example, grammarians and linguists.

Oh yes, I'm a pedant. Yes indeed.

INTPs are relatively easy-going and amenable to most anything until their principles are violated, about which they may become outspoken and inflexible. They prefer to return, however, to a reserved albeit benign ambiance, not wishing to make spectacles of themselves.

Hee. This describes very well my behaviour on usenet, and to a certain extent on LJ. Happy, happy, happy, SUDDENLY SNAP, RANT, ARGUE, RANT... happy, happy, happy.

A major concern for INTPs is the haunting sense of impending failure. They spend considerable time second-guessing themselves. [...] An INTP arguing a point may very well be trying to convince himself as much as his opposition.

'Haunting sense of impending failure'... check. How about adding 'haunted by perceived failures in the past' to the list of neuroses? 8^P

Mathematics is a system where many INTPs love to play, similarly languages, computer systems--potentially any complex system. INTPs thrive on systems. Understanding, exploring, mastering, and manipulating systems can overtake the INTP's conscious thought. This fascination for logical wholes and their inner workings is often expressed in a detachment from the environment, a concentration where time is forgotten and extraneous stimuli are held at bay. Accomplishing a task or goal with this knowledge is secondary.

A perfect description of a geek; a label I wear proudly.

Games NTs seem to especially enjoy include Risk, Bridge, Stratego, Chess, Go, and word games of all sorts.

Never played Stratego, but enjoy all the others mentioned there.

Feeling tends to be all or none. When present, the INTP's concern for others is intense, albeit naive. In a crisis, this feeling judgement is often silenced by the emergence of Thinking, who rushes in to avert chaos and destruction. In the absence of a clear principle, however, INTPs have been known to defer judgement and to allow decisions about interpersonal matters to be left hanging lest someone be offended or somehow injured. INTPs are at risk of being swept away by the shadow in the form of their own strong emotional impulses.

Now this is interesting. 'Intense yet naive' I could certainly agree with. I always thought it was just a lack of experience which made me naive... it's a little strange to be told that it's in my very nature.
By 'feeling judgement is often silenced by the emergence of Thinking', I believe the text is trying to say that I think matters through dispassionately, rather than letting emotions rule my decisions. I agree with this. It is only after my head tells me that it is justified that I let myself take a passionate stance in any situation.
Now. 'INTPs have been known to defer judgement and to allow decisions about interpersonal matters to be left hanging lest someone be offended or somehow injured.' That's very true of me indeed, as I was discussing in nickys' journal. I tend to be very careful indeed, sometimes to a fault. There again, this world would be chaos if everybody jumped to conclusions. It takes all sorts, you might say.
And finally, 'at risk of being swept away by the shadow in the form of their own strong emotional impulses.' Coming back to what happens when my 'principles are violated'. I can get very angry at times, when I think that people are being very unreasonable. Particularly likely to rile me are self-assuredness, hypocrisy and injustice.
Btw, any talk of 'the shadow' immediately gets me thinking of the shadow-beast from 'The Wizard of Earthsea'. That was one of the formative books of my childhood. I remember being really scared at points, yet unable to put it down. Mmm, nostalgia. 8^)

Phew! That ended up being rather long! If anybody's still reading, any comments?