Reply To: Self-Discovery the Jungian Way (Michael Daniels)

[fayest42]

Well, I'm always a sucker for new psychological assessments I was skeptical of this one at first because I don't really think that whatever random words first pop into my head have much meaning, but I think that a lot of meaning comes out when you start forming associations between the words. And I was pretty amazed by how the words/phrases that ended up in the middle box were some of the most fundamental things I've been struggling with lately. And although typing yourself based on this assessment is a subjective judgement, I do think my words in the middle box fit the qualities they assign to INFP.

As for the text analyzer, I don't put a whole lot of stock into it for CT purposes. When I put my words from the Watchword test into it, I got ENTJ. I've also used the text analyzer before on some longer written things of mine, and I almost always get INTJ. I know the text analyzer was created based on people's self-typing, so it's probably not likely to correspond to CT type, but it may actually have some validity in picking out MBTI stereotypes. In MBTI world I always typed myself as INTP, but INTJ is not too far off, and the P vs J dichotomy was always the one I was least confident about.

(Side note: Just for fun, I put the text I just wrote here into the text analyzer, and I got INTJ again (67%). INTP was second at 11%. When I added this side note to it, it went up to 83% INTJ)