ext_162898 ([identity profile] birdhousefrog.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] julieandrews 2008-04-11 10:56 am (UTC)

The J vs P split has to do with spontaneity and planning, as much as the terms "judgmental" and "perceptive." If you're someone who makes judgment decisions quickly but also plans and doesn't just, say, decide to apply to Clarion on a whim, you're a J. P's like the idea of doing something on the spur of the moment. Maybe that will help you figure out which side is more you.

I vs E: you're either drained by being in groups of people or energized by them.
N vs S: you're either a "big-picture" person or someone who is detail oriented. Bankers are generally detail-oriented. If you can't copy-edit your stories worth a darn, you're not an S. (But you can learn.)
T vs F: logical, rational orientation or someone who bleeds for what happens to others, whether or not it's rational.
J vs P: among other things, planned vs spontaneous

There's nothing right or wrong about any of the classifications. We are who we are. Your categories can change over the years, though mine don't. You can train yourself to another group if you need to for a career. I find it just helps me understand how other people see the world, that it relates to professions, yes, and to the autistic spectrum and to what the rest of the world calls "normal." I suspect that NT's and ST's like Meyers-Briggs and that some of the other categories react to it as nonsense. It's statistically valid for Americans who grew up in a white-bread, suburban lifestyle. Other backgrounds might not get valid results from the test because of cultural differences and bias in the questions.

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