The tendancy to apply 'self' type to others

[HackerX]

This shits me, and it seems to be common among both INTP's and INTJ's. It arises from a number of threads on both here and INTPCentral around so called lists of (mostly - well known) people and their types.

It's the tendancy for people to recognize features in the public side of peoples personalities and thus claim said people to 'your' type, while ignoring both other public features (that could possibly type them otherwise), and the tendency for certain types (e.g. INTP chameleons?) to be untypeable based on their external persona.

Seriously, there's no prize for having particular people on your own type's list, and it's not Pokemon, you don't have to catch them all.

Unless the person has taken the MBTI test and their type is indisputable, recognise that you only have a limited view of their external life and that internally they may be very different. Feel free to speculate on people's types, and to look up to certain people based on those similarities if that's your thing, but keep it to speculation, because until then, nothing is certain.

[qwerty]

I think HackerX is really and INTJ!

/me gold embosses HackerX, shrink wraps and puts in airtight safe
Now you will be safe forever.

I know what you mean about public typing people. It is annoying and honestly I think intp's do it far more than intj's so you probably understand the mindset better.

[HackerX]

/me gold embosses HackerX, shrink wraps and puts in airtight safe
Now you will be safe forever.


Oooh, shiny!

[mind_wander]

When you mean "INTP's Chameleons", like multiple personalities. Sometimes, you can be crazy insane, then changed into another person or serious, etc. No one knows what the heck are you thinking, if your INTP[great advantage].

[HackerX]

When you mean "INTP's Chameleons", like multiple personalities. Sometimes, you can be crazy insane, then changed into another person or serious, etc. No one knows what the heck are you thinking, if your INTP[great advantage].

Yes. Though the tendancy is not random as such, it more that the INTP is matching the people around them, hence Chameleon, matching it's environment. Obviously there are limits though.

[Jennywocky]

I agree with the thread premise. At best, that sort of thread seems to be more an intellectual exercise... and to me the goal also should be to use MBTI simply to help me interact better with someone, rather than "defining" them per se. (INTx seem to get hung up on "having the conclusive answer.")

I get tired of arguing over "who" I think someone is and have mostly sworn it off. And there's definitely a lot of "self-recognition" involved in how people generally type others. They see the parts they recognize or understand, and don't pick up on the aspects that reflect types they don't really grasp yet.

[mind_wander]

Yes. Though the tendancy is not random as such, it more that the INTP is matching the people around them, hence Chameleon, matching it's environment. Obviously there are limits though.

of course, each individual your speaking to is completely different by personality. Its all exactly random matching, but try to keep everyone attentive, as a whole. But, it is a hit and miss because we kinda get ya and kinda don't.

[thegnat]

well - i don't tend to type people - i try to make guesses to explain things on here - but that's about it. otherwise i really don't know a person's type.

and it really is hard to type people. it's not like i go hey what's your MBTI type? a lot hehehe