i’ve always dismissed mbti types as the equivalent of (oft-mocked) old buzzfeed “what loaf of bread are you” type shit but also it’s been delicious to take the quiz every couple of years, convinced that i have changed dramatically but seeing enfp every time. and enneagram 4, and maxxed out on agreeableness and neuroticism lol
It is kind of a party trick, but it's also just fun to get really good at guessing something. Figuring out people's MBTI types is rewarding just like any pattern-matching guessing game.
It's like guessing someone's accent or playing that online game where you figure out your location in Google Maps (I'm in the middle of a cornfield surrounded by jeeps... Nebraska?). There's no perfect algorithm really, just a bunch of little heuristics and a healthy dose of intuition. MBTI is not wholly statistically random -- there are some correlations it's mapping onto, and guessing MBTI is a game of holistically noticing lots of them!
i’ve always dismissed mbti types as the equivalent of (oft-mocked) old buzzfeed “what loaf of bread are you” type shit but also it’s been delicious to take the quiz every couple of years, convinced that i have changed dramatically but seeing enfp every time. and enneagram 4, and maxxed out on agreeableness and neuroticism lol
It is kind of a party trick, but it's also just fun to get really good at guessing something. Figuring out people's MBTI types is rewarding just like any pattern-matching guessing game.
It's like guessing someone's accent or playing that online game where you figure out your location in Google Maps (I'm in the middle of a cornfield surrounded by jeeps... Nebraska?). There's no perfect algorithm really, just a bunch of little heuristics and a healthy dose of intuition. MBTI is not wholly statistically random -- there are some correlations it's mapping onto, and guessing MBTI is a game of holistically noticing lots of them!