ISTJ or INTJ?

Hmmm, this shouldn't be hard at all. N and S are the most distinguishable dimension. Most people are S type. There's only 30% of the population which is N dominant. From my analyses

If you are INTJ your dominant function would be Ni
If you are ISTJ your dominant function would be Si

Ni and Si are soooo very different.So it should be easy to differentiate them.... But first, lets look at what you have deduced....

northman said:

I guess the INTJ are supposed to be very smart ( in serious test Ive always landed somewhere around 120, not that high, most IQ test can be thought with repitition ) but never been really good at School. Atleast not in our school system where boundries where never set. No homework needed etc..

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Yes, you are right, IQ has something to do with N or S. N people tend to be smarter as they are able to grasps theories easily.

northman said:

I love to think about efficient use of materials and time. How to calculate making capital investments and depreciacion. Ive never studied it, but I would love to read about it. How to make a businesses more efficient and competetive. Im studying Social Economics, but I find it to teoretical not practical, so its very boring to me. That and with a full time job, I get very low grades.

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This is the J part. Nothing to do with N or S. You seem to be action oriented and like to express your logical thoughts to practical ends (Hence the Te)


Nothing much to deduce from there...
Now back to the explanation, your issue is confused between Ni and Si. Let me explain here,

Ni is the gathering ABSTRACT information from the inner world. This would most likely be a day dreaming or visioning process. If you tend to slip into imagination often... you are most likely INTJ. If you are very optimistic with new things and tend to be pessimistic with tradition, you are most likely INTJ

Si is gathering REAL information from the innerworld. This would most likely be reflecting past experience process. Si values tradition (i.e. past experience) more, They need proof before attempting something... Due to this, they tend not to take ambiguous risks

Can you give some more situations?

I also have a few questions to strike out the ambiguity
1) Are you left handed? If you are left handed you are definitely N type
2) Do you enjoy reading the theories and concepts of MBTI? Do you try to find the abstract definition of it
3) Do you value tradition. Do you enjoy doing things repetitively? Can you stand doing the same thing over and over again?

Anyway, hope this helps!:laughing:

firedancer42 said:

I'm left-handed and an S, without a doubt. I assume this was taken because of handedness and the prominent hemisphere being used typically being opposites (left-handed people typically being right-brained with intuition and a right-handed people using the left hemisphere of logic). However, this does not always hold true.

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My human cognitive processes professor discussed this saying that for left-handed people if they completely turn their paper sideways while writing then they do not use an alternating hemisphere and are most likely left-brained, sticking with logic over intuition the majority of the time.

I don't have excessive data to prove this but with myself as evidence all left-handed people are not Ns, lol. Also, I'm nowhere near ambidextrous, I've used my left-hand for pretty much everything since I was a few months old, according to my parents.

Also, Ns and Ss can both fall anywhere as far as intelligence goes. The thing with Ss is that we are still capable of understanding the theories we're presented with but we're not going to go with them alone...we are probably going to remain skeptical until convincing evidence is presented. I know that personally I'm also a type 1 as far as the Enneagram, and if you need to know one thing about 1s it's that we are perfectionists and we do not like to be wrong...so I wait for evidence to surface before I jump on an intuition or emotion.

Haha, sorry, I got on a bit of a rant there...[/QUOTE]

Hi Firedancer,

It's not a rant,it's a great reply. Thanks. Awh man, your explanation is just awesome.

I guess I was wrong about the right hand and left hand thing. Left handed can still be S type.

It's probably just how we weigh informations. I guess one can come up with the most imaginative solution yet he may weigh traditional solutions higher

By the way, your professor may be right. I am left handed and I always twist the paper sideways. It seems to help when I try to do math subjects. Didn't care to explain why until now :wink:

But being left handed, do you find yourself having a wild imagination? Do you day dream always?