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Basics:

Welcome back fellow MBTI enthusiasts!!

In this post, I will briefly explain and go over the basics of MBTI types.

As I have mentioned in my previous post- and will do so again - 16Personalities is not the best website when it comes to typing due to its commonly occurring mistypes. 16Personalities does not look behind the labels of each MBTI, meaning the test does not take cognitive stacking into consideration but instead only types a person based on introversion/extroversion, intuition/sensing, feeling/thinking, and perceiving/judging. With all this explained, my purpose of creating this blog was not only to help those who want an in-depth, yet beginner-level explanation of what the whole personality typing thing is about, but I wanted to explain personality typing in a way I haven’t seen anyone do so far. I plan to explain MBTI’s, then tie them with cognitive functions, then bring in enneagrams to add a finishing ribbon to the process.

Without further ado, let’s begin.

There are 16 MBTI personality types, each represented by a 4 letter acronym, and each letter in the acronym has two opposing variants. This may seem badly worded and quite confusing so let me demonstrate:

The first letter in the acronym represents whether the type is more introverted or extroverted, so it is represented by an I for introverted, or an E for extroverted.

The second letter in the acronym represents if the type relies more on their intuition, or their sensing when they process information, so it is represented by an N for intuition, or an S for sensing. note: an N is used to represent intuition because it simply would be confusing if there were two I’s in an introverted, intuitive type.

The third letter in the acronym represents whether thinking or feeling is the type’s dominant conclusion reaching or decision-making process, so it is represented by either a T for thinking and an F for feeling.

The fourth, and last, letter in the acronym represents whether a type is more of a perceiver or a judging type, so it is represented by a P for perceiving and a J for judging.

The 16 Types themselves are:

ENFP ENFJ ENTP ENTJ ESFP ESFJ ESTP ESTJ INFP INFJ INTP INTJ ISFP ISFJ ISTP ISTJ (not organized in any specific order).

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Before We Start:

Before we start I would like to touch on two very important points.

Point 1:

Personality testing may not always be accurate, and at the end of the day, the person taking the test will know themselves better than any test. But, of course, this is only accurate after a great deal of introspection and research.

When taking your first personality test you have to set up in your mind what your reason for taking the test is; if you’re taking the test because everyone else did and not out of self-discovery then you will -possibly - get a different result from if you were taking the test to better understand yourself.

Another thing you have to keep in mind, and I have to admit this is always told, but you have to be honest when answering the questions asked. You should always take a moment to think about the question and then your answer and try to think of specific incidents that would qualify your answer. Also, keep an eye out not to answer with things you wish to be your personality or how you wish others would perceive you.

Also, keep in mind that the subconscious and the unconscious can play a role in one’s test results, therefore introspection can be very hard.

Point Two:

Be sure to look up reliable (NOT JUST POPULAR) sites for testing. “16Personalities” relies heavily on the stereotypical personality types, as in they do not give completely accurate results in comparison to other sites. 16Personalities’ questions are very much unambiguous, very biased, and simply put, they are very straightforward. The questions asked can include: “Seeing other people cry can easily make you feel like you want to cry too” and “You are not too interested in discussing various interpretations and analyses of creative works” and “You are more inclined to follow your head than your heart”, as you can see the questions tend to be very straightforward and the result you get will be quite biased. To further explain this, for example, in questions like the first one, if you answer “true” or “agree” to them you are very more likely to get an intuitive feeling result (XNFX), and many people have proven this true. 16Personalities does not fully perceive the concept of the 4 cognitive functions, it’s almost as if the test was designed by people who only have surface-level knowledge on MBTIs. Keep in mind I am in no way misvalidating the creators’ of 16Personalities knowledge on MBTIs, I am simply stating that the test could be designed in a better way to give more accurate and less biased results. Many may disagree with this because of the popularity of the site, with 518 million tests taken so far, 16Personalities dominates all other MBTI testing sites.

I would like to clarify that straightforward questions being inaccurate and leading to more mistypes is my personal opinion; if you are someone who has taken personality tests many times on many different sites, seeing the same questions in their most straightforward form tends to be inaccurate because it does not look behind one’s reason of choosing the answer. Again, looking behind the 4-lettered type is necessary to accurately type a person, therefore just judging if someone is introverted/extraverted, intuitive/sensing, feeling/thinking, or perceiving/judging is not always enough.

The sites I will include seemed to -in my opinion- layer one’s consciousness and perceive the fact that cognitive layering needs to be present for accurate typing.

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Some of my personal favorite sites for testing:-

MBTI:

https://mistypeinvestigator.com

https://www.truity.com/test/type-finder-personality-test-new

https://personalityjunkie.com/free-online-personality-test/

https://www.idrlabs.com/test.php

Enneagrams:

https://www.truity.com/test/enneagram-personality-test

https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions (Keep in mind this site does not have free tests, it has an in-depth explanation of every personality type. This site is recommended if you already have background knowledge on MBTIs and Enneagrams)

Cognitive Functions:

I do not know many reliable testing sites but again, mistype investigator was quite reliable in my opinion.

https://mistypeinvestigator.com

Extra Sources:

Quora explanation of why 16Personalities is inaccurate: https://www.quora.com/Is-16-personalities-an-inaccurate-form-of-MBTI

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Hello everyone! Welcome to the full, in-depth explanation of personality types (MBTI, Enneagrams, and Cognitive Functions). I created this page to be able to share one of my interests with the world and with others in general. I hope this page will serve as great use for those who are just getting into the MBTI fandom or any other personality type fandom, as I will do my best to explain everything you need to know about personality typing. Please don’t forget to leave a note, comment, or follows because they are greatly appreciated as this page is new to tumblr.

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