You insignificant Ni dabblers wish your Ne was as highly developed as ours!
Bow to me, the lord of intuition, all ye puny mortals!
I found the test just as frustrating as all the other related tests on the internet, so this is going to be a bit of a rant.
I often don't get clear results from tests like this because I start to think about the wordings and how the questions should be interpreted, seeing a number of possibilities, and consequently I just choose
something because the questions start to seem meaningless. For example, the very first question:
"After being with a large group of people, I need some time to myself."
How can I possibly answer that? After the rain comes the sun. How can I consider what I need, when it's a given that
after I've been with a large group of people, I am no longer with them, that is, I am either by myself or with someone really close to me with whom I can relax. I cannot know if there's an absolute need to be by myself if it's a given that after being to a concert I no longer will be in a crowd anyway. Or does it mean that I will be so tired that I won't want to go to a pub afterwards? But if I've been to a concert, maybe I'm just tired from all the sensory information, not from being with people, regardless of whether I've talked to them. Usually after being with people I feel rather energized, not drained, but then things get normal and I don't see anybody for weeks. But that's just returning to my life, and it's easier to continue the earlier patterns than to start new ones. Besides, going to a pub isn't interesting anyway. What about if I had to attend a philosophy conference afterwards, or poetry reading? That might be nice, but perhaps I'd rather go for an ice cream instead. And what does it mean to have time to myself? If I'm in a relationship, I don't have a huge need to be absolutely alone, because the warmth and the trust will make the situation comfortable, and I don't need downtime after being with the one I love. Aaaagh! Well, I guess I'll put here "mostly true", imagining I'm in a situation where I'm supposed to attend a concert after concert, and then would think "hmm, now I really should be by myself for a while." But isn't that what
anybody would answer?
I remember doing a similar test on another site, and did get similar results: high scores on both intuition and feeling types. But the order was different, there I was higher on Ni. So it seems that to me these kind of tests aren't very helpful to me because they continue to create the familiar "Am I an INFJ or INFP" problem even though separating the functions should help with that. And it does help, only not in the tests (meeting several INFPs also made it easier to see the difference). Other questions were incomprehensible because they dealt with situations I never get into. There were questions along the lines of "I always try to take into account other people's feelings, considering what is the best option for everyone involved." I supposed if I wanted to get a higher Fe score, I should say this is the most important thing for me. But those questions are worded in such a way that they make me feel uncomfortable, like I should praise myself for being unselfish. Besides, I rarely talk with people nowadays, the last time I had a long conversation in real life was in January. And that was one-on-one. When was the last time I was in a situation in which I had to make choices based on the interests of several people? It's been at least a year if not longer. So the question is hypothetical, and while I could flatter myself and say that "Yes! This is very important to me!" I'm not going to lie and say that it actually is, because my kindliness is rarely put to test. I am not going to assume that in a hypothetical situation I'm going to act in the noblest way possible, because I know that people may often react in ways they can't themselves predict if facing something unfamiliar. Sure, if you have to be with people every day, then such a question makes sense, but I have the luxury and the misfortune not to live like that.
"I'm a listener. / I'm a talker." Well, that depends on how many people are present. In a group of 5 it's not uncommon for me to be the most talkative person, but in a group of 10 I might say nothing but will be observing very closely.
"Every now and then, I need downtime to recharge."
Any person answering no to this is going to crash sooner rather than later. Another meaningless question.
"I like to try new things."
What are "things"? Does it mean new sex toys or new flavours of ice cream? And how often are we talking about? Yes, I do like to try new things, it's wonderful. But I don't do it very often. I do it when I feel comfortable about it, so then of course I'm going to like it. Should I compare myself to some imaginary average Joe? But I'm not Joe, I don't know what he thinks. What if I had to try new things every day? That would probably be distressing. But there's that "what if I had to", meaning it's hypothetical, and someone would force me to do it. I can imagine trying something slightly different every day, but does it count if I merely choose different routes to the library? I improvise on the piano every day, so in that sense I'm constantly trying new things. But that's not comparable to being a thrillseeker. Aaagh! Why do you make me suffer through these questions that have no answers??
Please don't make me choose one option when clearly all of them are applicable and my preference depends not on the question itself, but on the circumstances and the assumptions which are left for the test taker to make. It is not fair that I have to make assumptions about what are considered "new things" by the general population.
TL;DR Tests are stupid.
