athenian200
Protocol Droid
- MBTI
- INFJ
I've noticed that whenever someone asks other people what they think their type is, they almost invariably confirm the type the person already thinks they are. They end up justifying it by throwing in shadow manifestation, function development, gender, and "fundamental human tendencies," even if the behavior seems counter to the core of the type.
It seems as though people are either unwilling or unable to challenge a person's self-perceived type, due to lack of widely-accepted definitions and standards that could rule out the possibility of being a given type. It even seems like this same tendency crops up when talking about people we've never met that have only been typed and talked about by another person.
I've found that the same behaviors are usually interpreted one way when a person is being typed for the first time and has no clue what they are, and in a very different way if the person already thinks they're a particular type.
So, what do you think about this tendency? Why are we collectively unable to apply consistent standards to the way we assign type, tending towards confirming what the person already thinks of themselves, and what we've thought of them as?
It seems as though people are either unwilling or unable to challenge a person's self-perceived type, due to lack of widely-accepted definitions and standards that could rule out the possibility of being a given type. It even seems like this same tendency crops up when talking about people we've never met that have only been typed and talked about by another person.
I've found that the same behaviors are usually interpreted one way when a person is being typed for the first time and has no clue what they are, and in a very different way if the person already thinks they're a particular type.
So, what do you think about this tendency? Why are we collectively unable to apply consistent standards to the way we assign type, tending towards confirming what the person already thinks of themselves, and what we've thought of them as?