Very general MBTI for those who are stuck!

Everyone else seems to know how to do this - but how do you type others? Without asking them to take the test! This concept seems very familiar ... I think I may have seen a book on this. Please enlighten me - can't wait to do this!

 

With great difficulty and care, to type yourself accurately can take much time and introspection, therefore typing other people is unlikely to be accurate or useful. It's also impossible for an outsider to determine whether a person is displaying their true type or just displaying the behaviour of a certain type.

 

So all the people that know what their co-workers, family members, friends, etc. are, know so because those people have identified themselves as such?

 

If you know someone intimately well, then you can make a pretty good guess but even then you're still guessing.

I would say guesses of coworkers types are bound to be wildly inaccurate.

Those people that say they know all those people's types are just guessing, they can't know for sure. People display all sorts of behaviours for all sorts of reasons unrelated to type.

 

Thanks

 

I disagree i have anaylzed about 15 people now and i have gotten 13 of them right the first time. the other 2 were people i watched from McCafe observing their social patterns.

If you completly study the topic in a general sense than i feel that you dont have to guess because i not only have a hunch but i say to myself "that person is: deffintly an e and an f and the ones im not sure about like n or p i would keep observing but never try to go into the details. after one hour of obsserving i am almost always right.

I feel this doesnt come from "guessing" but from my strong intuition, deep understanding in people and complete knowledge of the subject.

 

Mitch, I understand what you are saying. I think the point that Quinlan is making is that you are just guessing, until the person in question has confirmed their type.

You may very well have been right guessing the type(s), but until it was confirmed by the individual it was just a guess, albeit an educated guess.

 

I understand that grammaticly he is correct to say that guess is
1a.To predict (a result or an event) without sufficient information.
b. To assume, presume, or assert (a fact) without sufficient information.
2. To form a correct estimate or conjecture of: guessed the answer.

But i do have enough suffcient information. There body languae, microtells, choice of words, appearance, reactions to diffrent things, their mood they are in and 100's maybe even 1000's of other things that my subconsious mind collects. Is this not suffcient information? Is it not just because i dont have a S version of proof that my N proof is incorrect. I have much suffceint infromation its just not the type of infrormation that can be completly grasped but still is correct. Its intuitive infromation.

 

I'm an S, I have no trust in the reliability of intuitive guesses.

There are many people who are unsure of their type, how would you go about confirming your guesses with these people?

External behaviours come and go depending on surroundings, I find it hard to believe that you have insight into the deepest parts of other people's private natures.

 

I got to go to work right now but this challange that you have given me will be a great way to stimulate my mind. I will reply to you in 12 hours after work after writting a detailed explanation of how i use my inuitive facts to know an answer before it's sensationally proven.

 

I have speculated about other people, it can be quite apparent when some one is NOT something (for example not an idealist!)

It just seemed with the way people on this forum spoke of others with so much confidence of their type, that there was a specific method they were using to do so.

I think what Mitch said, apart from being intuitive, just having an excellent understanding/ complete knowledge of the subject allows you to type others.

 

Apparently, the url above has changed. The mbti test was moved here:
http://www.wzsn.net/free_personality_test.html