Do you feel you register with one personality type or another?

I feel I emphasize feelings too much to be considered an INTP, but I'm too cold & socially inept to be an INFJ?

I feel a little too conclusive to be an INTP, yet too inconclusive to be an INFJ?

I'd say I sit somewhere between, I enjoy many aspects of either type.

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Invisible · 26-30, M

I don't buy into personality testing. Personality is more complicated than a few scales

Winterwanderer · 26-30, M

I want to buy into aspects of it, but like you said, it can by no means capture the complexity of humanity, all of the different factors that affect them.

Invisible · 26-30, M

@Winterwanderer: Personality models are a tool first and foremost, and to use them for anything they aren't designed for is of dubious practicality

Winterwanderer · 26-30, M

But even for what they're designed for they're still dubiously practical.

If anything, to me the method of distinction is interesting to me, contrasting these specific aspects & allowing 'functions ' to differentiate further still within a type, but the typing itself is dubious which makes its extensions dubious as well.

I do not believe that the personality is fixed, nor do I believe today it is strictly biochemical, but also affected by the culture & environment (the situations & conditions which the individual is subject to), but I believe fundamentally free will decides, mostly nothing else. Most anything that a person does is by his will, whether he actively chose it or passively allowed it to happen, or caused it to happen by other means.

I think what this personality test captures well is how people tend to interact with the world, and its acceptance reveals people's disposition towards certain extremes, often choosing one & not the other (maybe so as to prevent cognitive dissonance?)