MBTI

I have never gotten anything other than INTP so the test is clearly valid and tracks important aspects of the causal structure of the world.

Well they were inevitably far too flattering, presenting me as having the innate talents necessary to revolutionize the world, but other than that diffuse howler, I always found them reasonably accurate, yeah. Though I remember feeling that way about descriptions for some of the other types, too, for obvious reasons.

That sounds about right. The descriptions honestly mostly just spit back at you the information you put in when you answered the questions, just in somewhat different words.

A good friend of mine went through a Jung phase and used to get really mad about MBTI tests, which are apparently extremely unfaithful to their Jungian origins.

Yeah, I think it fits me well. Even getting INTJ the one or two times makes sense since because when I've gotten results that show how much one leans towards one or the other, it's usually towards the middle with me typically leaning towards the P slightly. The I and N are the most strong, whereas the T is stronger than the P but not as much as the other two.

Here's one description of an INTP: www.personalitypage.com/INTP.html

For the most part I think it describes me well. One exception would be the parts where they make it seem like INTP's are robots without emotion or empathy, but it would make sense that it doesn't fit perfectly since the T isn't strong. This is another part that I don't think describes me, but did when I was younger, "Sometimes, their well thought-out understanding of an idea is not easily understandable by others, but the INTP is not naturally likely to tailor the truth so as to explain it in an understandable way to others." I used to not consider how what I said would be understood by others, since I was primarily using communication as a way to organize my own thoughts rather than for actual communication... but over time I started to work on that, and now I try to be easily understandable. As a bonus, I have found doing so makes it easier to see gaps in my thinking and what needs to be worked out more, and it makes me more likely to consider various responses in advance, more so than I used to.

lol I do sometimes suspect that I only think it's accurate because it is very flattering. But even with taking out all the flattering stuff, it does seem to describe my dominant thinking patterns pretty well. Then again I also think Pisces describes me well

Astrology doesn't work at all for me. I did a really in depth star chart thing once and it was still just so vague that I was like, "Well, I guess."