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- From: wfang@a.chem.upenn.edu (Wenjia Fang)
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- Subject: Re: ENTJ classifications
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 02:35:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.172333.14086@maclaurin.bioch.ox.ac.uk> liqun@bioch.ox.ac.uk (Liqun Wang) writes:
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- >
- >A colleague of mine came out as ENTJ from xmbti. After reading Jon Noring's
- >brief summary on the types, she concluded that the output only reflected what
- >she wanted to be rather than what she really is and decided to test again. The
- >results of the second test is XNXX. I am at lost to explain the implication to
- >her. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot in advance.
- >
- >liqun (ENFP, minority type in a.p.p)
-
- Well, in my personality psychology class, we talked about different
- personality tests. One of the pitfalls about those tests our professor
- pointed out is that people are trying to act like the people they want
- themselves to be, rather themselves (unconsciously). So if s/he is an
- introvert person but really want to be an extrovert, when answering
- question like "in a party, would you hang out with a lot of people, or
- just friends you already knew?", they might put down that they would
- hang out with a lot of people, even in the real situation, they might
- be sitting with their old friends.
- So to get the most accurate results on those tests, you should put
- yourself in the situation, rather than assuming what you would do.
- Hope this helps.
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- Wenjia Fang
- '94 BSE/CSE, University of PENNsylvania
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