Thursday, November 20, 2008

So, I'm thinking "no way..."

This site claims to be able to analyze a blog and determine its "type." I'm thinking "no way," but as a lark I plugged the blog in and it spat back this:
INTP - The Thinkers

The logical and analytical type. They are especialy attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications. They enjoy working with complex things using a lot of concepts and imaginative models of reality. Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need some time to understand what they are talking about
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Holy crap! INTP is the most likely result when I take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test. I also come up INTX (this is where I split J and P because while I'm very INT, my J and P have not, historically, been particularly unbalanced in relationship to each other). Still, in this part of my life I'm more P than X and definitely not trending J and am stunned that it came up exactly the same.

Really, I am jaw-dropping stunned. There was no way I was, coming into this blind, believing this would come even slightly close to who I am as a person. And yet in under a second it nailed me.

And, yes, I damn well know I'm impatient with dullards and people who can't grasp the reality that we live in a complex world without easy, jingoistic-driven answers. And, of course, the know-nothings who seek stupid, simplistic solutions based an overly-simplified world view while we live in a complex, chaotic universe.

And, no, I don't care if it offends the non-thinkers. You don't want me running rough-shod on your stupid ideas, stop thinking them.

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