Function Disjunction

[Anthile]

In the last time I often thought about a new way of interpreting MBTI functions.

There are many MBTI tests which give you a certain score for a function like "70% Thinking" or "54% Introverted" and I asked myself "How does that interact with reality?". The answer is - it does not. I cannot tell what's the difference between 60% T and 65% T. They never explain that.
My idea is that I want to associate the functions with traits. The higher your score is the more traits you have of a function.
All of the 8 functions have a certain pool of character traits and the higher you score in one of these functions the more traits you should have.
If you are 100% T you have only T traits but If you score 50% T and 50% F you should have the same amount of T and F traits, for example.


Mind you that this is a very experimental idea without any scientific approach.

 

[Jaico]

That's an interesting take on things, Anthile, and I sort of agree. I was told that the percentage indicated how much you prefer to use that function over the other one, and not the 'strength' of that function. Thus, a higher percentage would not only indicate how strongly the traits manifest themselves (as you said), but also how often they're used; i.e. someone with a 50% T/50% F might have 50/50 T/F traits, and they might not exhibit them as much as someone with 100% in either one (I was just thinking of why people might have 'split halves' - their preference being evenly split, they think of situations that apply equally to each function). That's just my ramblings, anyhow .