How many of the users on this forum are INTPs?

[DrGregoryHouse]

I don't know the answer. Is there a way to tell? If not I think it would be useful to know who is and who isn't. For example, say an INTP asks for advice from a bunch of other INTPs and an ESFJ chimes in giving advice without notice that the advice isn't coming from an INTP?

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Hah.

Another person advocating protecting others' perception of information for fear of the supposed person being unable to independently assess the data provided? Ever dabbled in propaganda?

Discarding the all-ridiculous nature of MBTI itself and considering that framework:
Type discrimination? Can't other types have something to say, before the recipient ignores them on the grounds of not truintp-ism?

 

[Sinny91]

Being new to this forum, I was/am left wondering why on Earth non-INTP's would be here, beyond seeking answers to relationship issue's.

Then again, it appears there is a whole sub-culture of type forum interchange which I also did not expect.

INTP.

Lol, I had thing about Salad Fingers a few years back, my mates almost sectioned me.

 

[DrGregoryHouse]

Being new to this forum, I was/am left wondering why on Earth non-INTP's would be here, beyond seeking answers to relationship issue's.

Then again, it appears there is a whole sub-culture of type forum interchange which I also did not expect.

INTP.

Lol, I had thing about Salad Fingers a few years back, my mates almost sectioned me.

Do you have a preferred oxidized alloy?

 

[Sinny91]

Rust... Rust... Where do you keep your spoons? .. Ahhhh.

I've always wondered what it would be like in it's creators mind haha.

 

[Cherry Cola]

as an intp I can tell you that the number is somewhere between zero and infiniteh

 

[TheManBeyond]

ESFJS ADVICES ARE AS PRECIOUS AS INTPS YOU FILTHY CREATURE
SINCE THEY ARE AS RARE TO BE SEEN IN SUCH FORUMS AS THIS ONE IN COMPARISON TO INTPS EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE INFERIOR TI GOT IT
btw i¡m a enfp. the thing under my user name is another possible weird typing, less likely.

 

[Yellow]

Being new to this forum, I was/am left wondering why on Earth non-INTP's would be here, beyond seeking answers to relationship issue's.

I think a lot of people come here after being typed as INTP online and want to find kindred spirits. Then, a good portion of them realize that INTP isn't the best fit for them. I had a similar experience when I typed myself as INTJ and joined the INTJ forum years ago. Of course, they are more decisive about things and I was politely, but firmly, directed here. I think in general, we are more accepting or differing world views, and don't care if everyone else sticks around.

Though, I suspect that there are just as many people who want to identify as INTP (only Fraisn, god of mothballs, knows why), and insist that they are, despite evidence to the contrary. Those people are most easily identified when they use an accusatory/demeaning tone to point out what they feel is non-INTP behavior. As if being INTP is somehow superior.

 

[Fukyo]

People change types like socks.

After years of involvement with MBTI and Jungian typology, I feel like type is largely irrelevant except in the sense that it may bring people together helping them feel less alone or making them introspect about themselves. After all, there is no way know what anyone's type is for sure. Someone saying they're a certain type, it doesn't mean anything, people can tweak the particulars of the theory to corroborate whatever they want it to mean, or find any online text to do same. No way to know for sure, you can just endlessly theorize about it, it's too wrapped up in ego and desire to identify with an idealized identity.

But if you're working under the assumption type is real, yeah I can see how it can be problematic. But as long as people are discerning and don't take advice at face value just because it's coming from "another INTP" they shouldn't be harmed by it.

 

[Sinny91]

Thanks for the insights Yellow, I've got to say, I don't find being an INTP superior in anyway, in most cases I'm my own worst enemy, I suspect it is the same for other INTP's?

Speaking of people deluding themselves, a friend of mine was firmly typed as a ISFP a few months back, and since [I suspect] he has been developing feelings towards me, he messaged me the other day to inorm me this time around he was an INTJ. I informed him that's a far cry from his previous result, I had restrain myself from informing he had clearly doctored his results. I believe he now wants to be somebody he is not. He needn't bother on my behalf [haha].

In regards to typology, I find it accurate in most instances; it can be useful for understanding the reasoning and motivation of an individual. I firmly believe the mind can be mapped and manipulated... Of course there are exceptions to the rule..

 

[Hadoblado]

I don't see what such a census could achieve other than bigotry and facilitation of type folly. When relevant such as when polling INTP behaviour, just further subdivide the options into INTP and not INTP.

Also, I don't think there are many people here who agree on anyone's type decisively. Even the 3000+ posters have heavily contentious types.

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

2 or 3

 

[redbaron]

Just assume that you're INTP and that everyone who disagrees with you just doesn't understand because they're not INTP.

Revel in your unassailable intellect.

 

[Jennywocky]

People change types like socks.

Wait... we're supposed to change our socks? ... that would... explain a lot....

After years of involvement with MBTI and Jungian typology, I feel like type is largely irrelevant except in the sense that it may bring people together helping them feel less alone or making them introspect about themselves. After all, there is no way know what anyone's type is for sure. Someone saying they're a certain type, it doesn't mean anything, people can tweak the particulars of the theory to corroborate whatever they want it to mean, or find any online text to do same. No way to know for sure, you can just endlessly theorize about it, it's too wrapped up in ego and desire to identify with an idealized identity.

Yeah, it was big for me in the beginning because it gave me an awareness of how people are naturally different and it's okay; it also gave me some affirmation that there were others like me and I wasn't a freak or some weird anomaly, after dealing with a lifetime of being the outlier.

It kind of doesn't mean much in the big scheme of things, once you reach that awareness, however. I don't spend much time on it anymore. It still can help me get a quick sense of where someone's ideas / thinking process is coming from, but otherwise you can actually deal with people as individuals. There also doesn't seem to be much value in investing a ton of time 'determining your type' -- you get the most bang for your buck in the first bit of exploration, but endlessly asking and examining yourself? Debating it? Arguing about it? Justifying it? Like you suggested, there's an arbitrary/ambiguous element to it and after a certain point it just becomes a fruitless intellectual exercise. As long as you understand how you work, a label does not matter; people need to stop jamming themselves into a type box just to have a label they can wave about.

 

[Perfectly Normal Beast]

isn't there a blood test yet?

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

isn't there a blood test yet?

23andme DNA company had plans for a collaboration with Keirsey, but the chief executive received unfavourable typing so the deal was canceled.

 

[Perfectly Normal Beast]

23andme DNA company had plans for a collaboration with Keirsey, but the chief executive received unfavourable typing so the deal was canceled.

oh damn. i was going to suggest mandatory testing for all members and perma bans for all who failed

 

[YOLOisonlyprinciple]

I don't know the answer. Is there a way to tell? If not I think it would be useful to know who is and who isn't. For example, say an INTP asks for advice from a bunch of other INTPs and an ESFJ chimes in giving advice without notice that the advice isn't coming from an INTP?

You should look at my facebook "INTP group", it is like high school drama all day there;
This forum has much more restraint in the type of threads they start (except me), so most non-INTP minded people get bored because it doesnt interest them.

Hah.

Another person advocating protecting others' perception of information for fear of the supposed person being unable to independently assess the data provided? Ever dabbled in propaganda?

Discarding the all-ridiculous nature of MBTI itself and considering that framework:
Type discrimination? Can't other types have something to say, before the recipient ignores them on the grounds of not truintp-ism?

MBTI is a *better* indicator of people with like mindsets than other popular tests.
You cant expect it to be perfect.
It is all about identifying the subset of the population you prefer

 

[RaBind]

I'd be interested to know. There is the problem of measurement though. It would be awefully difficult for outsiders to judge, when even the person in question is confused. A brash method that could be employed would be to not attempt to asses what specific type a person is but to affirm that they are not intps. This would reduces the overall effort that'd have to go into the task. However as I've said its a pretty ignorant idea, considering all that isn't and cannot be know about people, especially over the internet. There would also be a lot of experimenter bias being in play too I'd imagine. The only benefit would be practicality. Though more than likely to be inaccurate, a result would be nice to produce, simply to think about and get a picture of things. I am always skeptical when people do give out numbers though, my impression is that they always seem to be too conservative in their assessment of the number of intps here. In other terms I've almost never seen someone suggest a number that I thought was an overestimation, possibly because it is easy to see that many people are not intps and I'm just being really blind, or they make some mistake in identifying intps, which I'm thinking is likely to be mixing up thought process with results of said process.

 

[Brontosaurie]

Analyzer, Hadoblado, 8151147, EditorOne

i'm quite sure about those. not so sure about the rest myself included. many are TJ's beyond those who claim to be, but i don't know if these identify as INTP or even give any merit to type.

can't make an estimation like at all. maybe 1/3 INTP's if i were to guess.

 

[Jennywocky]

oh damn. i was going to suggest mandatory testing for all members and perma bans for all who failed

I just think we should take blood, like we're doing testing... but really we are just assembling samples to use in order to create our OWN CLONE ARMY FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF TAKING OVER THE INTERNETZ.

... Hmm. Maybe we only need to scan people's brains and store them on floppy for later advances in AI....

 

[DrSketchpad]

@Jenny

Floppy disks? I have the feeling this is some sort of cruel joke towards non-INTPs

 

[Jennywocky]

... to be honest, I actually had a snippet of weird Al running through my head (I think from "It's All About the Pentiums Baby")

 

[Minuend]

I don't know the answer. Is there a way to tell? If not I think it would be useful to know who is and who isn't. For example, say an INTP asks for advice from a bunch of other INTPs and an ESFJ chimes in giving advice without notice that the advice isn't coming from an INTP?

What do you fear will happen then, exactly?

 

[Jennywocky]

I see the end coming.
I see the darkness spreading.
I see death.

(and really bad movie sequels.)

 

[StevenM]

I guess MBTI is like the bible.

Everyone interprets it differently. Then they fight over it.

 

[DrSketchpad]

@'Mills

Think astrology, but there's actually something to it. It has total net amount of utility nowadays because of how people just kinda hand the MBTI out to everyone for fun.

There's something irritating about Jung's work degrading into something that people use in the same manner as one of those "Which transformer are you most like?" quiz.

EDIT: btw, apparently me and soundwave share the same star sign

 

[8151147]

Speaking of people deluding themselves, a friend of mine was firmly typed as a ISFP a few months back, and since [I suspect] he has been developing feelings towards me, he messaged me the other day to inorm me this time around he was an INTJ. I informed him that's a far cry from his previous result, I had restrain myself from informing he had clearly doctored his results. I believe he now wants to be somebody he is not. He needn't bother on my behalf [haha].

Second this. In my room when I was in college there are an INFJ wannabe guy who is actually ISFP. I just feel ridiculous about how people lie about themselves, that most pity thing. However what I really hate is he always listen to music so loud with his speakers. ISFP is actually very easy to spotted both in internet or IRL.
http://ptypes.com/artistic.html

For the OP, I think people couldn't careless if someone is not ITNP. There are no rule strict non-INTP type active in this forum.

 

[Pizzabeak]

Whoever can end up writing funny is usually intp. The moderately successful people end up being something like Te users so as to keep the population down. I believe intj to be a bit rarer though. It should be sort of easy to gauge a person's typing style and infer some intp traits but unfortunately not that many posts I've read reek of intp save for a few.

 

[crippli]

I don't know the answer. Is there a way to tell? If not I think it would be useful to know who is and who isn't. For example, say an INTP asks for advice from a bunch of other INTPs and an ESFJ chimes in giving advice without notice that the advice isn't coming from an INTP?

I find this hard to believe.

 

[Dramatic Gecko]

I'm only here because INTP's seem to think they can figure out everything. I'm waiting out for the secrets of the universe.