Olba
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Hey All,This is my first post...
I'd like to comment on few things here:
-first of all,i don't think that intp are objective enough to be objective about themselves,you see the idea of saying that intp is more objective than the other 15 combinations would imply that there's maybe someone-something- who has a "quantity" of objectiveness more than the intp have,and in this case he'll see intp as not objective especially when we add the emotional element which by itself inherent in everyone of us and also can't be objective,hence though other combination may think that they can judge themselves objectively,the objective thing from the intp is to know that he's not objective enough to judge himself... objectively.....
To be objective means to be only rational. Also, to be objective towards oneself means to be self-critical. What this amounts to is rational evaluation of oneself and the actions one takes. Which, in practice, is analyzing. And INTPs are the masters of analyzation.
And objectivity cannot be measured in "quantity" or any other measure. After all, to be objective means not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased: an objective opinion. If you look at the quoted definitions of "objective", you see things like "unbiased" "based on facts" and "not influenced by feelings". None of these can be measured in quantity or quality. After all, unbiased is exactly what it is, facts are always facts and as long as it's not influenced by any feelings, it means nothing. If it is influenced by feelings, it's not objective. So there is no way to measure the "quantity" of objective without going against its own definition.
Usually I would be a very mathematical person, but in this case, I have to say that you are as wrong as wrong can be. Measuring the quantity of good times and bad times and averaging it to the years means nothing. Why so? You're ignoring the whole quality-axis. A vastly good thing can outweight the bad sides of a bad thing. I, for one, have gone through this in my personal life.-on the other hand, we can consider the pragmatic side of the question, the subjective side,on this case it could be interpreted as "are you happy with being intp?" or more precisely "how happy are you with being intp?"...-affirming the "happy" is a truly subjective variable,that everyone has a personal formulation for it-,in this case my answer will be as most of you has said...that it has it's ups and downs,although to clear the pragmaticality, i'd like to include the time as an additional parameter and average the total sum of this ups and downs by the time,at this case the answer would be no for me,i'm not happy for being intp on average....
Thus, averaging them only basd on quantity is foolish. If anything, you should measure the quality, average it to the quantity and then average the quantity to your life. However, that means nothing as there is nothing to use for comparison. There is no "average life". Not unless you measure the goodness and badness of things on a set scale. For example, between -1 and 1, where 0 is average, -1 is worst and +1 is the best possible. However, evaluating experiences with numbers can be tough and requires absolute objectivity.
The actual number of INTPs in the whole world doesn't mean anything to anyone. For example, I would bet that the INTP concentration here is upwards of 30%.-finally there's actually an approximate 60 mil. of intps,as long as there's 6 * 10^9 living people in this planet and .01 of them are intps...
And if you wish to go into big numbers, with 60 million (6*10^7) people, there would still be 5 940 000 000 ( 5.94*10^9) non-INTP people.
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