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No, there isn't "a" primary source for anything, but Wikipedia often comes close. You mean vetting? What is "enough" and how did you determine that Wikipedia doesn't have it? Alright, now tell me how you found, or knew how to look for, animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu. Factor in that...

For anything? That's a pretty bold claim. How do your librarian skills help you find a report on something that happened, or changed, less than a day ago? You mean you will skip Wikipedia results, even if you don't know anything about the topic yet? Why? Google results are sorted by machine...

Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists Click a link that looks interesting. Go back to step 2. If you can do this for 10 minutes or more and still feel that Wikipedia lacks appeal, there's nothing I can do for you.

I agree it could be "nostalgia". That the conclusions that once would have been more definite now seem incomplete could be because you are thinking deeper. "I don't know" is a valid conclusion.

Don't like Wikipedia articles? Use it anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTP#References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTP#External_links

Instead of cleaning why don't you just move? Into an open-plan house. You can figure out how to pay for it later. You only live once.

Someone has. I found out about this just a few weeks ago, actually: http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php edit: based on a recent post, it says MissQuote is 55-60% male.

I'm sorry? Is it my fault that I happen to agree with another poster? I'm not the one who made this a "me versus them" scenario:

Proxy essentially declared himself the "winner" back in post #147, and after a while of him parading around this victory, we became fully resigned to the fact that further attempts at actual discussion with him would be fruitless. It's a typical case of Danth's Law. At this point we can only...

Oh man. You are too much.

An introvert's talents will naturally be less appreciated by being less visible. Broadcasting them is an extroverted thing to do.

Nobody quoted you. That's the point. Your promise of "stop quoting me and I will stop replying" was broken. Your attempts to rationalize and sugarcoat your enjoyment of bitching are transparent.

And the reason you wrote that post is...? I'm sure. :rolleyes:

And I would like to distinguish between psychologists and scientists. If "a scientific psychological" approach to attributing a mental state exists, I have never heard of it. But that's another topic.

For me, it's others who have seemed extremely willing to gobble up explanations for my strangeness. I've had all manner of nonsense attributed to me over the years, and probably partly because of that I'm very skeptical of psychology. While I'm thrilled to have finally found something I actually...

Well maybe I'm naively optimistic, but I think good employers are not so rare that it's worth giving up on them to invest an arm, leg, and 4 years into appeasing the bad ones. It did take a long time for me to get my foot in the door, but still less time than it would have taken to get a...

No, I really can't think of anything better, that sentence sums up the whole ideal. Maybe it could be improved by waiters serving you coffee every few hours. Without disturbing you of course. http://scipy.org/Getting_Started - Does this look like something that could interest you?

So you're never satisfied with the correctness of an opinion? I think that's an N-P thing. Oh and IQ tests are meaningless.

This part that I quoted, at face value, is true. Proof of knowledge is valuable. But of course you go on to conclude that the proof we need comes in the form of diplomas. And I strongly believe that diplomas are not our only option for proving knowledge. In fact, they aren't even a good way to...

I experienced firsthand how true this is. I skipped half of high school. But it was not because I was "gifted" (whatever that means); no, the primary catalyst that led to this was bullying -- they decided I would be "safer", I suppose, in the more mature crowd of higher-graders. To formalize...

Would a somewhat relevant terrible pun help?

...oxymoron. Seriously though. Isn't the MBTI all about preferences? If you're INTP (or any other type), it means you don't want to be any other way. You say you don't enjoy Se activities because you overanalyze them. I think that's an overanalysis in itself -- you simply don't prefer those...

Did you forget to read the fine print?

That pretty much sums it up. The Google privacy paranoia is apparently based on misunderstanding how the internet works. It simply cannot function without storing your information. Why no paranoia about email servers? Bank servers? Why is Google being singled out? Because it's big? The...

^ Nonsensical justification for a desire to have the last word. You long ago reached an impasse that you clearly don't desire to work around, yet you continue coming back to this thread to post vacuous ramblings about how baffled you are. It's not politeness, it's blatant condescension...

4/10 and now for something completely different, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szcQgfNEAdo

I don't assume that you don't know who you are arguing with. I assume that who you are arguing with is expressing none of the sentiments you are arguing against, and so in effect you are having a conversation inside your head. To argue with the madman would be to validate those sentiments...

Yes, we are getting closer to the point. Forcing personal standards on others? Master of all? Self-appointed? Special? Where did any of this come from? You appear to be arguing with no one but yourself again. Again you can't claim ignorance; the fact that you are aware we referred to it...

What you did was give three examples and ask whether they were, quote: "compatible to my highest skills/talents/traits". I obviously cannot answer that because I am not you. I gave you the real answer, but you scoffed because it didn't fit into the little box you were hoping for. It's this very...

And so why do you continue? Why do you keep returning to boast the fact that you are incapable of comprehending the discussion? You clearly have nothing to add to it besides reiterating your tired old strawmen ("basic complaint that life does not go the way you want it to") (which you can no...

Fluff usually means meaningless excess. I think this is the opposite, too much meaning crammed into few words. As a result it's not exactly everyday speech but, with the exception of "on the edge of oblivion", it's fairly non-figurative and to the point. It's better if you imagine...

*shakes head* and we're back to square one. You haven't learned a thing.

Shoelaces really shouldn't exist anymore.

I do this. Sometimes I'm oddly methodical about it too. Like, I'm planning to do something at 2:00; someone reminds me to do it; okay, that thing is now rescheduled to 2:30.

Why do I feel so compelled to post, even though I know the experiment has already failed?

Having spent all that money on that indecipherable chest tattoo, it'd be a real shame if nobody saw it. Being your real self is about not giving a shit about advice from hipsters. Or reddit. Or me. Wait... "With a complete stranger" is not at all a selling point to me. Why would I want an...

This argument could repeated for every small benefit of technology, though. It's not a matter of entitlement, it's just that if something can be used that would benefit both parties, it should be.

Not me. But it is a P trait to remain open to more possibilities longer. Could it be the others are picking up on non-verbal hints at sarcasm while your mind is too focused on analysing just the words?

No, they weren't. The first one was; the second one wasn't. He never said that people actually finding compatible work was a problem. On the contrary, that's the ideal. You clearly weren't reading that post very carefully. It's almost cute how desperate you are to find the "answers" in...

I think I can forgive anything. Betrayal hits hard though. I think even more than actually resenting the person for doing it, I'm bothered by the fact that my instincts about people (which I trust a lot) were proved wrong, and I feel like I can't trust myself.

This is a loaded question. You know full well that there are not two problems in the quote you refer to, because I just told you. Stop being dishonest, and stop demanding answers that you have already received. Actually that sounds about right, particularly by your standards. It is a...

There is more to the "audience" than you, though. Heaping blame upon the author doesn't make as much sense when it's only a portion of the audience who can't comprehend. Also, this: Except I'm not merely chanting "Yes! Yes, I agree! What he said!" I came to the same stance independently and...

So you're confirming that you have no interest in dialogue and mutual understanding? Why do you continue? Except it's not unintelligible to others. I really hope you're merely being pretentious and don't actually suffer from the inability to comprehend anything that isn't a pure equation of...

I think this applies more to you. Your most recent handful of replies are largely just expressions of incredulity and condescension. They come across as the loud rantings of someone who loves the sound of his own voice and is not at all interested in 2-way dialogue. This is fairly ironic...

Maybe it's a side effect of introversion, being focused internally and not paying attention to external cues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeber).

pernocto = Latin verb, "to spend the night"; pernoctator = someone who stays up all night So, yeah. It's 5 AM right now. By the way, anyone who does this should try out this program: f.lux It takes a while to get used to. I eventually stopped using it, but you might like it.

Well it depends. All of them are, and none of them are. There are countless people working in jobs that fit them who are happy, yet to some people, like PK87, those jobs are as revolting as the above 3 are to you. Similarly those people would not be as happy in PK87's field. Oh yes, wouldn't...

It came from browsing the grandiloquent dictionary.

Yes. I always feel skeptical when someone is emphatically against racism ("oh my gawsh, I just hate racism so much!"). Especially when they aren't equally upset by other types of prejudice. Lying is worse, if you ask me; it's a premeditated conscious attempt to secretly give others a...