Percentages in test results

[etreby7]

When you see the percentages in your personality test results, & for example you tested as an INTP, & you have a 60% Intuition, & 40% Sensing, does the sensing percentage go to your Si function, or does it just develop your Sensing abilities in general ( taking away from the Intuition abilities) ??

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Show me the test you have taken and it could be really explained looking at the site. It depends, varies, cannot validate if there is nothing to validate.

 

[samjonathan]

closer percentages between S/N or T/F could suggest a more balanced or rounded temperament but further than that I wouldn't read too much into it.

 

[QuickTwist]

I believe he is doing one of those free tests that don't really give very good information. Basically the ration has nothing to do with functions. Its rather linear that way.

 

[etreby7]

I think @samjonathan got what I meant.
I was speaking in general, regardless of the quality of the test or the test itself.
I mean do you just take the result you have, & not care much about the percentages, or do they bear any significance ??

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

If we are talking about socionics/cognitive functions or % MBTI types it does hint your dominant functions.

Self testing is not so genuine, asking friends or more distant people for testing, opinions and analysing may be helpful.

If I were not restricting myself I would fill the test to whatever I currently have in mind. This of course on the other hand means that I sometimes restrict myself to a specific personality type.

50% compared to 10%, or a 3-5 fold difference in scoring is significant and hints that you could search this area.

 

[Jennywocky]

When you see the percentages in your personality test results, & for example you tested as an INTP, & you have a 60% Intuition, & 40% Sensing, does the sensing percentage go to your Si function, or does it just develop your Sensing abilities in general ( taking away from the Intuition abilities) ??

It doesn't specify usually, in those cheap basic tests.

Also, when you get 60% Intuition, it just means you favored intuition in 60% of the test questions at least barely above Sensing. It doesn't tell you the actual strength/intensity of that preference.

 

[samjonathan]

I think @samjonathan got what I meant.
I was speaking in general, regardless of the quality of the test or the test itself.
I mean do you just take the result you have, & not care much about the percentages, or do they bear any significance ??

Yeah the result is usually a pretty good guide as to your type. It's good to get started that way and then go in to the profile of the type you got and see if you agree with it. Its best just to ignore the percentages really (IMO) and look in to the functions and stuff yourself, because they don't work on the same system of logic.

 

[Brontosaurie]

Yeah the result is usually a pretty good guide as to your type.

no. the overwhelming amount of SFP's who think they think and imagine and ponder a lot is overwhelming.

huge N bias, moderate T bias, slight I bias.

 

[samjonathan]

I was more trying to highlight that it should be seen as a rough guide which could be used as a starting point for further more detailed research rather than confirming that if you get a certain result then it is probably correct. That sentence was only suitable in the context of the ones that followed (and probably badly worded, sozzz) and I (of course) only spoke from personal experience; which gave me the result I looked into and in turn came to agree with. Though you seem to have more knowledge on the subject of informal subjective self-report psychological tests, so yeah... sorry for being misleading I guess.
Aside from that though the only real way to know properly is to look into it yourself.

 

[Brontosaurie]

I was more trying to highlight that it should be seen as a rough guide which could be used as a starting point for further more detailed research rather than confirming that if you get a certain result then it is probably correct. That sentence was only suitable in the context of the ones that followed (and probably badly worded, sozzz) and I (of course) only spoke from personal experience; which gave me the result I looked into and in turn came to agree with. Though you seem to have more knowledge on the subject of informal subjective self-report psychological tests, so yeah... sorry for being misleading I guess.
Aside from that though the only real way to know properly is to look into it yourself.

i got your whole post, just quoted the most relevant part.

progressing by reading type descriptions is, to me, just an extension of the flattery that tests may provide. the only way to get something out of MBTI is to understand the basic premises of jungian cognitive functions and how they relate (or don't) to scientifically consensual psychology and neuroscience.

all the SFP "INT's" really wince me out (((((((