> > I tried this test when codeman first posted the link, and again today. Each time I answered every question as truthfully as I could. I got a completely different result the second time.
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> > The first time, it said I was a Rational/Architect. The second time it came up as Idealist/Healer. The two seem like complete opposites to me. I'd be interested if anybody here reads the profiles on each of those two types and can say if either, or neither, matches what they already think about my personality. I think the second result was slightly less completely unlike me than the first, but who knows? Maybe that just applies to the way I feel today. :-)
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> > Brunnen-"wild mood swings, anybody?"G
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> I'm leaning toward INTP (Rational/Architect), looking at your posts. Though then again, as I've mentioned, I'm an INTP myself, so perhaps I've got this innate bias toward it...
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> The main difference that separates the two types you mentioned is, do you tend to express things in terms of thoughts or feelings? Those two types aren't as much "complete opposites" as they may at first seem; the thinking/feeling difference I mentioned is what really identifies them.

I think Brunnen-G was objecting more to the rather, uh, *utilitarian* summary description in "Portrait of an Architect (iNTp)", as given by David Keirsey (the guy who created the test). That disconcerting term he uses for this personality type, "architechtonics", seems even more bizarre given that Keirsey describes himself as INTP!

Anyway, from what I gather about the Rational/Architect archetype, the INTP is not exactly a structural-engineer/scientist type of person; but is more someone who is deeply thoughtful with the ability to focus intensely -- to the point of being oblivious to the immediate surroundings. INTPs love languages and wordplay and logical games, in short, complex systems (that includes viewing the "solving" of computer-oriented systems as a form of play). Perhaps *this* description might go down better with the presumed INTPs on the forum...? :-)

Wolfspirit