common mistypings (based on intertype relations)

[Joy]

Is it common to mistake your benefactor for your identical?

[Exodus]

More likely beneficiary IME.

edit: I just thought of a benefactor example. All of this probably doesn't mean much.

[aestrivex]

i don't think it's at all probable that it would be any more likely to subjectively type/mistype someone based on asymmetrical relations; for example if forum history and personal experience are any indication, the benefit pair of LIEs and SLEs often appear similar to each other and can be difficult to distinguish, but an LIE is often going to look much more like an SLE than an IEE, while an SLE is probably more apt to seem like an LIE than his own beneficiary.

[Joy]

What about subtypes though? I would think that an intuitive subtype ENTj would seem more like an intuitive subtype ENFp than an ESTp of either subtype.

Also, it's not about types seeming similar to others, it's about someone meeting someone else and thinking that they're similar. It makes more sense to me that one would mistakenly think they're similar to their benefactor than to their beneficiary. For example, I would expect ESTps to be more likely to mistakenly think they're similar to an ENTj than mistakenly think that they're similar to an ESFj.

[Exodus]

I think it has to do with the use of the HA (accounting for personal typing biases, of course).

[aestrivex]

What about subtypes though? I would think that an intuitive subtype ENTj would seem more like an intuitive subtype ENFp than an ESTp of either subtype.

disagree.

Also, it's not about types seeming similar to others, it's about someone meeting someone else and thinking that they're similar. It makes more sense to me that one would mistakenly think they're similar to their benefactor than to their beneficiary. For example, I would expect ESTps to be more likely to mistakenly think they're similar to an ENTj than mistakenly think that they're similar to an ESFj.

i would say so, but otoh i would also expect an ENTj to mistakenly think ESTp over ENFp. ENTjs and ESTps alike would probably have difficulty associating themselves as ethical types of any kind.

[Expat]

i would say so, but otoh i would also expect an ENTj to mistakenly think ESTp over ENFp. ENTjs and ESTps alike would probably have difficulty associating themselves as ethical types of any kind.

Yes, I think in most cases that's probably right.

[Jarno]

More likely beneficiary

yes, that's how i think about it too.


beneficiary looks like your identical because you notice that you have some kind of spiritual connection. That's probably the reason for the mistake.

[Khamelion]

What about subtypes though? I would think that an intuitive subtype ENTj would seem more like an intuitive subtype ENFp than an ESTp of either subtype.

Also, it's not about types seeming similar to others, it's about someone meeting someone else and thinking that they're similar. It makes more sense to me that one would mistakenly think they're similar to their benefactor than to their beneficiary. For example, I would expect ESTps to be more likely to mistakenly think they're similar to an ENTj than mistakenly think that they're similar to an ESFj.

The benefactor could easily think they are similar to their beneficiary. Probably in several ways, but the one I think of is they see bits of themselves in this person and therefore feel they have something to offer, to make them MORE like themselves (the benefactor).

[Joy]

Yeah, I think a person of any type could mistake themselves as being somehow similar to another person of any other type, depending on other factors involved and how well they know each other. There's more to a person than information metabolism, after all.

(Notice I didn't say "any type could mistake themselves for any other type".)