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    The types that want to know the most detail and information, and the types that are good with all the detail. I know in MBTI the people who love detail and information are the SJs, so I'm wondering if there is a correlation, or is it all independent?

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    I believe xSTJs are the most detail oriented (ST+process). Next, IMO, there's the xNTp (NT+process).
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    Getting detail work done seems very Te, so SLI, LSE, LIE, ILI. Knowing small details seems more ambiguous to me, but may be associated with Te as well. I wouldn't expect detail-orientedness out of an ENTp (and ISTj, maybe), but I could be wrong on that score.
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    LIEs are everything but detail oriented.

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    I am very detail oriented and extremely attentive to accuracy and precision.
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    poli, I had a hard time reading your post because of your avatar. It's quite disturbing, tbh.

    My old LSI roommate arranged everything in the kitchen to 90 degree angles, cleaned everything, and had a spotless room. I have never seen a more detail oriented person. He reveled in it.

    However, my LSI dad was a complete slob. He was aware of the details, but he would just get mad about them, and ignore them. There were more important things to worry about.
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    ENFps I think are pretty bad at detail. I can force myself for period of time, followed shortly thereafter by my brain exploding. I remember taking a proofreading test for a job once and thinking "omg this is boring" looking out the window for a bit, and then hurrying through it, forgetting that would be the majority of that job! lol. And it was only a paragraph long test.

    ISFps can be pretty detail oriented and like it if it's something that interests them.

    INTjs appear detail oriented, yet often miss important things because of their Ne distracting them. So they seem anal, yet may forget an important thing like an address.

    Actually, ENFjs do a good job of focusing on details. Being a "stickler" about them.
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    Could this be correlated with the process/result dichotomy? If process types are detail-oriented, that would be ILE, SEI, EIE, LSI, SEE, ILI, LSE, and EII who are detail-oriented. This would match up well with what FDG, tuturututu, and jewels have said.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fear of sleep View Post
    poli, I had a hard time reading your post because of your avatar. It's quite disturbing, tbh.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Krig the Viking View Post
    Could this be correlated with the process/result dichotomy? If process types are detail-oriented, that would be ILE, SEI, EIE, LSI, SEE, ILI, LSE, and EII who are detail-oriented. This would match up well with what FDG, tuturututu, and jewels have said.
    Yeah, but there's also the ST-NT-NF-SF part. Sensing and Thinking are more detail-oriented than Intuition and Feeling. So ST-process are the most detai-oriented, while NF-result the least? It could make sense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG View Post
    Yeah, but there's also the ST-NT-NF-SF part. Sensing and Thinking are more detail-oriented than Intuition and Feeling. So ST-process are the most detai-oriented, while NF-result the least? It could make sense.
    That does make sense. It also matches up well with what jewels was saying about details causing her ENFp brain to explode.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fear of sleep View Post
    There's just this complete and utter look of despair. I can't stand it.
    It just looks that way. It mentions this in a few of my type's descriptions. I think one of them is on wikisocion.

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    Here's an outlier under the "ST=detail-oriented" hypothesis...

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    Actually, ENFjs do a good job of focusing on details. Being a "stickler" about them.



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    I don't think this is all that type related but I would have to say that sensing types are simply more detail-orientated than intuitive types.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Parkster View Post
    I am very detail oriented and extremely attentive to accuracy and precision.
    Interesting WP. As a fellow SLI (ISTp) I'm NOT very detail oriented, can't spell, and am content with a fair amount of imprecision in my world. To me, the STjs and the NTjs seem to be the ones who sweat the details.

    I work in Government contracting, where most everyone loves to nit-pick details in paperwork. Very little independent thought or action here. Very risk-averse. I struggle with lots of IxTj types here as they wonder why I don't appreciate consistency, regulation, and a well defined process.

    As you know, we SLIs are about getting to the end, and finding the easiest path to get there. How do you reconcile that with a need for accuracy and precision?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jewels View Post
    ENFps I think are pretty bad at detail. I can force myself for period of time, followed shortly thereafter by my brain exploding. I remember taking a proofreading test for a job once and thinking "omg this is boring" looking out the window for a bit, and then hurrying through it, forgetting that would be the majority of that job! lol. And it was only a paragraph long test.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BulletsAndDoves View Post
    I don't think this is all that type related but I would have to say that sensing types are simply more detail-orientated than intuitive types.
    I dunno B&D, I know an INTj who is the master of detail. Not with everything, but there are his things, that have to be just-so to the nTH degree. His hand writting is ultra precise, he reads and retains every detail in everything he reads. He can name the directors, producers, and actors for most any movie or TV show that he sees. Amazing capacity to remember little crap I wouldn't even register in my pea brain.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG View Post
    Yeah, but there's also the ST-NT-NF-SF part. Sensing and Thinking are more detail-oriented than Intuition and Feeling. So ST-process are the most detai-oriented, while NF-result the least? It could make sense.
    It should also be noted that S is more detail-oriented than T, therefore SF-process shouldn't be that far from ST-process regarding detail-orientedness. I can see this in SEIs, they're very detail-oriented. But what shall we do with ESFps? When it comes to physical detail-orientedness they're miles away from ISFps, though, mentaly speaking, they are detail oriented, they want to know the most detail and information. Another dichotomy probably plays a role as well. Which one??

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    I know a couple of them and they are all preoccupied with details.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jewels View Post
    ENFps I think are pretty bad at detail. I can force myself for period of time, followed shortly thereafter by my brain exploding. I remember taking a proofreading test for a job once and thinking "omg this is boring" looking out the window for a bit, and then hurrying through it, forgetting that would be the majority of that job! lol. And it was only a paragraph long test.
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    ENFps pay the least attention possible to details. This is often interpreted by others as superficiality. This peculiarity enables ENFps to swallow lots of information without chewing it. After taking the cream from the surface of one sphere of interests ENFps can become bored and start looking for different interests. They often change their interests. Wherever ENFps go they have a characteristic ability to create a circle of friends and acquaintances and be at the centre of attention. They respect and preserve the opinions of the circle, taking an active part in defending and promoting them.
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    I don't think this is all that type related but I would have to say that sensing types are simply more detail-orientated than intuitive types.
    There are a lot of things that has been said on this forum about something related to a type, hence why a lot of people will said "It is not type related", but this has to be, it affects directly how we see the world and how we swallow information or take in information from reality.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 07490 View Post
    There are a lot of things that has been said on this forum about something related to a type, hence why a lot of people will said "It is not type related", but this has to be, it affects directly how we see the world and how we swallow information or take in information from reality.
    I agree Numbers. I think it's the IxTj s that are the detail focused ones. The S types may notice things, but it takes the j to force the issue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG View Post
    I believe xSTJs are the most detail oriented
    I believe ESXjs are the most detail-oriented. Or at least the most OCD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Director Abbie View Post
    I believe ESXjs are the most detail-oriented. Or at least the most OCD.
    There's a little nuance here I think... The ESTj's, are indeed very perfectionistic, but they know how to separate the main thing from the unimportant things. And that's where the ISTj is bad at, they are stubbornly preoccupied with every detail there is, also the unimportant ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarno View Post
    There's a little nuance here I think... The ESTj's, are indeed very perfectionistic, but they know how to separate the main thing from the unimportant things. And that's where the ISTj is bad at, they are stubbornly preoccupied with every detail there is, also the unimportant ones.
    Is it simply the xxTj combination that makes one detail oriented?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cyrano View Post
    Is it simply the xxTj combination that makes one detail oriented?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarno
    There's a little nuance here I think... The ESTj's, are indeed very perfectionistic, but they know how to separate the main thing from the unimportant things. And that's where the ISTj is bad at, they are stubbornly preoccupied with every detail there is, also the unimportant ones.
    Forgive me for putting it like this, but this statement angers me in it's inaccuracy. It's as if you've never met an ISTj or properly identified one. ISTjs' prioritization skills are top of the line. It's their main focus in life. The way they end up with the "systems" they are so well known for is by rejecting things that are not important to their goals and keeping around things that are. To say an ISTj is a bad prioritizer is like calling the sun black. It is true that they obsess with details on a certain level, but they are not nearly as bad at it as the ESTjs or even some INTps are.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cyrano
    I work in Government contracting, where most everyone loves to nit-pick details in paperwork. Very little independent thought or action here. Very risk-averse. I struggle with lots of IxTj types here as they wonder why I don't appreciate consistency, regulation, and a well defined process.
    Do you realize that one out of the two IxTj types, the INTj, is commonly described as a typically independent thinker?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brilliand View Post
    Here's an outlier under the "ST=detail-oriented" hypothesis...
    Quote Originally Posted by jewels View Post
    Actually, ENFjs do a good job of focusing on details. Being a "stickler" about them.
    Yes, that's why I theorize the primary division between detail-oriented and not-detail-oriented is process and result. ST/NF would be a second-order sorting method.

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    Interesting WP. As a fellow SLI (ISTp) I'm NOT very detail oriented, can't spell, and am content with a fair amount of imprecision in my world. To me, the STjs and the NTjs seem to be the ones who sweat the details.

    I work in Government contracting, where most everyone loves to nit-pick details in paperwork. Very little independent thought or action here. Very risk-averse. I struggle with lots of IxTj types here as they wonder why I don't appreciate consistency, regulation, and a well defined process.

    As you know, we SLIs are about getting to the end, and finding the easiest path to get there. How do you reconcile that with a need for accuracy and precision?
    Makes sense, as SLIs are result-oriented. Their focus is "overall end result" first, then "details" if necessary.

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    I dunno B&D, I know an INTj who is the master of detail. Not with everything, but there are his things, that have to be just-so to the nTH degree. His hand writting is ultra precise, he reads and retains every detail in everything he reads. He can name the directors, producers, and actors for most any movie or TV show that he sees. Amazing capacity to remember little crap I wouldn't even register in my pea brain.
    This is the only thing that doesn't seem to fit the process/result correlation to detail-orientation. There are LIIs and other process types who do appear detail-oriented. On the other hand, I'm an LII and I'm not particularly detail-oriented. I focus mainly on the big picture, dealing with details only when necessary to support or disprove an element of the big picture.

    If I were to rank the types according to this "process+ST" hypothesis, it would be something roughly like this:

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    ISTjs are typically focussed on a set of details they have chosen to be more important than others. There is a focus on specifics, but the attention of the person is still on the significance of things. ISTjs will not acknowledge a fact just because it is there. S/he must have some personal relation to it for it to be noticed by them.

    Te types will acknowledge details and facts for their own sake. In this sense they are a lot more detail oriented than Ti types.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Director Abbie View Post
    I believe ESXjs are the most detail-oriented. Or at least the most OCD.
    Well, don't you agree that ISTjs are more detail-oriented than ESFjs?
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    I'm voting for LSI. Though maybe it depends on the type of detail. Like to me, when I hear that phrase "detail oriented" I think of unnecessary details and steps that are part of elaborate lists and systems. Maybe someone else thinks of different kinds of details when they hear those words.
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    Quote Originally Posted by labcoat View Post
    Forgive me for putting it like this, but this statement angers me in it's inaccuracy. It's as if you've never met an ISTj or properly identified one. ISTjs' prioritization skills are top of the line. It's their main focus in life. The way they end up with the "systems" they are so well known for is by rejecting things that are not important to their goals and keeping around things that are. To say an ISTj is a bad prioritizer is like calling the sun black. It is true that they obsess with details on a certain level, but they are not nearly as bad at it as the ESTjs or even some INTps are.
    Ah I see, yes they do a lot of prioritizing, but I guess it's my own viewpoint that makes me think they are prioritizing everything the wrong way.

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    3 ISTj colleagues of mine, were obsessed of having every detail about a client registrated in the computers, their social security numbers etc, which we never use. Therefor I was often thinking, why so obsessed with those unnecessary details. Better prioritize your time to finding new customers which bring in some new money.

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    They prioritize well according to their own point of view, but I sit there wondering why it has to be a black felt-tip pen, and why a blue ball-point pen or a black ball-point pen or a blue felt-tip pen, or any other pen within arm's reach, wouldn't do, and why I have to search for a black felt-tip pen in order to even START the lengthy process in front of me. Step 1. You must use a black felt-tip pen. Step two. Write in all capital letters. Etc. Details. Obviously they've prioritized them carefully or it wouldn't be so important to them, but that doesn't mean the details are necessary. It's a matter of opinion.

    I asked the LSI above why it had to be a black felt tip pen, and she was annoyed by my asking and didn't actually answer, so I stopped asking those types of questions. After some time working with her, I came to the conclusion that it is her opinion that the photocopier is much more delicate than it is, and that it only picks up black felt-tip pen ink. Which it does not. But I was afraid to use a different kind of pen anyway.
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    Depends on the types of details. To some, rational types would seem most "detail oriented". To some, IxTx types. Personally I think of IJ types as the most detail oriented.
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    Ah I see, yes they do a lot of prioritizing, but I guess it's my own viewpoint that makes me think they are prioritizing everything the wrong way.

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    3 ISTj colleagues of mine, were obsessed of having every detail about a client registrated in the computers, their social security numbers etc, which we never use. Therefor I was often thinking, why so obsessed with those unnecessary details. Better prioritize your time to finding new customers which bring in some new money.
    Ok, that makes sense. Sorry for lashing out there.

    An ISTj's priorities do tend to be ideosyncratic. In that sense, an ISTj may care about details that are important to him/her but not to others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by labcoat View Post

    Do you realize that one out of the two IxTj types, the INTj, is commonly described as a typically independent thinker?
    YES! 100% independent. But, my experience is that the INTj has an obsessive compulsive tendency. He focuses intently on the object of his interest. Has to be his choice, but once committed he's 100% focused.
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    I know some INTjs who are pretty perfectionistic and detail-oriented. ISTjs also. And I found myself nodding to Jewels' entire post.
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    I tend to see "detail-oriented" as a complicated matter in that I don't know which detail-orientation is being referred to. For instance, the art teacher who is very visually detail-oriented who can spot every minute detail easily in every piece they see and has a photographic memory and remembers each piece of work in acute detail... or the person who remembers endless trivia factoids and is detail-oriented in that sense... or the person who can easily spend all day editing documents and notice every single small error and doesn't get burnt out doing this... or the person who always spouts irrelevant details (i.e. every piece of information they know, heard that slightly relates to the topic) for minutes on end,... or... I see it as very different depending on what is meant by "detail oriented."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krig the Viking View Post
    Yes, that's why I theorize the primary division between detail-oriented and not-detail-oriented is process and result. ST/NF would be a second-order sorting method.



    Makes sense, as SLIs are result-oriented. Their focus is "overall end result" first, then "details" if necessary.



    This is the only thing that doesn't seem to fit the process/result correlation to detail-orientation. There are LIIs and other process types who do appear detail-oriented. On the other hand, I'm an LII and I'm not particularly detail-oriented. I focus mainly on the big picture, dealing with details only when necessary to support or disprove an element of the big picture.

    If I were to rank the types according to this "process+ST" hypothesis, it would be something roughly like this:

    LSI, LSE, ILE, ILI, SEE, SEI, EIE, EII ... SLI, SLE, LIE, LII, ESE, ESI, IEI, IEE.
    My ISTj friend has an amazing grasp of big-picture, long-range, time-spanning concepts. Despite that, he can get transfixed by small things that hold his interest as if some defining moment happened in his life that makes him forever latch onto some detail that he can never release. What a paradox!
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG View Post
    Well, don't you agree that ISTjs are more detail-oriented than ESFjs?
    I only know one ISTj (though I know of more), and that's not enough to go on.

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