True/false questions about logical and ethical types...
These are meant to be true/false questions. I was hoping people could answer some or all them (and say why they answered as they did). I don't have the "answers" and it is more about discussing the differences anyway.
1. Ethical types are better at controlling and/or regulating their emotions than logical types.
2. Logical types are more likely to try to control their emotions than ethical types.
3. Not all ethical types feel comfortable with emotional expression.
4. Logical types are more likely to feel emotionally insecure than ethical types.
5. Ethical types generally feel they understand how others are feeling and feel comfortable with that more so than logical types.
6. A person's ability to understand her or himself isn't particularly related to whether s/he is an ethical type or a logical type.
7. Logical types are more likely to isolate themselves from others than ethical types, especially if they are also introverted.
8. Ethical types are generally better at managing their own stress and emotional upheavals than logical types are.
9. Logical types are more likely to take things "personally" than ethical types.
10. Ethical types are more likely to get lost in their emotions (even to their detriment) than logical types.
11. Logical types are prone to analyzing humor.
12. Ethical types tend to use emotion in a deliberate way and are unlikely to fly off the handle.
13. A person's capacity to care for others, to feel sympathy or compassion, or to empathize with others is largely unrelated to whether he or she is a logical type or an ethical type.
14. Logical types do not like to feel emotions and may wish they didn't have to.
15. Ethical types are bad at logical reasoning.
16. Logical types feel less than ethical types do.
17. Ethical types are more idealistic than logical types.
18. Logical types struggle with morality and may have difficulty differentiating "right" from "wrong," or may feel that these are just societal norms that came about rather arbitrarily.
19. Ethical types think in terms of "right" and "wrong," but logical types don't.
20. Logical types are more likely to overreact than ethical types.
21. It isn't possible for an ethical type to "feel too much," but a logical type will become very unbalanced if s/he has to be emotional for too long. Conversely, ethical types become unbalanced when they have to think for long periods of time.
22. Ethical types think that logic is irrelevant.
23. Logical types are blind to the motivations behind people's actions if those motives are not logical. They are then more susceptible to emotional manipulation and may even think that others are often trying to manipulate them emotionally.
24. Ethical types exist to provide moral support for logical types. They need not fulfill any other role, and will often be content with simply supporting others emotionally.
25. Logical types are generally more paranoid than ethical types.
26. Most ethical types are adept at helping others with their emotional problems.
27. Logical types are more likely to have emotional problems than ethical types.
28. Ethical types are more likely to be religious than logical types.
29. Logical types are prone to feel under confident about their intellectual abilities when depressed or under pressure.
30. Ethical types are more likely to act rashly off of their emotions than logical types.
31. Logical types are more likely to have sadistic thoughts than ethical types.
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32. Ethical types are more manipualtive than logical types.
33. Logical types tend to be more honest than ethical types.
Re: True/false questions about logical and ethical types...
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These are meant to be true/false questions. I was hoping people could answer some or all them (and say why they answered as they did). I don't have the "answers" and it is more about discussing the differences anyway.
false 1. Ethical types are better at controlling and/or regulating their emotions than logical types.
false 2. Logical types are more likely to try to control their emotions than ethical types.
true 3. Not all ethical types feel comfortable with emotional expression.
false 4. Logical types are more likely to feel emotionally insecure than ethical types.
probably true 5. Ethical types generally feel they understand how others are feeling and feel comfortable with that more so than logical types.
true 6. A person's ability to understand her or himself isn't particularly related to whether s/he is an ethical type or a logical type.
false 7. Logical types are more likely to isolate themselves from others than ethical types, especially if they are also introverted.
false 8. Ethical types are generally better at managing their own stress and emotional upheavals than logical types are.
false 9. Logical types are more likely to take things "personally" than ethical types.
false 10. Ethical types are more likely to get lost in their emotions (even to their detriment) than logical types.
false 11. Logical types are prone to analyzing humor.
false 12. Ethical types tend to use emotion in a deliberate way and are unlikely to fly off the handle.
probably false 13. A person's capacity to care for others, to feel sympathy or compassion, or to empathize with others is largely unrelated to whether he or she is a logical type or an ethical type.
false 14. Logical types do not like to feel emotions and may wish they didn't have to.
false 15. Ethical types are bad at logical reasoning.
false 16. Logical types feel less than ethical types do.
false 17. Ethical types are more idealistic than logical types.
false 18. Logical types struggle with morality and may have difficulty differentiating "right" from "wrong," or may feel that these are just societal norms that came about rather arbitrarily.
false 19. Ethical types think in terms of "right" and "wrong," but logical types don't.
false 20. Logical types are more likely to overreact than ethical types.
false 21. It isn't possible for an ethical type to "feel too much," but a logical type will become very unbalanced if s/he has to be emotional for too long. Conversely, ethical types become unbalanced when they have to think for long periods of time.
false 22. Ethical types think that logic is irrelevant.
false 23. Logical types are blind to the motivations behind people's actions if those motives are not logical. They are then more susceptible to emotional manipulation and may even think that others are often trying to manipulate them emotionally.
false 24. Ethical types exist to provide moral support for logical types. They need not fulfill any other role, and will often be content with simply supporting others emotionally.
false 25. Logical types are generally more paranoid than ethical types.
false 26. Most ethical types are adept at helping others with their emotional problems.
false 27. Logical types are more likely to have emotional problems than ethical types.
probably false. 28. Ethical types are more likely to be religious than logical types.
false 29. Logical types are prone to feel under confident about their intellectual abilities when depressed or under pressure.
false 30. Ethical types are more likely to act rashly off of their emotions than logical types.
false 31. Logical types are more likely to have sadistic thoughts than ethical types.
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false 32. Ethical types are more manipualtive than logical types.
false 33. Logical types tend to be more honest than ethical types.
Re: True/false questions about logical and ethical types...
So are any of these statements true?
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Ethical types are more likely to take things "personally" than logical types.
Logical types are more likely to get lost in their emotions (even to their detriment) than ethical types.
Logical types tend to use emotion in a deliberate way and are unlikely to fly off the handle.
Ethical types are more likely to overreact than logical types.
Ethical types are more likely to have emotional problems than logical types.
Ethical types are prone to feel under confident about their intellectual abilities when depressed or under pressure.
Logical types are more likely to act rashly off of their emotions than ethical types.
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probably false A person's capacity to care for others, to feel sympathy or compassion, or to empathize with others is largely unrelated to whether he or she is a logical type or an ethical type.
Why?
Re: True/false questions about logical and ethical types...
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probably false A person's capacity to care for others, to feel sympathy or compassion, or to empathize with others is largely unrelated to whether he or she is a logical type or an ethical type.
Why?
Because ethical types make decisions based on people's feelings, and thus this applies to them, whereas logical types make decisions based on logic, precisely because they do not feel as much sympathy, empathy or compassion for others.
Re: True/false questions about logical and ethical types...
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So are any of these statements true?
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Ethical types are more likely to take things "personally" than logical types.
Logical types are more likely to get lost in their emotions (even to their detriment) than ethical types.
Logical types tend to use emotion in a deliberate way and are unlikely to fly off the handle.
Ethical types are more likely to overreact than logical types.
Ethical types are more likely to have emotional problems than logical types.
Ethical types are prone to feel under confident about their intellectual abilities when depressed or under pressure.
Logical types are more likely to act rashly off of their emotions than ethical types.
not remotely. these are all just absurdly broad generalizations.
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probably false A person's capacity to care for others, to feel sympathy or compassion, or to empathize with others is largely unrelated to whether he or she is a logical type or an ethical type.
Why?
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things like sympathy, empathy, compassion: are these totally unrelated to type?
if you had said "logical types are incapable of feeling empathy" or something like that i would have said it was false in a heartbeat. but are they related? of course; traits like these are not the pseudo-dichotomic T/F nonsense that most of the other questions seem to be portraying. it would make sense that characteristics like these are more closely related to type than something like "logical types can't control their emotions," which is likely to vary very strongly by the individual.
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things like sympathy, empathy, compassion: are these totally unrelated to type?
if you had said "logical types are incapable of feeling empathy" or something like that i would have said it was false in a heartbeat. but are they related? of course; traits like these are not the pseudo-dichotomic T/F nonsense that most of the other questions seem to be portraying. it would make sense that characteristics like these are more closely related to type than something like "logical types can't control their emotions," which is likely to vary very strongly by the individual.
All right. I guess my question then would be just how much are they related to type (?). If ethical types have a greater capacity for empathy, sympathy and compassion on average than logical types, then how much greater of a capacity is that? All things being equal every human being should have an equal capacity for these things, but all things are not equal. So in the context of type, how unequal are they? I tend to think that compassion transcends type... but it's hard to explain why I see it that way (and I could just be wrong). As for empathy and sympathy, that's a bit different... Empathy at least can be tracked scientifically, and is IMO a form of "intelligence." The component of it involving perceiving the emotions of others involves a cognitive process of being able to match up patterns in people's expressions, behaviors, gestures, tone of voice, idea expression, etc. with an emotional state. But empathy also involves being able to care about that as well, which may tie back into compassion. I would never want to say that on the whole ethical types are better at this sort of thing than logical types although both are readily capable of it (as they are human), but that is not what you were saying... you were only saying that it's related... It could work to say that these things are just the first priority to an ethical type, but may be secondary to a logical type... As a sequence, it seems to make more sense. The problem seems to be finding something of significance in the sea of everything that seems too general to pin down.
@ Ezra: I think that makes sense.
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I like this idea :o ... it not being about capacity; just about what takes the front seat in your mind in your reaction or approach to things. (In ethical types, ethics predominates; in logical types, logic predominates.)
Plus if you're talking to someone you can't exactly focus on everything at once... you have to prioritize... at least I think...
Re: True/false questions about logical and ethical types...
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I like this idea :o ... it not being about capacity; just about what takes the front seat in your mind in your reaction or approach to things. (In ethical types, ethics predominates; in logical types, logic predominates.)
even this is too general to be useful.