An objective way to test socionics functions?
These 10 questions are from a random I.Q. test. Tell me what socionics function or functions you see are most involved when solving each question.
You can also tell your type and which kind of questions you find most easiest/hardest to solve.
I was wondering whether more objective tests could be formulated to really _test_ the strength of certain functions instead of vague subjective questions like "Do you think you have strong analytical skills?". I find answer to some type/class of questions almost immediately but others require more time and concentration to solve.
Questions:
1. Please enter the missing number: 3, 4, 8, 17, 33, ?
2. Please insert the missing character to form two words: HUM?ORK
3. Which lamp is the brightest?
Lamp A is less bright than Lamp B
Lamp B is brighter than Lamp C
Lamp C is as bright as Lamp D
Lamp B is brighter than Lamp D
Lamp D is brighter than Lamp A
Lamp A Lamp B Lamp C Lamp D no solution
3. A trader buys tea for $1200 and sells it for $1500. Per sack of tea he makes a profit of $50. How many sacks of tea did he have?
4. What is the result of multiplying all numbers from 0 to 25?
5. Please mark the word not matching (meaning) the other words (odd one out):
Whale Shark Herring Carp Pike
6. Please enter the missing character: D, G, K, N, R, ?
7. Please find the figure continuing the series:
Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, ?
(I didn't add the graphical figures here but if you have done I.Q. tests you know what this means)
8. Please find the odd figure (that doesn't belong to the group):
Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5
(I didn't add the graphical figures here but if you have done I.Q. tests you know what this means)
9. Which is the correct conclusion?
Statement: Drinking and Driving causes many accidents.
Conclusions:
a) People drink too much alcohol.
b) People should not drive when over the legal limit.
c) There is a 20 per cent chance of causing an accident by drunken driving.
d) Alcohol diminishes driving skills.
e) The police should carry out more breathanalysing tests.
10. The day before the day before yesterday is three days after Saturday. What day is today?
a) Sunday b) Monday c) Friday d) Thursday e) Saturday
Re: An objective way to test socionics functions?
Ok. No one is interested, hehe. I try to get some discussion started..Here is my first impression after playing with the tests a bit...
Questions like "if we assume x, y, z which of the a, b, c is correct" are more related to Te than to Ti.
Questions like "Here is a, b, c, d. Which of them doesn't belong in the group" is more related to Ti than to Te.
It seems numeric, graphic and alphabethic representations of basically same questions are not "equal". People usually prefer one of them to the others. Is this related to their preferred perceiving function?
The word plays like "Please insert the missing character to form two words: HUM?ORK" are more related to perceiving functions than to judging functions. I would think they are somehow related to intuition. Of course you can solve these with "brute force" method but some are naturally fast to solve these and do it almost automatically.
So the point is: could it be possible to differentiate whether you have more Te or Ti based on questions like this? Could it be possible to differentiate whether you have more N or S? How about Ne or Ni? How about Se or Si?
Feeling functions cannot be tested with this kind of questions I guess. This would not be needed anyways as you would only have to know a) Do you prefer Ni or Ne and how strong your N seems to be b) Do you prefer Ti or Te and how strong your T seems to be. This would enable you to get fairly good grasp of your relative functional strength and preference. Maybe somekind of memorization of facts and pictures could be used to test Se/Si? How about finding differences between similar pictures?
The main problem being: can individual functions be tested this way? If not then maybe two-function interactions as in are you more at home with NiTe problems or NeTi problems etc.
So, tell me what you think of this kind of approach? Any potential or not? And why? Could you figure out how to do objective testing of functions with any kind of approach? The goal would be to produce a software which would "clock" how long you spend solving each class of problems (absolute time, relative time between classes of questions, ...) and then produce objective analysis of your functional order and strength based on the results.