Quote Originally Posted by Kill4Me View Post
Check out Adam Strange (IEE-Fi 3w4 sp/sx) trying to impress the members of the forum with a screenshot of his "8w7" test results:

https://www.the16types.info/vbulleti...-On-the-Market

3w4s like to show off their trophy case.

Adam doesn't have an aggressive bone in his body, is nonconfrontational, lacks fire, lacks charisma, looks ectomorphically unassuming in his pictures, and is clearly not in the reactive triad. He is an intensely heady person with a propensity for moving towards others. But somehow, someway, by some miracle of the human ego, Adam apparently convinced himself that he's an 8w7 sx/so.

This really just reinforces what I have been saying since day one. Tests suck. Enneagram tests are by far the worse tools to type yourself with in the history of typology. Enneagram tests rank remarkably low in terms of reliability because the results turn upon self-reporting. The problem with self-reporting is that the self is made up of the EGO and EGOs have an agenda which can easily taint the way people see themselves. These tests are not designed to distinguish between a person's self-image and their actual type.

In the enneagram, the type guys most mistype as is sx/so 8w7 and the type females most mistype as is 4w5 social-last, so these are the most common mistypes. In socionics, a lot of guys want to be either SLE or LIE and for females its overwhelmingly IEI. For some reason, the male ego has something for sx/so 8w7...it didn't take smilingeyes/smilex all that long to sniff out that Adam was not a fellow Te-lead.

https://www.the16types.info/vbulleti...ional-elements

I can say off the bat....Anybody who would base their self-typing on what a personality test or job careers test is definitely not a 4, 5 or 8.

369 types typically mistype the most because they put more stock in superficial measures like those tests. 3w4s especially present themselves as various types....the natural arrogance of the 3w4 can blind them to just how cool, assertive and brilliant they really aren't.
Your use of visual identification within enneagram is not at all a common or accepted method of typing like it is in socionics. Are you really telling me that you can determine a person's core fears and motivations just by looking at them? While there's nothing wrong with developing new methodology, that methodology has to yield correct conclusions for it to be useful. So, to use VI in enneagram, there's a very high burden of proof. If you can explain properly or point to a valid scientific resource as to why you think VI is ALL that you need to determine core fears and motivations (as you pretty much use no other method), then maybe I'll trust your typings more. At the moment, you seem like an enneagram heretic to me.