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.
Dude, maybe you're just seeing an 8w7 exercising some degree of self-control. It's not as if I had any preferences for myself before I took the tests. If I had, I'd probably be trying for an LII e5, now that I know what they are like. And I'm pretty sure I wouldn't ask for being sx-first, which is kind of a curse.

I just got course-corrected by being thrown in jail a couple times, and I got tired of getting into physical fights that often left me bleeding all over the place.

Believe me, if you want to truly influence people in order to get things done, being an asshole is not the most effective way to do that. E8's also have a strongly protective side.

Keep in mind that an e8 integrates into an e2. Maybe that has partially happened. Most of the time. When I'm not wishing that half the human race were dead because they are a fucking menace to the rest of us.