View Poll Results: Which set do you prefer?

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  • The first set (green)

    5 35.71%
  • They are both equally good

    2 14.29%
  • The second set (blue)

    6 42.86%
  • They are both equally bad

    1 7.14%
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    Between these two sets (the first is in green, and the second is in blue), which do you prefer as a description of temperament behaviour?

    Consider it either from the position of your own self-type, or in general: as you wish.



    IJ:
    I am calm, balanced and inert; I am unflappable; I may appear passive-aggressive; I usually have a very stable mood; I am more reactive than active; I have little inclination to fidget during long periods of inactivity.

    I perceive reality as mostly not changing, and when it does, it's in abrupt leaps from one state to another. I draw inner stability from stable reality as it makes me confident that things will remain as they are despite minor disturbances. Periods of great upheaval are very disturbing and make me anxious that things will settle down one way or the other soon enough.


    EJ:
    I am proactive; I am restless; I find it difficult to relax unless tired; I am 'calmly energetic' with few intense variations in the level of energy during the day; I am inclined to fidget when forced to remain inactive for long periods.

    I see reality as continuous, gradual, often imperceptible change. I have my own views of how reality should be which inclines me to be quick to take action to make sure they are sustained or to ensure they are achieved, before adverse change can get too far.


    IP:
    I am flexible; I am mobile; I am impulsive, shifting from apparent inactivity to bursts of energy, often several times a day, showing impatience during them; I am inclined to fidget when forced to remain inactive for long periods.

    I am relaxed; I 'go-with-the-flow'; I find it easy to spend long periods of time in no activity, or at very low levels of energy; I have little inclination towards fidgetiness when having to remain inactive for longer periods.


    I see reality as continuous, gradual, often imperceptible change. I am soothed by this and have a relaxed inclination to take things as they come and to adapt to them.


    EP:
    I am flexible; I am mobile; I am impulsive, shifting from apparent inactivity to bursts of energy, often several times a day, showing impatience during them; I am inclined to fidget when forced to remain inactive for long periods.

    I perceive reality as mostly not changing, and when it does, it's in abrupt leaps from one state to another. I am bothered by the lack of change, leading me into sudden bursts of action, energy, or even just thought.
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    The second set is more interesting to me, since it's talking about basic perceptions of life rather than just someone's level of energy.

    That said, I still clicked the first set/green. I think how someone expresses their energy matters much more for gauging a temperament, it seems like there would be less confounding factors that might influence someone in another direction despite a usual tendency for their given type.

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    Blue. Truth in both.

    I tend to treat everything as timeless snapshots still I'm in touch with time at least occasionally. Without time there's no potential for change. That said if there is switch where I can exist in changing time while environment is in static state, I would love it a lot. I don't know how many can relate.
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    I like the first set because it's easier for people to see, and so to answer accurately about themselves if using it to determine type. The second set offers more interesting discussion material.

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    Quote Originally Posted by squark View Post
    I like the first set because it's easier for people to see, and so to answer accurately about themselves if using it to determine type. The second set offers more interesting discussion material.
    This. I don't really have a preference for the first set overall, but I voted for it assuming it was intended for testing, which I think it would be more useful for.

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    I like the first, green, set of descriptions better.

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    I just noticed the first set is the same for ip and ep, lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lungs View Post
    I just noticed the first set is the same for ip and ep, lol.
    lol. I didn't even catch that. I read the first two and skimmed the rest.

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    The Ip green one is a mistake.

    The second one one is more interesting but no one outside socionics can make heads or tails out of it in general.

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    Ep: definitely second one. Static + negativism I guess

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    The reason for the poll is that helloquizzy/okcupid deleted all their tests a few months ago, and I've been trying to remake the test I put together on some other test creation website. But the particular one I found does not allow for neutral options or for questions to be skipped.

    I was ambivalent to having temperament questions in the past, but now, I am more so.

    With the green ones, I wonder if for example an EIE type would consider themselves relatively stable throughout most days: I am perhaps thinking of a caricature of EIEs of being bipolar in terms of mood, which is probably not fair. (One musing on this: I wonder if a person can consider themselves stable in energy throughout a day, while having many changes in emotion, and vice versa...Second musing, should an unhealthy behaviour which would normally be considered a disorder be considered idiomatic of a type (and particular, the Ego of a temperament). (As it is, MBTI research actually shows that the bipolar disorder is more common amongst EP types, I believe, which would be as expected).

    At the end of all this, I may omit both questions anyway, or perhaps have two different tests where people choose whether they want to answer the temperament questions.

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