Type descriptions by Victor L .Talanov

[esq]

@Chae, regarding grain of salt.

Half of Talanov's associations for my type, I have mixed feelings about. But the other half are okay and even insightful. It is possible that I've had an atypical upbringing for my type.

Upbringing and personal development can probably break a type away from the typical characterizations shown here. Like a type can probably mold themselves away from their weaknesses if for some reason they underwent a lot of skill training that bolstered those weaknesses.

So it's necessary to understand that these associations aren't meant to be definitive for every type. They're only claiming that representatives of a type were more likely to have this or that property than an average person was.

But yeah, some are kind of bizarre. Like an IEE is more likely to have their favorite color as bright yellow? More likely to have their [ring?] finger shorter than their index finger? Their "growth is above average"? They have little melanin and their pigmentation is weak? Are these all accurate?

But so far, most of them seem fairly feasible and anyway interesting to consider.

[Adam Strange]

@Chae, regarding grain of salt.

Half of Talanov's associations for my type don't resonate with me. But the other half are okay and even insightful. It is possible that I've had an atypical upbringing for my type.

Upbringing and personal development can probably break a type away from the typical characterizations shown here. Like a type can probably mold themselves away from their weaknesses if for some reason they underwent a lot of skill training that bolstered those weaknesses.

So it's necessary to understand that these associations aren't meant to be definitive for every type. They're only claiming that representatives of a type were more likely to have this or that property than an average person was.

But yeah, some are kind of bizarre. Like an IEE is more likely to have their favorite color as bright yellow? More likely to have their "unnamed" (ring?) finger shorter than their index finger? Their growth is "above average"? In their skin and hair, they have little melanin and their pigmentation is weak? Are these all accurate?

Talanov was clearly taking a shotgun approach to correlations, but I think that's good, because some randomness can lead to surprising results. We have plastic-coated electrical wire because a cleaning lady accidentally spilled cleaning solution into the wire drawing vat, which previously had been steadily failing to get the plastic to join correctly with the wire.

Note that Talanov took measures to try to correctly type people, and his sample sizes are in the thousands. This isn't on a Google "if a user visits this shoe site twice, they are a target for pecan ice cream ads" level, but it's the best I've seen so far.