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<FONT face=verdana,geneva> [quote user="selector"] </FONT><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <P>[quote user="Bucyrus"]<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">It seems to me that perceiving can only occur through the means of sensing, intuition, thinking, or feeling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>And moreover, none of those four can occur without perceiving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>So why is perceiving a stand-alone item as contrasted to judging?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>[/quote]</P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P>The MBTI is based on Carl Jung's theories on personality.  His assertion was that there are two basic ways to perceive: by intuition and by sensing.  Perceiving in turn leads to cognition, and that would be the "thinking" component.</P> <P>-Crandell</P>[/quote]</FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>That seems sensible enough, and the terms of the four dichotomies have clear meanings to me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>But when I read about the structure and meaning of the whole test, and how the four dichotomies interact with each other, and sometimes reverse their meanings depending the outcome of other dichotomies, I can truly say that I have never seen anything explained in such a confusing way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>I don’t trust it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2>For one thing the test seems to assume that people can be classified by measuring those personality behavioral characteristics.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Yet in many, if not most personalities, I think that those characteristics are actually shifting in strength and dominance all the time.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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