MBTI personality types...

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Also, for what it's worth, there's an additional letter that's been appended to the end of the other four in the longer form tests. It's either an A or a T, Assertive or Turbulent. I'm personally very strongly Assertive, so my full readout would be ISTP-A.
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Interesting, I would expect most debaters to have the NT (intuitive, thinking) traits. Sounds like you like the concrete a lot more than the abstract
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Looks like I'm an ENTJ, although I recall taking this some time ago while still working full-time, and I think it was ENFJ then. Even now, I just barely tip to thinking from feeling, so, apparently, I'm in transition. I've been around long enough to think with reasonable confidence that this is a valid assessment
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100% true. It's part of why I tend to focus in so hard on impacts. I think the more intuitive tend to tell better stories with their arguments and notice more faults automatically. I had to really train hard to get to that point, but it's not at all natural for me.
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I think the test is valid insofar as you use it correctly. Would I want to disqualify a potential job candidate because they aren't the right type? No. Would I use it as a professional diagnostics tool? No. I would use it for my own personal satisfaction. 

Keep in mind that any tool measuring personality will be flawed. 1) personality changes over time and 2) the traits described in these sort of classification systems are not all encompassing. Peoples' psychological makeups are unique due to life experience, how their parents raised them, etc. So, you might have 2 INTPs or ENFJs who are very different from each other. 

As for my type, I'll take the test and get back to you.
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INTP-T
Welcome to the club.
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Yupppp, I figured most of our debaters would be INTP/ENTP types. Whiteflame is an outlier
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100% true. It's part of why I tend to focus in so hard on impacts. I think the more intuitive tend to tell better stories with their arguments and notice more faults automatically. I had to really train hard to get to that point, but it's not at all natural for me.

I see... Clearly you've done a good job learning how to pick out flaws in arguments. And by focusing on the concrete, you've got an advantage when it comes to policy topics I think. You can more easily see how things may actually play out in the "real world."


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Yupppp, I figured most of our debaters would be INTP/ENTP types. Whiteflame is an outlier
I'm pretty much an outlier wherever I go. Scientists are almost always hardcore judging types (though IST is very common among that group), so I stand out among them. Debaters certainly tend to be more intuitive. So both groups that I would consider myself to be party to have a very different "normal" in their personalities than I occupy.

I see... Clearly you've done a good job learning how to pick out flaws in arguments. And by focusing on the concrete, you've got an advantage when it comes to policy topics I think. You can more easily see how things may actually play out in the "real world."
Yeah, though that also makes it more difficult to see anything that isn't concrete. Give me a philosophical topic and I'll play around on the shallow end of the pool, trying to link things to greater impacts. I've learned how to pick out flaws, but it's usually about pattern recognition - take me out of that pattern and I start to lose my grip real fast.
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Yeah, though that also makes it more difficult to see anything that isn't concrete. Give me a philosophical topic and I'll play around on the shallow end of the pool, trying to link things to greater impacts. I've learned how to pick out flaws, but it's usually about pattern recognition - take me out of that pattern and I start to lose my grip real fast.

Now I know what to challenge you on xD
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Now I know what to challenge you on xD
*runs away in terror*
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Obviously...A test is a test.
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Sounds like me