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Best I can offer is the MBTI's ISTJ type. Or possibly ISFJ, but I don't think so. ISTJ could be described as being focused on research and problem solving in the service of the body's input needs, trying to keep the body safe from too much unknown randomness.

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I'm sorry, mbti isn't going to hit the mark here. Too many ISTJs won't identify with this. Maybe lightly correlative but not explanatory.

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Most folks have only ever taken online tests, which are crap, and based on random interpretations of the actual MBTI. Even the official test that you pay to get done, in person, from the MBTI folks, is pretty inaccurate. So almost no one is typed accurately.

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This is more evidence for what I'm saying.

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I'm not sure what you mean. The categories of the MBTI are very useful, but only if you actually are using them, and not looking at some random "fake news" silliness. I suggest the original book Gifts Differing, if you really want to learn about it.

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If a 200 question-aire gets you pseudoscience, so does 3 anecdotes and an armchair psychologist.

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Mbti has limitations, but is great if you actually know how it works and don't do pop tests online. I'm INTP, very strongly.

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So he guessed wrong...

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Also, I'm not guessing. I'm categorizing based on over a decade of work in this field. Personality types are a large part of my research. Here is a breakdown of the MBTI as it relates to the DSM:

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The polarities boil down to risk-aversion/input-needs focus vs. novelty-seeking/output-needs in 4 basic evolutionary brain regions: motor cortex, limbic system, neocortex, and prefrontal cortex. Which are, respectively, physical, emotional, intellectual, and philosophical.

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If this was in Jung's original design (the brain thing) then that's news to me, do you have a link to his writing on that? Did they even know about brain regions like that at the time?

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This isn't Jung. This is specifically the MBTI, which was an update of Jung's stuff. And I've updated the MBTI to include modern neurology, psychology, and developmental theories from everyone I could find. (Ken Wilbur, Spiral Dynamics, Maslow, Elizabet Satouris, me, etc.)

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oh so this isn't mbti this is like you trying to make all the systems overlap with each other

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