I've lately gravitated to using a single key diagnostic for reading people: what behavior that you're normally capable of collapses under stress?
You need the two sets of observations under distinct conditions to use this obviously, but it's one of the least noisy tests.
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Typical relaxed --> stress transitions:
INTPs lose foxy curiosity and turn into
INTJ caricature hedgehogs.
ENTPs lose capacity for affection/intimacy and turn into weak Field Marshal ENTJs
Using Myers-Briggs for convenience (the test isn't dependent on a specific mdoel)
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You might know this: Is there a bestiary of common clusters for Big 5 (OCEAN) personalities the way Myers-Briggs does?
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I don't know. I don't use OCEAN much. I think it's a weak model for the overly empiricist crowd :D
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And Myers Briggs isnt a weaker model for folks who over-rely on clean narratives in a messy world?
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Yes but we make jokes about it and own the weakness :D
Our real competition is the astrology people not the OCEAN people. We wish we had their capacity for belief. But I'm too scorpio to believe in astrology.

