On May 5, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Deborah Harrell wrote:
OTOH, I'm split between the J and P, which makes me feel a little better, not desiring to be known as judgemental...even though in many ways, I am.
Some are confused by the language of MBTI, and find one or the other terms for each of the four dimensions "pejorative" and the other "laudatory". Neither is not intended to be either: no value judgment is made on either end of any of the spectra. For example, "Judging" does not mean "judgmental". It merely refers to a preference for closure as opposed to the preference for open-ended-ness among perceptives. And, of course, each is a spectrum: I doubt that anybody is all extroverted or all introverted (although I am pretty well slammed against the rails on the extroverted side). It's not at all uncommon to find oneself in the middle on one of the axes: I'm about halfway between thinking and feeling -- given some conversations I've had on that subject lately, I'd lay odds that I naturally gravitate towards the feeling end of the scale, but that socialization has skewed me towards thinking. Katherine Benziger (http://www.benziger.org/), whose Benziger Thinking Styles Assessment (BTSA) is not so very different from MTBI, writes about a condition she calls "Falsification of Type" that leads, she says, to much grief. I would guess that if I'm right about my natural predilection towards feeling vs. socialization towards thinking is valid, I probably exhibit her "Falsification of Type". (Of course "I would guess" is a very iNtuitive thing to say, isn't it?) Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
