/lit/ - Literature

>MBTI

....you people aren't seriously considering this test valid or reliable, are you?

I AM AN "INTP".

thevagabondisland.tumblr.com/psy

>favorite author of fiction.

JEROME DAVID SALINGER.

>favorite book.

I DO NOT HAVE A FAVORITE BOOK.

>>2638382
>you people aren't seriously considering this test valid or reliable, are you?

WHAT "TEST"?

NOONE POSTED ANY LINK TO A "TEST".

MAYBE YOU FEEL INTELLECTUALLY/EGOTISTICALLY "THREATENED" BECAUSE YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND "JUNGIAN TYPOLOGY".

INTJ
Murakami
The Great Gatsby

>ISTJ
>Hemingway
>Canticle for Leibowitz

INFJ
Thomas Pynchon
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald

INTP

Faulkner

Light In August - V. - Blood Meridian - The Brothers Karamazov - Infinite Jest

>>2638382
nope.

>INTP
>Kawabata
>I don't have a favourite book

INTJ
The Count Of Monte Cristo
Dostoyevsky

INTP
Dostoevsky
hard to say...The Idiot for drama, Catch-22 for comedy...although both have elements of both

INTJ
Gabriel García Marquez
Cien Años de Soledad

>INTJ
>John Steinbeck
>Impossible to choose

Wow look at all these fucking betafag introverts.

>>2638560
>>2638564
>>2638568
>>2638569
>>2638578
>>2638579
>>2638587
>>2638588
>>2638597
>>2638598

Holy shit /lit/ you're full of introverted betafaggots aren't you?

INFP
Orson Scott Card
House of Leaves

>>2638608

4chan in general is mostly I, as far as I know. Maybe it's different on the more mainstream, normalfag boards like /adv/, /soc/, and /b/, but yeah.

INTJ master race reporting in

>Faulkner

>Catch-22 or The Third Policeman

INTP
Kafka
The Stranger

>>2638608
>>2638599

>2012
>using the terms 'alpha' and 'beta'

reported.
underage b&

I get a different result every time I take it. I'm pretty solidly introverted but all of the others tend to be slightly pronounced one way or another depending on how I feel or what mindset I'm in when I take a test. I read a bit of Jung, but mainly his work on archetypes and symbols, not personalities, so I'm not sure what that means.

Favorite Author: Kafka
Favorite Book: The Baron in the Trees

>>2638666
If you're on the border or within 5% of one of the types, you are usually considered an X. Being an INTJ, I'm only 1% thinking so technically I'm an INXJ and can rationally think about my feelings as well as feel my thoughts and can transcend many of the issues that high percentage T's and F's have. Feels good man and I envy you if you're an IXXX

Nice trips btw

>>2638677
>If you're on the border or within 5% of one of the types, you are usually considered an X. Being an INTJ, I'm only 1% thinking so technically I'm an INXJ
>I envy you if you're an IXXX

THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS.

THE "X" VALUE IS USED WHEN REFERRING TO TYPES THAT HAVE ONE, OR TWO DIFFERING FUNCTIONS, OR WHEN THERE IS UNCERTAINTY ABOUT A PERSON'S TYPE.

e.g. "xNTx" TYPES ARE INTUITIVE & RATIONAL.

THAT PERSON SEEMS LIKE AN "INxP".

THE "X" VALUE IS A "VARIABLE", NOT A "CONSTANT".

MAYBE YOU DO NOT COMPREHEND THE QUESTIONS OF THE TEST, THEREFORE YOU GET DIFFERENT RESULTS EVERY TIME THAT YOU TAKE IT.

ESFP

Honore de Balzac

Ulysses

>>2638719
maybe the test is worse than the EQ in terms of construct validity, predictive validity, inter-test rater reliability, test-retest reliability...

>>2638719
Its the same thing, dipshit. Someone who is a heavy thinker as opposed to a feeler is usually very easy to spot and therefore easy to know if they are a T or an F. If someone is on the border, they can appear as either and therefore hard to determine, leading to an x in place of the T or F. So someone would describe them as an INxJ, meaning they could be either or. As stated, these people are usually on the border between the two. Even then, people tend to lean one way or the other and still get assigned a letter.
Maybe >>2638666 doesn't comprehend the questions, but seeing as how they are pretty straightforward I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt here and say he is borderline on most of his typology.

INFP/INFJ
McCarthy or Proust
Suttree

INTJ
Bukowski
Elementary Particles / Atomised

NIGR

Knut Hamsun

Mein Kamp

>>2638677
That's not exactly the situation, they can vary up to 15-20 percent, but the thing is they do vary.

I'm pretty sure I understand the questions but it's completely understandable for people on an anonymous board to disbelieve that! It just usually depends what my feelings are or what I've been doing. If I've been having a relaxing day around friends, I tend to answer the questions more as feeling rather than thinking, for example. If I've been doing solitary research or writing for a while, I can come out as up to 20% thinking. Maybe it's using different tests, maybe I answer the questions with bias to what I've been feeling recently... but that seems kind of unavoidable. I never put more than 10 or 20 seconds of thought into each question and go with my gut reaction to he question most of the time. Of course I'm testing myself over the internet so variance and unreliability are to be expected. But hey, I'm starting therapy soon, so maybe I can get a "real" one.

>>2638774
it's not efficacious enough to be used in serious therapy

>>2638760

THAT IS WHAT I TYPED, IDIOT.

THE "X" VALUE IS A "VARIABLE", NOT A "CONSTANT".

NOONE IS AN "IxTP", "INxP", "ExFJ", ETCETERA.

THE "X" FUNCTION DOES NOT EXIST, IT IS USED TO INDICATE UNCERTAINTY.

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW IF YOU ARE AN "INTP", OR AN "INTJ", IT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT COMPREHENDING SOMETHING.

YOU OUGHT TO LEARN THE COGNITIVE PROCESSES.

INTJ twice, INTP twice, of a total of 4 tests taken.
Hemingway/Faulkner
Darkness at Noon

>>2638780
Yeah, based on why I'm going knowing my "true" personality type won't really be that relevant. I don't even know how it's that helpful aside from saying "oh this is what I got" on the internet nowadays. Still, I wonder how different an outside analysis over time would be from my self-reported set of results.

>>2638792
If that is what you typed, then you and I are in agreement on the matter and therefore your previous statement disagreeing with me on the matter makes no sense. A variable doesn't have to always indicate uncertainty, it can also represent a range. It isn't a matter of not knowing what type you are, it's a matter of being both types at once.

Lots of intuition 'N' , but not much sensing 'S'. I wonder if that's significant. The lack of extroverts does not surprise me.

I don't remember my result from that damn thing, it probably started with an I. I think it kept changing as I retook the quiz.
James Joyce
Leaves of Grass

>>2638821
>If that is what you typed, then you and I are in agreement on the matter and therefore your previous statement disagreeing with me on the matter makes no sense.

NO, IT MEANS THAT YOU DID NOT COMPREHENDED WHAT I TYPED IN MY ORIGINAL POST.

>A variable doesn't have to always indicate uncertainty

YES, IT DOES.

LEARN THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD "VARIABLE".

>it can also represent a range.

YES, A "RANGE" IS SOMETHING MEASURABLE, BUT NOT A "CERTAINTY".

THE FACT THAT IT IS A "RANGE", ENTAILS THAT IT IS NOT A "CERTAINTY".

>it's a matter of being both types at once.

THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE. THAT STATEMENT IS "STUPID".

LEARN THE COGNITIVE PROCESSES.

>>2638831
>I never learned any mathematics.

Oh, we know; it's all too obvious.

INTJ but fuck the Myers Briggs
John Steinbeck
East of Eden

>>2638853
oh god what was the name of that show again?

>>2638831
In the case of this test, there are only 2 options for the type. Similar to - ah hell why am I arguing math against a tripfag on /lit/.

>>2638856
Bear in the Big Blue House

>>2638854
Tell me how to read East of Eden... I read halfway through, disliked all of the characters personalities, didn't care about plot that was practically non-existent, and clearly saw where it all was headed. I mean, Steinbeck wasn't even subtle with it. Maybe I should have started Steinbeck with a different book to get a feel for him before jumping into this particular book because I really want to like Steinbeck deep down.

>INTP
>R.A. Salvatore
>Sojourn

This is heavily influenced by the fact that, at this point in time, I'm going through a sort of personal fantasy Renaissance. At other points in time the author might have been Tolstoy, Camus, or any other number of individuals, and the book would be wildy different.

Meyers-Briggs is the Zodiac by another name, only with less consistency in its methods of categorization.

People who believe in that crap are gullible idiots who want to believe they're unique snowflakes. I can't help but roll my eyes when I see shit like "Sherlock Holmes was INTJ just like me! INTJ pride represent!" or "Spock was ENJF just like me! Therefor I'm not an autistic idiot! I'm smart like Spock!" They're fictional fucking characters, for fuck's sake.

Kafka and Anna Karenina

>>2638861
>R.A. Salvatore
>R.A. Salvatore
>R.A. Salvatore

Listen, going through a fantasy renaissance is fine. But for God's sake, RA Salvatore. Have some self-respect, man.

>>2638873

Homeland was the first fantasy book I ever read. I suppose Salvatore just holds a special place with me.

What other authors or book would you recommend? I've been told that the Dragonlance series is good.

>>2638881
I can accept nostalgia. But really Salvatore is not very good - neither is Dragonlance, except in a similar nostalgic way. Just about anything would be better - if you're committed to adventure and swords, I'd particularly recommend Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, Jack Vance, and of course Big Poppa T. But really just go to the fantasy & sf section and nose around - whatever you find is quite likely to be better than Salvatore.

>>2638888

Thank-you kindly. And nice quads.

>>2638888

Additionally, would you know of any good authors that write in the Forgotten Realms setting?

INTP
Piers Anthony (for leisure reading)/Tolstoy (classics)
Crime and Punishment

ENTJ
Murakami for Modern, Pushkin for classic
The Great Gatsby or Confederacy of Dunces

I think I'm >>2638564's mirror universe twin

INFP
Vonnegut
Absalom Absalom!