Sensation and Intuition Sensation operates through the physical senses, and we use it to discover facts. Sensation types are usually practical people who spot physical clues that others miss. As doctors, they make good diagnosticians. As mechanics, they will often recognize the annoying engine noise that electronic faultfinding devices failed to identify. As fashion experts, they match color with an unerring eye.
Sensation is reality-oriented, focused in the here and now.
Sensate people remember names and dates and make great collectors, whether of stamps or antiques. Intuition shows us meanings and implications. It tells us how situations are likely to develop in the future. Intuition is the function of the imagination. People with extroverted intuition have an idea where society is going and will be at the leading edge of new technologies, businesses, fashions, and creeds.