'I don't think you can blame male oppression for female INTP problems. The relationship of the teen INTP with her female peers probably shapes her personal characteristics more than anything else.|||CELASTRUS: * * The Pacific NW is very liberal, politically speaking, and the main religion seems to be about environmental concerns. The weather is fantastic in Portland and Seattle. I would...|||SCREAMOFCONSCIOUS: * * The study is published as a book that I purchased on Amazon.Com. The book is  Portraits Of Type: An MBTI Research Compendium by Avril Thorne & Harrison Gough (1991). I...|||You are right, overall they are not characteristic of any single individual. The discriptions only apply to 30 INTP females out of a group of 210 females of all types and represent those that were...|||SCREAMOFCONSCIOUS I doubt the interviewers knew the types of the individuals they were interviewing--that would be asking for biases to manifest themselves. The important thing to understand is that...|||I think bias towards the INTP females by the interviewers is minimal since the interviews took place at the Univ. of Calif. Berkeley, a bastion of political correctness and feminism. The bias comes...|||How do I move this thread to the article section?:confused:|||Observers descriptions Most associated with the female INFP type classification. From Portraits of Type * 1) Thinks and associates to ideas in unusual ways; has unconventional thought processes....|||Here are some statement and adjectives from the book Portraits of Type by Thorne/Gough. The interviews were done at Univ. of Calif. Berkeley. * Observers descriptions MOST associated with the...|||Can you explain what you mean by that?:confused:|||I go in cycles with classical, 60's+70's rock, jazz, blues. But mostly classical which I've been listening to since college.|||I should think that's true. Since different cultures emphasize different things. My MBTI manual is out of date but as I understand it the MBTI has been translated to other languages however I don't...|||To those who wish to know the results of a study on female INTPs go to the thread It would suck to be an INTP female on page 25 and check out the post by PeterK.:happy:|||There are different rules in society for men and women. It all depends on which rules are broken whether one recieves opprobrium or not. Men and women have had stereotypical roles since the beginning...|||Yes the female traits seem more negative but I don't think sexism is a factor since the main author is female(Avril Thorne). The INFP male comes off worse in my estimation. But remember these traits...|||The following characteristics were, on the average, observed in INTP women. Source: Portraits of Type: An MBTI Research Compendium by Thorne/Gough(1991). Most Characteristic  1) Is basically...|||In highschool I couldn't do word problems and in college I couldn't do proofs. I never gave up but I never got anywhere either! I try to maintain my undergrad skills but I'll never reach Graduate...|||I wish I could get into philosophy but I find it really hard to concentrate when I'm reading it. Any reading suggestions?|||If somebody wants to self study a math subject go to Cramster.com. They have complete solutions to many end of chapter exercises for various math books. Just choose a book, get it, and your ready to...|||I acually have a double major in math&physics, but my GPA was 2.0! And it took at least a 2.0 to graduate. So I got out of college by the skin of my teeth. It turns out I can read and under stand the...|||I have a double major in math&physics. I took abstract algebra in 1970 but the professor was a professed communist and all he did was talk against the viet-nam war. He got fired and I didn't learn...|||Actually Algebra is a vast subject. It's usually called Abstract Algebra or Modern Algebra on the titles of textbooks. Unfortunately there are a lot of hard esoteric proofs. Maybe you should look...|||Jung's Typology In Perspective by Angelo Spoto (1989). Gives a deep jungian point of view of typology and critiques the MBTI.|||[quote=Happy;80123]I recently discovered this interesting article, written by Breanne in her blog at the THE MBTI BLOG which has many information relating to the MBTI . The following are the top 10...|||according to keirsey's temperment theory NT's all belong to one temperment but ST's can belong to two-- the SJ traditionalist or the SP experiencer.|||According to the the MBTI MANUAL (1985) p.18, the auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior are all extraverted in an introvert while in an extravert the auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior are all...|||here are two sets of discriptions most associated with female intjs and intps. source: portraits of type: an mbti research compendium, by a.thorne&h.gough most characteristic of an INTJ female:...|||that sounds like me when i was 18. hang in there and try to do the best you can. it will get better! think of yourself as socially handicapped so you have to try harder than an enfp with people. just...|||source: MBTI manual 1985, p.123 MBTI preferences are associated with academic aptitude. the perceptive attitude (P) leads to more curiosity and wider interests. P types tend to score somewhat higher...|||if there seems a flaw in the jungian system it is the mbti test and its extension of jung's typology. you can't make psychological statements about your mbti scores other than that you are one type...|||some of the things you wrote seem a little obessive-compulsive--i'm not saying that you have ocd! when you write about introverted thinking vs. exroverted thinking it could be in the context of being...|||i can be an intj or intp when the situation demands it. in other words i can introvert thinking and be an intp or introvert intuition and be an intj. when i'm reading sci-fi or listening to music i...|||don't take the tests so seriously they are all based on probability and statitics! getting to be a type is not a life long procces, perfecting your type is. there is no truth to be had, only...|||gnat, that was very informative. to me, having strong emotions makes me feel like i'm up in a high place watching a turbulent sea below me. i usually lay down and try to go to sleep. maybe i should...|||:happy:learning really gives me positive emotions. i was pretty much a professional student for the 15 years i drove a cab|||how do you think it works:crying:(i can't seem to get rid of the face)|||zygomorphic, emotions are at the bottom of everthing. even mathematical creativity! i wish i could develop my introverted feeling but i have'nt a clue:crying:|||i think this is completly normal for an intp. it is for me anyway.:happy:|||infp's are truely one with their emotions because their feeling function is their dominant function. but for an intp this is impossible. being strong in your dominant and auxiliary functions is the...|||my sister and i are intp's. this is what i read about intp females. 1. is basically distrustful of people in general; questions their motivations. 2. keeps people at a distance; avoids close...|||i drove a cab while taking graduate courses in math&physics and after i dropped out i kept on driving for 15 years. it paid the bills and i could work or not work at my whim. :frustrating:- it was a...|||is a mathematical theory of the mind possible? and as an infx would scream- what about emotions? maybe emotions are organized by mathematics and that's where mathematics comes from.:confused:|||i like ancient chinese history probably because i study ancient chinese(classical chinese). when i took the sat's i did history as a lark and my score was higher than any of the others.|||mathematics is freedom! everything runs on mathematics,even emotions. where do you think mathematics comes from? the mathematician,in the act of creativity, projects emotional content into...|||Jack Vance is my all time favorite sci-fi writer. he writes in a high literary style. when describing action scenes he is very dry and at times bizzare. he is a 50-60-70's writer for the most part so...|||bluntress glad you could make it here. check out the social forums. we need all the intp's we can get here.:happy:|||i drove a cab for 15 years and developed major depression. i had to leave and became unemployable. i should have been in the basement of a university in the middle of the night doing research.|||you should try to teach yourself classical chinese(circa 300BC). it is so frustrating but intellecually satisfying.|||according to the MBTI manual 1985 page 18 a true intp has dominant T introverted but the auxiliary N, the tertiary S, and the inferior F are all extraverted. sometimes in extreme introverts both the...|||peterk is an intp/5w6. i've developed a strong j preference over the years but my f and e scores are pitifully low. i've noticed that quite a few intp's are 5's'