Will Wilkinson - Latest Comments in Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

GilM — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:09:06 -0000

INTJ

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

webgrrl — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:30:05 -0000

INFJ.

Like others here, since I learned a little more about the MBTI, I've found usefully predicatively, so I keep it in my pocket, always mindful of its limitations.

As for g, WW, I can't follow you there, sorry.

No one can describe it - or agree on a description - no one can accurately measure it or duplicate another's measurement, no one can offer a prediction based on it, no one can tie it in any meaningful way to anatomy or brain function - it's clearly phlogiston, a ghost. It doesn't exist.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Megan McArdle — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:51:39 -0000

xNTP, though I usually show up as a weak extrovert. Everything else very, very strongly expressed.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

GU — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:43:18 -0000

INTJ

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Jay — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:06:41 -0000

INTJ. I seem to recall in an undergrad psych class I was the only one out of almost 50 students who fit this, so it's pretty amazing to see how common it is here, but then again it was a NorCal school and they were probably almost all feelers...

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Bill — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:54:38 -0000

INTP

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Jen — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:56:32 -0000

I'm not a typical reader, so don't count me for purposes of your unscientific poll, but just in case you are curious, I am an ISTJ.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Edward O'Connor — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:23:46 -0000

ISTP.

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Lee — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:57 -0000

Hard to believe Yglesias is an NT, he always seemed more an FU.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Will Wilkinson — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:06:25 -0000

I've seen things that suggest that G may have something to do with conditions that affect the environment of information processing. If I remember, brighter people have lower levels of electrical activity in their brains, and lower levels of glucose, or something like that.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Jason — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:03:44 -0000

xNTP here, too. I during high school (surprise surprise), E as I've grown a little older and moved around a lot. The line between T and F is also a very blurry one, which I think is why I tend more toward fiction in my writing interests.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Mark Madsen — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:49:40 -0000

INTJ as well. I agree completely that the mind is massively modular; different personalities are likely built out of a standard set of components, likely with different weightings arising out of a combination of pure inheritance and an Edelman-like neuronal selection process driven by early experience.

"G" is very likely just a way of the overall or coarse-grained interaction of all the modules -- in other words, any general intelligence measurement is looking at the emergent effects and overall efficiency of the cooperating and competing modular subunits.

This perspective is influenced greatly by Marvin Minsky's "society of mind" theories, and more recent elaborations of a modular perspective, but I've seen little that would suggest that a monolithic rather than a modular approach to cognition is called for.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Amber — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:56:52 -0000

INTJ

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Amanda — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:26:21 -0000

INTP. I think my I is trending towards E, maybe for the same reason as Will. And the N is surprisingly weak.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Will Wilkinson — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:42:04 -0000

BC, Yes about the variability. The reason I'm on the fence E/I-wise is that I'm an extremely gregarious extrovert around other NTs but can be pretty wallflower otherwise.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Frank McGahon — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:58:00 -0000

eNTj sometimes iNTj

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

belle waring — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:36:34 -0000

ENFJ, people. I'm crazy like that. Of course, I'm not actually a libertarian...

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

BC — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:30:10 -0000

INTP

I was struck by how easily it depened on the situation for a lot of the questions, mainly the ones about introverted/extroverted. It mainly has to do with how secure I feel. I'm extremely extroverted in certain interesting class discussions and more introverted in personal relationships. I also do a lot of internal analyzing. So which one am I? Who knows. It isn't that easy.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Kenny Easwaran — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:45:24 -0000

For a long time I was INTP, but in recent tests I've come out ENTP, which I suppose makes sense with my personality changes in college. I believe the first time I took it I was actually INTJ, but now I think the P may even be stronger than my N and T.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Nicholas Weininger — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:46:13 -0000

Yet another INTJ here.

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Ben Bargagliotti — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:44:40 -0000

INTJ I like the M-B

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Jacob T. Levy — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:35:43 -0000

(And, now that I've read the article, I'll also note: very little fluctuation in my test outcome over time-- a long-term trend toward the J-P borderline from a strong J, but I've never come out anything other than INT, and strongly all those.)

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Jacob T. Levy — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:15:06 -0000

Another INTJ, borderline P

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Eric — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:07:01 -0000

ENTJ, though borderline INTJ

Re: Bad Theories that Track Robust Regularities

Fred Boness — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:06:24 -0000

INTJ with J winning out slightly over P.