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https://bigfive-test.com/ Take it, post your code here, and I'll collate a comparison between members for the forum and sticky it up here in the OP. I like this one because it's accessible while also providing a lot more nuance with the subscales. Reliability won't be amazing, so take results...

I'm gonna start opening up study club threads whenever I start a deep dive and encourage others to do the same (but try to stick to the established convention). I'm writing a short essay on this, but the framing is such that I'm probably not going to be able to talk at a degree of specificity...

The people that shout out latin ("ad hominem!") are the same as the ones that shout defense mechanisms ("you're just projecting") or Dunning-Kruger. The design of these constructs is to explain, but the application is to dismiss. They are both an appeal to a specific narrative woven from...

This is difficult, people might not solve it (I didn't). Please spoiler your answers if you're sure you have the solution or if you've encountered this riddle before. Please don't cheat. I will provide the answer once everyone who participates has given it a fair go. 100 prisoners are on death...

I consider young adults to be "baby" adults, in that they haven't been a fully cognitively developed being for very long. From this perspective, I see people as having an "adult age" which is basically their actual age - 18 or so. This adult age is loosely defined, so don't take it too...

Continuing on with the recent themes of meta-cognition and collaboration, I was thinking maybe it would be a good idea to share what we're good at. Please list your interests and some indication of your level of expertise. If you list yourself here, you're volunteering to be @ ed to weigh when...

This is the thread to discuss what topics we would like to look into further, or anything else related to this endeavor. #1 - guns policy I started this one off just to capitalise on momentum. I see no reason not to start a second topic as soon as we establish some interest here.

This is a collective effort to learn what we can about weapon ownership and its relation to various outcomes such as violence and suicide. I'll keep it loosely defined for now but insist that anyone participating sticks to scientific evidence. This is about process more than it is product...

This is the quick and dirty filtering system to interface with the scientific literature directly (cutting out the media middleman), reliably (filtering out the garbage), quickly (focusing you on the parts that matter), and honestly (filtering out your own biases when conclusions disagree). This...

Similar to other threads where people post something they find funny, I want to suck all the fun out of it by doing the same and then having us explain the joke. Why? Because while I don't think Freud bad is science I am a proponent of psychodynamic theory, and see humour as a hidden shortcut...

There are a lot of people on this planet. Most of them think they have something to say, but you've only got one lifetime and a finite supply of patience. You don't have the luxury of knowing whether what someone will say is valuable until you hear it, so you develop heuristics for who you...

INTPs are supposed to be pretty open-minded. They're supposed to be curious. This forum should reflect that. But I'm sitting here and it's been a while since I changed my mind on anything meaningful. And I can't remember many recent instances where other people have either. I'm concerned that...

I posted this in gaming because it only applies to people who have at some point gamed. I'm interested in how aspects of pokemon are conducive to ease of memorisation. I'm pretty confident that, despite not having picked up a pokemon cartridge in many years, I could still name a good portion...

I feel like one of the barriers to bridging conversations between people on the forum is the science/mysticism divide. Falling on the science side, it often seems to me that people understand that there are limitations to science, but they interpret these as fatal, which conveniently allows them...

This forum is full of people who can but won't do. I'm one of them. While conscientiousness is considered a personality trait, and therefore relatively stable, it can be fostered. It's something that takes effort even for those people who have it, though it takes them less effort to maintain...

Make a meta-metacognitive statement about yourself. Why have you arrived at this conclusion? The INTP profile seems like it's open enough to allow its err... adherents... to decide whether they're good or bad at metacognition without compromising their identity. I think I'm okay at it in some...

I see these terms being thrown around a fair bit, but I don't really see how they're useful to honest discourse. I see them either as an appeal to authority, or an ad hominem. The definitions for 'intellectual' are diverse, and seem to conform to the needs of the speaker. Likewise...

Come get me One of my favourite games of all time just got released on steam. The only thing that was holding it back before was the size of its community (and subsequent difficulty finding good matches). It's completely free, with no hidden costs or intentions to monetise. I've played a long...

I'd like to have somewhere where people can post their thoughts on the state and happenings of the forum without it being some formal undertaking. Just a place for organic observations from all perspectives. This is a place for sharing perspectives on the social aspects of INTPforum. You may...

No overly specific hypotheticals allowed dummies! Provide your own, or answer others. Or you know, both. Try to answer as truthfully as possible, what you would actually do, not what you think you or others should do. It's late at night, you're driving along an uninhabited road, you can see...

Incest is fine. There is nothing wrong with it. Every instance of incest I can think of that is wrong is wrong for reasons other than that it is incestuous. Prove me wrong.

Higs and Adaire have joined the moderation team. !!! Please leave tribute.

I was recently called out for being a bit of a stick in the mud about a test: I guess in my mind, people can say they're not taking the tests seriously, but at some level I think they might be? Not because they're necessarily completely ignorant of the goals of the test maker, though a lot of...

Hi guys. Given our most recent drama, there’s been some discussion in the modbox and elsewhere over to what extent the expression of damaging opinions should be facilitated on this forum. On the one hand, this is a place about discussing ideas. It’s explicitly stated in the CoC that all...

Quiver in fear as he cuts swathes of gibbering hanzo mains from your rank and file. Rag even knighted him heself. What a nice guy <3<3

And how do you know how good you are? I've generally acted in such a way that it wasn't important for me to know whether people were lying. It never felt like that important a skill - but recently it's somewhat of an hobby level obsession. We've covered it a fair bit in a unit at...

Ideas: 1) Thinkers are just superior logical people who can handle emotions 2) Thinkers experience less emotions so it's comparitively easier to choose logic over them 3) Thinkers experience more emotion to the point they can't interpret it easily In the webserial I'm currently rereading (worm)...

~ My lecturer for organisational psychology I've heard a few bits and pieces about how MBTI is seen in academic circles, but this is the most direct statement I've found so far (it's consistent with everything else I've heard). The lecturer in question is extremely competent (though I don't...

IQ has been talked about a lot on this forum. I think the way it's talked about is a subversion of the intention behind measures of intelligence, but also does those pursuing objective measures of their intelligence a disservice. If you think it's important to pursue IQ, can you explain why?

I don't know if people are still doing D&D on here. Feel free to help me out, or to post your own character concepts. Chaotic Neutral 'Trickster' Utility/Striker Warlock

Hi guys Part of the most recent drama was the outcry that we don't talk about science anymore. Why limit it to talk? Let's do some science. I have enacted the following change: - Sinny banned for one month, potentially permanently. If the following conditions are met, the change...

One of my pet peeves is how terminology evolves irrationally. As a kid I used to dream of redesigning the alphabet and English as a language so that people would no longer need to take an English class past learning the letters (which would be easier since they'd all do one thing - there'd be no...

Oh oh oh really? Huh. Okay so if you start in the top left you're conformist and unthinking. If you start in the middle of the page this shows a preference for leaving your options open. You don't have a strong plan but you leave yourself room to figure it out as you go along (accepted...

Something has changed in my head. I noticed while playing computer games a month or so back. The automated camaraderie of other players, the things that are said by the character and not the player, I felt myself accepting them. Positive meaningless things. It's like I can feel the...

Do not click me. Better than agar.io I'd tell you about it but that would be time spent not playing.

From where cometh new words? Here of course! Two intentions: - Crowd sourcing new words - Proposing new words If the word is liked enough people will use it. There is no criteria for whether a suggestion is accepted.

Relevant background thread: Cog's epiphany Games are about learning. They're like drugs or masturbation, hijacking our neurological infrastructure to make us reproduce an enjoyable action that wasn't 'intended'. Except the outcome isn't homelessly jerking off into a cardboard box under a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZNSaePjenU This came up on my feed. It's short and the author has a good pace so is easy to keep engaged by. (ENTP?) He goes on a rant about how the term 'continent' doesn't actually have a consistent definition, and allows for it's utility as a means of...

Welcome! Everyone has completed their pre-campaign lead up, so I may as well have you introduce yourselves. Here's the relevant context for any onlookers: It's morning. Those who agreed to all stand outside the Rad'Raxian estate. Bundy is with you: He's alongside a gentleman...

Hello0! I am writing to inform you, the gumptious aspiring adventurer that I’m not dead, and the campaign is coming along nicely. Now that I’m finally getting around to learning the roll20 system (far better than that fool RB), the remaining obstacles are few indeed! Currently the list of...

Welcome to the arena!! Our two players today will be Blarraun starting in the top, and Cognisant in the bottom. Blaurrun: Little is known of this player other than his practiced grasp of the ruleset and his relentless pursuit of powerful builds. Cognisant: A less experienced, but highly...

Infinity Wars is the best game I've played in a looooooong time. It's a free DCG (digital card game). Available on Steam. It's much more open-ended than it's popular rival Hearthstone, utilising an innovative commander faction system that allows for creativity in deck-building and piloting...

Hey guys... It's recently come to my attention that I have far too much spare time since quitting uni <3<3<3 ...is bored...is do things.... Other than freelance security guard work (srsly, I get paid in sandwiches), I've been looking for something to do. Civ 5 fills a gap, writing guides for...

Would you wear it in any form? If so, what? I stopped for a minute and thought about it, and I think I wouldn't mind wearing a plain hoodie with my type on it. Anybody who doesn't know what it means won't care, and it's surprising just how many people know a little (I've met 5-6 people out of...

I'm doing an assignment on anxiety at the moment that is specific to university students. While justifying the requirement for a scale of anxiety to screen for those in need, I wrote a paragraph on people high in anxiety requiring more time on exams. This seems unfair on other students, but...

The degree to which we here on the forum are biased against sensors, and the legitimacy of such a bias, is often the subject of debate. I personally prefer intuitives, but don't believe that this is necessarily the product of an actual superiority inherent in intuitive thought. I was just...

I just had a massive Ni moment (even though it's a shadow). I'm not sure if the literature already contains such a model, as it's not an area I have spent much time studying. I do have depression, and the aspect that I find most difficult to deal with is the lack of motivation. This is the first...

Exams are rolling round, and I have a lot of study to do. Something I have always found is that if you concretely state your goals publicly, it is more difficult to rationalise moving the goal posts. This thread was created with precisely this purpose. State how long you have, how much you...

Dual processing account of reasoning I just came across this in cognition today, how I've never seen it before is beyond me. It seems to be a more scientifically relevant understanding of the thinking/feeling dichotomy. Four hypotheses - Ti is type 2 thinking. - Te is motivated...

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/ I just randomly ended up on this site after an awry google search. Is there any good side to White Nationalism? I don't really understand how someone could be so venomously ignorant. Am I missing something? Is there some redeeming quality to these views that...