Article about INTP vs. INTJ

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I read this article and found it very interesting.
If I am not mistaken, many of us here on WP fall in one of these categories. I, myself, am an INTP.
I especially liked the very last bit about what INTPs and INTJs offer society.
INTPs offer "radical honesty" and INTJs offer "intellectual integrity."
I would hate to think that INTPs don't have intellectual integrity or that INTJs are not honest, but I think the article does a good job explaining the extreme ways INTPs and INTJs show their strengths.
It was also interesting how the author explained the more immature and the more mature versions of these two types.
Please share your thoughts!

http://www.personalityhacker.com/intp-vs-intj/

I must be weird, then.

I'm an ISFJ.

I'm an INTJ.
I consider myself as having both intellectual integrity and radical honesty.
I thought that might be simply "Aspie honesty."

And the part about not cleaning the clutter made my jaw drop.
I was just telling someone at work today about my proposed
"brutally honest" artist statement:

* ahem! * (clears throat)

Here's why I create art.
Because I have two choices:
One, clean my apartment.
Two, go into the wide open spaces of the great outdoors, camera in hand, take pictures, then look at them in my apartment so I don't have to see the clutter.

Just kidding ... or am I?

...

Very interesting. Every time I've done these MB-tests, I've tested as an INTJ, but this article has blurred the line for me somewhat. I might actually be an INTP. Unclear, though.

actual INTP here,

The reason why many aspies test as INTP/INTJ on MBTI tests is not because those types are more likely to be autistic, but because the aspies tend to answer MBTI questions more similarly to how INTP's/INTJ's answer them.

Example: aspies tend to be less social which often results in extroverted aspies to answer some questions similarly to how an introvert would answer them, causing them to often mistype as an introvert. Similarly, Feeling aspies tend to have problem connecting with others, causing them to mistype as a thinker.

I would really like to interact with other INTP aspies, but unfortunately a majority of self claimed INTP aspies on the internet are just mistyped due to MBTI tests giving biased results to aspies.

So, how does one differentiate between answering the questions similarly to how X type would, and actually being X type?

This sounds like it's getting into a nature vs. nature thing. Of course external factors may influence a persons behaviour to a degree, and of course a natural introvert that has not been pushed towards extroversion is going to be more introverted than a natural extrovert that has been pushed towards introversion, and vice versa. But from what you wrote, you seemed to be saying that aspie INTP/INTJ's somehow aren't "actual", because of Aspergers. Which lands us in a chicken-egg situation; are aspies actually more likely to have traits congruent with these personality-types, or are people with these traits more likely to be diagnosed as aspies? Is Aspergers somehow a distinct overlay that muddies the waters to determining you "actual" personality-type, or is it part of what forms your personality?

It's entirely possible that I'm biased in being an IxTx, and an aspie who's ExFx might genuinely face the problem you describe. But it seems to me tantamount to saying "a person who finds X difficult can not enjoy X".

I've taken three or four MBTI tests at various times, and always had the result "INTJ", and always with the "J vs. P" graph very close in size, which is why I reacted when some of the bits describing the INTP in this article sounded more like me than some of the bit describing the INTJ.

Seems to me you are saying the tests need more nuance.

I have taken at least 20 different personality tests online, plus the real MBTI test I took in college. I *always* score INTP. The description fits me. I don't necessarily like it and have tried scoring differently, which is why I have taken so many tests. Still INTP.

I can see how some people would waffle back and forth in a couple of letters, though, if they tested near the middle of the range for those. That doesn't mean that they aren't what they test.

I can be extroverted when I need to be. I might be able to handle social activity more than other introverts because that may be where I am closer to the middle of the range. But, I still always test "I", and I am easily peopled-out. The activity drains me, so when I get home I am done talking to anyone. When I am feeling like that, I can't even go online here or to WP because it is too much social interaction.