Myers-Brigg and dating

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In MBTI it isn't uncommon to have one preference that isn't very strong and flips back and forth a lot. My N is pretty weak, so I sometimes test as an ISFP. I'm more INFP-ish, though.

I guess it's possible to be "in between", say you are just as likely to make judgements as you are to overanalyse without reaching a conlusion. INTP and INTJ would be the opposite poles here - INTP = not likely to make a judgement because of insufficient data & INTJ = likely to make snap judgements based on intuition.

Yes, we have the same values and similar interests. If we didn't, I probably wouldn't even talked to him (we met on a dating site, so it was easy to find out basic things about his interests and values before actually meeting him).

@ Sinister (or whatever your name is...sorry couldn't remember ) You couldn't handle ME ! !! I happen to be an ESFJ. Does this make me an anomaly among Aspies? 'Cuz even though the way my mind operates is very much like an Aspie, I am a VERY social person and I LIKE getting attention from people. I feel like it validates me Anyone else here on WP an ESFJ?

I don't reckon you have to. That Myers Briggs stuff is BS anyway if you ask me

I've always been both of these, but it's never caused me any problems I can remember. The times I refuse or am reluctant to make a judgement because of insufficient data usually turn out, down the line, to be things I should not have made a judgement on. (Very often because of insufficient data--often because I wasn't even aware of, or couldn't be aware of, an aspect of the problem, let alone have sufficient data on it.)

When I make judgements based on intuition, they are invariably correct. I can't think of a time when I followed my intuition and was wrong, but I can think of plenty of times when I refused to follow my intuition and had to suffer the eventual consequences, and sometimes they have been really bad consequences to be forced to work through.

Most of the time, what the data says (assuming that it "feels" like I have sufficient data ) and what my intuition says are the same thing. Very, very rarely do they disagree, and I've learned that if this happens, for me the truest course is always to go with my intuition.

Data can be incomplete (and usually is, and for all of us, no matter how thoroughly we have worked to get it), data can be misleading (in the "how to lie with statistics" kind of way), but my intuition--when it is "speaking"--is always right.

INTJ
It describes me surprisingly well. O_o

Me too. I quite liked the description, if it were a job advert I'd apply lol