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• INTJs enjoy exercise more than average; INTPs can take it or leave it.
• INTJs are less likely than average to watch 3 or more hours of TV per day. INTPs are
average in this respect.
Religion 68
• INTJs are about twice as likely to be atheistic as INTPs.
• INTJs are a bit more likely to be atheistic than agnostic; INTPs are a bit more likely to be
agnostic than atheistic.
Areas That Are Too Similar to be Used as Diagnostic Criteria
• Marital satisfaction. 69
• I.Q. 70
• Argumentativeness 71
• Love for computer gaming 72
• Both INTJs and INTPs are confident in their ability to perform 1.) jobs that involve analysis,
problem solving, and research and 2.) jobs that involve office work, performing work on a
computer, accounting, filing, etc. 73
• Both types have nearly the same likelihood of developing heart disease and hypertension. 74
I Still Don’t Know My Type
The INTJ/INTP confusion is exacerbated when nurture has heavily modified nature, or when the
person in question sits riiiiight on the line between J and P.
If you still aren’t certain what type you are—and you really care—then you should probably just
hack up the money and take the MBTI. (I’m serious, you can’t trust those internet tests. The
authors have not done studies on whether their test is affected by gender or cultural bias; nor have
they done studies to verify whether the test is producing accurate results. Then too, they haven’t
attempted specifically to address the issue of people who sit on the line. The MBTI, on the other
hand, has addressed all of these areas over the course of several iterations.)
Make sure that the testing organization will provide you with your continuous scores, i.e. whether
you are a very clear or very slight Judger (see Appendix 1). If you have are confused about whether
you are an INTJ or an INTP, then chances are you have a very slight J or P. Once you have your
continuous scores, then you can verify for yourself exactly how close you are to the middle.
If it turns out that you are a middle-of-the-roader, there is a special version of the MBTI test (called
the MBTI Step II) which has been specially designed to disambiguate uncertain type. It also
demonstrates exactly how a person is different from the “standard model” of their type, i.e. a person
may have five out of the six usual “facets” (characteristics) of Extraversion, but behave like an
68 Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
69 Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
70 McCaulley & Kainz; McCaulley & Natter; Myers & McCaulley in Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
71 Loffredo & Opt, 2006
72 Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
73 Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
74 Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998