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