The Four Scales
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator tries to determine a person’s default preferences. The word “preference” is chosen deliberately. People are far too complex to be reduced to a small set of behavioral rules, and we all act differently at work than we do at home. Any MBTI type can act any way they need to, given the proper circumstances. A preference defines how a person will act when there are no pressures driving them in any particular direction. A preference is about how a person behaves when they’re home on a lazy Sunday afternoon with no obligations or influences making them act in a certain way.
Given that, the MBTI breaks down behavior along four scales:
- Extraversion (E) versus Introversion (I)
- Sensing (S) versus Intuition (N) ...
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