interpreting your function test results

Disclaimer: This page serves to help you understand the meaning behind your responses. If you truly understand typology and its merits, I think you'll find the information provided here—not the results on the function test—to be revealing of your test-taking habits.

Before we start, however, I must make clear to you that not all of your questions will be answered. This page is an experiment in computer generated meta-analysis—it serves to automatically interpret your data based on patterns in testing that I have noticed personally. It remains subjective.

This section is also a work-in-progress! A lot of work is put into making this as unique to you as possible, and it will eventually be paywalled (and cleaned up, of course) should I feel it deserving of that. In the meantime… enjoy!

Preliminary

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You left X questions blank. Maybe you were torn on a question and couldn’t decide. Maybe you just hated a question outright and refused to answer. Maybe you just forgot. Either way, it actually kind of works in your favor—if you did it on purpose, that is. Rejected questions are accounted for in a metric I’ll call skip reasonability. It measures how justified you were in skipping the questions you skipped. Before we get into that, though, let’s begin with an introduction:

Introduction

The main reason why most people seem to pick up MBTI (very especially the type dynamics flavor of MBTI) is to find out more about themselves. It’s either that or that they find categorizing people into personality types fun. Good news for those most people. This page is all about understanding yourself, and I’m going to put you in my own personality type box at the very end. How exciting!

There are two things you should remember before we get into it, though:

1) The actual cognitive functions test doesn’t take your responses at face value, and it “thinks around” your answers.
2) This analysis page works the same way.

That’s why we’re not going to purely deal in MBTI terms. You’ve seen it all already, I’m sure. You wouldn’t be on sakinorva.net otherwise, would you? You’re in elite territory now. In fact, let’s forget all about the systems you’ve grown familiar with: Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, Socionics… whatever else you know. Maybe these systems will be referenced tangentially every now and then as we go through your results, but the systems aren’t the end—you’re the end. That’s what personality typology is generally trying to get at, after all.

Since you skipped some questions, we’ll first get into skip reasonability. Here’s a "hidden" fact about this test: Not every question on this test is valid. Some of them apply to practically everyone, and other ones apply to basically nobody. Some have loaded premises, and some treat two different ideas as though they were one. The test knows this, of course, and tries—to some extent—make up for that. The issue that arises, however, is that without explicitly asking you about how you interpreted these questions, the test can only guess.