On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:13:43PM -0500, Casey Rousseau wrote: > > Whoa. A) Not all introverts are created alike. B) There is no reason that > any two people, whatever their personality makeup, have to enjoy the same > social situation. These are things where personal experience matters. I know both these things. It's getting my husband to recognize A) (I think he's mostly got a grasp on B) ) that's the problem. But it is still good to hear you say that.. I caught a lot of flak recently from some now-ex-friends because they thought I was being rabidly antisocial. > > So, a few questions for ya'll and everyone else on the list: > > There are some good personality 'tests' out there. Most of them don't call > themselves tests because they want to make sure that the subject doesn't > feel obligated to give the 'right' answers. There aren't universal right or > wrong answers to these questions. Rather, there are answers that are more > right for you. > > but there seems to be a lack of pertinent information online. > > Try looking for Myers-Briggs. I've done Meyers-Briggs and/or Keirsey (it was several years ago and the results seem to be in the same format); they are the only personality tests I've ever found of any worth - because they told me something about myself and human nature that I didn't already know. The J/P distinction - I am very heavily Perception, which means I don't schedule stuff or operate on a schedule unless absolutely necessary, and when I read I was at the far end of the spectrum, it was an epiphany. However, in the realm of introversion, M-B / K doesn't tell me anything I don't already know, and doesn't help convince my husband that all introverts are not alike in scope and intensity. All the discussions regarding E/I I can find just use black-and-white phrasing.. they don't discuss the differing degrees of each. An actual article by some sort of scientific entity on the latter is what I seek. Kat