affert's assorted observations

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006


You scored as Sociology. You should be a Sociology major!

Sociology


100%

Psychology


92%

Engineering


92%

Anthropology


83%

Philosophy


75%

Mathematics


75%

Linguistics


67%

English


58%

Biology


58%

Dance


42%

Theater


42%

Chemistry


42%

Journalism


25%

Art


17%

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This survey seems to have summed up my interests fairly well, given that I'm a social worker with a degree in Computer Engineering.

The other day, the staff here at Emmaus took a MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Inventory). This time, I was rated a INFP. Out of a possible 30, I was a 10 introvert, 23 intuitive, 3 feeling, and 24 perceiving person. Last time I took the results were very simalar, although I was just on the other side of F/T (thinking vs feeling).

A guy named Rog came and talked with us about the results. One thing he had us do was neat. He'd written out questions on large peices of paper around the room. Then, without telling us what it was about, he assigned each of us to a paper. KT and I were assigned to paper #4, which asked us to describe how we would make a photocopy. We were a bit confused as to what this could have to do with anything, but went along with it anyway. "Open the lid, Put the paper on the glass (face down), make sure the settings are right, including selecting the number of copies we want to make, close the lid, press 'start', check to make sure the copier doesn't jam, the end" was pretty much what we wrote. After a few minutes, he called us all back together. He then had groups 1 and 2 bring their answers up to the front. Apperently, each pair of groups was given the same question. Each question was to bring some element to light of each other the types. Our question was focused on Intuitive vs Sensing. KT and I are both strong intuitive personalities. The other group had a much shorter answer to how to make copies. (Something along the lines of 'put the paper in the copier, press copy'). He pointed out that this task is more of a sensing oriented task. Intuitive people need to train themselves to notice things like copier settings, so when they think about making a copy, checking settings is a conscious part of the task. Sensing oriented people do that subconsciously, and so don't bother listing that in instructions.

We had some very good staff discussion time about how the different types can relate better to each other. Especially the introverts and extroverts, we talked through some good stuff about how to communicate better with each other.

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