The word you're thinking of is 'stereotype'; please do not propagate these as people can be offended by them. Sent from my SGH-T899M using Tapatalk
I used to think like that, until I realized that most stereotypes exist for a reason, and not all of them are negative. Stereotyping is an important survival skill, if you don't take it too far, and base your generalizations on facts and experience rather than prejudice and assumptions. Learning how the majority of any given group behaves allows you to better interact with them. Personally, I prefer the term "generalization," because "stereotype" has such negative connotations. Of course, these are just my opinions, formed from my personal life experiences.
I personally don't believe in judging anything until you've looked into it (and even then). Generalization gives you a very faint - and potentially incorrect - snippet of perceived knowledge, I prefer to delve deeper into things. Then again, I'm INTP. Sent from my SGH-T899M using Tapatalk
So am I. What's that got to do with anything? Anyway... Generalization, of any subject, is important because it gives you a base upon which to add new knowledge. The specific knowledge of how a spark-plug works is only useful if you have a basic understanding of how an internal combustion engine works. The same is true of people. For example, the vast majority of Hispanic men that I have encountered value masculinity and shun activities that they consider to be "for women." With that knowledge, I know that a typical Hispanic man would be much more interested in discussing sports or cars than he would be in discussing recipes. By using general knowledge, I am able to make a good first impression, which then allows me to gather information about the individual person. Basically, I use generalized knowledge like a jackhammer, in order to gain access to specific knowledge.
INTP is relevant because individuals of that archetype are prone to analyze everything, avoid making decisions and/or judgements, and tend to improvise every course of action that they take rather than constructing a plan ahead of time. Moreover, I do know how an internal combustion engine works; in the spectrum of the metaphor, anything I do not know, I make it a point to find out, otherwise any decision I make is - in my mind - unfounded by supporting evidence or reasoning. Small details often have very large - and often very deterministic - affects and influences, a poor and barely relevant example being the difference between the cation methylium (CH[SUB]3[/SUB][SUP]+[/SUP]) and methane gas (CH[SUB]4[/SUB]), a slightly better one being a comparison between CO and CO[SUB]2[/SUB], and a particularly drastic one being between dimethyl zinc (Zn(CH[sub]3[/sub])[sub]2[/sub]) and dimethyl cadmium (Cd(CH[sub]3[/sub])[sub]2[/sub]). Generalization, stereotype or whatever else you may christen it, is not my favoured approach.
To each his own, I guess. I prefer to be satisfied with a general knowledge of as many subjects as possible, because it allows me to choose only the subjects that interest me the most to study in greater detail.
I'm kind of jealous of people who act like they feel more than 20% of the time. - - Auto Merge - - More on topic, sounds more INTJ.
I honestly don't know. It's possible that none of the MBTI types apply to me. Those labels weren't designed to take into account things like Aspergers syndrome and bipolar disorder.
That's sounds more like J that P. Difference being greater affinity for planning and tendency to a broader perspective, but also typically a distaste for abstraction of ideas.
Words cannot describe how deeply seated the sticks that have traversed vertically in the vector-positive direction through EqD's posteriors are.
I saw that all the mods became admins, and I panicked at first. Then I realized what day it was, and why I hate it. Well played, EP Staff.
