Article about INTP vs. INTJ

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I test out as INTJ consistently. But I do find some of the questions funny.

Here's one: The clutter thing. I like MY clutter. I do not function as well in a properly cleaned, 'organized' setting because it's someone else's organization.

There are others that bothered me too like about having a job done versus the starting a job. I do like to have jobs finished. They are done, out of the way, etc. But I love to start jobs and all that problem solving. But I absolutely hate the part of a job or project that is the 'tying up loose ends' part. Tedium galore with me and boredom.

I guess I hate questions with only two answer choices when I'm actually right down the middle on a lot of things.

I made this second post because I read something that amused me in the article mentioned.

I actually fit the second definition much better (at least as I read it) by the way it describes the way I access my observations and patterning and then apply it. I can't think of any time that I've devised anything cold and then tested it in the world. I've always observed, mulled, applied and then tested. I think that is why I loop through things most every day. What did I see? What did they do? How did they respond? What did I see that I want to apply and then how to apply it? How does all of this fit together?

Edit: Oh! And this is definitely me. I even posted it in another thread about how I laugh when proven wrong.

"Conversely, the more mature an INTP becomes, the more they’re delighted at being proven wrong. That’s the outer world helping them cleanse data they may have grown attached to / become biased toward!"

And on the INTJ type:
"Ultimately, the proof is in Effectiveness, and you’ll see how wrong you are when the outer world plays it all out."
Is also me...I think I'm just confused as much as anything by now.......

arrrrgghhhhh!! !! !

I took no offense at all. I was just sharing my experience.
Your response reminds me that I had more to say about the test. I agree that other tests are probably better, but I do like how quick and easy it is to say I'm an INTP than to pull out the spectrum graph thing that I have done and try to explain that.

I bounce between INTP and INFP, but get INFP more often. I think INFP fits me more in general, but I also view myself as more logical than what most INFPs seem to be described as. So honestly I'm not sure.

That explanation is very consistent with what I said about how aspies of the feeling type tend to behave more similarly to thinkers.

I find it odd how any Aspie can be a feeler, seeing as how logic is so ingrained in our minds (edit: just saw the post above. That makes sense). But everyone's different of course. I've taken this test many times, and the result never changes: ISTJ.