This may explain why I, as an ENTP, often run into trouble in conversations with scientists. I like to play with new ideas. Most of them don't pan out, needless to say. But when, after long thought and probing the research, I come to believe that an idea has survived scrutiny, I'll sometimes bring it up with a scientist in a relevant field. But I get the weirdest responses. After attempting radical simplicity with one idea, I was told, "sounds complicated." With another idea whose mathematical premise required nothing more than high school geometry, I was told, "impossible." With yet another where the modeling of the relevant phenomena suggested a range of many orders of magnitude in likelihoods, I was told it was massively improbable -- by someone who then admitted to no acquaintance with those models. The responses had this in common: to dash cold water whenever someone proposes something unfamiliar and confusing. It was never to ask, "Could you explain a little more?" So I like this article because it makes me better prepared for such enounters in the future, and with a potential theoretical basis: how INTJs respond to confusing proposals in areas within or adjacent to their fields.
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This may explain why I, as an ENTP, often run into trouble in conversations with scientists. I like to play with new ideas. Most of them don't pan out, needless to say. But when, after long thought and probing the research, I come to believe that an idea has survived scrutiny, I'll sometimes bring it up with a scientist in a relevant field. But I get the weirdest responses. After attempting radical simplicity with one idea, I was told, "sounds complicated." With another idea whose mathematical premise required nothing more than high school geometry, I was told, "impossible." With yet another where the modeling of the relevant phenomena suggested a range of many orders of magnitude in likelihoods, I was told it was massively improbable -- by someone who then admitted to no acquaintance with those models. The responses had this in common: to dash cold water whenever someone proposes something unfamiliar and confusing. It was never to ask, "Could you explain a little more?" So I like this article because it makes me better prepared for such enounters in the future, and with a potential theoretical basis: how INTJs respond to confusing proposals in areas within or adjacent to their fields.