Decided to ignore…hmm. I think for me, I don’t really ignore, but the input either isn’t there or isn’t strong. Other than the ever present “this test is really stupid.”

Integration trouble…not sure these are the same things. I think/hope after integration that there are still different feelings about things, but perhaps more cooperation in expressing them.

But I don’t think that will ever result in making it easier to take these types of tests!

Em

Which is pretty symptomatic of why I’m having such a lot of trouble with integration, generally speaking. Hmmmmm.

In Please Understand Me (by David Keirsey, the tests used are Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI), andThe Keirsey Temperament Sorter. I list the links for a few in the post.

As for the test you mentioned, it is called the Dr. Gregorc’s Mind-Styles™ model (http://gregorc.com/)

Here is a blurb about it from a website that has a good description of the different classifiers:

“”The Gregorc model is a cognitive model designed to reveal two types of abilities, perception and ordering. Perceptual abilities, the means through which information is grasped, translate into two qualities: abstractness and concreteness. Ordering abilities are the ways the learner organizes information, either sequentially (linearly) or randomly (non-linearly). Gregorc couples these qualities to form four learning categories: concrete/sequential (CS), abstract/sequential (AS), abstract/random (AR), and concrete/random (CR).” (http://www.floatingneutrinos.com/Message/arcs/links_on_abstractrandom.htm)

Here is an online version of the test:
http://www.thelearningweb.net/personalthink.html

Hmmm – if people are interested, we could do one of these tests.

Em

In graduate school, I took another test, and for the life of me I can’t remember what it was called. If I remember I will come back and write the name here, but it classified people as Concrete or Abstract, and Sequestial or Random. So, one could be CS (Concrete Sequential), or CR (Concrete Random), AS (Abstract Sequential), or AR (Abstract Random). I took the test and I was Equally Concrete as Abstract, but mostly Random, so I was considered to be CR and AR equally. No one else had that. Everyone else was pretty much strongly one thing or another. It is interesting. It would be interesting to test a large group of people that have DD and see. Do you know if there is an online version for any of these tests?? We could sort of do our own mock study and see. I know there’s one in the book Please Understand Me. Would be interesting to note how many of us are straddling multiple personality types.

Thanks for the comment. What you said makes sense in a strange way for multiples. The idea that using a “less preferred” function is unhealthy struck me wrong at first. I thought, “Well hey, the distribution of my answers is due to different parts of me expressing themselves, and each has different preferred psychological functions.” So this is NOT unhealthy for multiples.” But if we take it one step further, that being a multiple is in some ways “unhealthy”, then your argument works.

I just have to decide if multiplicity – having different personalities with distinctly different traits, skills, wants and needs – is inherently unhealthy. As someone said, “It is a very sane reaction to something that would otherwise cause insanity.” But perhaps over time, untreated, if the dichotomy of responses on something like a Myers Briggs still has this bimodal distribution, it could suggest that integration would be a healthier alternative to the current splits.

Interesting thought experiment. Thanks for the opportunity to ponder on this one a bit.