I love the comments regarding “STJ” and “NFP” wives! Maybe it’s true that more women make decisions based on feelings (relative to men), but that’s what make the world an interesting place.
For someone who asked – this is basically Meyers-Briggs personality typing. It’s not easy to explain it in detail, but I’ll give it a try.
S(sensing) v.s. N (intuitive) — how people processing informations. Sensing people use their senses, and tend to be concrete and focuses on specific. Intuitives are more about ideas, concepts and tend to be abstract and focus on principles. These two types often would have communication problems because literally they’re on different wavelength.
T(Thinking) v.s. F (Feeling) – how people makes decisions. Thinking people are rational and make decisions based on facts and logic; Feeling people make decisions based on, you get it, emotional signals. Thinking people generally are more in engineering, science, business; while Feeling in marketing, psychology, nursing, etc.
P(Perceiving) v.s. J (Judging) – how people deal with time. Perceiving type acts like observers, and they move along time without too much a hurry (they procrastinate and often be late). Judging type likes to bring things to conclusions and more likely to be goal oriented.
Another dimension is I (Introvert) v.s. E (Extrovert) – where people tend to get energy. Introvert brings the world into their head to process, and tend to get exhausted after socialzing; extravert embrace the world, and get energized from being with other people.
With these 4 characteristics, there are 16 combinations. It’s fasicinating stuff. I re-read my M-B stuff several years back, and you really can see how a person functions if you observe well.
And, yes, I believe that more women are feeling type than thinking type. To me, it’s a good thing if you think about it. Wouldn’t be BORING had it been otherwise?
