The Q-test.

Welcome to the Q-test. This technique I find personally useful. In all social relationships, establishing rapport is important. It is useful therefore, to be able to determine how someone is coming across to you irrespective of what their personal 'type' is. It is the 'facade' or persona that we initially deal with. At the same time we can check how we are coming across. To do this we need to ask ourselves, or others around, the following four questions:-

(First, some definitions:

Intuitive - considers possibilities - what could be.
ProActive - prone to assigning people roles often goal oriented;
Introvert - Prefers to conserve energy. Often tries to find short cuts and appears to be 'under-enthused' about things.
)

(1)

Would I/you classify person x as a social/cooperative type; a bias to values rather than facts?

(2)

Would I/you classify person x as an intuitive type; a bias to what_could_be rather than what_is?

(3)

Would I/you classify person x as ProActive?

(4)

Would I/you classify person x as Introverted?

The answers to these questions take us down the levels of the MBTI binary map. Question 1 relates to level 1. A yes puts us in position 1 of level 1, otherwise we are in position 2 of level 1. Each following question takes us down a level into one of the two possible positions under the one we are currently at. The following chart is useful:

         Answer to question 1   y y y y y y y y n n n n n n n n
            "    "     "    2   y y y y n n n n y y y y n n n n
            "    "     "    3   y y n n y y n n y y n n y y n n
            "    "     "    4   y n y n y n y n y n y n y n y n
    
         Result Code            A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P
    
    Result - MBTI code - Keirsey row T4 name
    
    (Cholerics - Seek identity - see money as way to help - humanitarians -
    religious - medicine)
    
      A       INFJ      Seer/Prophet/Author.
    
      B       ENFJ      Ringmaster/Pedagogue.
    
      C       INFP      Seeker/Healer/Questor.
    
      D       ENFP      Journalist/Revealer/Enthusiast.
    
    (Melancholics - seek security - seek money as something to save - 
    herding)
    
      E       ISTJ      Steward/Trustee/Inspector.
    
      F       ESTJ      Organizer/Administrator/Supervisor.
    
      G       ISFJ      Preserver/Conservator/Protector.
    
      H       ESFJ      Provider/Seller/SalesPerson.
    
    (Phlegmatics - seek  solutions  -  see  money  as  something to count -
    wizardry)
    
      I       INTJ      Theoretician/Scientist/Planner.
    
      J       ENTJ      Commander/Strategist/Field Marshall.
    
      K       INTP      Philosopher/Architect/Designer.
    
      L       ENTP      Inventor/Debator.
    
    (Sanguines -  see  sensations  -  see  money  as  something  to spend -
    hunting)
    
      M       ISTP      Guard/Artisan/Crafter.
    
      N       ESTP      Rouseabout/Promoter/Negotiator.
    
      O       ISFP      Artist/Composer/Appreciator.
    
      P       ESFP      Reveller/Entertainer/Performer.
    
    
         In  the  United  States  of  America,  approximately  52%  of  the
    population is made up of four types (13% each):
    
         ESFJ (Providers), ESTJ (Organizers/Admin)
    
         ESFP (Performers), ESTP (Promoters/Negotiators)

It is claimed that 70% of the population (USA) is split between SJ and SP biased individuals.

For references giving full details on these types, see the MBTI section at the end of the I Ching reference list

What is important to note within the context of this website, is that the questions asked lead to a classification that is generically the same as asking the same questions and building a hexagram in the I Ching. The reason for this is the wholes/aspects template; a template on which we humans dichotomously develop metaphors for the categorization of wholes and their aspects.