Varieties Of Intuition - MBTI: Ni And Ne

I have been intrigued by intuition, and the difference between extraverted and introverted varieties. 

After going through the definitions of N, and various articles I was sure that I was S and not N. A friend of mine would insist that I was N. 

I kept thinking.

Intuition is the ability to see patterns in data, the ability to see possibilities, the ability to intuit - "a ha, the butler did it (the murder)" rather than painstakingly go through all the clues to figure out who did it. 

As I reflected further, I realized that N had two distinct halves, I had one half and none of the other half. I could see pattern, I could sense a pattern, condense data but ,for the life of me, I could not see intuit (in the dictionary meaning of the English word).

I now understand the two halves this way. One part which goes downstream from data which perhaps is deduction (Ni). Another part which goes upstream and sees what could have caused the data (Ne). The latter is very close to what is generally known as feminine intuition.

If you look at the data here which shows the details of each MBTI type and statistics... you will see that there is a marked difference in the prevalence of Ti and Te (as dominant functions) between the genders. You can filter for the dominant function to be Ti and Te and see the sum of male percentages and sum for female percentages. 

Same for Fi and Fe across the genders. Now when we come to Ni and Ne, we find that male percentage of Ni is almost double of female percentage while female percentage for Ne is about 20% higher than male percentage.

Doesn't this seem to indicate that Ni goes with T and Ne with F? Meaning that the N/S and T/F are perhaps not independent dimensions. Look at the correlation between F/T and J/P. F constitute total (Male + Female) 60% of population, of which half is FJ and half FP. But if we look at T which constitute 40% of population, 24% is TJ and 16% is TP. But that is going to be a different post about interrelation between different parameters.

A good explanation of the difference between Ni and Ne is given here in the comment by sociotronics. Ni eliminates ideas to reach the one and only "best fit". 

A simple statement "I am fine" would be perhaps seen by Ni as just that. No other information or possibility could be derived. While an Ne could see what caused Jim to say "I am fine", that Jim perhaps wasn't feeling good when he said that, may be.... See the difference? When you take a data point and go downstream with it, sometimes you can't go anywhere because there is no pattern to be found, yet. But if you went upstream you could see a possibility. Ne is from the heart. Ni is from the head!

I am reminded of a maths problem about dividing 17 camels. Which of Ni or Ne could solve the problem? I think Ne.

Additional reading:
http://www.personalitypathways.com/education.html

Communication, Marketing And The Dreapta Foot Forward

I have been reading a few articles on what makes you look fat and how to care for your tresses. And I thought, wow.. These are the need of the hour for the modern woman. All said and done, if it's your bad hair day and if you look fat, what else you got... :(

Then I read about the rape of a woman by a Uber taxi driver in, where else?, Delhi. And Uber's response that the company carries no liability insofar as the behavior of the drivers are concerned. Any personal damages suffered by the passenger is to taken up with the driver and/or the owner. And not with Uber. And this is the same company till yesterday mentioned that it's the safest rides on the road. 

No, I am not saying Uber is any less safe than other taxis. Delhi is an awful place for any man, woman or child or cat. Nevertheless, when an entity that proclaims itself to be the safest and also says that it is not responsible for the safety of the passengers (only the driver / owner of the taxi is responsible), one wonders...

I am reminded of an advertisement for bharatmatrimony.com which I see on TV. "Hum unse milate hai jo aapko samjh paate hain"  - we connect you to such people who understand you

If a marriage with a partner you found on bharatmatrimony doesn't work, do you get to sue Bharatmatrimony? How different is a Bharatmatrimony from Uber? Both seem to claim things which they cant follow through ("safety" in the case of Uber and well, aaah ummm, connecting you with right partners in the case of Bharatmatrimony). 

Who are these people, companies who say all those cute words but are very sure that they will not be accountable for those words? How many other such people are there around us?

The point is that there are some assertions made by entities which sound very good but they will not put it on paper. How do you know which assertions belong to this kind?

Art Of Negotiation

I was watching Mahabharata today - the scene where Satyavati tells Bheeshma that she will not marry Bheeshma's father Shantanu because Bheeshma is the crown prince. That her children would never become the prince, they would only be lowly soldiers while he, Bheeshma, would go on to become the king and she could never accept that.

I wonder. She was a fisherwoman and the king was in love with her. And she said categorically that she would marry him only if her children could ascend the throne in place of Bheeshma.

What kind of a person was she? Such an ambition.

And I can't help thinking of Wallis Simpson who was in a similar position with Edward VIII (Uncle of Elizabeth who is the current queen) in England in late 1930's. Did she negotiate thus? 

Could Shantanu have abdicated in favor of Bheeshma and married Satyavati? What kind of people were Shantanu, Satyavati and Bheeshma and Satyavati's father?

A friend of mine showed me the Bengali version here. Satyavati apparently gave Shantanu two options, either give up his kingdom as Edward VIII had done or make her the queen and ensure that her children would become the prince in place of Bheeshma.

Well each version of Mahabharat tells the story with a different flavor. Which version depicts the real Satyavati or the real anyone in that epic for that matter? My comment on Satyavati above was with respect to the character I saw on Vijay TV showing a Tamil version. I use the article "a" and not "the" as I am not sure how many Tamil versions there are.

Focusing on the Bengali version, Satyavati gave 2 options. Either that Shantanu give up his kingdom or ensure that her children would go on to ascend the throne. While both the options were painful to Shantanu I myself perhaps look more kindly upon the first option. But is the 1st option really so much better than the 2nd? Does the 1st option make Satyavati's character much better?