Talanov's Man Without Intuition and Man Without Sensing

 

Two amusing portraits from Talanov's statistics I've decided to post here.

A person with minimum sensing (intermediate ILE/IEI, due to intuition correlating with ascending and irrationality, averaging out LII and EIE, or ILI and IEE would result in a touch more down-to-eath character):

1. He has no drive at all toward unambiguous, "quantized" certainty in everything. He is a master of probabilistic reasoning and understands very well (his mind being predisposed to them by its very makeup) the logic of fuzzy sets and the dialectic of the unity of opposites. So neither a multiplicity of options nor the combining of contradictory things in one model puts him off.
2. He may have trouble orienting himself precisely in his current location: he can find it hard to instantly recall and grasp where he is at the moment (at home, at work, or somewhere else).
3. Ordinariness, traditionalism, and run-of-the-mill conventionality in thought and lifestyle are deeply alien to him. He strives for the unusual and the extraordinary in everything, even to the point of shocking the public, and "being like everyone else" is unpleasant and burdensome for him.
4. He tends to be impractical and unable to take care of himself (even where his basic vital needs are concerned).
5. He loves paradoxes and likes, as an experiment, to mentally combine the incompatible.
6. Conjectures and speculative conclusions are often more important and meaningful to him than what is directly, plainly evident.
7. He often "withdraws" into his thoughts or fantasies, detaching from sensory perception of reality. At such moments his behavior may seem to be running "on autopilot."
8. He actively uses fantasy as an amplifier, to color certain features and emphasize their unusualness.
9. His attention span is narrow and his concentration reduced (especially visual attention). He is not very observant.
10. Conjectures and imagination often turn out to be more important to him than even what is plainly evident.
11. He has a heightened likelihood of experiencing an illusion of novelty, of something supposedly never seen before (the opposite of the "déjà vu" phenomenon).
12. There may be episodes of visual or olfactory deceptions, illusions, obsessions, and hallucinations. The passage of information along the pathway from the sense organs to consciousness is often impeded in him and takes place with noise and errors.
13. He has no preference for whole numbers over irrational ones, for sharp boundaries over fuzzy sets, for unambiguity over probability, for clearly delineated quanta over continuity, or for a small number of choices over a large number. He is not averse to smooth transitions, continuity, vague fuzzy sets, or waves smeared across space in place of quanta.
14. He has a very strong imagination and capacity for fantasy.
15. He is not practical in his home life and is, if anything, indifferent to whether his home and household are abundantly well provided for.
16. He has a strong tendency toward obsessive fantasizing, toward aimless mental wandering through dreams and unrealistic fantasies in which a person hides, escaping from reality.
17. He has a strong inclination toward theorizing and philosophizing.
18. The constant presence of certain perceptible "hazy images" in the head, swarming somewhere near consciousness, not interfering with conscious thoughts but partly directing their movement.
19. He is predisposed to difficulties in maintaining balance and a stable posture (a weakened vestibular system).
20. His ongoing visual-spatial attention is weakened. Only a small amount of visual information is perceived directly from the surroundings, and everything else in the conscious visual "picture" is filled in from subconscious automatic memory. For this reason, his visual perception has little detail and may be error-prone.
21. There is a heightened likelihood of a habit of absent-mindedly fiddling with something in his fingers while thinking (for example, picking at hangnails, rolling little balls of bread, twirling a lighter or pencil). The cause is the hyperexcitation, characteristic of this psychotype, of the finger areas of the cerebral cortex and the neighboring speech areas.
22. He has a small capacity of short-term visual memory (he is poor at remembering the details of an image or the location of objects on a table; having turned away, he cannot accurately describe what he saw).
23. He loves everything enigmatic and mysterious.
24. He is characterized by everyday impracticality and a dislike of housework, a lack of interest in running a household and keeping the home in order.
25. As a statistical tendency for his psychotype, symptoms of depersonalization may be typical, occurring as frequent episodes: sensations of losing the sense of one's "self," of being split in two, or of one's own personality feeling alien or unrecognizable.
26. A heightened interest in philosophy and abstract concepts.
27. There are sometimes episodes of physical depersonalization (a temporary sensation of "losing" one's limbs, losing the sense of the body's wholeness, and so on).
28. A weakening and periodic absence of desires and motivations is typical, which may at times give rise to boredom, apathy, and prostration. Sometimes it is hard for him to understand and articulate for himself why he lives at all, what he wants, and what his goals are.
29. He characteristically retreats from the present moment into fantasies, mentally picturing other periods of his past or future life.
30. He is characterized by a constant, wide, fan-shaped associative mental search spreading out from a starting point (chaotic, not unfolding over time into a coherent sequence), ending in a momentary pleasant feeling of a "find."
31. His thinking is very intense (at almost any given second there is some thought in his head).
32. His frequent "background" thoughts are very scattered, almost constantly detached from reality, and consist mainly of random, chaotic, fragmentary wanderings, hard for him to catch himself, through hazy, elusive, estranged associations (as happens in a dream, but with even less clarity).
33. He pays less attention than others to the neatness of his appearance.
34. He is interested in knowledge or ideas regardless of their practical usefulness, which he rarely thinks about at all.
35. He is more inquisitive and curious than others. He is drawn to the unexpected, the unique, the special, and is able to take pleasure and feel anticipatory excitement at every originality, surprise, and oddity he notices.
36. Care and protectiveness toward "his own," his family clan, are weakly expressed in him. He shows little interest in relatives and has no pronounced need to look after and support people of "his own blood."
37. He is careless about order among the things around him, tends to scatter things about in disarray, and often forgets where he put something.
38. He is characterized by physical clumsiness and poor coordination of movement.
39. There is a heightened likelihood of episodes of disorientation (confusion) about the month, the date, and the day of the week of his current day.
40. A tendency to ramble, letting his thoughts sprawl in all directions, when thinking something over.
41. Weakness of visual sensitivity, memory, and attention: he fails to notice an object lying in plain sight.
42. He has the gift of self-irony, is tolerant of jokes at his own expense and about serious matters in general, and in company is sometimes inclined to make fun of himself.
43. He would most likely enjoy the occupations of writer, literary critic, librarian, philologist, or screenwriter.

And here's a person with minimum intuition (average between ESI and LSE, once again, averaging out ESE and LSI, or SEE and SLI, would produce a character who is less totally "mundane"). Tbh, the portrayal does seem a bit like a LSI inverted to "descending" values, but without extreme centrality common in, for example, "The Miser" villain archetype (think Moliere's Harpagon, etc), which basically is a very "central" LSI inverted to descending:

1. What is a person of his psychotype usually proud of (and not without reason)? That his household is cleaner and better organized than other people's, that his vegetable garden at the dacha is more productive than other people's, that his children's school and kindergarten are better chosen than other people's, and that he himself is more careful and successful than others in maintaining his health and a regular, efficient order in the home.
2. He suffers from an excessively obsessive perfectionism in establishing external order.
3. Ordinariness, traditionalism, and run-of-the-mill conventionality in his thoughts and lifestyle: nothing unusual or shocking, a petty-bourgeois in the good sense of the word. He tries to hold to this "golden mean" model, that is, to be "like everyone else."
4. He is characterized by everyday practicality, a love of housework, and an interest in running a household and keeping the home in order (to the point of being "obsessed" with order).
5. Care and protectiveness toward "his own," his family clan, are very pronounced in him. Along with this, he is committed to justifying the dictate of a close-knit group's values over the values of the individual.
6. He does not like paradoxes and thoroughly dislikes mentally combining the incompatible, even as an experiment ("if it's unusual, then it's impossible; the impossible is uninteresting; and those who think about it anyway, and drag me into it besides, are just fools who waste time, their own and mine").
7. He prefers whole numbers to irrational ones, sharp boundaries to fuzzy sets, unambiguity to probability, clearly delineated quanta to any continuity, and a small number of choices to a large number.
8. He pays more attention than others to keeping his appearance neat at all times.
9. He is characterized by a drive toward unambiguous certainty, an intolerance of probabilistic reasoning, and a failure to understand the logic of fuzzy sets and the dialectic of the unity of opposites. Hence he also tends to ignore or discard, for a long time, any facts and hypotheses that in some way fail to fit the initial concept.
10. He cannot stand any jokes about things that are serious to him, including and especially about his own beloved self. He usually does not understand even innocent jokes of this kind and immediately bristles at them.
11. Using fantasy as an amplifier, to color certain features and emphasize their unusualness, is absolutely uncharacteristic of him.
12. A wide, fan-shaped associative mental search spreading out from a starting point (chaotic, not unfolding over time into a coherent sequence) is not typical of his thinking. Associative search of this kind is blocked in him.
13. A high degree of practicality and pragmatism are his traits.
14. What is plainly evident always ranks higher and matters more to him than any conjectures. He will always sooner believe what is directly visible.
15. He has a large capacity of short-term visual memory (he remembers well the details of an image or the location of objects on a table; having turned away, he can describe quite accurately everything he saw).
16. He is characterized by precise orientation in his current location.
17. Most likely, he is indifferent to riddles and mysteries. They do not attract him or stir him with a sweet, beckoning sense of anticipation; most likely, he does not even understand what that feeling is. For this reason he is also indifferent to adventure and science fiction books full of mysteries and riddles.
18. He clings to the old and traditional and dislikes innovations and innovators. He himself also lacks the gift of inventing things and coming up with something new.
19. His handwriting is most likely neat, even, and easily legible (without the signs of "scrawliness" often found in many other people).
20. He almost always tracks the surrounding situation with tenacious sensory attention, almost never "dropping out" of this observation completely into a focused inner thought process.
21. He has a very weak imagination.
22. Most likely, he never does unexpected things that contradict the logic of the situation, and certainly never does so on purpose.
23. There is neither inquisitiveness nor curiosity about anything new in his character (at any rate, he has far less of these qualities than other people).
24. What is directly, plainly evident is always more important to him than any conjectures and imagination.
25. He almost completely lacks any inclination toward theorizing and philosophizing of any kind.
26. He has a broad attention span and good concentration (especially of visual attention), and excellent powers of observation.
27. He regards any incompleteness, instability, asymmetry, and disorder as unpleasantly unaesthetic. He shows his talents best in conditions of stability, while rapid change, general chaos, and confusion dishearten him.
28. He is extremely realistic and has no inclination (or even ability) to wander in thought through dreams and fantasies.
29. His psychotype is characterized by the regulation of everything under the sun and by prohibition as a life strategy: namely, a drive to restrict others' freedom by establishing strict limiting rules and bans.
30. He never has disturbances in the functioning of his sensory modalities. A complete absence (both now and in the past) of episodes of visual and olfactory deceptions, illusions, obsessions, and hallucinations.
31. He has tenacious visual-spatial attention, with a large amount of visual information perceived directly, in real time, from his surroundings.
32. He is a supporter of the maximum regulation of anything a society allows to be expressed, with everything and everyone regulated and any unsanctioned activity banned.
33. He never has the sensation of "hazy images" stirring in his head, swarming somewhere near consciousness and directing the movement of his thoughts.
34. He has an excellent sense of physical balance and a stable posture.
35. He dislikes anything unexpected, unique, special, or original. He is not drawn at all to sudden, vivid, and unexpected ideas.
36. He is a staunch adherent of conservative (traditional) values, which look to the past rather than the future for their model.
37. He has no grand "overarching ideas" of any kind, and indeed few ideas of his own at all. He is more of a common-sense day-to-day conservative who does not want to know anything superfluous, anything one can live successfully without.