interpreting your

function test results

Disclaimer: This page serves to help
you understand the meaning behind
your responses. If you truly understand
typology and its merits, I think you'll
find the information provided here—not
the results on the function test—to be
revealing of your test-taking habits.
Before we start, however, I must make
clear to you that not all of your questions
will be answered. This page is an
experiment in computer generated meta-
analysis—it serves to automatically
interpret your data based on patterns in
testing that I have noticed personally. It
remains subjective.
This section is also a work-in-
progress! Only the first part has been
finished so far. Both function models
currently used (the Grant/Brownsword
model and the Myers model) are not
talked about at all. In the meantime…
enjoy!

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Preliminary
As things are set up right now, you
won't be able to return to this page if
your browser session ends or expires.
Functionality will eventually be added
that will give you a unique identifier to
return to this page.
Introduction
I think what I was most surprised by
when I launched this test back in April
2018 was how easily people accepted it
into the personality test world. Many
people were confused by what their
results meant, yes, but the format of the
test was never fundamentally called into
question—at least, not in any way that
impacted how widely the test was
shared.
I bring this up because this test has
more layers than would initially seem. I
think a typology veteran well aware of
what the cognitive functions are would
easily recognize the basic format of the
test: a 96 question test that asks 12
questions to test for each of the eight
functions. The mystery, it would seem,
is at the very end—when everything
finally gets calculated and the test gives
you a few types.

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The information for you to understand

what this test really means is all out
there. It isn't exactly accessible, though.
This website has many disjointed, messy
articles about the meaning of type that
I'd written as a teenager, and making
sense of the underlying perspective
behind all that can be… an arduous
task. The two-year-old "frequently asked
questions" section underneath your
results is dense and often superfluous,
so it doesn't surprise me now that people
weren't really able to piece together the
mystery of the Sakinorva cognitive
function test.
Some people have made serious efforts,
though. I've seen social media posts and
blog posts (in many different languages,
even) trying to explain in detail what
the results exactly mean, and some
people are definitely on the right track.
I'm sure some people have even figured
it out—but they certainly haven't set the
tone of the conversation. There's an
entire culture created around the
cognitive functions, and challenging it
isn't exactly easy.
Before continuing, I strongly suggest
reading Full context: the cognitive
functions to get an idea of how this
function test and the following analysis
will look at your results. It may help you
understand what the test really is
beyond "a cognitive function test" and
will familiarize you with some of the
language used here to describe your
results. Bear in mind that this isn't
necessary, but it will aid you in
understanding the perspective from
which all of this is passed onto you.

I often read lines about how "the cognitive functions

are the real MBTI" or how people "have been reading
up and learning about the cognitive functions for
years" and just about always reveal that they have
been exposed only to sources that give one side of the
story; what such people often don't realize is that in
order to really understand the cognitive functions,
they must be willing to challenge the dogma that
proliferates misinformation about what it means to
be you.

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There are two things you should try to

keep in mind:
1) The actual cognitive
functions test doesn’t take your
responses at face value, and it
“thinks around” your answers.
2) This analysis page works the
same way.
This analysis page serves to both
demystify the results provided to you
and to look at them beyond what they
usually mean at face value. Just like the
test itself, extrapolation and guesswork
will come into play. This analysis will
look not just at what you give it, but
also how you give it. It's not about you,
as the answers would tell me, but about
you, as the test-taker filling out a form
about yourself.

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We should go over the very basics first.

You received several different types of
results, and we should try to understand
what they all mean one-by-one. We will
begin with the two different function
types, starting with your
Grant/Brownsword result:

(grant) function type INTP

If you aren't familiar with it, the

Grant/Brownsword function model was
a model of Jungian type dynamics
created by William Harold Grant in his
book From Image to Likeness: A Jungian
Path in the Gospel Journey with
Magdala Thompson and Thomas E.
Clarke. The most significant thing about
Grant's function model was that it was
the first to break away from the Jungian
convention by flipping the third function
(for example, an introvert would have
their four functions ordered IEEE, but
Grant turned it into IEIE). This is the
model most commonly used today when
people talk about "the cognitive
functions."

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His model was developmental. He

specifically uses the term "type
development" to describe how you
cognitively develop as you age. Grant
divides up type development into four
different periods. Your primary function
(Ti) develops from 6 to 12 years of age.
From 12 to 20 years of age, you develop
your auxiliary function, Ne. From 20 to
35 years old, you develop Si. And finally
—you come to develop your shadow side
(Fe) from 35 to 50 years old.
Grant's model was a hypothesis! He
acknowledged that it was a departure
from Jungian convention, and didn't
anticipate it being widely accepted. It
was based on his own observations in
retreat/workshops at the time. Bear in
mind, also, that Grant was a Jungian
scholar, but also a Christian man. His
work was primarily concerned with the
spirituality of type and sought to show
people that their personalities were not
fixed, but dynamic and pointed toward
self-development.
What about type? Luckily, Grant
wanted to show us a picture of what his
hypothetical types looked like—he
included profiles.

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I'll now pretend to be Grant. You began

developing your thinking from an early
age, organizing your internal world
quietly and deliberately. You paid close
attention to matters of logic and reason,
searching for clarity and reasonability
in the rules you had to follow—
complying to what did not make sense to
you was difficult. You rarely shared
your thoughts with others, but you had
a select few with whom you
communicated, albeit deliberately and
thoughtfully.
Around the age of twelve, you began to
develop your intuition, looking to
expand your imaginative realm. This
attitude germinated in a social manner,
as you found yourself becoming more
outgoing, sharing your ideas often in
lively discussion. Though you still
preferred being alone, you found real joy
in interacting with others as you began
to orient yourself toward more
imaginative ways of doing things and
planning out their future. Your focus
drifted away from actuality and more
toward the essences of things. You
might also have found it difficult to keep
things in order, but you were able to
probe for them to your own satisfaction.

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At twenty, you found excitement in

discovering the sensory world, which
had previously been of little interest to
you. This attitude was directed toward
the interior, as it had been in your early
childhood, and you found yourself
enjoying activities such as walking
through nature, playing an instrument,
or working with your hands. You
became more aware of your image to
others, and you could be conscious of
what others thought of you.
Around thirty-five years into your life,
you began to yield to a newfound
sensitivity for others, driven by personal
values. This may have expressed itself
awkwardly in its earlier stages, bringing
embarrassment in social situations, but
you gradually learned to express your
compassion and accepted that not
everything needed to be rational.
The book ends with a concluding
observation that dramatizes the turn
toward the shadow side at age thirty-
five, evoking images of crisis. What we
call the inferior function was not meant
to be as fluid as the turning points
between the first three functions in type
development. I take note of this because
I took it into account for the algorithm—
your inferior function is added as a
negative value at the end.
The test assumes you're somewhere
between the second and third stages of
type development, even though many
disregard the idea altogether today. I
didn't want to single out results based
on age and figured a more universal
model would cover most people anyway.
If you'd like, you can maybe try to make
out your own standing relative to type
development given your function
results. I won't do anything automatic—
do your own soul searching! Here they
are again for your convenience:

Ne (extraverted intuition) 27.4

Ni (introverted intuition) 29

Se (extraverted sensing) 22

Si (introverted sensing) 29

Te (extraverted thinking) 24

Ti (introverted thinking) 33

Fe (extraverted feeling) 27

Fi (introverted feeling) 26

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Remember that big chart with all those

values next to the sixteen types? Those
are percentage agreement values for
your Grant type—your results were
compared to each type outline and then
listed in order, from your worst match to
your best match. Here is that chart
again:

ESFP 45.75

ISFP 50.25

ENTJ 50.75

ESTP 51.75

ESTJ 52.1

ENFP 52.5

ENFJ 52.75

ISTJ 53.9

ESFJ 54.1

INFP 54.3

INTJ 55.25

ISFJ 57.9

ISTP 58.25

ENTP 58.5

INFJ 59.25

INTP 62.3

Here are also the rest of the

paraphrased Grant type descriptions,
ordered from highest percentage to
lowest. This is a long section, so you'll
get a button here to close descriptions,
as well as a "table of contents" to jump
to different descriptions.
(collapse/expand all descriptions)

Type descriptions
INFJ
ENTP
ISTP
ISFJ
INTJ
INFP
ESFJ
ISTJ
ENFJ
ENFP
ESTJ
ESTP
ENTJ
ISFP
ESFP

INFJ (59.25)
In your early childhood, you were
drawn to develop your inner sense of
creativity. You might have had an
imaginary friend with whom you
spent time in dreamy silence. Few
close friends were allowed to share
with you your world of imagination.
You were a big daydreamer, and
teachers constantly reminded you to
pay attention. You don't remember
the details of this time period very
well, as they had not piqued your
interest then—but you do remember
the atmosphere and ambience of the
feelings you'd had felt back then.
Around the age of twelve, you
became aware of a desire to express
yourself through a mode of feeling,
even though you maintained your
predominantly intuitive disposition.
You became more aware of the
needs of others, looking to help the
poor, the suffering, and the
underdogs. You may have joined
groups committed to being of service
to others, and you found it difficult
to find time for yourself.
At twenty, you experienced a new
desire to become more independent,
searching for autonomy as you
became critical of your previous
submission to others. Because this
attitude emerged internally, you
found it difficult to express to others
how you wished to shape yourself,
and they may have been surprised
or offended by the change. Despite
perhaps feeling that this attitude
had been developing poorly, you
decided to hone it and allow you to
eventually grow; rather than
returning to submissiveness, you
wanted to grow further into your
assertiveness.
You now began to experience your
last function—sensing—as you
started to notice details around you
that you'd left unacknowledged. For
the first time, you'd begun to take
pleasure in exercising your senses,
whether it be through playing an
instrument, learning a craft, or
collecting objects. You'd engaged in
these activities with a newfound
precision that contradicted the
disorder you'd been used to, which
you now grew impatient with.

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ENTP (58.5)
As a young child, you were absorbed
in the world of imagination,
stimulated primarily by the social
world rather than in solicitude. If
you were an only child, you might
have had an imaginary friend. With
other children, you were often the
one who stimulated them with new
and exciting activities, being easily
bored by routine, whether in play,
work, or study. You may have been
urged to be brought back down to
the real world, and you might have
been scolded for your disorderliness.
Even as you did today's tasks, you
would have your mind what it would
bring tomorrow.
Around the age of twelve, you began
looking inward, becoming more
reflective and turning to the world
of logic. You often had difficulty