ENTP, I disagree

I did an online Myers-Briggs personality test, at: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp and got ENTP. I find the discription of ENTP sort of flattering, and apparently Q from TNG was ENTP and he was my favorite character so thats nice, but I dont aggree with it.

Now this got me thinking, the score that related to this is close to zero in all four values, so maybe i just confused the test by being inconsistant in my answers to the questions. There were some like "You prefer meeting in small groups to interactionwith lots of people" with Y/N answer, which i answer N, my personal answer would be "depends on how i feel on the day, but deffinitely choose both over staying home alone". Then this may add to the extraverted score, but my motivation would be more along the line of i might be missing out on something fun rather than i want to meet and socailise. which to my mind might be more a paranoid trait than extraverted.

Anyway, so the questions seem a bit flawed, thats ok. Next problem is, i try to answer truthfully, but there may be another question that is similar but worded differently, i answer differently because in its new form, i am motivated by a different idea. Maybe like "You get pleasure from solitary walks", which i say Y, but what i really mean "if i had nothing else on, and got my musics, then i can sing while i walk cos there is noone about to make fun of my bad singing" since when im bored/lonely i sing to myself because i like to and it makes me feel upbeat. So now i have two conflicting intravert/extravert answers. So this inconsistancy drives my score to mid-point, which is were ENTP sits.

So how do i get around this? I figured it out!

Get a few people who you feel know you well, and get them to answer the questionair with what they think you would say. Then that way you get a set of biased external results. Maybe it wouldnt be anymore accurate, but it would mean that you could learn how other percieve you, and if they all come back the same, then maybe you are. Although this could backfire when you find out how people percieve you if you dont like the results :P

Btw I know the devils advocate part of ENTP is dead on, so dont bother pointing it out :P but the optimist and friendmaking/charisma/ignoring the rest of humanity part i think is not accurate for me. Although... i have been trying to aquire new friends lately... but only to fill the hole left by Mel going overseas for 7 months, grrr!


Description of ENTP from http://typelogic.com/entp.html.
"Profile: ENTP
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"Clever" is the word that perhaps describes ENTPs best. The professor who juggles half a dozen ideas for research papers and grant proposals in his mind while giving a highly entertaining lecture on an abstruse subject is a classic example of the type. So is the stand-up comedian whose lampoons are not only funny, but incisively accurate.
ENTPs are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick, and generally love to argue--both for its own sake, and to show off their often-impressive skills. They tend to have a perverse sense of humor as well, and enjoy playing devil's advocate. They sometimes confuse, even inadvertently hurt, those who don't understand or accept the concept of argument as a sport.
ENTPs are as innovative and ingenious at problem-solving as they are at verbal gymnastics; on occasion, however, they manage to outsmart themselves. This can take the form of getting found out at "sharp practice"--ENTPs have been known to cut corners without regard to the rules if it's expedient -- or simply in the collapse of an over-ambitious juggling act. Both at work and at home, ENTPs are very fond of "toys"--physical or intellectual, the more sophisticated the better. They tend to tire of these quickly, however, and move on to new ones.
ENTPs are basically optimists, but in spite of this (perhaps because of it?), they tend to become extremely petulant about small setbacks and inconveniences. (Major setbacks they tend to regard as challenges, and tackle with determin- ation.) ENTPs have little patience with those they consider wrongheaded or unintelligent, and show little restraint in demonstrating this. However, they do tend to be extremely genial, if not charming, when not being harassed by life in general.
In terms of their relationships with others, ENTPs are capable of bonding very closely and, initially, suddenly, with their loved ones. Some appear to be deceptively offhand with their nearest and dearest; others are so demonstrative that they succeed in shocking co-workers who've only seen their professional side. ENTPs are also good at acquiring friends who are as clever and entertaining as they are. Aside from those two areas, ENTPs tend to be oblivious of the rest of humanity, except as an audience -- good, bad, or potential. "

Compliments

I was recently out at a bar and I got so many compliments it was very overwhelming. They ranged from the inocuous "cute" to "fucking hot" with some more personalised ones like nice smile, nice teeth (bit odd) etc.

This of course made me very happy at the time, although there were some compliments that were inappropriately timed, like standing in line for the bathroom, or just so forced it seemed weird.

When you get a compliment that screams fake, then you start wondering why they said it, and at least i think that i find myself not wanting to talk to that person anymore.

I read an article that tried to explain flirting, and in its section on talking, which it claimed was less then 10% of what is involved in flirting, it said there were a whole list of things to avoid: Too serious, too flippant, too slow, too fast, not enough humour, too much humour etc. I think in general it was aiming for a measured approach. But then it pointed out that compliments are always a good bet. But too many or badly timed can cause the other person to get annoyed/bored, but that this was the least offensive offense in conversation.

Im not sure I agree, strange compliments make me feel like they are just trying to blow smoke, and makes me wonder at their altearier motive. Obviously one of them would be too sleep with you, but why would they want to sleep with you unless there was some actual attraction, and if that was the case shouldnt there be some actual material for them to use as compliments? The other thing is: they want to sleep with you to rack up points, or because they are that desperate and they believe you are an achievable level. And niether of those options seem palatable.

But aside from the compliments that didnt work, i got lost that did. That was nice, but i feel like its gone to my head. I dont think i like that fact either, because I would like to believe i am a more grounded person than that, and it takes more than a few self gratifying words to win over my attention. Not that i think i was better than the people giving me compliments, i mean they were nice, but i shouldnt just be interested in someone else because they are interested/give compliments to me. It should be because they are worth being interested in also.

Anyway, compliments are nice, too many can go to your head and oddly timed/sounding ones are not great.