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{Understanding Your Preference Clarity Categories}
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{Your "type" represents a combination of four preferences based on the choices you selected on the MBTI.}
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{The name for the numeral that indicates your preference is the <I>preference clarity index<n>. They are grouped into <I>preference clarity categories:<n> Very Clear, Clear, Moderate, and Slight.}
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{Preference clarity categories only reflect the clarity of your preference; they do not measure your skills, abilities, or development.}
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{"Type" is a hypothesis; only you can validate it for yourself.}
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{Read your type description to see whether it fits you.  If not, you might want to read another one - either by changing the preference letter on the dichotomy with the lowest preference clarity index, or by changing the preference on the dichotomy where you may have guessed that you were the opposite one.}
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{The ¢ symbol indicates an inconsistency on that particular dichotomy between your overall preference clarity index and your preference clarity index on the word pairs.  The word pairs tend to be less distracting, less subject to specific situations, and more spontaneous.}
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{If A Low Preference Clarity Category Occurs:}
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{Issues such as environmental conditions, family expectations, or cultural pressures may be present on that dichotomy causing the preference clarity index to be slight.}
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{You may be experiencing some form of change, stress, or growth relative to career, personal direction or other life issues.}
.low3
{Your preference is not valued in the "mainstream" of your life, job or school.  Because of socializing pressures, Introverts, T women, and F men sometimes "pull" their preference clarity index nearer the middle the first time they take the MBTI.  When you are different from the "mainstream," you have at least three options: shape up - become like them or join them; ship out - leave that environment; or, if you can maintain your difference against the mainstream, your contribution may be even more significant because of your uniqueness in that environment.}
.low4
{You may be deceiving yourself about that preference and would rather be more like the opposite preference, thus pulling your preference clarity index toward the middle.}
.low5
{You may be deliberately trying to protect yourself, because you do not "trust" the system and are afraid this information could be used against you (CYA as it is called in some systems).}
.low6
{You may be trying to game or beat the MBTI.  Though you may or may not have succeeded, your preference is pulled towards the middle.  Ts generally and NTs specifically fall into this category.}
