This is worse for the rules-based mind, since "obviously" there is a clear set of steps that you follow and then the girl puts out -- which I think is the real correlation with Aspergers' / INTJ / whatever.
I'm definitely an INTJ and probably borderline asperger's but somehow I managed to internalize at a very young age the idea that rules are not always as straightforward as they seem. I think I learned this from science class when we talked about designing experiments - for a proper experiment you need to create a control that only varies from your experiemental sample by ONE variable - if more than one variable differs you will never be able to tell what caused your result. Interpersonal realtionships have a damned lot of variables and if I do the same thing twice and get different results, clearly there was simply a variable I failed to control for - it doesn't actually throw my rule out the window. Thus I can preserve my image of the world as a logical rule-based place :)
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Date: 2006-03-27 09:16 pm (UTC)I'm definitely an INTJ and probably borderline asperger's but somehow I managed to internalize at a very young age the idea that rules are not always as straightforward as they seem. I think I learned this from science class when we talked about designing experiments - for a proper experiment you need to create a control that only varies from your experiemental sample by ONE variable - if more than one variable differs you will never be able to tell what caused your result. Interpersonal realtionships have a damned lot of variables and if I do the same thing twice and get different results, clearly there was simply a variable I failed to control for - it doesn't actually throw my rule out the window. Thus I can preserve my image of the world as a logical rule-based place :)