SEI vs IEI
Markers that SEI mostly agrees with, while IEI mostly disagrees:
- I love reading and studying history, and almost automatically know what was happening in different parts of the world at the same time a hundred or two hundred years ago.
- I assert my position firmly and confidently in front of people of greater power and status.
- Compared to others of my gender, I have a deeper voice.
- It's easy for me to communicate with people - they almost always seem nice to me, and I feel no fear or barriers.
- Historical events are always well interconnected in my mind - by their simultaneity with other events of the period in different parts of the world, analogies with other periods, and their causal relationships with each other.
- I keep my word, even if it is not beneficial to me.
- The present is more or less clear to me, but the future is unclear and therefore of little interest.
- I am concerned about my health.
- When someone does something horrible to people I don't even know, I almost always intervene because I can't do otherwise.
- I remember all the key moments and details of a long conversation, all the main phrases of the interlocutor.
- Compared to many others, my pupils are usually small and narrow, like dots.
- I have always been interested in the laws of society's development and civilization.
- Sometimes I "nag" others with my care.
- There are often days (about half or more) when I think more about the general or others' well-being than my own.
- I don't eat more than others, but I am a gourmet, and in the search and selection of particularly tasty food, I am very diligent and discerning.
- I believe in the necessity of serving society.
- I usually can focus my attention on only one thing at a time.
- I like philosophy and science.
- In school, I showed the ability to draw with almost photographic accuracy.
- My lifestyle includes many pleasant physical activities and lots of physical activity.
- My stories are characterized by event sequence and continuity - mixing episodes from different moments in time in my story, placing them next to each other by some non-temporal sign, is not typical for me.
- Try to perform the following tasks [...] SEI: all the tasks were absolutely easy, without mistakes and without difficulty. IEI: mistakes arose in six tasks or more.
- I always think in advance about the possible consequences of my actions.
- What is more likely to arouse your interest and concern if you can choose a field of activity in the government? - SEI: The health of the masses. IEI: The country's sporting victories.
- Quite often I discuss my own or someone else's well-being, pleasant or unpleasant sensations, I am interested in what hurts where - in general, these are normal topics for conversation.
- My intestines work responsively and easily - practically every day at about the same time I have regular stools without any difficulties.
- I am highly willing to cooperate with others.
- I have good clear diction with quality pronunciation of all letters and sounds.
- I often compare the historical past with the present world.
- I always quickly stop at a warning shout.
- When visiting a doctor, I am always interested in my medical history, trying to inquire or even peek at what the doctor is writing.
- I always insist on my own, achieving recognition of my correctness by others.
- Many of my actions are more aimed at helping others than at my own interests.
- My hands never shake.
- I would make a good specialist in arranging convenient workplaces.
- If necessary, I think I can accurately copy someone else's handwriting.
- I instantly direct attention to any point in space, without the slightest difficulty.
- I like to tinker with causal relationships between numerous facts.
- I have a rather dense build.
- I like uncompromising frankness in expressing my feelings, without "evasion."
- I always spend a lot of time comfortably arranging myself in a new room.
- When communicating with many people, I start to refer more often to logical, scientific, or business facts and arguments than when alone with myself.
- If there is something to reproach a colleague for, I will definitely do it - in front of witnesses.
- I like to publicly point out the mistakes of a person who formally has a higher status.
- I can always and am always ready to explain my actions with words - I have no problems or dissatisfaction when necessary to do this.
- I am a good speaker, able to briefly and clearly convey material to the listener.
- As a rule, I can only keep my attention on one thing at a time.
- The key concepts for me are pleasure, satisfaction, enjoyment, satisfying hunger or thirst.
- Active gratitude to people who have helped me remains with me for many years.
- I like to share my own experiences thoroughly.
- My character is distinguished by liveliness and courage in approaching new people.
- I still enjoy the genre of children's riddles.
- By the sound of a bouncing ball alone, I can tell what surface it bounced off - asphalt, linoleum, or something else.
- I like to instruct new employees or just newcomers in some activity.
- I have bothersome problems with being overweight.
- Practically always, I am looking at someone or something specific with my eyes, rather than staring into infinite space.
- In which category do you more often think?: SEI: I think in terms of "what do I already have to do this or that." I choose goals for which I already have enough or almost enough resources. IEI: I don't care what I have for any actions. I care what I want to create. And even if I have nothing, I will create all this missing but needed for the goals with a volitional act of creation later.
- I remember the architectural details of buildings well - even without special memorization, I can probably draw the characteristic features of the house I was recently in from memory.
- When walking with someone, I like to talk along the way, walking silently is not interesting.
- I like to preach to others emphatically, striving to teach them my approach to life.
- I am more of a skeptic expecting future troubles than a romantic expecting future successes.
- I am very caring towards my relatives and close ones.
- I always find it easy to think.
- When guests come, the main thing I pay attention to is that no one is bored, even in the farthest corner.
Markers that IEI mostly agrees with, while SEI mostly disagrees:
- Do you have visual images in your head during the day? IEI: I can call up and see an imagined visual image, bright and colored, not only with closed eyes but even with open eyes - against the background of the surrounding environment. SEI: No, even if you close your eyes and try very hard to see something.
- I am emotionally "uneven" and unstable.
- I can persistently beg - I know the best moment to approach someone with a request.
- Compared to peers of my gender, I have a higher-pitched voice.
- Sometimes I feel that people are laughing at me behind my back.
- In my sleep, without waking up, I sometimes start talking out loud.
- I often have mood swings.
- I am often impulsive, displaying anger or aggression.
- I frequently experience various fears or panic states.
- I usually get bored if people around me talk about politics or science.
- I am a person with kind, though sometimes sad humor, soft and pleasant in communication.
- I know I am smart, but I usually find it difficult to show it to others.
- I am not interested in theoretical discussions.
- I have some obsessive fears or sometimes have obsessive and ridiculous "forbidden desires" - although, of course, I do not succumb to them (like pulling the emergency brake in a train or doing something else absurd and forbidden).
- If a person wants to hear some pleasant lie about themselves, I am ready to tell it without any problems.
- I drink little and rarely, my body does not need a lot of water.
- Perhaps I sometimes spend too much time on "mental chewing," too often weighing, thinking over, and evaluating, reasoning around and about, instead of just doing and moving on.
- What is truly beneficial at the moment is true.
- I can find joy even in insignificant and ordinary events.
- In choosing food, I am an aesthete.
- I can suggest to myself not to see a particular person or thing - and indeed for some time, I will not see them even if I look directly at them.
- Sometimes voices in my head become uncontrollable and intrusive.
- I like power, pressure, and strength in people.
- If someone trusts you, they are at your complete disposal.
- I don't care about the names and life stories of those who ruled the country in the last century.
- I tend to use very long complex sentences with many commas and participial constructions in my writing.
- I more often think about the coming week than about what will happen to the world in three years.
- My hands are usually cold.
- Military service for all young people should be: IEI: three years. SEI: voluntary.
- I have aggressive-impulsive traits.
- My thoughts use some visual images of varying degrees of clarity rather than words.
- I prefer someone else to make decisions for me.
- I have fantasies with ideas of self-torture and self-destruction.
- Every hour, I mentally "jump ahead," running versions of events that have not yet happened.
- In food, I mostly consume something sweet and starchy (chocolate, Snickers, candies, pastries, ice cream, pasta, potato chips, etc.), and I eat omelets, chicken, meat, fish, as well as vegetables and beans less often and less willingly.
- I always feel sick performing tasks that I do not understand or consider foolish.
- Solving a life problem, I can intrigue, covertly pit people against each other in a team.
- In general, I rather respect those who can steal without getting caught.
- When speaking publicly, I often confuse the endings of words.
- Sometimes I like to negatively impact the emotions of others, stirring people up, taking them out of their usual cozy balance.
- I am somewhat "slow" by nature.
- It is true that I never point out people's flaws.
- Sometimes I spend an entire evening thinking and worrying about what I need to do, what I haven't done, or what I can't do, what needs to be done, or what will happen if something is not done, etc.
- My interest in scientific questions is rather superficial; in any case, I would not choose a profession in this or a purely technical field.
- If I speak quickly, I get fluent but confused speech, sometimes with nonsensical insertions, as I find it difficult to follow my speech.
- I am more modest in behavior than others.
- Often, quite unintentionally, but "in fact" and out of habit, I provoke people to objections and disagreement.
- I have a tendency towards some theatricality in my experiences.
- It is simultaneously true that I think quickly but do not always manage to express in words what I mean.
- I like expressions like "ruthless energy," "cold determination," "raw power."
- I react painfully to any awkward situations in social contacts.
- In computer games, I prefer slow "smart" games - chess, checkers, backgammon, simple games like "minesweeper," etc.
- Precisely because of my conscientiousness, I generally avoid any additional responsibility.
- I often experience sudden and sharp feelings of rejection, irritated protest.
- Feelings and relationships between people interest me more than the events of politics and business.
- I do not let anyone into my inner world.
- I have the gift of self-suggestion - for example, to suggest not feeling cold or pain, etc.
- I would rather have a cat at home than a dog.
- I often stumble over the pronunciation of words, their correct enunciation.
- For the surrounding world to "get through" to me, I need strong external stimuli.
- It is usually easy for me to figure out what bait another person might "bite" on.
- Often, I want to hide, go away, dissolve, disappear.
- During monotonous work, I often deliberately start to diversify my actions, even if it reduces quality and productivity.
- I am attracted to situations that excite the nerves with a slight fear.