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Technically Youtube, because usually I have a youtube tab for music while I browse other websites, although (before youtube changed up its layout) commenting and replying on videos wasn't a bad way to kill time.
Wow! This is amazing. It's exactly what I've been looking for. I've been doing my own research to find a correlation between physique and MBTI types, but It's already been done and it makes sense. Thanks for informing me of this. :D
I'm a 2-4-5 which matches my build, I guess. Small boned but naturally muscular/ square chest/small waste/ Extraverted intuitive/ introverted thinking
For each 3 digit code, Sheldon assigned an animal totem, just so you know, the irish shepard totem is 3-4-5 (very similar to yours). So, you're a balanced-mesomorphic-ectomorph. Your lack of endomorphy and above average ectomorphy indicate that your forearms are probably much larger than your upper arms.
I would still personally consider 2-4-5 to be medium boned. That's 7th place out of 12 places in terms of propensity to gain muscle, and 9th place out of twelve in terms of propensity to gain fat.
It's good to see that I actually got a use out of these. Notice how in the medium frame size, mesomorphy cannot deviate by more than one point from ectomorphy, and endomorphy is variable. In the medium-large and medium-small sections, we find that mesomorphy deviates by no more than 3 points from ectomorphy. The large and small sections include any type whose mesomorphy deviates by more than 3 points from ectomorphy.
For each 3 digit code, Sheldon assigned an animal totem, just so you know, the irish shepard totem is 3-4-5 (very similar to yours). So, you're a balanced-mesomorphic-ectomorph. Your lack of endomorphy and above average ectomorphy indicate that your forearms are probably much larger than your upper arms.
You're correct.
Where can I find some good info on the animal totems?
Ah, I really wish that I could find it, I've done plenty of digging, but to no avail. I've heard them sparsely mentioned on various websites, but it hasn't worked out.
The most that I could find:
1-1-7 is the walking stick, 4-6-2 is the great alaskan bear, and 1-6-2 is the great owl (although I dislike the notion that we should extend somatotypes beyond mammals). An ocelot is roughly a 1-5-4, and lions are about 2-6-1, give or take. Extreme endomorphs are associated with whales, and the 7-4-1 being the ancient hippopotamus (probably impossible for humans, as you'd have to combine the rarest documented type 6-5-1 and 6-3-1 to make a 6-4-1 alone). I personally would call the 6-3-1 the killer whale.
I really had to fight tooth and nail to dig this up, I would find maybe one or two of these per website. You need to buy Atlas of Men to find the list of 88, it's probably copyright protected.
For reference, I'm a 4-4-3 (5'10-ish and 185)and an ESTP myself. My dad is like a 5-5-2, which explains it. My shoulders are slightly wider than the dead-center centrimorph, but since I'm still young, my endomorphy hasn't entirely caught up with me yet.
My dad was about 5'9 210 medium boned, wide shoulders square chest, big legs, very muscular, small waste, what would you say he was?
Somatotype is not dependent on dietary habits, or exercise levels.
My guess would be that he's an ectomorphic mesomorph, by the description. You need to look at the hip width to establish endomorphy, and chest circumference/width for mesomorphy. Ectomorphy is simply a lack of both of these features.
Ectomorphic Mesomorphs tend to have wide shoulders in comparison to their frame size, due to the fact that the ectomorphy in someone diminishes shoulder width less quickly than the frame size, and the shoulders show a clearer contrast to the hip width than the endomorphic mesomorph, in the same sense that ectomorphic shoulder width is greater in proportion to hip width than that of the endomorph.
My final guess is (pari passau) that your father is a 2-5.5-3.5
And is there any way to calculate how genetics can effect a new born's personality, using the Sheldon/ Jung joined theories?
Yes, the endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph are in fact named after the ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm, which are cells found in early embyronic develoment:
The concept of kickers, suckers, and watchers in babies is quite similar to, if not identical to the behavioral types of the endomorph ectomorph, and mesomorph.
No, it doesn't, at all. Not even close. He means well, but he fundamentally misunderstands physical somatotypes, and doesn't even address psychological somatotyping in his video.
He seems to be under the impression that somatotyping determines what your body type looks like after environmental factors are taken into account. That is not the point, as I've said earlier, it uses development and shape of your bone structure to calculate your propensity to gain/lose fat, or gain/lose muscle. Although he understands that bone structure does not determine metabolism, he neglects to mention the psychological facets of the theory, which if you were to call bullshit, you'd have to acknowledge Jung's ideas as (wholly) bullshit as well.
Sheldon's aim was not to establish a workout regiment, that's ridiculous. His objective was to research the relationship of the development of a person's propensities to gain fat and muscle with that of a person's personality.
Either way, the crux of his video was to establish that we should not dwell on our small tendencies. That is certainly true, but it does not address the validity on Sheldon's theories.
Those were my exact thoughts about it. Just checking.
On another note...I think I am a bit confused about my type now.
On the chart at the bottom of this page, (http://www.mysomatotype.com/body-type/?p=203), my numbers(3-4-5) appear to fall right in between ENTP and INTJ. Would that mean I have traits of both types?
The chart massively oversimplifies the divisions. It is not the work of Sheldon, either.
Your psychological type, as described by Sheldon, is Introverted Thinking Intuition (in that order). In fact, there are some endomorphic mesomorphs that fall in the Introverted Thinking Sensation region, and endomorphy overall is the least correlated with introversion.
In fact, inner explorations has a paragraph explaining that there is a ~70% rate of extroversion, sensation, and feeling amongst overweight and obese individuals (who generally have their endomorphy exceed their ectomorphy by a factor of > 2.5.
You think that chart is oversimplified, but don't think that your "Introverted thinking intuition" conclusion isn't oversimplified? There are 2 Intuitive functions and two thinking functions...so that "Introverted thinkingintuition", doesn't explain much at all.
The chart is much more elaborate and I don't see any conflict between It's and sheldon's charts.
And I don't see how any of that stuff regarding sensor types, is relevant.
I mostly view it as oversimplified because I don't see types as being as succinct at describing types as the site that you linked to does. Secondly, it does not overlap with the gonadal, parasympathetic, adrenal, etc types quite well.
Sensor types are really an attempt to explain certain class types (like the introverted thinking sensation type mentioned earlier, or the extraverted feeling type that often winds up in the midrange endo meso region).
The chart also doesn't catagorize how mental illnesses are associated with certain types (those with manic depression more often are less ectomorphic, and roughly evenly placed mesomorphy and endomorphy, etc).
Within the context of how Jung types differ, it's limited, and is downright unreliable when we begin to incorporate other psychological metrics.
Well, I enjoy discussing it for the sake of discussing it, and learning it for the sake of learning it. If you aren't interested in that, that's fine. Whether of not it is oversimplified or vague is a different question.
It seems vague to me because, it doesn't seem to completely or near completely explain all of the psychological/physiological tendencies of people with somewhat balanced/ balanced numbers.
Sure, it can give some indications of how we act and react, but it seems to only barley scratch the surface. It is useful and fun to find some of the correlations between the research and people, but it did not help me on what I was looking for. I probably just need to start applying it to the real world more often, so that I can start seeing/confirming the patterns.
How exactly does the somatotype affect mental and physical growth throughout a person's life? For instance, If you're an ectomorph firstly, mesomorph secondly, and endomorph lastly, does that mean you'll eventually start acting somewhat like a mesomorph and then later exhibit a few traits of endomorphy?
How exactly does the somatotype affect mental and physical growth throughout a person's life?
There are many factors at play:
1) Endomorphs tend to be fat, fat people have a certain stereotype connected to them (jolly, sluggish, etc) that give rise to them acting according to what is expected of them. It is a self-feeding cycle, and how other somatoypes are influenced by this is self explanatory.
2) Where their energy is focused. The mesomorph's muscles, the endomorph's visceral structures, and the ectomorphs lack of the two (causing them to be more greatly tuned/exposed to the information around them, like an antenna) allow them to, so to speak, live in their own worlds of pleasure seeking, action seeking, and pursuit of security.
In my view, the primary function dictates what someone wants, and the secondary function as their means of doing so is because the primary function represents their personal world, and their secondary function as what they use as a "tool" for interacting with the world around them.
3) Somatotype "visibility" changes with age.
A 5-4-2 will often appear to be something of a mesomorph at adolescence, with endomorphy having the upper hand by 22-25 years of age. Which, of course, is close to the polar opposite of what an ectomorph experiencing, being frail at a young age, but aging slowly and appreciating the later years most for the security, knowledge, and lack of overwhelming external stimuli.
However, at all ages, the personality type will not change due to an apparent (but not actual) change in somatotype, and it arguably changes very little as somatotype changes with age.
Somatotype is not dependent on dietary habits, or exercise levels.
He seems to be under the impression that all endos are supposed to be fat. One does not simply switch their somatotype by altering environmental factors, so to that end, his point is moot.
Facebook without a doubt. I'm always on it because I'm in this group where there is a group of writers for a site I go on. I'm also one of the many writers on the site. All the content on their is for the Christians who are into the geeky cultural such as video games, anime, cosplay, TV shows, and others we review from a clean and Christian perspective.
YouTube wins by default since it's pretty much always up, either on my phone or computer. Besides that, I use Craigslist more than any other site. Whether I'm looking for a new couch, or still trying to find a new job, or checking out how terrible the housing market is, I use Craigslist.
I spend tons of time watching 'Play to the Whistle'&'Virtually Famous'&'Head-On-with Mehdi Hasan' on youtube;Barring that I get the latest updates on Greece crisis and creep into Cd /Quora for some minutes
I spend the most time on my own personal website. I like doing my movie reviews and updating my website weekly on the latest news that has happened to me.