Ok... I guess I need to reannounce this or something... I am currently testing whether and how accurately it is possible to type people purely through reinin dichotomies.

I'm going through this partly on the forum, partly in private mail with someone.

When doing this I type singular instances of behaviour. I consider the typing a success if the behaviour is within the same temperament and within one type quadra of what the generally accepted type of the person is.

As a practice run I did some Reinin typing on people whose names and types I did know. (And naturally they worked but that wasn't much of a test.)

Second I typed small amounts of discussion selected by another person (and I repeat, without knowing the person in question beforehand).

It turned out that I typed a comment by jewels as ENFp, one by cracka as ESFj, one by khamelion as ISFp, one by joy as ENFj... then there was another of which I unfortunately don't remember the type or the name of the person and one by baby on which I failed completely because the piece of text was humorous and I couldn't sort what was the real intention of it. I put that down as a personal, not a methodological failure.

Later I've started to type youtube videos of people of whom I have little preconceptions.
If people wish to agree or disagree with me and type these people differently, please do so. My skills as yet in this method are rather weak so I'll do my best to remember this and not feel insulted by differing opinions. Anyway, the typings so far were:
Wesley Clark: ESTp
Tom Tancredo: INTj
Mike Gravel: ENTj

I did access their wikipedia articles also but I consider biographical data a generally weak method to type people and gained relatively little from that. If you wish to share your ideas of the types of these people, please don't do it here, I'd prefer not to clutter this thread needlessly.

I've also started to type people in the "what's my type section". People who have observed me know I've previously done this quite rarely and really my starting ability in the process is low. For a prolonged period now I've considered only the types of a certain number of people I know intimately to be known to me for certain. (Though I admit I haven't been able to keep my mouth shut every time about my opinions on the type of some others). Anyway, now I'm doing a purposeful push to test whether I can type people purely with the set of axioms I've previously tested mainly theoretically and in a subset of people who are very close to me.

So, I apologize for any disturbances this may cause. If there's prolonged opposition to this habit of mine, I'll start doing it in private mails. This will result in a decreased availability of information on my experiment on the forum, something which may or may not be considered harmful by the generic populace. I would rather that the results were available for people to use and meditate on as they wish, but if there's an expression of their wish for me to do this process through private mails, I'll do it in private mails. I'll suggest that if five send me a private mail with an empty message field within the next 24 hours that is sufficient indication that I should continue the process in private.

Over and out.