Actually, when you look at the different brain wirings using MBTI, T-thinking is very close to using logic, whereas N is more like a sampling function that runs over an extended period of time.
Other things you can measure on people's brains, is the trust parameter. Do you trust other people's opinions? Some trust them very much, some almost never trust other people. I'm the second kind of type. If my wife says that she will sit down, I don't believe until she has actually done it. In the same way, if the doctor prescribes something, I wouldn't take it before I checked the prescription myself against literature. Others would never question the prescription. That's why I found an error in an antibiotics prescription for my daughter a couple of weeks ago (100mg/ml was prescribed, but the volume was taken from the 40mg/ml table in the drug product resume). Others would have spent less time on the topic, not realized that they were overdosing 2.5 times, and would probably have been perfectly happy about that.
I guess this is one of the reasons why I work with IT for the healthcare sector, I don't fall into all the traps and I don't let others ruin implementation by not having their work checked.
However, if you look at the average citizen, who doesn't know much about medicine, and typically has a non-extreme behavior with regards to trust to others, they do get into trouble, and they are not able to take care of their own health, unless they follow a very strict culture introduced at childhood - think of the mother that said: Wash your hands before dinner, sit right up, eat slowly etc. If people lose this culture, it is hard to get back. And only very few people can take care of themselves without, and I am not one of them. I guess that's the deep reason why we get nannyism. |
