How do you tell the difference between sensing and intuition?

The main difference between sensing and intuition is that the sensing focuses on what can be detected through the five senses while intuition focuses on the impressions and patterns created from the gathered information.

Can you be a sensor and an intuitive?

From what I have discovered so far, no one can be an intuitive and a sensor at the same time. Someone can, however, be in between both of them, at least theoretically. Someone can even be in between thinking and feeling, too.

Are there more sensors or intuitives?

Sensing and Intuition are opposite preferences. A person’s natural tendency toward one will be stronger than the other. There are by far more Sensing people in the population than Intuitives. Sensors make up almost three-fourths of all people with Intuitives at just over 26\%.

What are the characteristics of intuitive thinking?

Intuitive thinking has contrasting qualities: it is unfocused, nonlinear, contains “no time,” sees many things at once, views the big picture, contains perspective, is heart centered, oriented in space and time, and tends to the real or concrete.

How do you know if someone is perceiving or judging?

Judging and Perceiving People with the Judging preference want things to be neat, orderly and established. The Perceiving preference wants things to be flexible and spontaneous. Judgers want things settled, Perceivers want thing open-ended.

Are sensors observant?

Sensing is a perceiving function. People with a sensing preference trust what they see in the concrete world. They are detail-oriented and realistic people who are often called “down-to-earth” and grounded. They trust facts and personal experience and are very observant of what is happening around them.

How do you identify a sensor or an intuitive person?

Some easy ways to identify a sensor or an intuitive: – Sensors tend to be practical and down-to-earth. – Intuitives tend to be imaginative and innovative – Sensors focus more on the present (today, this week) or the past than the future.

Do you prefer sensing or intuition?

Of the four personality preferences in the personality system created by Myers and Briggs, the gap is widest between Sensors and Intuitives. While the population is split roughly 50/50 on the other dimensions, a full 70\% of people show a preference for Sensing over Intuition when taking a personality test.

How do you know if it’s intuition or something else?

But you spontaneously get a sense that they like you it is highly likely intuition. If you can recall when your intuition about someone liking you was correct or when your intuition was correct in general this will help you know whether its intuition or something else that you feel.

Are You an INTJ or a sensor personality type?

If you selected mostly “D” statements, then you’re likely an NJ personality type (INTJ, INFJ, ENTJ, ENFJ). You are future-oriented, insightful, and focused. Check out more about your brand of intuition here. If you were torn between “A” and “B” statements, then you’re most likely a sensor.