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« on: May 10, 2010, 11:32:51 PM »
There have been dozens of different attempts at categorizing personality. I prefer the Myers-Briggs typology. Of course with the handful of concrete knowledge we have on human thought and personality, none of them are going to be as accurate as you might like. That being said, I think the "Temperaments" setup is a bit too... unrefined. Its just taking a few broad categories and saying they exist and how they can be combined to explain each other. It doesn't really use any true scientific reasoning. Just a kind of, "Hey have you guys noticed" approach that has evolved over hundreds of years. That's not to say that broad observation isn't a useful tool in evolving a theory. Besides, I think a value like "introverted", which you dismiss so readily in your original post, is an integral part of what a human is and how they deal with, express, and even feel emotions.
Of course all that being said, if I was to follow along with this particular categorization system, I would say that I'm Choleric/Phlegmatic. That hardly begins to describe me, but its a start.