How can I tell if I'm a sensor vs an intuitive? I know there is a bias against sensors, so I'm not sure if the descriptions I found online are accurate or not. I've seen someone who is a "professional" typer say that if you're into aesthetics you must be a sensor, is that true?
Not at all. I've known INTJs who have incredible fashion sense and are super picky about their environment, by adhering to a particular aesthetic. Now, a sensing type may have BETTER fashion sense... a lot of people into interior design, fashion, makeup, etc., are sensors.
If you are an intuitive, all it means is you "know" things without having evidence from a sensing point of view. You catch on to things quickly (what's really going on here, how to do this or how to grasp this concept, or the big implications of something) rather than needing guidance through it. You treat your "assumptions" about people, situations, patterns, motives, etc., as the truth in a way that sensing types don't. If someone asked you, wait, how do you know that / what proof do you have, you might not have any, but it just seems right / like what's really going on.
Someone asks you a question about something you know a little bit about, and the answer you come up with, when you do research later, is pretty close to the truth -- you just sort of "figured it out" on an unconscious level, despite not having researched it yet. The more you know about a topic, the more accurate your "guesses." But because you trust what you don't need to explain to yourself or others, you act as if it's true when making decisions.
I have one intuitive parent and one sensing parent, and the intuitive parent is always "leaping to conclusions" about everything and stating it as a fact, to which the sensing parent goes "you can't know that for sure," or "how did you reach that conclusion? where's your evidence?" For a sensing type -- you need proof. This leads to that, and that leads to this, and this is the foundation of my hypothesis; it seems accurate, because it's proven itself to be reliable/accurate.
Intuitive types may not know the degree to which they are operating off of unseen assumptions and treating them as facts, or that those facts have no evidence behind them. So an intuitive sees their future how they want it to be, and acts as if it is already real today. They may fantasize about that future and dream about it, or work toward it, feeling that it's going to fall into place, whereas a sensor would come up with a more intentional method to get there, based on one thing leading to another.
Another thing intuition does well is big picture thinking. How this connects to that and affects this other thing and how it will play out; an INTJ I know predicted the shortages 6 months before Covid hit, and had stocked up on food/toiletries in advance. Intuition can often weave a pattern without needing to think about it much; it's like with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a lot of ENTP Joss Wheden's plot lines were not decided upon until later seasons, but he unconsciously laid most of the groundwork without even having a plan yet, because it all makes sense. (Willow seeing an alternate reality vampire gay version of herself, years before they decided to make her bi/gay.)
Ni is specific futuristic insights, and Ne weaves a giant net that catches useful things and resolves its own proverbial plot lines.
Short answer? Ask yourself how many of your "assumptions" are intuitive leaps, and how many of them have a solid basis in reality? Are you picking up on patterns with your mind, or is your knowledge more substantial because it's built on a foundation of details?
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