Of the following, which of the two personality types do you generally align with?
When approaching a given situation or idea, do you typically focus on details first, or start with the bigger picture, filling in details second?
Edit for clarity: I’m not asking anyone to strictly identify with one or the other. It’s a question of where on the spectrum between them you fall.
I am more of a big picture person and my partner is more of a details first person.
The context totally changes the question.
“Which do you like more, blue or green?” is very different from “Which do you feel you are, a blue-liker or a green-liker?”
The first question directly asks a specific thing.
The second is asking what category a person feels they belong to. And assigning a category implies many things in addition to liking the color.