Myers-Briggs

[andrewducker]

So, Hacker News had a poll about how many users were of which personality type:

Clearly, I'm hanging out in the right place:
  INTP - 207
  INTJ - 188
  ENTP - 76
  ENTJ - 57
  INFP - 41
  ENFP - 30
  INFJ - 27
  ENFJ - 16
  ISTP - 12
  ESTJ - 11
  ISTJ - 11
  ESTP - 4
  ESFJ - 3
  ESFP - 2
  ISFJ - 2
  ISFP - 2

Comments

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

That distribution is really, really interesting. Thank you.

[andrewducker]

It is fascinating - I always knew that NT was vastly over-represented in computing types, but seeing the list show _all_ of the Ns over all over the Ss was interesting.

Also - each combination has the I variant before the E variant. And each combination has the P before the J (well, until we get down into very small samples).

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

I know. It's totally fascinating. My profile - ENFJ - is the last of the Ns before the Ss start, which fits in with my understanding of myself in this type of community.

I'd put large sums of money on you being *NT*, but could be talked into either preference on the two stars.

[andrewducker]

I'm an INTP - but occasionally stray over the line into E when I'm going through a very social patch. Only by a tiny amount though.

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

That was the one that I found hardest to call.

[andrewducker]

Well, I'm certainly not J. J people are made of wrong.

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

You're pretty organised. It wasn't my first guess, but it's not an incomprehensible conclusion to draw.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Interesting ... last time I checked (August) I was ISFP.
(only slightly F over T, somewhat more S over N. Pretty strong I & P ... )

[andrewducker]

That comment was supposed to be satire, by the way. J people can't be wrong - As all right-thinking people know, there's no such thing as wrong people :->

I'm not organised though - except when I really have to be. At which point I have a series of crutches designed to help me avoid utter chaos.

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

I did assume so.

It's the most difficult combination to navigate. rhythmaning is the first J partner I've ever had, and the relief is intense.

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

I share a Myers-Briggs type with Elizabeth Taylor, Marylin Monroe and Judy Garland. Camp, me? (ESFP, fwiw, though sometimes I come out as ENFP instead.)

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

(Also, apparently, Goldie Hawn and Eva Gabor. Good grief.)

[andrewducker]

Yeah, being with someone similar to you must make things dramatically easier.

Julie has J tendencies, but it also depends on what mood she's in :->

I think I need an NT, but other than that I can cope with most things.

[moniqueleigh]

Huh. Well, that explains why I had such a horrid time making sense of a character in one of my acting class assignments. She was originally played by Goldie Hawn. *head-desk* I have very strong IN tendencies, T/F is mostly 50/50, and more P than J, by a small bit. I simply couldn't wrap my head around playing such a complete ditz (at least, the prof/director wanted a ditz; I didn't read the character quite that way, maybe a touch of an airhead).