<p>Lillpod - thanks for posting Susan Vain’s Ted talk -</p>
<p>I meant Susan Cain</p>
<p>Okay, I think everyone who is reading this thread who is going to weigh in with a type has done so. So it is time to compare ourselves to the rest of the world. I used this site (which shows % of each type, but also an interesting breakdown by gender).</p>
<p>[Meyers-Briggs</a> Statistics](<a href=“http://www.theanconas.com/MBTI/mfstats.htm]Meyers-Briggs”>http://www.theanconas.com/MBTI/mfstats.htm)</p>
<p>I counted 50 people who have provided their types. I did not include our kids if we put them on the list (I was interested in the breakdown of our actual posters I know a few are students, but that is fine I just didnt want to include people who did not actually post on the thread themselves). Also, I think our group is heavily weighted to women, so I put in the % different from the female population as a point of interest. </p>
<p>So for each type you will see:</p>
<p>% of total what percentage of our 50 people are that type
% of all people how do we compare to the total % in the general population? A negative number means we are that percentage lower than the general population, positive means we are higher
% of women how do we compare to the % in the population of women? Again, negative means we are that percentage lower, positive means we are higher.</p>
<p>Green means we are as a group higher than the general population, red means lower. </p>
<p>ESTJ 4% of total, -4.7% of all people, -2.3% of women
ESTP 0% of total, -4.3% of all people, -3% of women
ISTJ 4% of total, -7.6% of all people, -2.9% of women
ISTP 2% of total, -3.4% of all people, -.4% of women
ENTJ 8% of total, 6.2% of all people, 7.1% of women
ENFP 2% of total, -6.1% of all people, -7.7% of women
INTJ 22% of total, 19.9% of all people, 21.2% of women
INFP 6% of total, 1.6% of all people, 1.4% of women
ENFJ 8% of total, 5.4% of all people, 4.7% of women
ENTP 4% of total, .8% of all people, 1.6% of women
INFJ 16% of total, 14.54% of all people, 14.4% of women
INTP 10% of total, 6.7% of all people, 8.2% of women
ESFJ 4% of total, -8.3% of all people, -12.9% of women
ESFP 2% of total, -6.5% of all people, -8.1% of women
ISFJ 8% of total, -5.8% of all people, -11.4% of women
ISFP 0% of total, -8.8% of all people, -9.9% of women</p>
<p>intparent, I’m confused. I thought my type, INTJ, was pretty rare in women, and the site you point to says it’s 0.8% of the female population, and only 2.1% of the population at large. Where are you finding 21.2% of all females are INTJ?</p>
<p>No, I thought this might be kind of confusing. I didn’t want to key in all the info from the link into this post (it is in my spreadsheet, though).</p>
<p>The first percentage is what percentage of OUR pool of CC posters who put their types on this thread are INTJs. So 22% (!) of our posters were INTJs.</p>
<p>The second percentage is how we compare to the total population. In the total population 2.1% of the population is INTJ. Since we are 22% INTJ, we are 19.9% above the general population. So it shows how much higher (or lower) we are than one would expect in a general population pool.</p>
<p>The third percentage is how we compare to the population of women. In the population of women only .8% are INTJ. Just saying our group is almost all women (can’t tell from names, but I know from past interactions that probably 90% of the people in our pool of 50 is female). If our INTJs ARE all women, we would be 21.2% above the population of women in our pool. Again, it shows how much higher (or lower) we are than one would expect in the overall population of women. We are definitely skewed in the INTJ direction!</p>
<p>Ah–thanks so much for the clarification!</p>
<p>I was gonna say… No way are INTPs 6.7% of the general population.</p>
<p>Nope, if you click on the link you will see that they are 3.3% of the total population.</p>
<p>Awesome, intparent. Thanks for putting that together.</p>
<p>As I was staying up WAY too late last night, I was thinking about this thread, and reflecting that all of the Is in my family are night owls, and all of the Es are early birds. My love of being awake at 2 a.m. is directly linked to my introversion. </p>
<p>Any other Is have this experience? How about you Es: are you early birds?</p>
<p>E here who is actually more of a night owl. </p>
<p>However, as with being able to flip between E and the I*, I can also flip between being a night owl or morning person as needed. </p>
<p>However, am extremely strong on the NTJ aspects.</p>
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<li>I can be comfortable and used to my own company without complaint. However, if I had the choice, I’d rather have congenial company.</li>
</ul>
<p>I’ve always been an early bird, and I am more of an I.</p>
<p>All righty then. So much for my theory. :D</p>
<p>LasMa - absolutely. I am, in fact, nocturnal when I have nothing to do during the day, and if I get to determine my own schedule, I far prefer to work at night - not only is there more solitude, but some things are better contemplated at night. I have spent more nights at 24-hour places than I care to count. </p>
<p>Not sure about the correspondence though - I think my family is all I, and I’m the only one who does that. I can think of a couple of I friends who are absolutely not night owls, but they’re IS_Js, and the SJs love order and routine.</p>
<p>Another nocturnal E here. I love to stay up late and sleep late. If I could, I’d probably sleep from about 3am to 10am and work from noon until 8pm.</p>
<p>Me too. Nocturnal E.</p>
<p>The night is special to me (INTP). It is quiet, dark, graced by the moon and stars, after the day, and before I go to bed. I feel like it has magical qualities that bring out the best in me.</p>
<p>In college, when I only had afternoon classes, I went to bed at 4:00 and got up at noon. It was glorious. Lately I’ve recognized that it’s not normally feasible so I take melatonin at 9:30 to help maintain a 11:00-12:00 bedtime.</p>
<p>I have to get up at 4:30 am for work, so I have no choice but to go to bed early. But it’s always been my normal inclination to do so, even as a teenager during summer vacation.</p>
<p>Perfect description of the late-night magic, Halogen.</p>
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<p>Absolutely not! Although I am sometimes still up in the early hours.</p>
<p>A few pages back we talked about how P’s had trouble completing their shopping, always seeking more alternatives. That reminded me about the subtle difference between making a choice and making a decision: the word decide has the same root as homicide and genocide and suicide, meaning to kill. When we decide, we effectively kill off alternate choices in a situation where both choices cannot exist at the same time. For example, you cannot choose to attend both Harvard and Yale, but you can choose to purchase both pairs of shoes.</p>
<p>So do you think P’s have trouble choosing in general or just have trouble permanently taking alternate choices off the table by making a final selection?</p>