ENFJ was the only type we didn't get on the poll.
In the course of a month I received a total of 89 votes. Thanks to everyone who played along...I will be thinking more about what this data means for our community as time goes by, but here is my initial report. I have compiled my data in an Excel spreadsheet. It does not contain any information not posted here, but if you'd like a copy, please let me know and I'll e-mail it to you.
The poll was based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which is an instrument developed by Isabel Myers and her mother Katherine Cook Briggs, and first published in 1975. They based their typing on Carl Jung's 16 Psychological Types.
In the first column you will find the types and how many votes I received for each type. Next is the percentage of each type according to this poll. The last column tells what percentage of the general population falls into each type according to Myers-Briggs. M-B percentages don't add up to 100% due to their method of rounding.
Beneath the results, I have broken the results down by each of the 16 individual factors, E-I, S-N, F-T, and J-P.
At the bottom I have included a sort based on Keirsey's temperament pairs: Rationalists (NT), Idealists (NF), Artisans(SP) and Guardians(SJ).
This is a very unscientific poll, because if a person deleted their cookies they could have voted more than once. Also, since the purpose of this poll was to see how the types fell in the blogging community, this is assuming everyone who voted is a blogger. As well, the quiz at Mypersonality.info which most of us used to determine our type was an unscientific quiz.
That said, it is still interesting to me...we are by far introverts and intuitives. I think it's the intuitive factor that really interests me: in the general population, only 26% are intuitives, but 83% of us bloggers are. Also, not so surprisingly, we are primarily INFP's.
I'm not the kind of brain that would be good at breaking down this data more thoroughly, so if anyone wants to use this information, feel free. At the bottom I have include a number of links that will tell you more about your type.
Personality Page
TypeLogic
LifExplore
Similar Minds
Wikipedia: Myers-Briggs
Wikipedia: Kerisey
In the course of a month I received a total of 89 votes. Thanks to everyone who played along...I will be thinking more about what this data means for our community as time goes by, but here is my initial report. I have compiled my data in an Excel spreadsheet. It does not contain any information not posted here, but if you'd like a copy, please let me know and I'll e-mail it to you.
The poll was based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which is an instrument developed by Isabel Myers and her mother Katherine Cook Briggs, and first published in 1975. They based their typing on Carl Jung's 16 Psychological Types.
In the first column you will find the types and how many votes I received for each type. Next is the percentage of each type according to this poll. The last column tells what percentage of the general population falls into each type according to Myers-Briggs. M-B percentages don't add up to 100% due to their method of rounding.
Beneath the results, I have broken the results down by each of the 16 individual factors, E-I, S-N, F-T, and J-P.
At the bottom I have included a sort based on Keirsey's temperament pairs: Rationalists (NT), Idealists (NF), Artisans(SP) and Guardians(SJ).
This is a very unscientific poll, because if a person deleted their cookies they could have voted more than once. Also, since the purpose of this poll was to see how the types fell in the blogging community, this is assuming everyone who voted is a blogger. As well, the quiz at Mypersonality.info which most of us used to determine our type was an unscientific quiz.
That said, it is still interesting to me...we are by far introverts and intuitives. I think it's the intuitive factor that really interests me: in the general population, only 26% are intuitives, but 83% of us bloggers are. Also, not so surprisingly, we are primarily INFP's.
I'm not the kind of brain that would be good at breaking down this data more thoroughly, so if anyone wants to use this information, feel free. At the bottom I have include a number of links that will tell you more about your type.
| TYPE | Total Votes/ | Vote % | General Population % | |||||||||||||||
| 89 | (per M-B) | |||||||||||||||||
| ISTJ | 5 | 5.62% | 11.6 | |||||||||||||||
| ISFJ | 1 | 1.12% | 13.8 | |||||||||||||||
| INTJ | 17 | 19% | 2.1 | |||||||||||||||
| INFJ | 10 | 11% | 1.5 | |||||||||||||||
| ISTP | 2 | 2.25% | 5.4 | |||||||||||||||
| ISFP | 2 | 2.25% | 8.8 | |||||||||||||||
| INTP | 7 | 8% | 3.3 | |||||||||||||||
| INFP | 22 | 25% | 4.4 | |||||||||||||||
| ESTJ | 1 | 1.12% | 8.7 | |||||||||||||||
| ESFJ | 2 | 2.25% | 12.3 | |||||||||||||||
| ENTJ | 5 | 5.62% | 1.8 | |||||||||||||||
| ENFJ | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | |||||||||||||||
| ESTP | 1 | 1.12% | 4.3 | |||||||||||||||
| ESFP | 1 | 1.12% | 8.5 | |||||||||||||||
| ENTP | 1 | 1.12% | 3.2 | |||||||||||||||
| ENFP | 12 | 13% | 8.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Introvert | 66 | 74% | 50.7 | |||||||||||||||
| Extrovert | 23 | 26% | 49.3 | |||||||||||||||
| Sensing | 15 | 17% | 73.3 | |||||||||||||||
| iNtuitition | 74 | 83% | 26.7 | |||||||||||||||
| Feeling | 50 | 56% | 59.8 | |||||||||||||||
| Thinking | 39 | 44% | 40.2 | |||||||||||||||
| 89 | 100% | |||||||||||||||||
| Judging | 41 | 46% | 54.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Perceiving | 48 | 54% | 45.9 | |||||||||||||||
| Kiersey | ||||||||||||||||||
| NF | 44 | 49% | 16.3 | |||||||||||||||
| NT | 30 | 34% | 10.4 | |||||||||||||||
| SJ | 9 | 10% | 46.4 | |||||||||||||||
| SP | 6 | 7% | 27 | |||||||||||||||
Personality Page
TypeLogic
LifExplore
Similar Minds
Wikipedia: Myers-Briggs
Wikipedia: Kerisey
That's very interesting...
ReplyDeletewas fun to take the test.
INFPs rule!
ReplyDeleteWell, at least here we do.
Rhonda - I thought so too, thanks for playing!
ReplyDeleteGary - Yeah we do! I kinda expected that, but it's cool to see it's true. But now I keep thinking about why so many INFP's are bloggers?
ReplyDeleteIts interesting that there were predominatley Introverts - makes me wonder if Blogging is a passtime for more I's than E's. It would make sense. I am so much more "E"-ish on-line than in real life :)
ReplyDeleteBarbara - I think most of us bloggers are introverts because we can take the time to process when interacting with people...which isn't so easy in real life.
ReplyDeleteIt's not so much that we are shy or anti-social, but something I have heard a lot...when interacting with people face to face, we to think through our responses carefully....but then in real life, by the time we have formulated a response, the conversation has moved on without us. However, the power of the written word and the blog overcomes that! Yay!
"Not so much shy or anti-social..."
ReplyDeleteGood point. When I'm in a real-time conversation with more than one person I usually get left behind because it takes me a while to think about things and then assemble the words. Most of the time I just don't bother trying to compete.
Larry - Exactly...what you described is exactly what I'm talking about in my comment to Barbara.
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