In the same vein as Roko’s investigation of LessWrong’s neurotypicalness, I’d be interested to know the spread of Myers-Briggs personality types that we have here. I’d guess that we have a much higher proportion of INTPs than the general population.
Online Myers-Briggs test can be found here, though I’m not sure how accurate it is
That’s a small sample, but we actually seem to score below average on Conscientiousness. Of the 7 responses to that request, the Conscientiousness scores were 1, 1, 8, 13, 41, 41, and 58.
There are a lot of problems with Myers-Briggs. For example, the test doesn’t account for people saying things because they are considered socially good traits. Claims that Myers-Briggs is accurate seem often to be connected to the Forer effect. A paper which discusses these issues is Boyle’s “Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): Some psychometric limitations”, 1995 Australian Psychologist 30, 71–74.
In the same vein as Roko’s investigation of LessWrong’s neurotypicalness, I’d be interested to know the spread of Myers-Briggs personality types that we have here. I’d guess that we have a much higher proportion of INTPs than the general population.
Online Myers-Briggs test can be found here, though I’m not sure how accurate it is
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http://lesswrong.com/lw/2a5/on_enjoying_disagreeable_company/22ga
That’s a small sample, but we actually seem to score below average on Conscientiousness. Of the 7 responses to that request, the Conscientiousness scores were 1, 1, 8, 13, 41, 41, and 58.
Add another C5. Does not surprise me, as per all the akrasia talk here around.
I tend to score very high on openness to experience and average to low on extraversion but only average to low on conscientiousness.
There are a lot of problems with Myers-Briggs. For example, the test doesn’t account for people saying things because they are considered socially good traits. Claims that Myers-Briggs is accurate seem often to be connected to the Forer effect. A paper which discusses these issues is Boyle’s “Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): Some psychometric limitations”, 1995 Australian Psychologist 30, 71–74.