C'mon, HN is better than this psuedo-science. If it were a poll asking for sun and rising signs it'd get flamed and flagged to death.
People need better critical thinking skills.
Poll HN: What is your personality type?
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#122INTP
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#123Uhh, I really hate INTJ personalities, most are so uptight centered on being judgmental. The "worker bee" personality that I see at IT/software places. INFP ftw, feeling up and perceiving people over thinking and judging people!
I'm feeling pretty judged by this comment.
Haha, touche.
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#124Who are "hackers" here? Software engineers?
Curious about the type distribution of IT entrepreneurs (founders, co-founders, CEO's, and CTO's).
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#125Who are "hackers" here? Software engineers? Curious about the type distribution of IT entrepreneurs (founders, co-founders, CEO's, and CTO's).
Another thought: Is the distribution the consequence of natural selection/evolution? Does it mean that hackers are losers in the survival game?
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yet the poll-results show that HN is predominantly INTP/INTJ, which Myers-Brigg would predict for this audience!
Even more interesting given that those two are among the rarest archetypes in the general population by some estimates: http://www.capt.org/mbti-assessment/estimated-frequencies.ht... Also, no wonder we're all "judgmental".
A group of cows is a herd, a group of crows is a murder, and a group of INTJs is an argument.
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#127There is a better way to visualize it.
Do click on the link: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7033047
Unfortunately, this chart is arranged badly. But you can glean the information by comparing columns.
First huge difference: N > S (biggest of all!) Next difference: T > F (more pronounced amongst Ns) Next difference: I > E (more pronounced amongst NTs)
Note that there is almost no difference along the J/P axis.
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#128Obligatory references on the subject of the unvalidated Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/myers-b... "Now, 50 years after the first time anyone paid money for the test, the Myers-Briggs legacy is reaching the end of the family line. The youngest heirs don’t want it. And it’s not clear whether organizations should, either. . . . . "Yet despite its widespread use and vas…
If you'd prefer a somewhat better regarded personality measure, there's Big 5. e.g. http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ (Not sure if this is a good example but... Google)
Which isn't popular with the average Joe, because in contrast to MB, where all the types have somewhat positive names (Architect, Healer, Protector, Mastermind, Champion, Inventor, ...), the big 5 measures personality traits that can be regarded as negative (and which probably are in the context of social interaction). No one likes to hear from a test that they're a disagreeable, neurotic, close-minded person.
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#129Re: Poll HN: What is your personality type?
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Typical ESFP response....
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised at all if those who jump in to denounce Myers Briggs have similar personality types. Among all those I know who've taken it, myself included, it's been strongly indicative of their personality. And as I noted in another comment, three different tests have yielded the same results for me.
When I first discovered this test, I made all my friends take it. Out of them, two stood out as highly skeptical to the whole concept, and disagreeing with the resulting type.
Somewhere at the bottom of the description for their type, and only for their type out of the 16, it mentioned specifically that this type 'hates these kinds of things' (or something like that).