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Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

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Re: Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

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Post by jaxn »

I am an ENTP. E/I was only a 2 point difference, so I usually say I am an E/INTP.

Another question, how many people actually were administered the actual Myers Briggs test vs a web survey or classroom activity? (I took the test via a career counselor 10 years ago).

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Post by tricky »

petercooper wrote: post #20

Wow, pretty amazing. I test myself every year or two, and other than flipping from ENTP to INTP several years ago, it's been INTP ever since. I'm surprised just how many INTPs there are on here considering the supposedly low prevalence. FWIW, my wife is ESFJ, the polar opposite. It actually works out rather well. It's worth seeing what your SO is too, I wonder if that's a pattern.

My wife is ESFJ, too.

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Post by rglullis »

Wow. 30 points for INTP, 13 for INTJ while I'm writing this.

The timing for this poll couldn't be better. Just yesterday I was wondering about three things:

- How much of an INTP Paul Graham shows to be through his writing and his attitudes in regards to the development of Hacker News (both the software and the community).

- How much of the "initial" community would be INTP. It seems to me that many people came here because of affinity.

- Given that INTX are the least common group in the population (less than 5%), and given the way that PG is not willing to change the community "profile", this site is bound to have few users. Not because of elitism, but just because there isn't that many INTXs around!

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Post by wheels »

rglullis wrote: post #23

Wow. 30 points for INTP, 13 for INTJ while I'm writing this. The timing for this poll couldn't be better. Just yesterday I was wondering about three things: - How much of an INTP Paul Graham shows to be through his writing and his attitudes in regards to the development of Hacker News (both the software and the community). - How much of the "initial" community would be INTP. It seems to me that many people came here…

I've seen these run through various hacker communities in the past and INTJ is definitely the classical hacker, with INTP not too far behind.

When testing in high school I tended to test INTP, but I've drifted towards ENTP and now tend to test as a pretty strong extrovert.

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Post by LogicHoleFlaw »

pierrefar wrote: post #13

Here's a trick: do the test twice, about 10-15 minutes apart. When I did, the strength percentages changed, but the actual type was constant. Interesting.

I went back and took the test again. For each question where I'd hesitated to choose between two options I took the option which I had not chosen the first time. What surprised me was that the type did not change, only the percentages.

The description of my personality type (INTJ) was uncanny.

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Post by krs »

NTs dominate technical fields and most engineers are INTPs, so these results are consistent with what I've seen before. I've learned that your position on the Introversion-Extraversion axis depends on your situation. I'm a lot more outgoing when I'm at work if I can get a few hours in the evening alone to recharge mentally.

Oh, yeah. INTJ.

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