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HN Poll: What is your personality type?

#1
I just re-tested myself with the abridged version of the MBTI located at: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

Funny thing is, for the first time in quite some time, my scores have been consistent. I tested as an INFJ for the third time in the last couple years, and when I read the portrait description, it fit like a glove. I skew towards the detail oriented portrait in that I tend to get annoyed when people ignore details. I've been doing my best to mitigate that by educating myself on the different personality types.

Working together is hard, but when done correctly, can really boost productivity and keep your team together. I'm very curious as to what the distribution of the HN community is.

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#5

I'm expecting to see a very biased distribution as compared to when you'd test a random sample.

I'm also an INTJ which is already adding to the probability of skewed distribution. Then again, it's not and won't be surprising to see many INTx types as developers are usually of this type.

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#7
I'm going to predict that most of the votes will be for INTJ (including mine) or INTP. That said, how valid are the results of the MBTI? I just read the criticism section on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Cri...) and the bit on statistical structure was interesting - for 'types' you'd expect to see a bimodal distribution, but, in reality, you see something more like a normal distribution that the test draws a line through the middle of. Your classification (i.e. the letter things) depend on which side of the curve you fall.

*Edited for clarity.

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#9
ENFP checking in.

Been doing this test every year or two for about 6 years now and has by far been the one I find the most accurate. I'm actually pretty interested to see how this survey turns out as well.

Anyone have any predictions on what the distribution might look like?

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#10
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Spoiler: INTJ/P will be hugely represented. Previous polls: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943722

I didn't look at those before I made my prediction - I based it on the results I remember from similar threads on Reddit.
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