Re: Unrecovery by female...

TimC wrote: 
On 2005-09-29, Logan Shaw (aka Bruce)
  was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:


neither am I lacking in traits that conflict with the norm.  I've taken
the Myers-Briggs (or clones of it at least), and I have one of the least
common personality types.


Have you noticed that the least common personality type (INTJ,
something like that?) accounts for 2% of the population?  And there
are 2^4=16 combinations, and thus on average, each group has 6% of the
population accounted for?  It's not really as rare as people make that
personality particular trait out to be.


Interesting point.  If you're talking about odds of meeting someone that
has your same personality type, then 2% vs. 6% is still a factor of three
worse odds than average.  But you're right that it doesn't make INTJ some
kind of one-in-a-million thing.

On the other hand, I'm a little confused, because somewhere I had read
that the split between introverts and extroverts was like 25%/75%,
whereas the Myers-Briggs web site has very nearly a 50%/50% split
between E and I.  Maybe they're measuring a slightly different thing,
or maybe they've normalized the scale or something.

  - Logan
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