Post edited 9:02 am – August 6, 2010 by cmb

I was just reading up on Myers-Briggs type stuff, because it's totally scary how one personality type describes me SO accurately,  I did find one big criticism.  That is that if 'types' existed then you would expect that most people would lie at one of the extremes, either very Introverted or very Extroverted, but it turns out that in reality the distributions are centrally peaked.  Most people lie right at the boundary, neither intro or extro-verted, neither strongly 'perceiving' or 'judging', and so on.

I feel like the test works so well for us because we both have quite 'extreme' personalities.  Here are my exact scores (I guess this definitely counts as creepy oversharing on the internet)

  Introverted : 100% (LOL)

  iNtuitive: 88%

  Thinking: 78%

  Perceiving: 22%

0% means right at the boundary, 100% means 'totally introverted, you fucking nerd'. With the exception of the 'P' thing I'm a pretty extreme example of all of these things, and I know the same is true for you, too.  I feel like we both identify with this 'type' because we are extreme examples of it, and that not too many other people will have the same response.