I'm actually quite a fan of Myers-Briggs, and a pretty typical INTP.<br><br>As to whether it's well-founded, apparently people have the ability to see themselves in whatever description you show them, much like horoscopes, so studies where they've had people take the test and rank how accurate the description is show that people don't see much difference between one that matches their score and one picked at random.<br>
<br>On the other hand, I've had the experience of someone being borderline on a couple of things and getting the wrong type. You read the description and think okay. Then you find the right one and realize, OH! I have a friend that I always called Puddleglum because he's a terrible pessimist. Sure enough, his type listed literary characters of that type and right next to Eeyore from the Winnie the Pooh stories was dear Puddleglum the Marsh-Wiggle from the Chronicles of Narnia.<br>
<br>Todd<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Noel Welsh <<a href="mailto:noelwelsh@gmail.com">noelwelsh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Gene Sullivan <<a href="mailto:gene_sullivan@yahoo.com">gene_sullivan@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Seems to me that virtually all the programmers I've worked with would qualify as MBTI type INTP or INTJ, each only about 1% of the general population.<br>
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> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTP" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTP</a><br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ</a><br>
><br>
> Do you have any intuitions or nascent thoughts on this?<br>
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</div>>From the above descriptions one could argue that programmers are<br>
predisposed to statically typed languages, or to arguments over the<br>
virtues and perils of same. Or perhaps just to bad fashion sense.<br>
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I'd like to know if the Myer-Briggs typing has been shown correct.<br>
I'm not sure it is well-founded or complete. *cough*<br>
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