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According to one of my profs, something like 80% of programmers are INTJ in the Meyer's Briggs scheme... the I stands for introvert. I don't know what the othe
by araneae 16y ago
According to one of my profs, something like 80% of programmers are INTJ in the Meyer's Briggs scheme... the I stands for introvert. I don't know what the other 20% looks like but there are probably a lot of I types.
- tokenadult 16y agoAccording to one of my profs, something like 80% of programmers are INTJ in the Meyer's Briggs scheme. I hope your professor is aware that the Myers-Briggs scheme http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0684830914/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0684830914/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0743243560/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0743243560/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Cri... http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7450/1244 http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7450/1244 has never been validated. http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=hss_pubs http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article... http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/develop/mbti.pdf http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/deve... http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7450/1244 http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7450/1244 Moreover, I would ask for a citation to show that anyone has gathered data from a properly representative sample of "programmers" (how was that group defined?) to show the personality characteristics found in the sample on a validated instrument. Statements of this kind are often based on inadequately small samples and may also suffer from ascertainment bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias