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If you look at the Myers-Briggs personality types listed at TypeLogic, you'll see for the INTJ type (most often associated with engineering types) as being said
by ckozlowski 12y ago
If you look at the Myers-Briggs personality types listed at TypeLogic, you'll see for the INTJ type (most often associated with engineering types) as being said to often "Work at" a relationship.
This is, I know, a weak argument at best, but I would toss out as something to ponder that perhaps there's a higher incidence of analytic types to dissect and improve their relationship.
...or simply inclined to remain with the status quo. You decide.
- vkjv 12y agoWhile INTJ are most often associated with engineers, most engineers are not. INTJ is pretty rare, I think somewhere around 1%, which would make it only account for roughly 20% of engineers and scientists [citation needed]. Honestly, with money being one of the leading causes of divorce, I would say a reasonable assumption is just that engineers make more of it and are more likely to spend what they do have wisely.
- creshal 12y ago> I would say a reasonable assumption is just that engineers make more of it And have a low chance of suddenly getting laid off, and good chances at quickly finding new employment (at least compared to the vast majority of jobs).
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoIf you look at the Zodiac, most engineers are earth signs, and you know how hard it is to get along with them.
- dhimes 12y agoSo that your point is not lost: http://skepdic.com/myersb.html http://skepdic.com/myersb.html
- ryan-allen 12y agoINFP engineer chiming in. While MBTI is not scientifically credible, nor is Freudian psychoanalysis but it was a big deal in it's time. But hey, you're a fire sign. You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater, and while we're at it, check out the FFM [1], it's got stats and everything! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
- ckozlowski 12y agoI've heard of a lot of the criticism about the MBTI as well, and I agree with a majority of it. I'd thought my disclaimer sufficed enough to ward off the down votes. In any case, it was thrown out there to see what sticks. "What makes a relationship work" is hard to measure at best. But I have to think, just as the article makes some generalized assumptions from some rough figures, there might be a correlation to other rough observations, even if they don't hold up to scientific levels of scrutiny. tl;dr: I don't think any of what's being discussed is able to be isolated as a defining factor of what makes marriage successful. But it's interesting to speculate.