I have often heard it said that S types are more common than N types, which seems to be confirmed by a
U.S.A. Population Breakdown on Wikipedia. This surprised me as I know nobody that scores as an S type. My family and friends are all Ns – as are, I believe, a good many of my casual acquaintances. Keeping in mind the fallacy
cum hoc ergo propter hoc I came to a few plausible explanations:
- It is a mere fluke.
- The UK population has a higher proportion of Ns than the US population.
- I could have become an N type as a result of being raised amongst and by Ns and then, as an N, felt more inclined to befriend Ns.
- Something altogether more complex that I haven’t considered: suggestions?
- Home-educated people and adults who home-educate are more likely to be Ns than Ss and, as someone who was home-educated, a lot of my friends and acquaintances are Ns.
The last explanation interested me, particularly after I discovered from Wikipedia that the creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Isabel Briggs Myers,
was home-educated and an INFP. So I did a rather unscientific experiment and took a list of famous home-educated people and looked at online speculations about their type preferences; the results did indicate a tendency towards N:
- John Quincy Adams INTJ
- Abraham Lincoln ENFJ
- Woodrow Wilson INTJ
- Thomas Jefferson INTJ
- John Tyler INTP
- Theordore Roosevelt ENTP
- Grover Cleveland ESTJ
- James Garfield ENTP
- Andrew Jackson ESTJ
- William Henry Harrison ESTJ
- Whoopi Goldberg ENTJ
- Thomas Edison ENTP
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt ESTP
- Benjamin Franklin ENTP
- Blaise Pascal INTP
- George Washington ESFJ
- Frank Lloyd Wright INTP
- James Madison INTP
- Etc.
This, however, might be a tendency towards N in famous people, rather than home-educated people. Nonetheless I am intrigued so I thought I might as well ask for opinions on this forum. Do you think there could be a causal link? Are/were you home-educated and a XNXX? Are the home-educated people you know often XNXX? All thoughts are welcome.