Most credible source for MBTI percentages

Sytpg · 09-21-2008, 03:52 PM

Is there any credible study pertaining to how much of the world's population is a certain type? The most common and less common type? That kind of thing.

Jack Flak · 09-21-2008, 03:54 PM

MBTI's don't fit in the least (in my view, of course). I believe people so often test as xSTJ under the Official MBTI because they want to come off a certain way.

I more trust statistics that list ESFP as the most common, and INxP as among the rarest.

Sytpg · 09-21-2008, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack Flak

MBTI's don't fit in the least (in my view, of course). I believe people so often test as xSTJ under the Official MBTI because they want to come off a certain way.

I more trust statistics that list ESFP as the most common, and INxP as among the rarest.

I couldn't possibly expect you guys to answer me "how many people are a certain type?". I just want to know how many people test as ENFP or INTP... etc

Jack Flak · 09-21-2008, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sytpg

I couldn't possibly expect you guys to answer me "how many people are a certain type?". I just want to know how many people test as ENFP or INTP... etc

The "likely most accurate" resource I can think of would be Keirsey's website. The only distribution statistics I know for sure are present are the percentages listed in each type description.

entropie · 09-21-2008, 04:21 PM

the best I know is here, but this would need you to accept the MBTIc as "your world"

http://www.typologycentral.com/forum...tatistics.html

Jack Flak · 09-21-2008, 04:23 PM

entropie: Master of Qualifiers.

edcoaching · 09-21-2008, 05:29 PM

The only group that's tried to get a representative sample that I know of (not relying on who takes their instruments) is the actual publisher of the MBTI, CPP, Inc. - Leaders in Workforce Development but they don't have the chart on their site. I posted it to Haight not long ago in a thread re: the only other two countries where the same work has been done.

They actually tried to get reps representative of age/gender/education/ethnic background to base their "National Representative Sample" and while you can argue with the validity of the instrument I just haven't heard of anyone else going after a sample this way...

ptgatsby · 09-21-2008, 05:30 PM

Capt would be - you can also order more data if you want, they have a publication that breaks down type by employment/area/etc.

Estimated Frequencies of Types - CAPT.org

Jack Flak · 09-21-2008, 05:34 PM

Yeah, the CAPT stats fail in the same way MBTI stats do, if they're even separate.

ptgatsby · 09-21-2008, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack Flak

Yeah, the CAPT stats fail in the same way MBTI stats do, if they're even separate.

They are mbti stats. Why would they fail, exactly?

09-21-2008, 03:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sytpg No added sugar Join Date: Aug 2008 Type: DULL Location: Mongolian steppes Posts: 2,505	Most credible source for MBTI percentages Is there any credible study pertaining to how much of the world's population is a certain type? The most common and less common type? That kind of thing.

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entropie Liasion man in Amsterdam Join Date: Apr 2008 Type: entq Location: Bochum, Germany Posts: 5,205	the best I know is here, but this would need you to accept the MBTIc as "your world" http://www.typologycentral.com/forum...tatistics.html __________________ pocket estj Enneagram: 3w4 "Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill." ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Mind.in.a.Box] -------

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edcoaching Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Type: INFJ Location: MN Posts: 627	The only group that's tried to get a representative sample that I know of (not relying on who takes their instruments) is the actual publisher of the MBTI, CPP, Inc. - Leaders in Workforce Development but they don't have the chart on their site. I posted it to Haight not long ago in a thread re: the only other two countries where the same work has been done. They actually tried to get reps representative of age/gender/education/ethnic background to base their "National Representative Sample" and while you can argue with the validity of the instrument I just haven't heard of anyone else going after a sample this way... __________________ edcoaching

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