Posted by Ronnie on September 17, 1999 at 05:41:09:
In Reply to: Re: Tal and others, have a look! posted by Tal on September 16, 1999 at 21:13:46:
> Actually I'd say those are even more inaccurate... Because those come exclusively from the online test... You'd expect to see a pretty sizable bias there... just as with the Enneagram you get a disproportional amount of 4's 5's and 9's and very few 3's, 6's and 8's... The fact that those results indicate 30% of people are NF's speaks for itself already... SP's are notoriously aversive to personality systems and online stuff like this... in the data I analysed for the correlations for instance, there were only 7 ESTP's out of a sample of 1400... There are definitely far more than 12.3% SP's... and less NF's... NT's and SJ's seem about right though.
I meant realistic in the way it's said on that page itself, "Distribution
of Types taking the Temperament Sorter and the Character Sorter on Keirsey
Temperament Web Site". We know what we are dealing with, instead of some
vague "general US population".
They are inaccurate if we consider applying that data to *all* people, but
with Keirsey we know the methodology. There's one big BUT, though...I have
taken the Keirsey a few times, getting different results,ENTJ, INFJ, ENFJ,
ISTP and ESTP. All of those have ended up among those 3 million results, I'm
just wondering how many other such cases there are? The number of tests taken
definitely isn't the number of individuals testing themselves.
I definitely double your opinion about SP, NF and SJ, but aren't there too many NT
people as well? Keirsey assumes that there are 5% to 7% of NT's while the
figure is doubled in the data. Maybe it reflects intellectual interest in
systems...or something else.