How Rare is Your Personality Type?

Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ISFP)

Your personality type is caring, peaceful, artistic, and calm.

Only about 7% of all people have your personality, including 8% of all women and 6% of all men
You are Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving.
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I clicked through to this from the main Brain & Behavior page and thought "Hey, how did you know I was an INTP?"

Shows you how "brilliant" I am. :-)

I'm apparently an INTP as well. I didn't trust it at first - there are several questions where my answer was pretty much random - I didn't like either choice. So I went back and did it again, but I changed the answers that I didn't feel strongly about...and still got INTP. Then I had to go back and change lots of things, to make sure that the quiz didn't give INTP regardless of what you put in :)

"Your personality type is reserved, methodical, spirited, and intense.

Only about 6% of all people have your personality, including 3% of all women and 8% of all men
You are Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Perceiving."

Seems fair enough to me.

The short online quiz pegs me as an INTP, like you. When I took the full Myers-Briggs test, though, I was solidly INFP.

Whenever I take the quizzes for this classification scheme I come up as ISTP but reading the detailed profiles I can easily see that I fit INTP. When my wife does the quiz for me she gets INTP for me. Interesting that my self perception is off but my wife gets it right.

I'm the same as you. So I don't have quite the same rareness value. Well, OK, we could guess that anyway.

Oh, and the numbers give a (roughly) 1:1 sex ratio.

Bob

"4% of all people have my personality type, including 2% of all women and 6% of all men .. does this mean that there are fewer men than women out there if only 4% of everyone shares this personality type?"

(6% * 1/2) + (2% * 1/2) = 4%, assuming that the population is half men and half women.

Why would you think there are fewer men than women?

M3M: um, because i was having a mathematical brain fart?

although .. there ARE fewer men out there than women, if you look at census data, but that wouldn't (as you pointed out) show up in the numbers cited above.

I polled as INTJ, but I knew that already. 2% of my fellow women, and 4% of men. That's a fine little quiz if it gives the same results as the lengthy Myers-Briggs, though I am SO INTJ I might as well have the letters tattooed on my forehead.

No surprise, INTJ.

INTP here. I figured that's what I'd be.

INTP here, as well. But it doesn't surprise me that you attract this type of reader. I'm all for your vulture/human remains disposition idea, BTW. It makes sense, it's ecologically sound, and it serves a need. I'm rooting for you.

Another INTP reporting in!

I am an INTJ, although I kept coming out INTP on that test. I do not think that there are enough questions there.

After taking a class where the teacher believed in Myers-Briggs more fervently than a fundamentalist believes in Jesus, I've developed a special loathing for this test.

When I took it with her, I was an INFJ. I got extremely excited when the book said that it was very rare, only something like 2% of the population. I was happy to know that I was special. My little egotistical bubble burst when fully one-third of my classmates revealed they had tested the same way, including some folks I couldn't stand. I guess I am not so great after all!

These people is all crazy. I read it in Joe Campbell or maybe Carlos Jung. Ladies without lint in their navels or gizmos are the best.
You can tell easy if you look.

Well Grrl, It looks like we have matching personalities!