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Ask HN: What's your Myers-Briggs type?

8 points by katieben ↗ HN
What's your Myers-Briggs type? I'm curious about what the landscape looks like for founders, programmers and YC readers. If you don't know, you can take the test here:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

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Mz
It's been muchly debated whether I am an ENTP or an ENFP: Feelers accuse me of being an icky Thinker and Thinkers accuse me of being an icky Feeler. (I apparently am an equal-opportunity offender). I'm definitely an ENxP though.
onan_barbarian
When I'm asked my Myers-Briggs type, for some reason I always think of Glengarry Glen Ross:

"Fuck you, that's my Myers-Briggs type".

dholowiski
IxxP - varies from day to day and what version of the test I'm taking.
gojomo
At a certain karma level, you can add a 'poll' question with votable alternates. Much less messy than creating comments-as-answers.

This has also been polled before enough to answer the question in general terms for the readership-that-chooses-to-answer:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/briggs+types

katieben
Oh cool, thanks! Interesting, INTJ is only 1%. I had a theory that more programmers would be INTJ.
katieben
nm, just saw the second link - this has been asked a lot. And in the second, INTJ did stand out as the most common.
gojomo
The percentages listed next to the choices in the epi0Bauqu poll are rates reported in general population; you'll have to look at the 'points' to see how people responded, and it does appear there are many more INTJs among HN respondents.
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