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Comment by Yaggo | Hacker News Reader

I wonder what is the ratio of intro/extroverts among programmers. Something like 90/10 I guess.

According to the analysis I posted to a Myers-Briggs survey that appeared here this summer, about 75% of Hacker News is introverted according to that test. The INTJ and INTP types alone account for 60% of those surveyed (compared to 6.4% in the general population).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=946249

I'd argue that HN is a biased sample even among programmers though.

According to one of my profs, something like 80% of programmers are INTJ in the Meyer's Briggs scheme... the I stands for introvert. I don't know what the other 20% looks like but there are probably a lot of I types.

According to one of my profs, something like 80% of programmers are INTJ in the Meyer's Briggs scheme.

I hope your professor is aware that the Myers-Briggs scheme

http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0684830914/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0743243560/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Cri...

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7450/1244

has never been validated.

http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/deve...

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7450/1244

Moreover, I would ask for a citation to show that anyone has gathered data from a properly representative sample of "programmers" (how was that group defined?) to show the personality characteristics found in the sample on a validated instrument. Statements of this kind are often based on inadequately small samples and may also suffer from ascertainment bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias

a question about your sentence structure.

why did you write "i wonder what is ..." instead of "i wonder what ... is."

did you mean to write "i wonder: what is..."?

where are you from? the structure you used common there?

From Finland. Non-native English speaker as one can guess. Thanks for correcting me. We have crazy grammar rules in Finland, such as starting sentences with capitals.

i'm just curious because i heard the exact same structure used by a native speaker from the US, and on other occasions from other possibly native speakers. i speak english as a second language and don't know what to think.

as to my lack of caps... that's lazyness. i can use them, but i only do when i foresee getting judged by people i don't need judging from (professional contexts).

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