Myers-Briggs type for a successful poker player?

[SNOWBALL138]

I came out INTP also.

But I also think the test is given too much legitimacy. See my above post.

[Piper Tim]

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I would bet that a number of internet players are INTP. It seems to fit the mold.

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Maybe, but INTP is the least common of the personality types.

[deacsoft]

There was a big thread about this quite some time ago. You can probably find it in the archives. I believe the findings were that a high number of members of this forum (at that time) were iNTj. Wether or not they are good poker players is a whole different story.
For the record, I'm an iNTj and fit the description 100%.

[MikeBandy]

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There was a big thread about this quite some time ago.

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Here's the URL:

http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com/...age=0&vc=1

[ellipse_87]

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I believe the findings were that a high number of members of this forum (at that time) were iNTj.

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I take it back! I'm going to be rich!! Rich, I tell you!!

[Dan Mezick]

INTP and INTJ were predominant here at 2+2

[ClaytonN]

Damn I'm ISTJ :O

[benkahuna]

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There was a big thread about this quite some time ago. You can probably find it in the archives. I believe the findings were that a high number of members of this forum (at that time) were iNTj. Wether or not they are good poker players is a whole different story.
For the record, I'm an iNTj and fit the description 100%.

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INTJ is by far the most common type. Rather than making it the case that INTJ is good for poker, the fact INTJ is the most common overall could also suggest that poker players, good or otherwise, come from a representative cross section of the populace.

According to the following research from Google Answer, INTJ is not only not the most common MBPI type, it's the second rarest. Where did you get the idea that INTJ was the most common type?

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I found the percentages at "The Center for Applications of
Psychological Type." (CAPT)

ISTJ: 12-16%
ISFJ: 10-13%
INFJ: 2-3%
INTJ: 3-4%
ISTP: 5-7%
ISFP: 5-7%
INFP: 4-5%
INTP: 5-6%
ESTP: 5-7%
ESFP: 6-9%
ENFP: 6-8%
ENTP: 4-7%
ESTJ: 10-12%
ESFJ: 10-12%
ENFJ: 3-5%
ENTJ: 3-5%

The website also breaks these numbers down for Male and Female
Americans.
http://www.capt.org/The_MBTI_Instrum...requencies.cfm

CAPT was co-founded by Isabel Briggs Myers, the author of the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, and Mary H. McCaulley, Ph.D
( http://www.capt.org/About_CAPT/Home.cfm )

Presumably, these statistics are from the paper of the same name,
cited elsewhere ( http://www.capt.org/Using_Type/Education.cfm ) as
"Estimated Frequencies of the Types in the United States Population"
by Charles R. Martin, 1996
Developed by Mary H. McCaulley
Published by Center for Applications of Psychological Type, Inc.
2815 N.W. 13th Street, Suite 401
Gainesville, Florida 32609.
Toll Free 800.777.2278
Copyright 1998

(Charles R. Martin, Ph.D. is the Vice President of Research and
Development at CAPT.)


Additional Links:

An explanation of the different types can be found here.
http://www.capt.org/Using_Type/Education.cfm


Search Strategy:

Myers-Briggs percentage "United States"
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"Charles R. Martin" CAPT
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&...R.+Martin"+CAPT

"Estimated Frequencies of the Types in the United States Population"
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The Myers-Briggs is a quick and dirty test that does not measure much of anything. It was created in Isabel Myers' head and normed on no one. It's junk gutter social science.