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Spencer Greenberg 🔍
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How are personality traits distributed? Let's take a deep dive into the distribution of personality traits on Myers-Briggs-style tests, Big Five personality tests, and Enneagram tests, based on data we collected on 23,000 people globally: 🧵
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First, let's look at the most popular kind of personality test: Myers-Briggs style. This is not an official test (they're proprietary) - but it's modeled on the same constructs. Each trait has lots of people near the mean with few at the edges. Not quite a bell curve, but close
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This bell-curve-like shape is a problem for MBTI-style tests because they want to classify each person as either Extraverted or Introverted, either Sensing or Intuitive, and so on. But most people are near the middle. This is why MBTI-style results often change when re-tested.
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Spencer Greenberg 🔍✓@SpencrGreenberg
What about the Enneagram? While some treat it as more of a spiritual system, it is also often used as a personality typing system. When we use the theory to produce a score measuring how much each person is like each of the 9 Enneagram types, here is what we find:
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Spencer Greenberg 🔍✓@SpencrGreenberg
As we can see, like the MBTI-style results, the distribution of scores on each Enneagram type is also pretty close to a bell curve (though the distributions are a bit right-leaning in some cases).
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Spencer Greenberg 🔍
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Your Enneagram "type" is simply whichever of these bell curves you're the most extreme (positive) outlier on. If you're an outlier on just one, you have a clear Enneagram type. I'm an outlier on four of them, making the concept of Enneagram type difficult to apply in my case.
Mikhail Klassen@MikhailKlassen
@SpencrGreenberg This is really illustrative, Spencer. Do you have any recommended resources for people who want to see how high they score on individual Enneagram type categories without being assigned only a single type? MBTI is proprietary and expensive. Big Five is more accessible.

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