erratio

One semi-interesting trend I'm paying attention to is who actually uses the MBTI. As in, someone you know explains the MBTI to you, and probably gets you to take a test if they can persuade you, and shows you the profile you supposedly match up with. So after this do you then just forget about it, dismiss it as yet another of those online test things that you can post about in your blog? Do you remember what you've been typed as, go and look at a few of the other profile pages, but go no further? Or do you see it as a useful template to apply to other people and become that person who goes around trying to type everyone and persuade them to take tests?

So far the results are as follows:
ENF and ESF types will take the test to make their friend happy, but really couldn't care less either way.
INFP friends of mine find it interesting and will try to type other people privately but won't be evangelical about it.
One of my ENTJ friends (the one who inspired this post) has become a born-again MBTI-er. He tries to guess what types people are, forces them to take the test to prove him right, and has been known to use their type against them in conversation, such as "I wouldn't expect anything better from an ENFP"
ENTPs appreciate it as a useful tool and will tend to be mildly evangelical (I was introduced to the MBTI by an ENTP) but not nearly so bad as my ENTJ friend.
Then again, most other ENTJ's don't seem to care much either.


It occurs to me that my friends and I seem to span a very limited range of the MBTI. Is there a particular reason why computing doesn't seem to attract many S types, for example?