MBTI & social darwinism

[Balatonyi Lajos]

Do you think that distribution of various MBTI types in population reflects the historical need for occurance of each type in order for the society as a whole to survive?

 

[Balatonyi Lajos]

Was it something I said...?

 

[DelusiveNinja]

Was it something I said...?

No (maybe it's just me) but, I don't get it.
Couldn't society survive with a personality type completely eliminated from human possibility? What do you mean by "distribution of various MBTI types"? Do you mean the large numbers of people that don't fit perfectly into one of the 16 types or people that do?

In a way, you could say that different personalities trigger new ways of thinking about the world's phenomena but all historical figures have not (yet?) been typed and may not, at least in theory, even fit the MBTI system due to being forced to do things the hard way.

Let's take, for example, INFJ males and females, who based this on website's statistics are low in population, and say there are no people tested as this type or even close. Would this extinction affect society and how much if any at all?

Do people need role models or poster children like Einstein to gain inspiration? If so, then extinction could pose a problem. I'm inconclusive so I'm going to say it depends.

 

[Balatonyi Lajos]

No (maybe it's just me) but, I don't get it.
Couldn't society survive with a personality type completely eliminated from human possibility? What do you mean by "distribution of various MBTI types"? Do you mean the large numbers of people that don't fit perfectly into one of the 16 types or people that do?

In a way, you could say that different personalities trigger new ways of thinking about the world's phenomena but all historical figures have not (yet?) been typed and may not, at least in theory, even fit the MBTI system due to being forced to do things the hard way.

Let's take, for example, INFJ males and females, who based this on website's statistics are low in population, and say there are no people tested as this type or even close. Would this extinction effect society and how much if any at all?

Do people need role models or poster children like Einstein to gain inspiration? If so, then extinction could pose a problem. I'm inconclusive so I'm going to say it depends.

No. What I meant was - at the dusk of civilization, if some people hadn't been good at thinking, others at leading, others at caretaking, others at mechanical work, others at keeping group together, others at observation and hunting... - if everyone had been mediocre at everything - wouldn't have that made everyone expandable for the rest of population and wouldn't have that lead to decay of society and eventualy erradication of mankind?

Also, doesn't percentual distribution of each type roughly reflect somewhat 'optimal' ammount of thinkers/leaders/caretakers... in the society?

On my second thoughts, maybe it's not darwinism in a true sense - maybe the distribution didn't change over time to reach optimal proportion - but if the proportion had been different, maybe we wouldn't have been here to think about it, right?

 

[walfin]

I'm sure this is somehow leading to another of those nature v nurture debates...

 

[Cherry Cola]

No, because there havent been enough generations since society came along.