MBTI types gender bias?

[Robert]

Although I've known about mbti for awhile, I don't know very much about it. Most of my knowledge is from websites.

I know certain types are more popular than others (relatively few people are INTJs, for instance). I was wondering if anybody knows whether there's a gender prejudice towards certain types? Such as for example whether INTJs tend more often to be male than female or vice versa. Does anybody who's better read on this than me know of any studies into it? I'd be curious to find out.

 

[Aiss]

http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/population-gender/

These values are obviously approximate - you'd need a really large sample, and then the MBTI test is wrong in ~25% cases (that is, the person doesn't agree with the results strongly), so there's no really accurate data.

 

[Decaf]

General consensus from the practitioner community is that the only letter that is divided (to a statistically significant level) on sex lines is the feeling and thinking dichotomy. Feeling more commonly for women and thinking more commonly for men, but even then the estimates and small scale experimental results are usually in the ballpark of 60/40.

My personal belief is that gender is wrapped up in cultural nurture rather than genetic nature. Or to put it another way, your personality is deeper than your gender orientation.

 

[Aiss]

General consensus from the practitioner community is that the only letter that is divided (to a statistically significant level) on sex lines is the feeling and thinking dichotomy. Feeling more commonly for women and thinking more commonly for men, but even then the estimates and small scale experimental results are usually in the ballpark of 60/40.

My personal belief is that gender is wrapped up in cultural nurture rather than genetic nature. Or to put it another way, your personality is deeper than your gender orientation.

This is true with traits, but their combinations (and therefore MBTI types and functions) are a different matter - for example there's about four times as much INTP men as INTP women (the number might be a bit off, but there are more of them).

Also "nature" doesn't necessarily refer to genetics directly. There are other variables (hormones etc.) which may influence brain development.

I agree though that some people might be answering according to their beliefs of how they should be, rather than how they are.

 

[Robert]

It seems from those percentages that the gender biases between intuitive feelers and thinkers is much larger than that between sensors. I wonder why?

 

[Ermine]

Well, regardless of the actual stats, it seems it would be less socially encouraged for a male to be NF.

It also statistically works out that way. Under the assumption that 40% of men are Fs, and a small percentage of these people would be N, it makes sense. Same would go for female NTs.

 

[walfin]

Under the assumption that 40% of men are Fs, and a small percentage of these people would be N, it makes sense

No, this is not an explanation (because it should still remain proportional).

There's probably something in what Bob is saying.